Support To Republican Institutions : Civil Society Movements Take Frontline

On September 2, 2021, some 14 civil society organisations grouped under the banner of “Le Collectif des Patriotes monde du Cameroun” (CPMC) organised a press conference in Yaounde during which they condemned the antipatriotic demonstrations organised against the President of the Republic, Paul Biya during his recent private stay in Geneva, Switzerland. 
The antipatriotic manifestations were once more organised by some Cameroonians in the Diaspora grouped under “Brigade Antisardinard.” CPMC members equally used the occasion to denounce the attacks against some Cameroonian embassies abroad and reaffirmed their support for patriotic values such as peace, development, social cohesion and their determination to accompany the President of the Republic in his drive to build Cameroon and realise the dream of emergence by 2035.
The expressed support by the CPMC to the Head of State and the institutions of the Republic is just a tip of the iceberg in the heightened sense of patriotism by civil society organisations since the return of multiparty politics in 1990. President Paul Biya’s Youth Movement (PRESBY), has over the years been leading in support to Republican institutions. Other organisations have joined the crusade such as Indomitable Patriots led by Angos Nnanga Marie Paule and Association of Youth Republicans of Cameroon led by Serges Angoni Onguéné, 
Different antipatriotic groups and political leaders have over the years been stepping up their schemes to discredit the institutions of the Republic with the ultimate goal of ousting the Head of State, not through the legal and legitimate democratic means which is the ballot box but through street demonstrations.  Political leaders such as the President of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement (CRM), Professor Maurice Kamto have been a thorn in the flesh of the Republic since the 2018 presid...