Representation Without Accountability Is Collaboration, Why the World Must Stop Treating Mbah Acha Rose as a “Reform Figure”

To the outside world: She is proof that women are empowered, that Anglophones are included, that anti-corruption mechanisms exist. To the regime: She is a shield. A prop. A signature they can point to whenever the world demands accountability.

By a Member of the Ambazonian Diaspora contributor to The Independentist — Policy and Governance Desk

Foreign observers often mistake the presence of a single Anglophone woman in the upper layers of Cameroon’s government as proof that the state is inclusive, accountable, and reform-minded. That is the illusion.

Mbah Acha Rose — the Minister Delegate in charge of Supreme State Audit — is frequently highlighted as a sign that the regime cares about transparency and minority representation. Yet her silence and inaction concerning the largest corruption and human-rights emergency in the country expose a far different reality. She is not a reformer inside a flawed system. She is the legitimacy that flawed system uses to survive.

What Her Office Oversees — and What She Chooses to Ignore

The Supreme State Audit has a mandate to inspect every public sector that handles taxpayer money, including: Ministry of Defence — where war budgets are ballooning with no public accounting. Ministry of Territorial Administration — managing funds for internal operations against Ambazonian civilians. Ministry of Decentralization — steadily stripping Anglophone autonomy while draining council treasuries. Humanitarian Relief Allocations — intended for displaced Anglophone populations but routinely diverted. Revenue Entities — customs, tax directorates, state-owned enterprises embedded in corruption. No-bid security procurement contracts — now routine under “emergency measures”

Every one of these ministries is implicated in the continuation of a brutal war against civilians. Every one of them has spent taxpayer money on militarization instead of social recovery. And every one of them has escaped meaningful audit scrutiny under her tenure. This is not incompetence. This is political alignment. Her Silence Protects the Architecture of Corruption

Under her watch: No major investigation has been pursued into security force misconduct despite thousands of civilian casualties. No war-related procurement audit has been made public. No public report details the use of state funds for reconstruction of destroyed Anglophone communities. No inquiries have targeted the theft of humanitarian aid. No one with true power has been prosecuted for corruption tied to war profiteering. In a conflict where the state finances repression, failure to audit equals permission to continue. She knows where the money goes. She chooses not to expose it. Her Position Gives the Regime Cover — Not Reform

To the outside world: She is proof that women are empowered, that Anglophones are included, that anti-corruption mechanisms exist. To the regime: She is a shield. A prop. A signature they can point to whenever the world demands accountability. Foreign diplomats must understand this clearly: Her presence is not a sign of progress. Her silence is the price of her position.

The Diplomatic Consequence

Every time an embassy or international organization: Praises Cameroon’s “inclusivity”, Accepts anti-corruption rhetoric at face value, Avoids demanding open scrutiny of war funds, Takes a photo beside her as proof of partnership…it strengthens the regime’s impunity. It enables more civilian deaths., It prolongs the war. It rewards silence over justice.

What the International Community Must Demand

If Mbah Acha Rose is to be treated as a credible figure by foreign governments, then she must be held responsible for: Public audit disclosures of: defence spending, emergency procurement, local council budget seizures, humanitarian aid allocation, and all disposals of state assets in the conflict zones. Independent investigations into: corruption within the ministries funding the war, financial crimes tied to repression in the North-West and South-West. Whistleblower protection for staff in the audit chain of command. Accountability that actually reaches the level where decisions are made — not just scapegoats at the bottom. Until Then: She Does Not Represent Us.

The only representation that matters is representation that protects lives, rights, and freedoms. If she cannot speak truth to power, if she cannot defend the vulnerable, if she cannot expose the theft behind the war — then she is not a representative of the Anglophone people.
She is a representative of the problem.

Her title may be Supreme State Audit. But her loyalty is Supreme State Silence.

Member of the Ambazonian Diaspora