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| | Martin Jumbam: The pauperisation of the Cameroonian civil servant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | To pauperise, my English dictionary tells me, is, among other definitions, to reduce someone to a state of poverty. |
 | | This is what I believe has happened to the Cameroonian civil servant over the past several years when Paul Biya and his altar boy, Achidi Achu, his then prime minister, made two successive dramatic raids on civil servants’ salaries, slashing them in the process by well over 70%. |
 | | Elsewhere in Africa, the streets of the land would have been littered with debris of all sorts, including corpses, as civil servants tossed Molotov cocktails through their frustration and torched the land with their anger, from north to south and from east to west. |
| www.martinjumbam.com /2004/11/the_pauperisati.html (1348 words) |
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