Yaounde-Cameroon: SCNC Should Form A Party Before Dialogue" Tchiroma

Cameroon's Minister of Communication says that Government can't dialogue with the SCNC until they constitute themselves into a political party. Issa Tchiroma Bakary was speaking in Yaounde Saturday as he gave government's position on the upheavals in the English-speaking regions of the country.

Reacting to a question, from Kini Nsom, journalist at The Post newspaper and member of the National Press Card Commission, he reiterated that the SCNC is an illegal movement and can't discuss with Biya unless they operate under a legalised political platform.

Tchiroma strongly condemned the recent hoisting of the Ambazonian flag in Bamenda and later Kumba. Promising a harsh dose of sanctions on scape goats. "Perpetrators of the protests will face the rigor of the law and receive the rightly deserved punishment for the abuses .The state will leave no stone unturned to keep the laws of the republic. The government will fulfill its mission of protecting the population, property and guarantee freedom of movement of citizens. " he warned.

The former critic, now disciple of the Biya regime mocked recent calls for a return to federalism by angry Anglophones, qualifying it as "Secessionist."

The communication minister also promised to track down social media activists who "derail" public opinion. "The state will do everything in its power with support of friendly countries to search, arrest and take to court those who are misinforming, inciting hatred on social media." he hammered.

While expressing the sympathy of the head of state to families whose closed ones were shot in Bamenda, the songbird backed the trigger happy soldiers for, "handling the street protest professionally and with strict respect for human rights."

Tchiroma also said the head of state has not given a deaf ear to the demands of the striking lawyers and teachers and that proper solutions will be reached to put the situation under control. He maintains that, "there is no Anglophone problem."