Dear Rebecca you’re absolutely right — I’m free not to vote for Kamto. But you’re missing the point.
This isn’t about individual choice at the ballot box. It’s about the danger of being told that Kamto is the only legitimate alternative, and that questioning him is tantamount to supporting Biya. That’s the very logic of authoritarianism we’re trying to escape.
You say the regime is both peste and choléra — and I agree. But replacing it with a group that behaves like a mirror image, using legal tactics to silence dissent and manipulate public emotion, is not the change we deserve.
Change by “any legal means necessary” cannot mean blind allegiance to another power-hungry elite. Real change is plural. It welcomes disagreement. It earns trust, it doesn’t demand obedience.
So yes, I will keep speaking up. Not for Biya. Not for Kamto. But for the right to choose freely, critically, and without intimidation.