Ayah Paul writes:
“August 16, 2020
It has been reported that the United Nations, in their daily briefing, on Friday, August 14, 2020, through the mouth of their spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, STRONGLY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY condemned human rights abuses in Cameroon.
The world body called “on armed actors to refrain from attacks against civilians and to respect international humanitarian and human rights law”. They expressed the “readiness of the UN to work with all stakeholders towards a political solution to the crisis […] through meaningful dialogue”.
The least one can say is that the world is so blighted today that bodies that the defenceless lots looked up to for their protection in the past have sloughed off their sheep clothing with effrontery, exposing their devouring wolf teeth to the sighted, and even to the one-eyed like PA Ayah!
BUT IN WHAT NICER LANGUAGE CAN IT BE PUT?
In defiance of the general call by the very UN for a global ceasefire in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Cameroun that declared the WAR that the UN still euphemistically calls CRISIS as if in cynical complicity, apparently became more belligerent – more aggressive! And the UN looked the other way!
How truly concerned with human right, then, is the UN if the first human right – the right to life – is violated daily thanks to the inactivity of the UN?
How does a string of informal condemnations resuscitate the lives lost?
How does the casual expression of the “readiness of the UN to work with all stakeholders towards a political solution to the crisis […] through meaningful dialogue” resolve the situation in the face of the repeated history of defiance?
Does not the old adage has it that A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE?
ANSWERS BLOWING IN THE WIND?
SHEGEH!”