After failed mission:

‘Gallivanting’ Garga Haman leaves B’da disappointed

Garga Haman Adji, Chairman of the Alliance for Democracy and Development  (ADD) party and former Minister of Public Service and Administrative reforms was picked by

 Biya to talk the Consortium to suspend their strike action.

Like other emissaries from Yaoundé, Garga Haman Adji’s mission to Bamenda has ended with no compromise between him and the Anglophone Civil Society Consortium. Garga had been sent by President Biya to talk the consortium to consider calling off the strike action they launched since October 2016.

                Meeting in Bamenda with members of the Consortium, Garga Haman who is leader of the opposition Alliance for Democracy and Development (ADD) suggested that “effective decentralization” should be accepted as the best governance option for Cameroon. He reiterated the idea to reporters after the meeting on Wednesday, January 11.

“They said they wanted federalism, but I asked; what kind of federalism? I rather think effective decentralization can be the solution,” opined Garga.

                Reacting to Garga, Wilfred Tassang, CATTU SG and Programs Coordinator of the Consortium said: “forget about the meeting with Garga Haman Adji, I think he came to Bamenda on a pleasure trip.”

Garga’s proposal did not however cause leaders of the consortium to moderate their stance. They remained resolute on their quest for Federalism which to them is the best way of preserving the bi-jural and bi-cultural nature of Cameroon.

                Garga Haman was in Bamenda at the behest of President Biya who had hoped he could convince the consortium to end their strike action already in its third month.

                Garga had promised that he would go to Bamenda and come back with a solution. Opinion leaders gave him the benefit of doubt based on his past record; being one of the rare persons to have resigned from the Biya government because of massive corruption. He resigned as Minister of Public Service in August 1992.