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LENJO Valery IS VERY ANGRY. WE ARE OUR OWN PROBLEM.

 



The more I get to look into issues of this our country erhh, the more my heart hurts.  I’ve decided not to look again.


Last week after my trip from Yaoundé, we arrived very late at midnight. 

Lucky enough i found a bito take me back home from Akwa to Bonaberi. 


I pleaded with him to take me for 1000frs but he refused and claimed I should pay 1500frs. While I was still thinking of what to do, a white man who also traveled with us stopped the same bike and proposed 300frs for rond point Deido which is just 250frs to my stop in Bonaberi.


 I was surprised this young man accepted him to climb without thinking. He shamefully called me back, took my 1000frs and asked  me to climb behind the white man. Since It was late and i didn’t have a choice, i climbed though fuming with anger. 


While on the bike, thé strange White man told me proudly “I’m lucky to climb on the same bike with him”. God oo!!! It was thanks to maturity I didn’t kill somebody that day. I looked at the person talking and I was just dumb struck. 


We are our problem in this country. The white men are just seizing the opportunity to exploit us more. Since we already hate ourselves.

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  1. You experienced that in this country? That is really terrible

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