{"id":2892,"date":"2016-12-21T04:43:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T04:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foretiafoundation.org\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2016-12-21T04:43:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T04:43:39","slug":"the-inevitable-nature-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foretiafoundation.org\/staging\/the-inevitable-nature-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inevitable Nature of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Barrister Akere Muna<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foretiafoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Akere-Muna_Change_English-version.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2891 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foretiafoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Akere-Muna_400x400-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foretiafoundation.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Akere-Muna_400x400-56x56.jpg 56w, https:\/\/www.foretiafoundation.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Akere-Muna_400x400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.foretiafoundation.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Akere-Muna_400x400-266x266.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.foretiafoundation.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Akere-Muna_400x400-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.foretiafoundation.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Akere-Muna_400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foretiafoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Akere-Muna_Change_English-version.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Change<\/a> is part of life. To try to go against change is to try to go against the very essence of the meaning of life. So when I read of high government officials and party apparatchiks, moving to Bamenda and Buea, I listen in to hear what the proposals are. Nothing, but a language that divides and the worn-out chant: \u2018all is well\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>If there are thousands and thousands of people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foretiafoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Akere-Muna_Change_English-version.pdf\">marching in the streets<\/a>, if you feel the need to mobilize and explain, then all cannot be well. If people are being shot, buildings burnt and massive arrests taking place and the rule of law starts becoming arbitrary then all cannot be well. Not with my soul, or the soul of any human being.<\/p>\n<p>In this country we are becoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foretiafoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Akere-Muna_Change_English-version.pdf\">confirmed experts<\/a> at reinventing the wheel. Unfortunately this happens every time we are faced with a serious problem others have had to deal with before. It appears to me that the easier thing to do should be just to take a look at what others who have struggled through the same tribulation have done. In our case the most obvious thing would be to seek out Canadian experts or at least read up on what they have done. I am more than convinced that our Prime Minister who spent close to nineteen years in Canada knows what all of this is about. He most certainly must have traced the way ahead and unfortunately found some hawks in his path. So then what happened in Canada?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foretiafoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Akere-Muna_Change_English-version.pdf\"><strong>Read full article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p><em>Barrister Akere Muna is the former president of the Cameroon Order of Lawyers, the president of the Panafrican Lawyers Union and the former vice president of Transparency International<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Barrister Akere Muna Change is part of life. 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