The SDF has moved from Power to the people to Power to the Pocket- Peterkings Manyong

By Bakah Derick
Blogger@hilltopvoices

Special Coverage of The SDF at 25

Peterkings Manyong author of "God the Politician"

Amongst the many Journalists in Bamenda today Peterkings Manyong Publisher of the book "God the Politician" and Publisher editor of the Independent Observer News paper is one who lived the launching of the Social Democratic Front; SDF not as a journalist then but as a young graduate and a teacher.  Talking to Hilltopvoices recently in Bamenda, Peterkings explained that he like others saw the SDF in the 90s as the only hope of Cameroonians particularly at the time he had just left University and had no job. While maintaining that the SDF is still the hope of Cameroonians, Peterkings regretted that the SDF of John Fru Ndi has not witnessed a changed in leadership for the past 25years. He states that the SDF has departed from its original mission of Power to the people to power to the pocket with a high level of personal interest other than the collective interest of Cameroonians.
On the issue of reconciliation in the party, Peterkings castigate the strategy of asking backsliders to return but recommends that the party goes for them.
Peterkings also described the resignation of JN Foncha from the post of CPDM vice president at the time as a major booster for the SDF at birth.
 If a journalist then Peterkings said his story caption after the launch of the SDF would have been "Six shot Dead in Bamenda." Narating how a friends relative was shot with intestines out of the stomach, Peterkings told Hilltopvoices that it was his first time to see the intestines of a human being and described as false news that circulated that the six who died were trampled upon as propagated by the state owned media.
This interview was practically a review of the book "God the Politician" authored by Peterkings Manyong and published in 2008