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The SDF MP for Jakari Constituency, Hon. Joseph Wirba, has cried out to the diplomatic community accredited to Yaoundé that the government of La Republique has hatched a plan to assassinate him.
Wirba’s claim is contained in separate letters he recently sent to the French, US, German Ambassadors and the British and Canadian High Commissioners to Cameroon.
The letters are titled “Grave concerns for my safety”
In the letters, the MP said “I do not feel safe, and I am not safe. My phone has been hacked. I am trailed everywhere I go and to make things worse, reliable sources informed me that there are plans to arrest me and if possible physically eliminate me at anytime.”
Hon. Wirba further asserted that it is more difficult for him to continue living a normal life under such circumstances, since the Constitution that protects him was compromised by Government in a bid to arrest him.
“I therefore plead with you to help protect and keep me safe through your high office,” Wirba said.
He said as MP, protected by the Constitution, he spoke on behalf of his voiceless Anglophone people on December 2, 2016.
“I was shocked when Government quickly put the Constitution of the nation aside and ordered for his arrest.”
“Your Excellency, as you are well aware, the core issues related to the problems of the English-Speaking people of Cameroon, are very profound indeed… There is a complete lack of goodwill to dialogue with our people that dates back to 1961, when the union was formed between East and West Cameroon.
The English-speaking people of Cameroon have been oppressed, abused, and their human dignity trampled upon for too long. Government policy towards Anglophone Cameroonians is directly threatening the unity of the nation.”
The MP said, after he daringly articulated the Anglophone Problem, he has become an enemy of the Government and he had to escape into hiding.
While in hiding, Wirba wrote to the Speaker of the National Assembly, calling on him to ensure his protection, but he was snubbed.
The Lion-hearted Wirba recent emergence at the National Assembly raked commotion when the MP appeared unexpectedly and continued with his vocal pronouncements about the Anglophone Problem.
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Over the years, the rich Southern Cameroons Regions, especially the naturally endowed Fako Division have been the preserve of Francophone administrators.
The rich oil and land of Fako Division are enjoyed by Francophones at the detriment of the real owners.
A closer look at the administrators, who have ruled in Fako Division since the late 1990s, shows that all of them have been Frnacophones.
When Jean Mengue Meka served as Fako SDO, his successors have only been Francophones.
Meka left the SDO’s Office in Limbe in 1991 and was replaced by Robert Ngambi Dikoume.
Ngambi was transferred in 2004 and Bernard Okalia Bilai took over. By the close of 2008, Bernard Okalia Bilai handed over to Jules Marcellin Ndjaga.
Ndjaga was did not rule for long when in 2010, he was appointed Governor of the South Region and handed over to Francois Bona Ebengue, another Francophone.
Bona Ebengue did not also last for long when in October 2012; he was sent on retirement and Georges Zang III took over the baton of command.
Many Anglophones were expecting that the Presidential Decree of Monday, July 3 that sent Zang III on retirement was going to usher in an Anglophone as administrator of Fako, given the current crisis rocking the English-speaking Regions of Cameroon.
But Biya has once again snubbed the Anglophones and appointed Emmanuel Engamba Ledoux, another Francophone as SDO of the rich oil and land Fako Division.
Many Anglophones are now saying that Fako Division with its juicy resource has become a milking cow for Francophone Administrators, while Anglophones are sent to economic barren Divisions as DOs and SDOs.
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The defence ministers and army chiefs of the Lake Chad Basin Commission and Benin are meeting in Yaoundé on Thursday to discuss the fight against insecurity in the region.
They are expected to examine the text drafted by military experts and associates during the past days in Yaoundé.
The text is based on the fight against the terror group, Boko Haram, as well as the humanitarian situation created by the insurgency in the region.
Boko Haram remains a thread to Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Benin.
Though weakened, the radical Islamic group continues to kill, kidnap people, and loot property.
This meeting comes at a time when Chad is threatening to pull some of it's troops out of the Multinational Joint Task Force due to financial difficulties.
Cameroon on its part received FCFA 10million from its 'citizens' living in the UK some days back.
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Former Prime Minister Peter Mafany Musonge has submitted his resignation letter to the president of the Senate in Yaoundé . It was during a plenary session on Wednesday.
Musonge is the current and pioneer president of the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism created some months ago to handle problems related to the bilingual and multicultural nature of the country.
Until now, Musonge had been occupying two positions; senator and president of the commission.
This resignation is a desperate attempt to abide by some of the rules of the Electoral Code, which prohibit parliamentarians from holding any other elective post or any public function.
This decision is coming at a time when the pressure from critics was already going out of control.
Some media outlets had raised concerns about the integrity of the former PM.
Th Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and multiculturalism was created by Paul Biya in the wake of the unrest in West Cameroon. One of its most important objectives is to curb the linguistic marginalization of West Cameroonians, a mission which is rather challenging.
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A certain pastor profited from this situation to speak against the guilty individuals who according to him had something to do with his imprisonment some months back.
In a letter addressed to the Head of State between the 21-22 June 2017, accompanied by a complaint. Mr Nkoma Augustin a pastor and ex-detainee of the Kodengui central prison, includes a handful of Biya’s close collaborators as well as the members of his family, magistrates and police officials.
In this letter, the individuals 16 in number, are accused of being involved in his 6-month detention. Other complaints in the letter include, false accusations, abusive detention, and lies telling.
According to facts outlined in the letter, Mr Nkoma declared to have been illegally summoned on the 22 July 2016 by the GMI and then subsequently put behind bars for one week after which he went to the public prosecutor. From there he was sent to the Kodengui central prison. He was accused of crookery against Madame Baroux the mother in-law of Frank Biya.
Being the leader of an association called Apad, he wrote a letter to the State, making clear his wish that State authorities give him some attention in view of the preparation of the arrival in Cameroon of certain Indian investors, among whom Madame Nyangono Ebollo, Frank Biya’s in-law’s name figured. This is what attracted the attention of Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, the Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic and which consequently led to his detention.
According to the pastor, he was judged without evidences, without the victims in question, no witnesses nor accusers. He left prison on the 10 of February, after his time in detention elapsed.
It is further noted in the letter that Frank Biya will be answering to accusations of possession of illicitly gotten property. The complaint is principally put forward by the non-governmental organisation, Transparency international.
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twin-suicide attack in Cameroon on Monday evening left at least four persons dead and many injured, a newspaper has reported, a continuation of a reign of terror which started in Nigeria in 2009 and expanded to Cameroon in 2014.
Reliable Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel, said the suicide attacks occurred in the locality of Homaka in the country’s far north.
The newspaper said at least four dead were counted while there were many people injured.
Boko Haram has been wreaking havoc in Cameroon and Nigeria in recent months, killing many, displacing thousands and kidnapping children to turn them into suicide bombers and women into sex slaves.
In more than 500 gun and bomb attacks, Boko Haram has killed more than two thousand civilians in Cameroon since 2014 and displaced hundreds of thousands. Hundreds of soldiers and policemen have also been murdered.
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