By Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Mimi Mefo Info
Published on 2024-02-11 15:28:19
The comedian has denounced a series of problems that plague Cameroon in a video, including unemployment, lack of electricity, and corruption, before simulating an arrest by the police and then retracting his statements.
The art has taken a new step with the artist Moustik le Charismatik. In a video that is circulating on social media, we can hear the comedian describe the problems plaguing his country. “Why us, why us? What have we done? Are we cursed? Are we going to spend our time suffering and complaining? Before, we used to stay at home knowing we would watch movies, now the electricity has already found work before us. It leaves in the morning, returns in the evening, and sometimes it comes back at night and has already found overtime, it extends. As a tutor like me, how am I supposed to teach children in the dark? Oil is scarce. Is that normal? Here I am, I was despised by a police officer when the ID cards haven’t been issued. A year and a half with the receipt. When you go to the police station to renew, they ask for something else. The cards haven’t been issued, but the passports come out quickly, because you want to send us to Canada. Immigration is a solution for a young person in this country? My sister sells fish here, when she comes home in the evening she wants to keep the fish, but there is no electricity. The freezer heats up like a coffin. Where are we going to go, engage in prostitution, sell online? My mother is in the village, she does her agriculture, she cuts her plantain to come and sell here, it doesn’t work. We have increased the fuel, I understand, you don’t know how much it costs because you have fuel vouchers. We really suffer, it’s not because we don’t speak,” he can be heard saying in his video.
Moustik le Karismatik then simulates an arrest by the police who beat him up before releasing him, tearing his clothes in the process.
Looking scared, the comedian returns in a new video where he retracts his previous statements. “We are not obliged to have electricity, because sometimes electricity can cause a short circuit. Water, too, we must learn to adapt. When there is no water, we can draw from the well. Those who go to school, we don’t only succeed through school. When we don’t have an ID card, it doesn’t mean we are not citizens. We must respect the institutions,” he asserts after being severely beaten.
This short film, which has been praised by several internet users, illustrates the repressive context that has been experienced in Cameroon recently against those who try to denounce the plight of the citizens.
Essama Aloubou
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