Conversation with Paddy Asanga (Hambourg, Germany) | June 22, 2020 | Paddy Asanga is member of a SDF-Germany

Paddy Asanga (PA): Good afternoon, Chairman.

John Fru Ndi (JFN): Good afternoon, Sir.

PA: Yes, this is Padday Asanga calling from Germany. How are you doing?

JFN: Well I am fine, Paddy. I have been talking with you for the last few days and you know, you have an idea of my conditions of health very well.

PA: Yes, I just want to get this once straight. There are some political scavengers out here saying that you are in the United States and you are filling for asylum and all that stuffs...What actually took you to the United States, Mister Chairman?

 JFN: It is about my health. If I would be filing for asylum, I would file right from Cameroon. You remember that in 1992 while I was under house arrest a couple of ambassadors including the german ambassador and the belgian ambassador came to me that they wanted to grant to me asylum to take my family out, but looking at the number of Cameroonians that supported me, and thinking on my own school of thoughts I could not just take my immediate siblings out and abandon they people that were behind me. Therefore, if I did not go for asylum then, I cannot go for asylum now.

Those who are saying that I don't know what the SDF and Fru Ndi have done to them, because before saying that I am already seeking for asylum they are talking about, not long ago it was brought to me that in some circles they have said that I have died. I received more than ten calls from journalists to confirm that I am alive!

PA: I got those messages too, it is rather unfortunate that we have people who are wanting to practice political scavengery by killing their adversary on the social media, so i think for that you don't need to worry, your mission is not ended and the peace that we have in Cameroon now is due to the fact that you refused to walk on corpses to get to Etoudi. If they want to kill you on social media, it is left to them. Nevertheless, Mister Chairman so what is the situation actually? Some people seem to be wanting to occupy the space that you were occupying: when can we expect to see you back home?

JFN: The political scene is very big, very large for people to occupy whatever they want to occupy. It is not by killing Fru Ndi that they occupy the space. First, i was embarrassed when people told me that some of them are fighting to be the second in command, that Kamto is fighting to be the second in command! I say that is stupid!

"All I am fighting is Mister Biya, not Kamto. If people came into politic to fight Fru Ndi, they fail before they ever started."

All I am fighting is Mister Biya, not Kamto; If people came into politic to fight Fru Ndi, they fail before they ever started because you are going to politic with the program that you want to lead the country. So it is unfortunate and from my political life I have never, never wished somebody dead, but those who wish me dead unfortunately some of them died before me. Therefore, it is unfortunate; you do not wish your adversary dead. You try to sell the democratic option, and if i can sell my program people who buy my program vote for me; but the program you want to sell is not a program of dead, and the program you are selling is the program that should also take care of your adversary, of your opponents.

PA: very correct, Mister Chairman. I just wanted to clear the air. Let those people who are wishing you dead and peddling rumours that you are seeking for asylum in America wait for you when the covi-19 pandemic is over and your health is stable. I am correct.

"If they want asylum in America I can give them the letters to recommend them for asylum"

JFN: You tell them that if they want asylum in America I can give them the letters to recommend them for asylum.

PA: OK, Mister Chairman, thank you very much and stay strong and we will always reach out to you when we think that it is necessary so we need you alive and we need your experience, we need your blessings to continue the fight that you started to liberate Cameroon from the 1990-ties when you created the SDF. Thank you, Sir!

JFN: I am a strong believer in God, the Father Almighty and I know that God will take me when he wants to take me and not when somebody wants me to go. It is very unfortunate that people came into politic to fight Fru Ndi and not the system. When they start going behind others and saying that they are running away, that they died, it means that they themselves they have no programs.

PA: You said it all, Mister Chairman. We wish you all the best and we hope to talk to you again very soon.

JFN: OK, God Bless! I appreciated your concerns.

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