Responding to post on asylum by Prince Hamilton

I am glad that you brought up this issue. There is nothing bad with seeking asylum and all those who qualify should go for it.
Is that the case with all the asylum seekers from Cameroon and other third world countries that flock to the US and other western countries?
Nobody refuses the fact that there is suppression of freedom of speech, sex, religion etc in Cameroon. But this does not justify lying to get papers. What a Shame, that people who say the present regime in Cameroon wants to kill them, get asylum and join the ruling party in the US.
A asylum is bad for Cameroon, when people falsify information about the country and its leaders to get papers to live in the West. It is equal to selling a piece of the country to make end meet for you. It is selfishness at the highest level. We justify it by saying that we want to survive. Yes our leaders have taken our freedoms because they want to survive. We do not care about the negative impact of our act on the country such as discouraging tourism and foreign investors that will create jobs for other Cameroonians. What about the general perception of the country by outsiders? We do not care if they consider us barbaric so long as we paint our fellow Cameroonians like that and get papers. Shame on us. No two wrongs can make a right. We will continue to suffer, because majority of us only think about our personal benefit and not about the future. Our Ancestors did the same when they sold our people into slavery. The sellers wanted the good things the white man brought. Today we want the "good things" in the west at all cost.
How many of you who have been granted asylum ever stood for any course in Cameroon? How many of you are standing for any course right now that will benefit the country? Or you lied got the asylum and is sneaking through the back door via Nigeria to go to Cameroon and show off. Yes show to the others left in the country how rich you have become and how unfortunate they are. Shame on us for being so selfish and self centered. How can we ever make life better for others when we are so occupied with just our survival? What are we wiling to dies for? Nothing, we sell out to soon and for us anything goes as long as it benefits us at the moment.
Yes you declared asylum and is still being paid by the Cameroonian government. Wonders shall never end. No doubt we are suffering and it seems there is not hope for us as a people. What explanation do we give to the fact that Cameroon and many other African countries are blessed with so many natural resources, yet we are so poor. I know the obvious answer is to point fingers to our leaders. Why do we always blame our leaders, when we are not different from them. Those who have lied and are encouraging others to declare asylum justify their action that they want to survive. Yes you want to survive and our leaders are also surviving. Since both of you are surviving you will just behave like them if you were made a leader. That is why for change to come to our country we have to change our attitude towards how we face our challenges. We have to learn to walk in truth. We must obey our laws and the laws of other countries. We have to stop selling our country in the name of survival. No doubt Cameroon only exist in name.That is many only believe in taking out and never putting back anything. Those that embezzle, corrupt, steal, lie etc. do it in the name of survival. Yes they believe in helping them selves at the expense of the country. You have to stop it and make up your mind to stand for the truth. If you have already declared false asylum do not encourage others to do the same. Do not invite people to the US with the intention of them coming here and going under round when they applied for visitor visas. We have mad it very difficult for others to be granted visitor visas because people get them come here and tell blatant lies that they were persecuted in Cameroon. The system is no longer working just like we have made our country a hopeless place to live in. Because nothing works. We must start standing up for things. When salaries our cut, we should press for better working conditions, instead of accepting the salaries knowing fully well that we are not going to do the job well. We get into other business ventures and justify it that we are not receiving adequate pay. Who are we deceiving? Shame on us.