Was Professor Henri HogbeNlend the poodle of Dr Moise Albert Njambe

Dr Njambe who had earlier contacted Professor Nlend as a standby possible substitution/ proposal for the planned “government of national union” should his mediation or attempt to bring the SDF fail, welcomed the overtures of Professor Nlend. For it was a win-win or mutual exploitation for both men. Professor Henri Hogbe Nlend knew that, should Dr Njambe response favourably to his financial request, his political career will be rekindled. Dr Njambe is a lover of solid or true democracy in which there exists factual opposition. But he had lost faith in UPC’s capacity to incarnate a solid viable opposition in Cameroon. He felt that, the role of leading opposition party in Cameroon was carried by the SDF. Nonetheless, he was inclined to help Professor Nlend financially even though he knew that such help will help to consolidate the balkanisation of the UPC. But what was at stake was the reputation of Dr Njambe and he did not care about the UPC. Hence he gave CFA Francs 3 million to Henri Hogbe Nlend. It was with that sum, that professor Nlend used to kick start, his campaign within the UPC for the post of secretary general.

Even though professor Nlend later on got financial assistance from elsewhere, the financial help that Njambe gave him, made him to be subservient. He regularly took pains to inform Njambe on whatever thing or action that he wanted to do or take. And more, he waited for the approval or advice of Njambe. Professor Nlend was a sort of marionette or poodle of Dr Njambe. Besides the sum aforementioned, that Dr Moise Albert Njambe gave to Professor Henri Hogbe Nlend and which he used to his campaign for the post of secretary general of the UPC and which may have also pre-empted the shredding of the UPC into many factions, Njambe also took the pains to note in his diary all amount of monies that he gave the professor of mathematics. The other politician who fell into the drag net of Dr Moise Albert Njambe was Bello Bouba Maigari, chair of the NUDP. It is or was a party touted as the second largest intra and extra parliamentary opposition in Cameroon after the SDF. Some, especially those who can’t stomach the fact that the SDF holds leadership position amongst the opposition and is led by John Fru Ndi have even claimed that, NUDP was the leading opposition party. But the truth is that, the NUDP was and is still a paper tiger. Bello Bouba Maigari in the Cameroonian political galaxy is another character altogether.