Opposition Leader Ni John Fru Ndi Says Gendarmes And Police Are More Vandals Than Anybody Else In Cameroon

“...When we talk of vandals that are destroying things, I saw that the gendarmes and the police are more vandals than anybody else in this country.”
John Fru Ndi, National Chairman of the opposition Social Democratic Front (SDF) party was speaking in Bamenda, Saturday, December 10, 2016 at the end of the National Executive Committee, NEC meeting – the last for 2016.
After reviewing the recent happenings in Bamenda and Buea, Fru Ndi said the SDF strongly condemns “the killing of our children by members of the armed forces”.
Justifying why he thinks some elements of the police and gendarmerie are more vandals, the SDF Chairman said “the police and gendarmes went to Buea, broke into girls’ hostels, raped some of them, destroyed their doors, brought them out, and rubbed them sewage. I don’t think that any normal human being will want to see their child treated that way”.

He said it is very unfortunate for our country that when children protest that they don’t have teachers to teach them; the answer is that they should be shot and killed.
“We call on Mr. Biya and his government to listen to the cries of the people – teachers and the lawyers. If this thing stretches out to next year, it might be a little too dangerous for our country,” Fru Ndi said.
The SDF Chairman said when the youths first took to the streets, they were adamant to his calls for them to be peaceful.

“They told me, Mr. Chairman we know you, don’t bring your messages of peace to us again. We are fed up,” Fru Ndi said of the protesting youths in Bamenda.
He adds that: “We cannot be preaching peace to hungry stomachs. With all these, I feel very worried. And if Mr. Biya does not do something and do it fast, he will have himself to blame.”
Fru Ndi said matters were further compounded by utterances made by Minister Paul Atanga Nji (though he did not call names) on the Anglophone problem.
“Instead of listening to the people, Mr. Biya’s minister insulted Bamenda people and told them that he was coming to march in Bamenda and will see which dog will bark. So Bamenda people have become dogs that are barking. But he came, saw the children and they drove him. He went running. It is unfortunate,” Fru Ndi said.

He regretted that SDF parliamentarians were blocked from staging a peaceful march in solidarity with common law lawyers and Anglophone teachers in Buea.
“When we got to Buea, they brought thugs and recruits from the police college. They came and blocked our parliamentarians at the Parliamentarian Flats Hotel. This was really painful,” Fru Ndi said, regretting that for 26 years, the Biya regime is still blocking opposing voices.
Hear Fru Ndi: “When the prime minister was out here trying to resolve the issues of the lawyers and teachers, his ministers were in Yaoundé saying it at the top of their voices that there was no Anglophone problem. The other day (December 8), they came to march and say there is no Anglophone problem. Anyway, I'm happy that the children showed them that there is an Anglophone problem.”

Fru Ndi addressed a rally in Buea on December 5 where he said he and the SDF support the Teachers’ and Common aw Lawyers’ strike. He particularly said the SDF has since demanded a return to a two-state federation, which demand is now being re-echoed.
It was in the wake of police/gendarme brutality meted out on innocent students in Buea that the SDF National Chairman, Ni John Fru Ndi, led his party’s Senators, MPs and Mayors to condemn this inhuman treatment of students and to ask for their release.
The legislators in a meeting with South West Governor, Bernard Okalia Bilai demanded the release of those arrested and warned against the use of force to suppress peaceful protests.

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