DECREE ON SPORTS INFRASTRUCTURE

Colonial Decree On Sports Infrastructures, Non-Event To Southern Cameroons

It is common asking what a bicycle is doing at the fuel filling station. Meaning the services rendered at the filling station is not beneficial to a bicycle owner.The resources of La Republique du Cameroun are not evenly distributed. There is a bias in the song "regional balance" often sung by colonial authorities of the Biya regime. And when resources of a nation are not evenly distributed, some decisions are more or less insignificant to the people denied of the same institution those decisions are meant to protect. Any decision on the protection of sports infrastructure is useless to the people of Southern Cameroons, especially those of the Savannah and Midland Regions. These regions have been deprived of a football field by LRC. Why is it that only English speaking regions are lacking in sports infrastructure (football field)?

Is this not a calculated attempt by LRC to disfavour Anglophones taking part in different football organized competition? The colonial ruler of LRC, Paul Biya, on Wednesday August 17, 2022, signed a decree creating a National Sports Facilities and Equipment Development Board. This board is charged with the responsibility of ensuring the upkeep, safeguard and the development of sports infrastructure constructed by La Republique du Cameroun. This decision is coming at a time football lovers of the Southern Cameroons regions, Savannah Region and Midland Region have glamoured for a stadium to no avail. Worst still, the lone existing Bamenda Municipal Stadium was rendered not fit for use by LRC. The project to rehabilitate the field was abandoned without any reason advanced for. The abandonment came only after the pitch was dugged and rendered useless by the construction company. Football lovers in Southern Cameroons see the decree of the colonial ruler Paul Biya as a move to protect the institutions in La Republique du Cameroun and not for Southern Cameroons.

The current holder of the cup of Cameroun is a team based in Bamenda, chief town of Midland Region of Southern Cameroons, but parathoxically this region is not having any football field. The lack of football field for the youths of Southern Cameroons to develop their talents, is increasing killing the spirit of playing football in most talents.