**Please read till the end before you comment.It is quite a lot to digest. You can share before you read, it’s POISE.
Let me start with the report on CRTV that brought Mrs Greenger to life.
CRTV Reporter Ashu Nyenti :- “Just 24 hours after the October 7 presidential poll, the first report card is already available. It is from this diverse group of international observers working for Transparency International and who observed the election stations across the country. Their assessment is plausible.”
Nurit Greenger :- “Extremely good. As far as in the polls, everybody did their job, they took it very seriously and they wanted to see results. As far as preparation we … to some of the polls they were not ready yet, we had to make sure to tell them to tie up - to close the box, little things that they were kind of not prepared for but I think in the end everybody did their job in a clear and satisfactory mode.”
**CRTV reporter reports that the “first report card is already available” so I have to ask myself why the official mouthpiece of the government is confirming availability of the election results but we still have to wait 13 more days before it is released.**
CRTV Reporter:-“…. The observers noticed however that participation was low in the anglophone regions of the country amidst a security presence that was persuasive and not dissuasive.
Nurit Greenger: - “Not intimidating. I think just to protect the area so everything goes smoothly. “
CRTV Reporter:- “…Despite a few dysfunctions noticed here and there, were these of the nature to impeach the capability of the electoral process?”
Nurit Greenger:- NO……..
OK MADAM. NOW LET’S SET RECORDS STRAIGHT.
Your responses to interviewers at the press conference are lacklustre to say the least. They were lacking in detail and prove that you have no clue what it means to observe and audit an electoral process. You claim, at some polling stations, you had to tell the people to tie up and close the boxes because they were not prepared for little things like that- go on now and clap for yourself. Give yourself another clap for coming from there to praising ELECAM for a job well done after claiming they could not prepare their workers in simple things like the ballot boxes need to be sealed.
How were you and your group members distributed across the country? Did any of you go to the Northern Regions of the country? How many polling stations did you visit? How many voters did you talk to? You and CRTV talk of a few dysfunctions. Can those dysfunctions at least go by name or we are just going to say there were dysfunctions because nothing is perfect?
On the 6th of October, on your Facebook account, you wrote about Melania Trump’s visit to Africa and continued to talk about your invitation to Cameroon as part of a 6 member group invited by Agency Cameroun Presse to make sure there was transparency in our elections. In that post, you made no mention of Transparency International as one of your hosts; neither did you talk of the two hour training you received on procedures for detecting and communicating election fraud. Two hours of training is all you received before you were let out and paraded as experts on election transparency in a country on a continent that has a long history of elections fraud. Two hours of training and you are not even scared of sitting in front of a camera to address the people of Cameroon. You smoke the wrong green Mrs Greenger. You smoke the wrong green. I saw your post where you were crying foul and asking us to look closely at a powerpoint presentation to see the website of Transparency International - Really? How low can you go?
Let me school you on how to do your homework. Agence Cameroun Presse was created in July, 2018 (screenshot to prove that attached)-I don’t know if that means anything to you. Transparency International has existed for more than a decade, so my guess is you should have been more concerned with affiliating yourself with them if you wanted to prove your credibility. Why only mention them after the elections? -After your employers in cohort with Hilton Hotel created a fake meeting on the day after the elections using the name of Transparency International. How does an Agency created three months before the presidential elections get to be the one charged with finding and supplying independent observers of our elections. Who are those video directors who ran to shake hands with your after your poor acting gig at that press conference. How did they get to have the B.I.R as your security detail. (He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. - Chinese Proverb.)
Do you know the editor of the webpage for the said Agence Cameroun Presse? His name is Mfoungou Jean Baptiste. Have you taken a look at his twitter account? Screenshots are attached and you can see clearly from his posts that his mission is to create negative press around opposition candidates. So someone working for the organisation that called you to ensure transparency during the elections publicly takes sides with Biya; not only doing that but working tirelessly to tarnish the image of the other candidates - yet his organisation is the moral authority on what is clean and fair in the electoral process? - you must be kidding me. You are too old to live a lie but definitely old enough to die a fool.
I am not done with you Mrs Greenger. You might want to take another puff of that wrong green before you continue reading.
On October 7, the day of the elections you were supposedly busy supervising, at exactly 1:52 PM, you were busy updating your facebook status pointing fingers at the “foolish government of Israel.” I guess overseeing an election is such light work that you had the time to update your facebook status while wearing your black studded leather biker jacket. For all I know you were high somewhere in Limbe.
I’ll come back to you but let’s go back to your employers for a minute. They came to life in July 2018 but something about their name is reminiscent of Agence Camerounaise de Presse (ACAP) which was dissolved in 1977 and replaced with SOPECAM. Do you know SOPECAM is the CRTV of newspapers? Do you know Engelbert NGOG HOB, the editor in chief of Cameroon Tribune, a newspaper published by SOPECAM was once director of ACAP. Do you know one Jacques FAME NDONGO was once the chief national editor of ACAP? I guess Agence Cameroun Presse is just the ‘nouvelle technologie’ of ACAP.
Wake up Mrs Greenger - don’t pass out on me now. After shooting your flop of a movie in Cameroon, you shared your experience in an article on New Blaze. You wrote:-
“Cameroon has no money and it relies on questionable investments from China. And China is investing heavily in the unstable African continent. In fact, the Chinese are building the highway between Douala and Yaoundé, the Capital of Cameroon, soon to be opened to the flow of traffic. A country is its citizens’ enterprise; as my observation goes, Cameroon, the richest country in Central Africa, deserves the change it seeks that will put it on a trajectory to prosperity.”
In the same statement you write that Cameroon has no money and Cameroon is the richest country in Central Africa. You say we rely on questionable investments from China then you come to work for the same people whose leader was just in China signing to look for more questionable investments. You are definitely high all the time on some messed up green, Mrs Greenger. You came to Cameroon to observe elections and you were busy hugging trees telling us nature in Africa is beyond amazing. Jesus Wept.
This brings me back to the people of Cameroon and a subject we have written extensively on. Let me quote a few lines from Wandji Wilfred’s article ‘AFRICANS AND THE PERPETUATION OF THE WHITE SAVIOUR MENTALITY’
“I don’t understand how a cross-section of us Africans are seemingly not at peace unless the “white man” has acknowledged our issues. It is almost as if our problems do not exist unless the white man in a great show of magnanimity decides to portray our problems and cover our current affairs as much as they do theirs.”
“We are at a turning point in Africa wherein there has never been as many educated Africans as there are now. And when I say educated, I am not talking necessarily about a degree. I’m talking also about a broadened mind that is more exposed to the world like it never has before and is keen to soak in every bit of learning opportunity like a sponge. It would be a shame if we continue to use this to expect validation from the white man first before we put it to use on our continent. Africa belongs to us. It is our choice to make of it what we want. ”
This ACP and Greenger situation speaks volumes of what we (especially the older generation of Africans) believe about ourselves as Africans. Many countries in Africa have had fair elections and we could easily turn to them to help us oversee ours. But No, we run to the European Union for assistance and when they refuse, even the dumbest white person can be picked up from the streets in America, brought here and we are expected to believe whatever nonsense they say because they are white. It is well known that even the dullest, poorest and ‘last coco’ of white people has one thing to be thankful for, that he/she is not black and all that is thanks to the black man, people like the ones I won’t name.
I am happy that many of my country men see Greenger for the nonentity she is but that some grownups thought she could pass for someone credible is the stab in the back.
- Tino Foy