Why CNN, the BBC TV are not talking about us (A Must READ. Share) by Pauline AKOSON

Candidates for interim PM Position must come public let's know'em.

Through the months, I have been flabbergasted why the BBC TV of all media outfits has remained sealed lips on our cause. Make no mistake, the BBC radio has really worked with us. However, the BBC TV has not shown any concern. This let me to underatke some resarch. I stumbled on the contacts of a highly placed name at the BBC. I propose to conceal her identity.

I querried her that the BBC TV has not reported on our cause. Her response is not just embarrassing but serves as a lesson.

Hear her; 'we did not know your struggle would spiral to this level. We thought it would end at the argument on marginalisation. It has gotten to another height that would need clearance from the higher up to carry the news'.

This revelation boils down to the same thing I have been singing over the months. This game is a game of quid pro quo (interest-based). It is the mindset and unwritten policy of these big corporations and Western governments. This is basic Diplomacy 101 and I am sure that other governments and mighty businesses have raised their eyebrows why we are yet to approach them to play ball. This fight requires hard diplomacy: behind-closed door deal signing.

I am aware of two separate groups that have visited the White House. This is too bad for the cause. Who do they take seriously - group A or B? But a delegation of an interim PM (voted by the people and has a visible and not perceived level of legitimacy) with his Ministers of External Relations, Defence, Natural Resources and other relevant ones would provide Western Corporate bodies and governments some amount of 'comfortability' that they are dealing with the right group. Candidates must show interest for the job. I will NEVER talk about a candidate I am not satisfactorily certain they could deliver the goods. So do not indict me for publishing Dr. AYABA's interest to run. Provide your own candiadtes, we compare the CVs, SCACUF picks those eligible and WE THE PEOPLE DECIDE.This is by the way!

This post is to wholeheartedly thank the diaspora for all the beautiful work they are doing. Southern Cameroonians all over Europe thronged the premises of the BBC and asked them tough questions why they are yet to show our case to the world. The programme ended with an interview granted the BBC by Dr. AYABA CHO Lucas, Head of the Ambazonian Governing Council popularly referred to as 'the block by block man' for his stance on 'the argument of force'.

And as I write these words, Southern Cameroonians in Europe are currently at Munich Germany to protest against the illegal occupation of the Southern Cameroons by La Republique du CameroUn.

Thank You Diaspora. Hurray Hurray ... Keep on Pushing! We continue to stand shoulder to shoulder, block by block, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.

AKOSON

From a federalist to an 'independentist'. The Southern Cameroons MUST be free.

Peter Essoka has ordered Cable TV distributors round Cameroon to remove Afrique Media from their channels

Peter Essoka on behalf of the National Communication council has ordered Cable TV distributors round Cameroon to remove Afrique Media from their channels list for airing controversial debates on the anglophone problem and the CFA. See letter below:

How Isa Tchiroma Ordered The Arrest And Torture of Bakassi Indigenes Who Resisted Assimilation By Akoson Pauline Diale, Friday April 28, 2017

By Akoson Pauline Diale, Friday April 28, 2017

Cameroon Journal, Bakassi – One of the victims of Paul Biya’s genocidal tendencies whose name the CJ got simply as ‘Naija Man’, a resident of Bakassi in the Southwest Region, is speaking out about how he was tortured under direct instructions from Cameroun Communication Minister, Issa Tchiroma.

Tchiroma ordered he be mercilessly flogged by the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) forces, a special branch of the Cameroon gov’t’s military unit trained to stifle dissent and clampdown on activists.

This fisherman of Balondo, Ekondo Nene who resides at Idabato, Bakassi, disclosed that between February and March this year, Issa Tchiroma the Minister of Communication, Rene Emmanuel Sadi, Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation, MINATD, Senator Peter Mafany Musonge, Grand Chancellor of the Order of Valour, the SDO for Ndian Division and three Italian engineers visited the Bakassi area thrice.

Naija Man reported that the Yaounde delegation had several meetings with Bakassi locals during which they failed to entice them from dropping their support for the Southern Cameroons emancipation quest.

‘They gathered us each time they came around and made fake promises. They said they would tar our roads, as if we had any! They promised to build us a university with courses on Petrochemical Engineering. But I am certain that all what they say is deceitful. Their purpose was to finalise the quick extraction of our oil before we finally part ways. I say this because, they have already brought some heavy machines and the white men have built camps for their workers’. CJ source revealed in a lengthy letter sent from Bakassi.

On one of such meetings between the Yaoundé barons and the people of the Bakassi area, Issa Tchiroma lashed out at those who followed Facebook postings and warned them against believing lies from certain prominent Southern Cameroonian writers on Facebook, including Mark Bareta, Tapang Ivo, Ayaba Cho Lucas, Ebenezer Akwanag, Achire Belmondo and this reporter. After one of the events, our source disclosed that the men from Yaoundé started distributing clean 10,000 FCFA notes each to the people. It was at this juncture that the fearless Naija Man rose up and objected in anger;

‘We are not hungry. We do not need your money. Leave us alone’.

An infuriated Tchiroma responded by ordering the BIR to flog him mercilessly.

‘This left me hospitalised for days at our local clinic. Mr. Tchiroma warned that anyone who wanted to rebel would be treated as bad as they did to me’.

Paul Biya has always used force to suppress vocal voices. Areas within Cameroon that has BIR forces have been reduced to concentration camps where these men in uniform commit atrocities against the people and go away with it. It is reported that cases of rape at the Bakassi area are widespread. This has left many Nigerian girls escaping to the other side of the border where they believe they feel more secured.

The Situation in Southern Cameroon: A Call for a Halt to Human Rights Repressions by ILA PUblication

The Situation in Southern Cameroon: A Call for a Halt to Human Rights Repressions

The ILA (Nigeria) Committee on Justice and Human Rights, acting under the protective mandate of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, is concerned over the ongoing events in the Republic of Cameroon and has considered it imperative to add its voice to the variously expressed opposition to the wanton violation of the rights of the people of  English speaking Provinces of Cameroon by the Government of the Republic of Cameroon.

The facts upon which the intervention of the Committee is established, as verified by CNN, Amnesty International and the African Bar Association, are as follow:

I.             That residents of Cameroon's two English-speaking provinces have longstanding grievances against the largely-francophone central government, complaining of economic marginalization and the imposition of French legal and education systems upon them;

II.           That in November and December 2016, Anglophone lawyers led protests against the use of French in courts, resulting in clashes with police in which protesters were killed;

III.         That the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium (CACSC) and Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), responded with series of strikes and "Operation Ghost Town" – a form of nonviolent resistance that requiring all supporters to stay at home;

IV.         That following the strikes, schools and courts in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon have been shut since November 2016;

V.           That on January 17, the government banned the CACSC and the SCNC, holding them responsible for the protests. The CACSC President Nkongho Felix Agbor-Balla and Secretary General Dr. Fontem Neba were arrested on charges relating to terrorism, and are yet to regain their freedom and have not been offered all the necessary facilities for fair and impartial trial.

Being aware that the issues leading to the current impasse are not new, the Committee takes cognisance of the following:

(a)  that the current situation is intimately linked to the events that occurred in British Southern Cameroon in the context of decolonisation having its root in the League of Nations Mandate System that partitioned Cameroon between Great Britain and France and which culminated in the plebiscite of the United Nations on Southern and Northern Cameroon independence question;

(b) That matters arising from the plebiscite have been a subject of litigation and discussion at several international forums, particularly, at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the African Commission on Human and Peoples;

(c) That the Committee is aware that the facts presented to the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights on the Southern Cameroon (‘Ambazonia’) in the case ofGorji-Dinka v Cameroon (2005) AHRLR 18 (HRC 2005), particularly, paragraphs 2.1 to 3.2, were unchallenged by the government of Cameroon;

(d) The Committee also takes cognisance of Kevin Mgwanga Gunme et al v Cameroon (communication 266/03) in which, after it had painstakingly considered the position of both parties, the African Commission made the following findings:

·         On the facts presented that Cameroon’s law enforcement officers were employing torture, amputations and denial of medical treatment to suppress the Southern Cameroon question, against the claim of government of Cameroon that the agitators had perpetrated terrorist acts in the country, the Commission found Cameroon liable, emphasising that the methods employed by Cameroon were unjustified; 

·         On the imposition of French on the Anglophone regions, the Commission found that it was wrong for institutions, such as banks to force Southern Cameroon based companies to change their basic documents into French in violation of Article 2 of the African Charter;

·          On the failure of Cameroon to guarantee fair trial to the Anglophone activists, the Commission found Cameroon in violation, for:

-       transferring individuals from Southern Cameroon to Francophone Cameroon for trial by military tribunals,

-      denying interpreters to those  tried in civil law courts;

·         The Commission found (concerning the individuals that were tried in French without the help of interpreters) that, having denied them the opportunity to adequately prepare their defence, Cameroon violated articles 7.1.b, 7.1.c and 7.1.d of the Charter.

·         The Commission was categorical in finding that the tendency of military tribunals is to act as an extension of the executive, rather than the judiciary, and that they are not intended to try civilians but to try military personnel under laws and regulations which govern the military. The Commission finds that trying civilians by the Yaoundé and the Bafoussam Military Tribunals was a violation of the right to fair hearing;  

·         The facts before the Commission showed cases of suppression of demonstrations with excessive force as well as the unlawful arrest and detention of protesters, peaceably exercising their right to freedom of assembly. The Commission found that some of the detained persons were acquitted while some died at the hands of security forces or in detention. The Commission found Cameroon in violation of article 11 of the African Charter.

·          The Commission also condemned the relocation of business enterprises and location of economic projects to Francophone Cameroon, which generated negative effects on the economic life of Southern Cameroon as a violation of article 19 of the Charter.

(e) Having carefully considered the similarities of behaviour of the government of Cameroon that gave rise to the aforementioned cases to those now being employed by the government (and which show that Cameroon failed to implement the recommendations of the Commission), it is the view of this Committee that for their currency and relevance to the presence situation, fitting to adopt and reiterate the recommendations and to strongly urge the Cameroonian government to take all necessary steps to implement the findings as an important step towards the resolution of the historic Southern Cameroon question.

(f)   Accordingly, we call on the government of Cameroon to, among others:

·         release forthwith all those who are currently detained or are being tried for and in respect of matters arising from the southern Cameroon question;

·         commence a process of national dialogue and payment of compensation to all individuals whose rights have been violated by the unwarranted use of force by the government of Cameroon against the people of Anglophone regions of Cameroon. 

·         address the grievances expressed by the  English speaking Provinces of Cameroon through its democratic institutions. The 1993 Buea and 1994 Bamenda Anglophone conferences raised constitutional and human rights issues which have been a matter of concern to a sizable section of the Anglophone Regions of Cameroon for quite a long time;

·         immediately begin sincere, inclusive and purposive process of consultations towards the amendment of 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Cameroon to address the demands of the Anglophone Regions of Cameroon, particularly since it did not accommodate the concerns expressed through the 1993 Buea Declaration and 1994 Bamenda Proclamation;

·         abolish all discriminatory practices against people of Southern Cameroon, including equal usage of the English language in business transactions;

·         stop the transfer of accused persons from the Anglophone provinces for trial in the Francophone provinces;

·         ensure that every person facing criminal charges be tried under the language he/she understands;

·         locate national projects, equitably throughout the country in accordance with economic viability as well as regional balance;

·         enter into constructive dialogue with the Anglophone Regions of Cameroon, and in particular, CACSC and the SCNC, to resolve the constitutional issues, as well as grievances which could threaten national unity; and

·         to carry out judicial reform towards guaranteeing the independence and impartiality of the judiciary.

·         That the Southern Cameroonians’ should cooperate with sincere and meaningful attempts by the government to resolve their grievances by constitutional means.

Dr Amos O Enabulele,

Chairman

ILA (Nig) Committee on Justice & Human Rights

BSC | AMB: The Situation in Southern Cameroon – A Call for a Halt to Human Rights Repressions by ILA (NIG) Committee on Justice & Human Rights (CJHR)***

27 April 2017
The Situation in Southern Cameroon: A Call for a Halt to Human Rights Repressions
by
ILA (NIG) Committee on Justice & Human Rights (CJHR)***

Excerpt:
“. The Commission was categorical in finding that the tendency of military tribunals is to act as an extension of the executive, rather than the judiciary, and that they are not intended to try civilians but to try military personnel under laws and regulations which govern the military. The Commission finds that trying civilians by the Yaoundé and the Bafoussam Military Tribunals was a violation of the right to fair hearing;
·         The facts before the Commission showed cases of suppression of demonstrations with excessive force as well as the unlawful arrest and detention of protesters, peaceably exercising their right to freedom of assembly. The Commission found that some of the detained persons were acquitted while some died at the hands of security forces or in detention. The Commission found Cameroon in violation of article 11 of the African Charter.
·          The Commission also condemned the relocation of business enterprises and location of economic projects to Francophone Cameroon, which generated negative effects on the economic life of Southern Cameroon as a violation of article 19 of the Charter.”
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***ILA (NIG) Committee on Justice & Human Rights (CJHR)
CJHR is a Committee of the Nigerian Branch of the International Law Association http://www.ila-hq.org/. The CJHR aims at taking a pragmatic approach to human rights and justice as mutually inclusive concepts with a view to understanding how and why the concept of justice for human rights abuses enhances or diminishes human rights protection. The Committee is currently chaired by Dr. Amos Enabulele.

Unquestionable Reasons Why Southern Cameroons’ Business Class Must Become Active Militant of the struggle

Unquestionable Reasons Why Southern Cameroons’ Business Class Must Join the Struggle

Fellow Southern Cameroons businessmen and women,

we must begin by congratulating you for the cooperation you have shown this far by way of observing the ghost towns calls from the Consortium. We know just how much you are sacrificing by doing that, though some among you appear to still be either drawing behind or respecting the calls grudgingly. There are several unimpeachable reasons why you should not only be a silent militant, but become a torchbearer in this struggle for the restoration of the independence of Southern Cameroons. There is so much to talk about, but let us look at the following main ones:

1)- Politics of Tribalism: The country functions today mainly on tribal basis and what this means is that the ministers and directors general are considered to care mostly for their tribes people and others only come secondary. Of course our two regions always end up with a maximum of two ministers and maybe four or five directors general out of the many portfolios that exist. To make matters worse, when our own people are appointed, they soon start favouring only Francophone business persons over us on the foolish premise that those are the people who shall keep them longer in those positions. Consequently, most of us end up with very limited opportunities and have to “buy” contracts from Francophone middlemen at extremely huge amounts of money, then obtain loans from the banks on very high overdraft rates and in the end we go home indebted because payments take too long, interests swallow everything, payment percentages leave us looking stupid. That is when the so-called middlemen do not sell us fictitious contracts and go away with our whole earnings. That is what we want to change once and for all.

2) Civil Servants are all in Business: In the days of West Cameroon, civil servants never got into business, they concentrated on serving the state and were well paid and allowed the business community to handle the trade. Today, civil servants are competing with business people and since they hold the offices, business people are always on the disadvantage. That is why in our society today, our business people are suffering while civil servants cart all the wealth with impunity. This has to end.

3) Discriminatory Taxation Policy: All our big companies are forced to pay their taxes only in Yaounde and Douala, enabling those council areas to use the money and develop their infrastructure while our councils are presented as some of the poorest in the country, slowing down development. Worse, those who end up doing business with our councils generally run the risk of never getting paid or they get paid years after execution of the contracts. The situation on the other side is naturally different and this is what we want to stop and it must change.

4) Poor Road Infrastructure: He who talks business, talks time! The road infrastructure in Southern Cameroons is the worst in the country presently. In the past, it took between 3 and 4 hours to travel from Bamenda to Yaounde, today it takes about 7 or even 8 hours to cover the same distance. To make a bad situation crazy, anyone traveling between Bamenda and Mbouda faces a nightmare. The same holds for all our urban roads and this has a huge toll on the business sector. Even Ndian Division where oil is drilled does not have half a kilometre of tarred road, talk less of even having a passable road in the rainy season; what a pity!

5) Air Transport: You have all seen for yourselves that Yaounde has recently rehabilitated some airports; Bafoussam, Ngaoundere, Garoua, Maroua and of course Douala and there is known worthy of the calling in all of Southern Cameroons. Goung to or from the South West, you will be told to drop in Douala and continue by land when there is an airport in Tiko, same thing for Bamenda where you will be told to stop in Bafoussam and continue by land. Our dear brothers and sisters, do we belong really?

6) Constant Harassment by Security Forces: Anyone who does business in our two regions will tell how police and gendarmerie officials torture drivers, passengers and business persons for illicit money daily. It gets worse on border roads; Kumba Ekondo Titit for examples has over 10 control points with fixed collection rates daily on a 60 km-lap of road. Ekok through Mamfe to Bamenda or kumba hold even worse records. Our people, we must say No to all these!!

8) Horrible Treasury Situation: All of us knew that the Limbe and Buea treasury stations were among the richest in the country, that is if they were not absolutely the richest. That is no longer the situation, as even the Bamenda Regional Treasury which could at least pay a good portion of its engagements before looking onto Yaounde is now a cause for total concern. We pointed out earlier that this is because of the evil taxation policy causing all our big companies to pay taxes elsewhere. Today, for our business people to get their bills paid, they have to operate through all kinds of channels and that is not Anglo Saxon at all.

9) Politicization of all Spheres of National Life: Politics has eaten deep into the fabrics of our society to the point that if you do not belong to the CPDM Party or hold a post at least at a section or sub section, you may not get jobs or get paid. Worse, your taxes may be taken to levels that will just send you out of business. Some of us have been forced to join the party ly in order to at least remain in business. This is a thing that has no place in modern day society and it has to change and shall indeed be different in our new country- Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia.

10) Exorbitant Cost of Fuel Per Litre: The cost of a litre of fuel in our country currently is about the highest in Africa, whereas we are a petroleum producing country. In nearby Nigeria, a litre of super costs about 250 CFA F, while we pay 650 CFA F. The reason is simply that a lot of unnecessary taxes are being imposed to finance corrupt practices and useless trips abroad. We know that such high fuel prices make transportation expensive- coupled with high vehicle maintenance costs due to bad roads and the overall result is rampant poverty

Our dear people, after reviewing all these, is there any point talking about Labour Day celebrations? What do we really have to celebrate when nothing is moving? The three-month internet suspension deepened an already painful wound and caused the shutting down of a lot of businesses; what is there to celebrate? Shall we be celebrating the constant arrests, torture and detention of our sons, fathers, husbands and brothers or the militarization of our cities marked by the constant rape of our women?

It is for these reasons and more that the Consortium is urging you to not only boycott Labour Day activities all over Southern Cameroons, but also to become active militants of this God-ordained struggle for the restoration of the Statehood of Southern Cameroons.

God is with us!

The Consortium

Biya Should Open Dialogue On Form Of State by John Mbah Akuroh

Compelling Reasons Why Biya Should Immediately Open Dialogue on the Form of the State

Sometime ago, a news publication (Cameroon Tribune) quoted President Paul Biya as saying he would like to be remembered as the man who “brought democracy” to Cameroon. That sentence or call it a declaration was scorned by many and some were quick to coin it otherwise; “President Biya is a big lover and advocate of democracy, but he only wishes it to be really functional after him.

I am not a judge of intentions; like Spinoza Tractacus Policus, I prefer to understand human actions rather than condemn or judge them. The President certainly cast those intentions and it is left for him and his creator to know whether those thoughts were genuine and if circumstances barred him from standing tall in that line. I say so because I also read from books that he said in the early days of his Presidency that people “would no longer have to hide under their beds to express their opinions, whatever those opinions are”.

A school of thought holds that if the most populous opposition in Cameroon were not manned by Anglophones, power alternation would already have taken place in the country. This scholarly current insists that in as much as the French (they are reputed to still decide everything in Cameroon) have been weary of Mr. Biya for a long time now, their frustration has been the conviction that going by democratic means , the only other choice would be a Southern Cameroonian; an “abomination”.

Every other election since 1992 has come home with the very same message and in 2004, the foreign ambition to move from threats to action in effecting regime change in Cameroon was seen in skewed tactics to force a French speaking Cameroonian (despite the smallness of his following) to be the unique candidate of the country’s opposition. Again, it failed because the Social Democratic Front with its large following decided to pull out of the alliance which it judged as biased.

That 2004, current Communication Minister and Government Spokesman, Issa Tchiroma Bakary said this in an interview: “You know, really, Fru Ndi was elected as Head of State but he was deprived of his victory and he self-proclaimed himself as the elected Head of State. If you can recall, a state of emergency was declared at that time; we had to choose between saving the republic which was on the verge of collapse and civil war or to stick by our principles which consisted in saying that no, Mr Biya did not win the election and to join Mr. Fru Ndi and the consequences might have been unforeseeable. We decided to save the government; to save legality, not legitimacy and this prompted us to even violate some of our principles in order to save peace in the country”.

The question that arises here is would it have been the same if the winner of that election was a Francophone? What would have been the French position and how would the country have reacted across the board? I do not have answers to these questions, but my guess could well be yours, reason even councils won by the SDF in the nation’s capital- Yaounde were all turned back to the ruling party on such grounds as; some of their candidates had not resigned from the CPDM and their mere presence on the lists made the victories those of Mr. Biya’s party. The overall understanding was that it would be improper for an Anglophone-led party to hold councils in the capital city.

Anglophones in Cameroon have complained ceaselessly over the years of worsening conditions; they have expressed disgust at policies meant only to demean and make them less human, such as causing large companies to pay taxes only in Douala and Yaounde, but no one had ever bothered to listen. The All Anglophone Conference brought interesting proposals on how a return to the two-state federation could rescue the country from total collapse, but the organizers were scorned and martyred.

Unable to comprehend how the AAC I failed to produce results that could make Southern Cameroonians feel a sense of belonging, the Anglophones who loved the union to heart, returned to yet another conference- the AAC II, even that did not convince President Biya that the only thing indigenes of the North West and South West wanted was to be recognized as his ‘children’ in the same light like people from the other eight regions. Mr. Biya’s refusal or failure to understand this fact led to worsening conditions, marked by the hard and disgusting fight that resulted in the creation of the GCE Board- a gain that is being eroded in the current fray.

I like to draw the attention of President Paul Biya to this statement by J. F Kennedy: “There are risks and costs to programs of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and cost of comfortable inaction”. The people are crying and their ‘father’ is either silent or taking his holidays around the globe; he seems not to understand that his roof is on fire. That inaction may lead to irreparable damage and history is most likely, as I have seen during my scholarly years, to hold only my beloved President Biya responsible and not all those who are feeding him with stories that have no connection with the real situation on the ground.

The need to return to the two-state federal option as proposed by Anglophones for decades, but rejected brutally by the regime has pushed many to think it does not make any sense thinking of it any longer. When the lawyers and then the teachers came up with that request again in 2015 leading up to 2016, it seemed laughable and they were mocked out of proportions. Five of our ministers held a press conference and described them as clowns; in fact a new and uncanny definition of who an Anglophone was emerged; some ministers told their audience that they had Anglophones in their homes. Months only afterwards, Minister of State, Laurent Esso who was actively present at that press outing came away with a new definition that gave Anglophones in Cameroon a geographical definition.

I wish to recall to our President that if his security and intelligence services decided to do their work properly and delivered to him the raw results of their findings, he would realize much to his dismay that no one in his government had ever told him the truth. The truth would have been that neither lawyers, nor for that matter, the teachers who ignited this revolution have the power to determine how it ends anymore. The government got some union leaders to call off the strike and it did not work, they got the University of Buea SYNES President, Prof Abangma to do same in the university system and the result is still so mitigated and that is likely how new attempts to get the jailed Consortium leaders released to come out and end things could definitely end up.

If the intelligence services also reported honestly, Mr. President would understand that schools are not going on in the Anglophone regions. The three, four or five students who run away from work art home to get taught in classes of 70 or 80 students in the name of schools resumption is like telling oneself lies and believing same. Let us graduate from this farce and face the reality in the supreme interest of the republic of which the President is the guarantor.

Another very important detail; if the intelligence services work well and report exactly what they certainly know by now would be that less than 10% of Anglophones still want any form of union with French speaking Cameroon on account of what has happened since the 17th of January, 2017. That 10% of federalists appears sincerely to be dwindling by the day, especially as news is awash that the GCE Board may have its office moved to Yaounde, that the BACC Board which was never asked for, but got created before the GCE Board over which people lost their sights from splashing waters through water cannons, may organize GCE examinations this year and a lot of other uninteresting news.

The time to rescue the union is fast running out and the struggle which may look like dying Mr. President should know, seems so only in the eyes of those who want to obtain vain favours from the situation. Evidence could be found in the fact that anti ghost town marches have been organized in Kumba (2 days afterwards ghost towns returned), in Buea (three days later the situation remained unchanged), in Limbe (with mitigated results) and then the ridicule of last Monday the 24th of April, 2017 in Bamenda where less than fifty people paraded the streets with placards against ghost towns and were later caught on camera at the Governor’s Office receiving stipends for the ‘dirty’ job.

Anglophones, the President should note, are currently running on the principle enunciated by Harriet Beecher Stowe that; “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn”. The steam of the revolution is growing and only a courageous decision from the most authorized office of the state can make things seem different.

That is why Dr. Mrs Cecilia Ibru says “Risk taking creates opportunities for growth, development and competitive advantage. Any venture, social, political or economic that has no risks, is not worth doing. What is needed is a better understanding of the risks and design strategies to cope with the likely problems”.
This is the time for the President to count the cost and pay the appropriate price, otherwise he runs the risk of re-ena

cting a historical figure well known of scholars; Joseph II of Austria who demanded that the following words be written on his tombstone: “Here lies a prince whose intentions were pure, but who had the misfortune to see all his plans collapse before his own eyes”. Mr. President inherited one country and to find himself leaving behind two when the bell tolls for him to go off-stage may be a not-too-glorious end.

I have written this opinion piece with so much verve and no fear because I know my President stands for freedom of expression and would not also want to be seen as one who spent the last years of his reign destroying all what he stood for in the early days of his Presidency. Yes, Mr. President, I do not need to hide under the bed to say what I think in a way that can help move us forward; you had abolished repression of public opinion since 1982 and I respect you for that.

By John Mbah Akuroh

ACCEPTING FEDERALISM WITH LRC IS ACCEPTING SLAVERY FOR EVER

ACCEPTING FEDERALISM WITH LRC IS ACCEPTING SLAVERY FOR EVER.

It is ridiculous that some Southern Cameroonians, including the likes of brother ERIC CHINJE, think that we can continue to live in union with LRC in some form of FEDERALISM. This sounds to me like saying that Satan and God can figure out and arrangement to live together in heaven or that French and British people who are both european citizens, can form a federation and live together as one entity ! The recent exit of Britain from the European union is telling. I want to ask these advocates of federalism the following questions:

- How many times did Ahidjo or Biya ever receive Foncha, Muna, Fonka Shang when they were 2nd personalities of the Republic ?
- How many times has Biya received HRH Fon Angwafor who is 1st Vice President of the CPDM to discuss party issues or state issues, even in these times that anglophones are crying out loud against marginalisation?
- How many times has Biya visited Bamenda that he declared in 1985 to be his 2nd home ?
- How many of the so called " grands projets " that Mr Biya hopes will take his country LRC to emergence in 2035 are in Southern Cameroons?
- How come Biya announced the construction of the Limbe deep seaport since 1998 but abandoned that project in favour of Kribi ?
- Do you know Zacheus Fornjindam (son of Southern Cameroons ) was imprisoned on trumped up charges of embezzlement of 80 millions, then sentenced to life imprisonment, just because he was about to complete the ship yard ( chantier naval ) in Limbe that would have been repairing the biggest ships on the Atlantic coast and boosting the economy of Southern Cameroons ?
- Do you know that the same Fornjindam accused of embezzling 80 millions and sentenced to life jail, left 40 billions in the coffers of chantier naval Douala which were rapidly squandered by his beti successor Antoine Bikoro but never charged of any embezzlement and it is government now paying the salaries of the largely beti workers of that structure ?
- Have you ever seen francophones, even their so called intellectuals, rise up in solidarity with anglophones any time anglophones have been humiliated with insults such as: enemis dans la maison, biafrais, anglofous, les gens qui refechis a gauche, les bamendas esclaves, les vaut riens, etc. And recently Biya himself insulted us as " les extremistes ". You can continue the list. Instead, they team up to defend and make understand that it is all our fault and we deserve such insults !

In 1990, a CTV/CRTV colleague and collaborator of our brother Eric Chinje by name ZACHARIE NGNIMAN, wrongfully and shamelessly accused anglophone students of the then University of Yaounde of having sang the Nigerian national anthem on campus and referred to them as traitors of the nation. The anglophones in Yaounde in particular were arrested and tortured, many killed and dumped in unknown mass graves and not even Eric Chinje had the courage to raise his finger against these lies that exposed anglophones to genocide. On the contrary ZACHARIE NGNIMAN was later promoted to member of parliament while his boss Eric Chinje who himself suffered huge humiliations in CTV/CRTV resigned to look for solace out of the country.

It puzzles me that some Southern Cameroonians still think that some new breed of francophones will crop up and start considering Southern Cameroonians as their equals. It will never happen. Humiliating and wiping out the anglophone existence is a policy that is deeply rooted in the psyche of francophones.

They have created the common law departments in the francophone universities with the intention to teach common law to francophones, then admit them into ENAM, train them as common law magistrates, post them to courts in Southern Cameroons to continue the control of our judicial system with the argument that they understand common law. How can we be so blind not to see the writing on the wall ? These people have corruption, dishonesty, cheating, brutality, mischief, subjugation and exploitation as their way of live !

I have lived with Francophones for 40 years and it is clear to every generation of them that anglophones can never have the same rights like them in " their country " because we were the ones who begged to join them in 1961. Reason why they accept that Fru Ndi won the 1992 presidential elections but understand that Biya was right to seize the victory because he could not allow a foreigner to rule their country. Tell francophones as a whole that the post of Head of State of LRC should rotate between anglophones and francophones. The answer is an out right no and their argument is that anglophones are a minority and cannot expect to rule the francophone majority for what ever reason. After all to them, we were the ones who begged to join them in 1961 and so we must accept what ever treatment they mete on us.

In the face of all these humiliations and subjugation, and the established treachery that characterises the francophone way of life, accepting federalism with LRC will be accepting to enslave ourselves and future generations of Southern Cameroonian for eternity. God has ordained our liberation now like he liberated the children of Israel from Egypt and we must take it now or forget about it for ever. It is either total independence or it is slavery for ever ! We must continue to pay any price till we restore our independence and free ourselves and children from slavery under LRC.

WELCOME AND LONG LIVE THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF SOUTHERN CAMEROONS ( AMBAZONIA ).

Cameroon -Anglophone crisis :”I will be happy if Dr NKongho and Co rot in jail”‘-Ekema Patrick: By Hillman Muntang

Cameroon -Anglophone crisis :”I will be happy if Dr NKongho and Co rot in jail”‘-Ekema Patrick

Patrick Ekema

Man who instructed shops of North westerners to be burnt at mile 17 Buea three months ago for respecting ghost town say he will be happy if the Anglophone leaders arrested during the current movement and imparticular the Président of the anglophone civil society consortium (CACSC) Barrister  Nkongho Félix Agbor  Balla and the secretary general Dr. fontem Neba rot in jail,a source close to him hinted following his recent release on radio yesterday .
Mayor Patrick Ekame of Buea council who has been on the other side of the cry of anglophones against marginalization. He made no secret about his stands against the restoration of the Southern Cameroons statehood and says he will be pleased if at the least those arrested and transferred to Yaoundé receive life imprisonment.
After failing to ingnit Anglophone divide and thanking Biya for restoring Internet in English speaking Cameroon, mayor Ekema Patrick yesterday during the 6pm news over Equinox blamed that senator Mbella Moki Charles is one of the south west elites fanning the strike in the South west region.

Ekame who paid tugs to block SDF MPS from at the hotel de depute Buea, after the peaceful match against marginalization of anglophones last year is believed to be in the list of those to be tried for crimes against humanity in the English-speaking regions by the scacuf sponsored law suit which started last week According to information relayed to alafnet.com.
By Hillman Muntang

AYAH PAUL Spits Fire From Jail by Pauline AKOSON Diale

AYAH PAUL Spits Fire From Jail; He Addresses the People and Insists He will Never Give up till the End.

Hear him; "My morale is exceedingly high! I am wholly satisfied that I have fought a good fight; with Integrity, in all honesty, within the Law and in all truth. Onward I march and shall so do till the end; with Inspiration from the Holy Scriptures that 'Whoever Holds on till the end shall be saved". Share this letter a million times (A MUST read).

In this MUST read letter, Ayah Paul Abine, without naming names indicts some 'highly placed guys' for attempting to kill him and eliminate his family. My research carried out finds Laurent ESSO - an ardent occultist - GUILTY.
Dear Universal Children of the Most High!

May peace reign supreme in and about you by the grace of the Most High.

It may be news to some of you that Ayah Paul Abine spends his 94th day in captivity this Monday, April 24, 2017. Since his abduction, Ayah dwelt in astounding calm, looking up to the Most High; the sole real judge; for Justice.

But as some of you do know already, Ayah's Yaounde residence came under attack on the night of last Friday at 1 AM. Much as the assailants remain unidentified as of now, events since Ayah's abduction seem to lead to some compelling clues.

Firstly, the list of "TOP GUYS" who plotted Ayah's physical elimination concealed in perforated ''arrest'' has largely been confirmed even by highly unimpeachable circles. And it is hereby asserted that the chief "GUY" - initiator is not in his first sadistic homicide by proxy.

The intriguing question one should hasten to ask is why Ayah Paul Abine is in captivity for upwards of 3 months when other persons not enjoying the protection of ''privileged'' jurisdiction that Ayah does enjoy have been released unconditionally. Does not that alone strongly suggest that Ayah is a hostage? Query!

Again, not only has the government of Cameroon maintained stunning cynical silence about Ayah's official abduction, but there have been conspiratorial machinations to muzzle the press on anything relative to Ayah's captivity: not any less person, national or international. For instance, it is strongly alleged that United Nations Officials have systematically been prevented from meeting Ayah. And the few citizens who have taken up Ayah's case earlier on have now been apparently intimidated into silence or even compromised.

The situation is all the more telling where Ayah is kept in captivity. His captors have been on a war footing since March 6, 2017, on the sole flimsy ground that Ayah had dared to file the prerogative writ of habeas corpus for his immediate release. The guards have since been wearing bullet proof jackets and war helmets, bearing cocked automatic guns and carrying bags stuffed with ammunition.

Again, communication with Ayah has become a serious crime, so much so that Ayah's friend was recently locked up just for greeting Ayah. And it took the services of a lawyer to secure his release.

In the furtherance of his debilitating seclusion in the hope of procuring his psychological breakdown from solitude, Ayah's party members, friends and acquaintances have all been turned away from visiting Ayah in the recent past. The most curious of it all is that Ayah's lawyers have been barred from meeting their client three times in a fortnight, contrary to the law. As it is, Ayah is deprived of even the right of defence.

Additionally, the ministry of Justice which has sat on Ayah's 17 month arrears of salary for three years has continued so to do in spite of an official report on the sorry situation. A malicious plot to handicap Ayah from paying lawyers' brief, or even from buying necessaries such as food.

Universal children of the Most High!

Verily, I tell you that the psychological war is intense and relentless! Just a few more instances to illustrate the point.

Each time Ayah has had to be led out of prison and back, he has been escorted by two military vehicles with at least a dozen gendarmes on board. And the driving has been so utterly lawless, reckless and speedy that even Ayah's bones would be ground into dust in the event of an accident.

As if that was not bad enough, in the furtherance of the initial plot against Ayah, the Ayah Family did receive calls worldwide that Ayah's phone was operational, long after Ayah's captors had seized the phone. It is not difficult to deduce that those captors were giving the impression that I was free so that there would be an arguable case where Ayah was ''mysteriously'' killed.

And one is helped to that conclusion by the fact that some 5 messages (sms) have been circulated that I had been released. The nexus is patent!

As those machinations have failed so far, Ayah is no longer the sole target: it is now the entire Ayah Family as per the attack on the family over the weekend. Coincidence????

Dear Universal Children of the Most High!

My morale is exceedingly high! I am wholly satisfied that I have fought a good fight; with Integrity, in all honesty, within the Law and in all truth. Onward I march and shall so do till the end; with Inspiration from the Holy Scriptures that 'Whoever Holds on till the end shall be saved"

The foregoing story then have I told just so that, just in case it pleases the Most High to let His will be done when He chooses, the government of Cameroon should be estopped from setting up one more fictitious commission of inquiry to probe Ayah's officially organised assassination!

Peace and divine graces be with you all, Universal Children of the Most High! Our God Liveth.....

Warm Greetings!

AKOSON

From a federalist to an 'independentist'. The Southern Cameroons MUST be free.