Tackling Essential Issues Richard KWANG KOMETA

Cameroon like the rest of the world is battling with the new Coronavirus (Covid-19) that has dealt a devastating blow to the Global Order. With over a third of the world’s population confined indoors, borders closed, and even nations with the most sophisticated healthcare facilities recording thousands of deaths and imposing total lockdown to cope with the pandemic, it appears preposterous for certain citizens to behave as if anyone prepared for Covid-19. A generalised trend has been for nations, world leaders, and individuals to show solidarity towards those affected by the disease and drum up awareness towards adherence to barrier measures and safety guides put in place by governments and the World Health Organisation (WHO). 
Curiously, there are some individuals in Cameroon who rather concentrate on making personal political capital out of the situation. By criticising every move that the State is taking to confront the health-scare that the ailment has generated throughout the world, distracting public attention from ensuring that people keep safe and healthy during a moment of crisis such as the one humanity now faces, the attention is shifted away from the issues. There are those who are busy looking at the Head of State, his whereabouts, and scrutinising if he is at the fore front or not. That is a nosy distraction now.
Such unfortunate and myopic speculations are in complete negation to what the Government is doing with the Prime Minister, Joseph Dion Ngute at the head. The Minister of State, Secretary General at the Presidency, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh has also been on the field to see the level of preparedness to handle the disease. The Minister of Public Health and the entire health personnel in the country are doing a formidable job. The impressive output at all levels of the State apparatus has been yielding concrete results which prophets of doom do not want to acknowledge, maybe because the efforts are not theirs. It can be so dangerous to play and dance to the tune of one’s own music, believing in what one thinks and trusting in personal intelligence in spite of the reality on the ground. 
Developed countries in Europe, Asia, and the United States have been announcing daily deaths in hundreds due to the Coronavirus. Yet, some people keep toying in Cameroon with the impending disaster whereas the country is has several fronts:  insurgency in the Far North, North West and South West Regions and the provision of basic vital needs to the population. There is no better qualification to such actions than political bigotry. 
Faced with such neophytes, the Minister of Communication and government Spokesman, René Emmanuel Sadi had to express indignation in a strongly worded statement yesterday 16 April, 2020. Cameroon on Thursday 16 April 2020 already registered 996 cases of Civid-19 with 164 treated cases; ...