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The National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism has been given a push to enable it kickoff hitch free. President Paul Biya has made a 700million FCFA gift to the Musonge Commission which constitutes the starting budget for the 2017-18 Fiscal year.
The Commission chair, Senator Peter Mafany Musonge made the revelation at the end of the 2nd session of the body which held Wednesday June 14 in Yaounde. Members during the meeting drafted the roadmap of the Commission with the internal rules set .
Senator Peter Mafany Musonge was upbeat that the Commission is on the right track and will do all it can to ensure equality of Cameroon's two official languages . The Canadian High Commissioner has been brought in to fuse in the Canadian experience into the Musonge led outfit.
Cornelius Chi Asafor, the pioneer Scribe of the body is being installed today in Yaounde.
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The Board Chair of the GCE Board, Prof Peter Abety is reported to have been counting his losses following a mysterious fire incident in his school and home. The cause incident which took place over the weekend is yet to be established but its widely rumored that the act cannot be dissociated from the recent arsons in the English speaking territory of Cameroon..
Prof Abety has come under fire for his fearless position to push through with GCE exams despite mammoth threats of boycott. The exam to most bitter Anglophones is being seen as a political manipulation rather than a good will to give children good education.
Investigations are ongoing to establish the real cause of the inferno.
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SCACUF has received information that Biya's Government is planning to threaten Nigerian businesses operating in Southern Cameroon with very high taxes if they don't open on ghost town days. The plan is to force Nigerians to open their shops, then have their agents burn the shops and kill some of them in the name of the struggle. They are hoping that such a tactic would persuade the Nigerian government to repatriate our leaders who are in exile there.
Presse Statemen from SCACUF:
Dear Southern Cameroonians, Ambazonians, God has once more exposed Yaounde. A plan still being conceived
by evil men to cause confusion and unimaginable pain to our people has been exposed. The plan that was supposed to be executed in the weeks ahead was intended to pit Southern Cameroonians against LRC's not too friendly giant neighbour, Nigeria.
If the plan had not been revealed and so foiled by this exposure, Yaoundé would have proceeded to attempt stopping
the present momentum by:
1) Blackmail the Nigerian business communities in Bamenda, Kumba and Kumbo into violating the ghost towns by inflicting on them extraordinarily high taxes. This is for phase one.
2) The next would have followed logically and many would have fallen for it, hook and worm; Yaoundé would then
target "quelques boutiques des Biafrais" for arson, total burning and blame it on the SCACUF and run away Consortium
leaders in Nigeria.
3) In the event where this did not meet the required response from Abuja, dark hands from Yaoundé would then
set ablaze the residences of already targeted Nigerians and eliminate some of them. These would obviously be seen
as an attack by the Consortium and SCACUF based in Nigeria. Yaoundé would then use these as evidence that SCACUF and the Consortium are terrorist organisations. Out of anger, Abuja is expected to order for the leaders of the struggle to be rounded up and handed over to Yaoundé to face "justice".
However, God who ordained this struggle does not sleep and has once more exposed this most cynical plot that would certainly have dealt a very serious setback to the struggle.
The Consortium uses this opportunity to call on our people for more vigilance, and by this, send strong warning signals to agents of extortionist Yaoundé against any such selective tax hikes as it shall be resisted. We call on our Nigerian
counterparts living in the Southern Cameroons to continue to feel at home and not to suffer from any intimidation. We shall soon be publishing a series of numbers on which information concerning tax agents who may come
round to extort for exposure.
God is with us.
Barrister Eyambe. Tassang Wilfred
Vice Secretary General Programmes Coordinator
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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has been freed by an armed group in western Libya where he was being held following the 2011 revolt against his late father, former leader Muammar Gaddafi, one of his lawyers and the brigade involved said.
He was released in the town of Zintan under an amnesty law passed by a parliament based in eastern Libya, lawyer Khaled al-Zaidi said on Sunday, adding that Saif was headed to another city which could not be named for security reasons.
Saif, 44, is the most prominent of the late leader's children, and was touted by some as a possible successor before the uprising six years ago in which Gaddafi was toppled and killed.
It is unclear what role the younger Gaddafi could play in Libya, where a complex array of armed groups and competing governments are vying for control.
But some in eastern Libya, where military commander Khalifa Haftar has been building power, have been pressing for Saif's release amid a push from former regime figures to reassert influence.
Earlier reports that Saif had been freed from Zintan turned out to be false and there have been conflicting reports about his status.
Zintan's Abubaker Sadiq brigade, which was responsible for guarding Saif, said it had decided to release him following requests from the ministry of justice of a government based in eastern Libya.
"We decided to release Saif al-Islam Muammar Gaddafi, who is free, and we confirm that he left Zintan on the date of his release on the 14th of Ramadan (Friday)," the brigade said.
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FROM Hon WIRBA
TO OUR PRISONERS WITHOUT A CRIME WHO ARE ON HUNGER STRIKE!
My Heart Bleeds my dear brothers about your ordeal! I send this message to plead with you to please end your hunger strike.
My reasons are simple. We are dealing with an inhumane government which does not think we are human enough. A government that kills children in the streets for demonstrating will care less if others die in prison! A government that tortures female university students, rapes them and rub them in sewage filth will care less if you all die in prison!
If you all died out there from hunger,they will in fact be happy that the number of those resisting their oppression has reduced!
As your brother who has undergone untold suffering, and an attempt on his life, I plead with you all on my knees to please end the hunger strike immediately, so that we all can live to fight our oppressors another day!
You have proven to the whole world what you are made of and West Cameroonians are very proud of you! Please call off your hunger strike and begin eating by drinking a lot of water and light liquid meals like pap and smooth beverages like chocolate, milk and Ovaltine!
I love you very much and will continue fighting for us to take back what is ours from this colonial regime! God bless you abundantly and strengthen your resolve to keep fighting for our people!
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Speaking to a friend who visited them this week he justified his shabby appearance in court as a sign of the hunger strike they were going thru. For those who cried seeing him that way he said he had no regrets. It was not meant to provoke tears but action. He stated that he was not in prison to entertain anyone with nice dresses. That he is planing to appear naked next time. He said he knew the consequence of being arrested but stayed on. That his close friends forbah Jude and Piterechu pressured him to escape but he refused. That after the arrest of Balla and fontem even government officials called him to escape but he refused. He was ready to stay and be arrested. He said he is not afraid to die, because his death will spark a thirst for freedom amongst his people. About the GCE he said he is also a history teacher and has not taught since November 2016, his two schools Have remained locked since November and he is in prison with 3 of his evening school students who are to write the exams.
Asked about any difficulties in prison he complained of overcrowding. no water, hot temperatures illnesses and legalized corruption. About the court case he said there is no case.He refused to explain but reported there is no case.He asked me if Kenya can go and arrest Nigerians and come to judge them in Kenya?on feeding he said they eat once a day and the food is provided by contributions from anglophones and food is almost finished. That he rejected several offers from LA republic. He swore to die poor or die in prison than touch blood stained evil money from such a terrorist regime. He describes LA republic as an animal that eats its own children. Asked if any negotiations have been proposed he said negotiations have ended.its either freedom for us or total elimination of us all.
Asked how his family survives he said he was the sole bread winner for a family of 9 n doesn't know how they eat especially that 4 of the 9 are below 7yrs.he said they must learn to suffer as the coming days may even be more di fficult.I did not ask his permission b4 publishing this but thought its good to share.I've never seen a young man full of courage n determination.
Boiling with assurance even in prison. I went in feeling depressed but came out fulfilled. I remembered his last words near that old dirty plank gate.somehow someday Justice will rule over evil n we will leave this place n sit on tables to define our destiny.even if am not there,children of my nation will be there n I will smile in my grave.
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