| UN Guterres and Amina Got
Paid To Sell Out Cameroon Anglophones Then
Banned Inner City Press
A Cautionary Tale I,
By
Matthew Russell Lee
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UN GATE / SDNY
COURT, Dec 30 – Kurt Wheelock,
having been stopped again at
the UN Visitors Entrance with
his backpack, was waiting on
the benches in front with a
camera when Daniel Lang came
out.
In the two hours the lobbyist
was inside, first on the 38th
floor then trying to score an
intern in the Delegates Lounge
re-made to look like an
airport, Wheelock has Googled
on his phone and found not
only Lang's Foreign Agent
Registration Act filing but
also his photo, on his lobbyin
firm's website.
In it Lang looked younger and
with more hair, but he was
still recognizable. Wheelock
pushed "Begin Broadcast" on
the Periscope app on his phone
and approached the lobbyist.
"So what did she say," he
shouted. Lang looked
surprised, then worried, then
began to rush away.
"Amina Mohammed," Wheelock
continued, pursuing him toward
the white NYPD cement blocks
still left on Press Island
after the General Assembly
week a month ago. "Amina Jay
Mohammed - what did she say
about China's project in
Ambazonia?"
Lang stopped. "It's part of
Cameroon," he corrected
Wheelock. "There's no such
thing as Ambazonia."
"So you say," Wheelock said,
softer. He wanted to lure the
lobbyist into his broadcast.
"So did Amina agree with that,
that the opponents of the
project are all
secessionists?"
Lang smiled. This is the
connection he was getting paid
to make. He had no problem
saying it on a v-log or
whatever this was. It might go
viral, as his assistant was
always whispering about.
Whatever that meant. "Yes, the
UN does not recognize
Ambazonia," he said, looking
indirectly into the camera and
external microphone of
Wheelock's phone.
"But
did you offer Amina and
Guterres anything?" Wheelock
asked, putting the phone right
in Lang's face. "On behalf of
La Republique?"
Lang paused. He had offered
them the support of Biya's
longtime ambassador Tommo
Monthe, who just happened to
be chairing the UN Budget
Committee for the next year.
But there was no reason to
brag.
"Offers aren't necessary," he
said. "It's south - south
cooperation, China to
Cameroon. You're what,
American?"
Wheelock was, despite the
convoluted Nicaraguan or now
Honduran ancestry he sometimes
claimed. "Just because Trump
is corrupt doesn't mean that
China isn't," he finally said.
"At a certain point you have
to pick a side," Lang said.
Then he hailed a yellow cab,
which stopped quickly. He got
in the back and told the
driver, "Take me to Queens."
He'd heard there was a new
Turkish restaurant there,
opened in the expectation of
the Amazon.com plan that had
fallen through. Ambazonia,
indeed.
He looked back at
the UN as they crossed the
Queensboro Bridge. He thought
he saw Wheelock pedaling
desparately after them on a
CitiBike, falling further and
further behind...
To be continued.
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