Bui Women urged to be prepared to get into Parliament

By Francis Ek Nzante Lenjo

Princess Mbinglo Maxceline, CPDM Section President for Bui 1 A and Principal of GBHS Kimbo has called upon women in Bui Division to be girding their loins to get into parliament during this elective year. The politician cum educationist said among other things that women should not only keep voting for others but should start thinking about getting into office themselves. She made this call on Thursday April 19 during a press briefing in her Kumbo office.

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She said despite her lengthy educational trajectory which took her from her native Kumbo to Bamenda and eventually Yaounde, she remained attached to the culture of her roots and committed to the development of her place of origin.

The Section President who passed through the then University of Yaounde which now is University of Yaounde 1 before attending the Higher Teacher Training Institute ENS in Yaounde said her determination and poise came from her background. Her inspiration she said came from her mother. “There was one day she told me that my father on his dying bed said any of his son or daughter who struggles will always have something to do and will always succeed in life. That I didn’t forget and it gave me that desire to succeed.”

As an ambitious woman she didn’t fail to react to the fact that society was suffering from the effects of male chauvinism. In this direction she said the Cameroonian Government was really trying to fight against a completely male dominated society. “If you move to parliament you will see that the number of women have increased and in the senate the number is growing gradually. I call on women to always take up the challenge. If you don’t start you can never get to the finish. There is no smooth path to life. There are always stumbling blocks and you must be ready to ride on.”

Another ingredient that has contributed to her political orientation is the nature of society in which she grew. She explains that in her childhood she used to sit in the Palace Courtyard to listen to how judgment was passed traditional. “One time, something pricked me because there was a woman who wanted to divorce from her man. Traditionally she came with the children and she was told to give the children to the husband’s father that she could not take care of the children.” The decision baffled me and from that moment I decided to take a direction that would help me to change the plight of the woman and help the society as well.”

While acknowledging the fact the way you relate with people can sometimes take precedence over the party in which you militate and thus affect the attainment of your political aspirations, she cautions that there is always need to belong to a political party structure. She however concedes that though someone may belong to a political party an individual always has his or her own views on how a party can operate. “There are people who are born developers and those who are task motivators and those who are task handlers and so on.”

Mbinglo defines development as change in a positive direction and it should have positive effects on human beings or on nature. “I don’t believe in dictating solutions to people but rather that people can sit as a family and look for solutions to their problems.”

“We all need to put our hands on deck as a family and do something for Bui but I can’t say that personally I can do something for Kumbo.”

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