Lessons From Biya’s Power Of Silence, Unpredictability

President Paul Biya Of Cameroon

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If there is something which has made the President of The Republic, Paul Biya, a reference among other African leaders, then it is his ability to remain compose, focus and yet alert even in the midst of the most difficult of situations.

This approach is among the many reasons many say, the Head of State , has remained  different even as a civil  servant before  God raised him to the pinnacle of the nation in 1982.

Since 1982, President Biya has remained the master  of situations that have threatened even  continents. He has remained consistent and unpredictable in his silence in managing the statecraft. But one thing stands out clear, the President doesn’t  joke and has never joked with the people’s mandate and confidence renewed in him severally.

He believes In action before noise not the other way round. He talks through actions. His silence is noise in itself in that, Cameroonians have even written and continue to debate on what manner of man Biya is.

Biya has and is succeeding to steer the ship of the State in a way that gives his style of leadership respect.

The President’s style of leadership,  experts say, has several  lessons which public servants, persons in positions of authority even to the level of family  heads must learn.  The same, it is now being said, goes for those in private organisations that desire solidity and success in the long run.

The first key lessons which mostly civil servants must learn from President Biya, development experts say, is that leadership must be discrete and sacrosanct.

One of the  President’s  high points  while serving in other public  offices  till date, those who have worked  with him say and  rightly so is that,  government issues are not to be toiled with.

 Unlike nowadays that civil servants have become whistleblowers  by posting sensitive state documents on the social media, and leaking same elsewhere on other social media platforms,  public office holders should  learn from Biya that  State  issues must be handled with  reverence  and in  confidentiality. The sense many say is to allow the state architecture  work normally to produce desired  results and not to whip up sentiments  by putting information to the public for the sake of creating buzz.

 

Silent action breeds concrete results is another lesson Cameroonians must learn. President Biya, in the last decades, has had and still continue to have positive impact even in neighbouring nations  but he has never been involved in  taking  such to the public place. On this score, those who work for the citizenry should learn from the Head of State that, State files, information and other things must be handled and left within the confines of where they are supposed to be.

Leadership and power management  is another deduction  public servants must learn from the Head of  State.  President Paul Biya holds the golden admiration of separating family issues from  State issues.  This too, it is said has made his leadership very effective.

 Those who work for Cameroonians should borrow a leaf from the Head  of State and know that whatever is entrusted to them  belongs to the  people and not their families.  So be it information, money or sensitive files, public office holders must keep  them away from the prying eyes of even the closest of relatives who have nothing to do with such information.

We  have seen  documents not  meant for  public  consumption flying on social media as though, it is the social media that dictates how a country is run.

 But President Biya has kept his affinity to punctuality by keeping  State documents private and even when  such have to be made public, they come through official  channels.

 Those privileged to work in high offices to serve the public should  learn from President Biya the place of due procedure in channeling  certain documents and information.

Those who  have  developed the laxity to be putting everything about the  State to the public should be reminded that, we have only one country.  If you help to destroy it or weaken its institutions and those God has chosen to serve through them, you are also helping to destroy your family.  A refugee will always remain a refugee no matter how comfortable you are in another man’s country. Public office holders must learn from President Paul Biya’s experience and style that, the country’s interest must never be sacrificed by playing to the gallery  through  the mishandling of state information, files and documents