In the beginning of last academic year, the Head of State, H.E Paul Biya promised to distribute 500000 laptops to all legal universities across the country. This gesture of his was contradicted by a handful of intellectuals who saw it as a mere waste of funds. Their analysis were as follows; Firstly, the said laptops were to be bought with borrowed funds amounting to a sum of 75 Billion CFA. This amount was to be borrowed from China. To intellects, the amount was seen to be far too much for such a venture and the mere fact that the money was going to borrowed meant entangling the country into a cumbersome national debt for a venture that is not durable. Again, the contract for the said laptops was to be carried out by a Chinese company named Sichuan Telecomm Construction Engineering back in China. This meant all rewards for man power, intermediary and other auxiliary services were all to be at the benefit of the ...
