Operation Sparrowhawk: Between Manipulation, Misinformation, Stigmatization and Ethnicization

The hawk operation has been resumed for three weeks. Nearly ten former public wealth managers are imprisoned at Yaounde Central Prison. 

While some await their sentence at the Special Criminal Court (TCS). However, the revival of this action of sanitation public morals fueled, in recent days, a hint of manipulation, misinformation, stigmatization and ethnicization on the web.

Days go by without internet users posting on social networks the names of public figures who are forbidden to leave the country or are summoned to the Special Criminal Court (TCS). With a certain frenzy accompanied by a pompous and sulphurous character, techno-media activists structure the web with publications from the litany of public money managers, whom they say are under house arrest or which they say that the passport has been withdrawn. 

Operation Sparrowhawk: Between Manipulation, Misinformation, Stigmatization and Ethnicization

If one can not assure, illico presto, of the credibility and the reliability of such lists, one can, nevertheless, question the process of the coercive diffusion, massive and prescriptive, of these informative data on which the seal of the repressive apparatus of the State is affixed.

Suddenly, it turns out that the state is on the street as official documents are posted wrongly and across the pages of actants and clusters of passive and active followers of social networks. Beyond this manipulative coloration, there is an avalanche of acts of misinformation attributable to the ominous birds, who persist in seeing the raptor bird's talons catch the big vegetables of the republic. 

Robert Nkili, former Minister of Transport (Mintrans), Marie-Claire Nnana, General Director of the Press and Publishing Company of Cameroon (Sopecam), André Noël Essiane, Mayor of Sangmelima District Municipality, Elie Claude Ndam Njitoyap, General Director of the Yaoundé General Hospital, are, among others, his former and current officials announced to the TCS, even announced buried in the jails of the central prison of Yaoundé. However, so far, none of these figures are affected by a given judicial procedure according to the required sources in the Special Jurisdiction Chamber.

There is therefore a ripple effect media and techno-media that inclines men without faith or law to wish the misfortune to others-even if it is current or former manager of the public fortune. This incongruous and spooky posture of Internet users who want to see, at any price, the bigwigs of the Republic at the stops participates to create the social catharsis as these acts of misinformation swell besiege the web.

And to top it off, the revival of the hawking operation, in recent weeks, is accompanied by a layer of ethnicization, whose stake is to criminalize the Beti ethnic group. Indeed, while the defenders of this thesis apprehend the champion of the regime in place as the lion inclined to devour the rational animals of the Beti fang people, whose heads of power colonize the positions of power and authority of state bureaucracies, Moreover, the perpetrators who come from this cultural community do not recognize it and tend to favor the paradigm of the segregation of two ethnic groups: the ethnic group of the impoverished poor and the ethnic rich and gluttonous that Macchiavel is to expiate, or even to cannibalize without striking a blow. 

Obviously, those who focus on the central argument of Beti ethnic dispersal pretend to know that most Central, South and East nationals have been in positions of power and influence for decades. and authority. So, to support, with some clumsiness, the thesis of the imprisonment of prisoners Beti contributes, manifestly, to show naivety, even conscious myopia. 

Hold it! The factual societal reality is sacred, even sacralized, and the comment remains and remains free. with a certain awkwardness, Beti's thesis of the imprisonment of prisoners clearly contributes to showing naivety, even conscious myopia. Hold it! The factual societal reality is sacred, even sacralized, and the comment remains and remains free. with a certain awkwardness, Beti's thesis of the imprisonment of prisoners clearly contributes to showing naivety, even conscious myopia. Hold it! The factual societal reality is sacred, even sacralized, and the comment remains and remains free.