List of North West CPDM members: Enablers of the Biya Dictatorship and Betrayers of the People
The Mask of Representation
For decades, the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM) has sold a myth of national unity that every region, every community, and every “elite” has a place at Paul Biya’s table.
But behind the illusion of inclusion lies a painful truth: many of the so-called CPDM elites from the North West region have become instruments of dictatorship, serving Yaoundé’s interests at the expense of their own people.
While the Anglophone population continues to suffer killings, arbitrary arrests, and political marginalization, these elites wear designer suits in Yaoundé, praising a regime that has turned their homeland into a war zone.
The Betrayal of the North West
Once known for its vibrant political consciousness and tradition of resistance, the North West has been reduced to a theatre of submission not because its people chose silence, but because its representatives have sold their voice.
Instead of defending the rights of their constituents, CPDM elites have:
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Justified military abuses in the Anglophone regions;
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Collaborated in election rigging and voter intimidation;
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Benefited from state corruption, contracts, and appointments;
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Silenced civil society and opposition voices through patronage and threats.
Their loyalty to Paul Biya is not ideological it is transactional.
They defend tyranny because tyranny feeds them.
Elections Without Choice
Every election in the North West under CPDM control has followed the same pattern:
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Ballot boxes stuffed in military-guarded compounds;
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Opposition representatives chased away;
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Polling stations declared “inaccessible” due to insecurity only to be miraculously filled with CPDM votes.
The Elecam machinery, manipulated by the ruling party, ensures that no genuine political contest survives.
In towns like Bamenda, Ndop, and Wum, electoral participation has become a ritual of deception a democracy on paper, dictatorship in practice.
Those who dare expose this fraud journalists, activists, or opposition agents are branded as “terrorists” or “secessionists,” a label that justifies arrest or disappearance.
Silencing Through Fear and Reward
CPDM elites have mastered the regime’s two main tools of control: fear and reward.
Those who oppose are punished, and those who comply are rewarded with contracts, diplomatic postings, or symbolic titles.
Instead of defending the rights of citizens in Bamenda’s abandoned neighborhoods, they defend ministerial chairs in Yaoundé.
Instead of condemning the torture of Anglophone youths in New Bell Prison, they attend lavish CPDM anniversaries celebrating “national peace.”
The result is moral bankruptcy a leadership that serves not its people, but its master.
The Human Cost
While CPDM elites enjoy the comfort of political protection, ordinary North Westerners live under daily trauma:
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Families displaced by the Anglophone conflict;
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Youths detained without trial;
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Soldiers and civilians killed in a war that could have been avoided if their leaders had chosen justice over loyalty.
Each new arrest, each protest crushed, each rigged election is a reminder that dictatorship survives through collaboration, not just repression.
The Time for Accountability
History will not absolve those who stood silent or worse, complicit as Cameroon bled.
The North West deserves leaders who speak truth to power, not messengers of a decaying regime.
As the 2025 elections approach, the same elites are already preparing to stage-manage the illusion of democracy once more.
But the people are watching. And the people remember.
A government that kills its own citizens cannot be legitimized by the votes of the oppressed especially when those votes are manufactured by fear.
A Fanonian Closing
As Frantz Fanon warned:
“The future will have no pity for those men who, possessing the exceptional privilege of being able to speak words of truth to their oppressors, have taken refuge in an attitude of passivity, of mute indifference, and sometimes of cold complicity.”
The CPDM elites of the North West have chosen complicity.
But the North West people resilient, proud, and unbroken will one day reclaim their dignity from the ashes of betrayal.
The struggle continues, and no amount of rigging or repression can outvote the will of a people awakened.
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