Politics

Since October 2016, Southern Cameroons common Law Lawyers started this movement. They called for a number of reforms which they summed under the banner of a two state federation or outright independence. According to our lawyers, only the summation of the judicial problems in a two state federation or outright independence can help the people of Southern Cameroons. Next, Southern Cameroons teachers gave a plethora of problems concerning our educational system and by 21st November, they shut down our schools. By 8th December 2016, a number of our people were killed as the entire Southern Cameroons engulfed the strike action and turned it into the people's struggle. But where are we today? What next? What do we hope for? And what is making news.

1. La Republique Government:

The government of Paul Biya as usual did not expect the resolved of our people. They began by ignoring the lawyers and the minister of justice Laurent Esso laughed and said our lawyers will get tired soon and go back to work. Since October, 2016, our lawyers have been home. They proved him wrong. Our teachers took over in November and the same was true. The only response the people of Southern Cameroons got from government of Paul Biya were killings, brutality, abductions, militarisation, internet shut down etc. The so called ad hoc committee which the government created to speak with our leaders were a farce and smokescreen. Nothing in that light has been done, not even the proposals accepted with the teachers have been implemented. The same with the lawyers, any proposals stated by the government regarding the lawyers problems are all cosmetic which by a stroke of a pen by another decree will be annulled. Only a change in form of state will guarantee these things.

2. Ghost Towns

Ghost towns have been our most priced weapon against the state. It started in December 2016 with Mondays and Tuesdays till late February when it went to once a week on Mondays. We acknowledged that ghost towns pains us but it is a necessary evil we must do to send a message. The only reason for the ghost towns are to include the other sectors of the society to join the teachers and lawyers to make it the true people's struggle. It is true that it has not been easy, the government has fought this concept of ghost towns by organising marches in Kumba, Bamenda, Buea and limbe but yet the towns still got up to see ghosts. We also accept that the steam of the ghost towns especially the enthusiasm keeps dying down in some counties in Southern Cameroons. This is normal in every revolution and we can't really blame our people. It has not been easy. They need a new motivation but again, it has been satisfactory so far. We also started naming our ghost towns to add more steam into it. This concept of ghost towns shall continue until the powers that be stopped it. We only ask our people to be steadfast.

3. Schools Shutdown

This is our biggest victories. Yes, we have kept schools and universities closed for months. The government did not sleep. They also fought back. It is fair to say that schools in Southern Cameroons remained shut down despite the few glitches of some secondary schools opening their doors. Yes, in most of these cases, it was the francophone section albeit under high security. The few Anglophone sections which tried to open saw dozens of students from tens of thousands. We do not expect the government to fold their arms. The University of Buea saw less than 2000 students out of 28000 students taking an exam they never studied and yes in Bambili, HTTTC Kumba where we have civil servants students, they are defying the odds. Primary schools also remained closed.

The educational system in a nutshell in Southern Cameroons has remained closed and the future is a sad one. How will students from forms 1, 2, 3, 4 and lower sixth be promoted to the next class without haven taken any exams. Recalled that school started last year in September 2016 and by November, 2016, they remained shut down till date. What happens next academic year? How can they be promoted to the next class without any results or completing the syllabus of their class? What happens to forms 3, 4 and lower sixth students whose GCE preparation begins in their current class? This directly means students in form 4 and lower sixth should they be moved to form 5 and upper sixth have lost one academic year of studies and non covering of their syllabuses and thus this affects 2018 GCE directly.

The Government has insisted that these students be promoted to the next class based on their test results they had before the strike action. This is suicide for our education.

This is why the struggle must intensify so that by August this year we are sure of the 2017/2018 academic year because as it stands it shows the next academic year will not begin. The Southern Cameroons liberation movements Must up their game to give our people alternatives.

4. Public Exams.

It is no news that la Republique decided to run common entrance exams and GCE practicals for our children who never studied. We saw pictures of empty class rooms for common entrance exams. Our people in most areas boycotted the common extrance exams because the pupils have not been studying. Those that took the exams took it under tight and heavy security- where have we seen that? The admission of any kids into form one in Southern Cameroons is already problematic. Yes, the struggle succeeded in stretching the military of La Republique to work.

The Government also forced some students and schools to take the practicals exams and in few days the written part of the GCE will begin. Let us be clear. This same GCE practicals and written part were and will be conducted in French Cameroun whose students have had a full academic year. It is different from our people in Southern Cameroons who have not been taught since 2016, how then will the GCE Board grade our people? We saw a video in May 2016 in one of the centres in Victoria during practicals how students were complaining that they know nothing about the practicals they were about to take and the same is true across all centres. The government is bent on organising this political GCE under a fake conditions and the most tight security ever known. We do not have the weapons to fight this but we can only caution our people not to fall into this trap because decrees from the Cameroons for this academic year will not be accepted globally except in Cameroun.

As a people, we need to increase our campaign and calling to our people to ignore the GCE. We must do all to sabotage it and free our people.

5. Common Law Lawyers.

They are the most faithful in this struggle. Despite staying for 8 months without salaries as they make their end meets through court cases have remained true to the struggle by letting the courts remain shut. We must thank and acknowledge their steadfastness and call on them not to give up. We must continue to support them.

Mark Bareta
Bui/Manyu Counties
Southern Cameroons
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Mark Bareta

02.Jun.2017

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The illusion that the other side of the hill is green must be discarded.
African Countries as well as African citizens must start shaping their destinies in a common bond aimed at building new horizons of sunshine and billions of opportunities.
I have observed with so much pain the fact that the Financial law of all French speaking Countries is drawn in France.

These laws are drawn with vodoo intention and African wealth is strangulated in the spiritual realm through a Franco-Afro occultic arrangement called FrancAfric. The franc masonaries have ruined African countries because the wealth is controlled by them and the dregs shared by their lackies fondly called African Head of states.

African countries need to denounce the so much trumpeted France African summits. What does France have as wealth to be robbing shoulders with other richly endowed Countries of the world. How can France be keeping our foreign reserve in its treasury whereas the French franc had been defaced and made absolute?

African Universities should design Courses that will train their students to acquire knowledge and not certificates.These new orientation will stop this mad flow of Africans towards Europe and America. This will equally stop this maddening rush of Africans to move to Europe at all cost even if it means being eaten by sharks.

The amount of deaths in the belly of the Mediterranean sea is unfortunate, regrettable and so remorseful.

Today there is that yearning for a new start having in mind the pride of Africans and the yearning of a spiririco-physical and phychological liberation of the African psyche.
Africa and Africans have lived this falsehood of inferiority complex whereby Westerners continue to spread the lie that they brought Education to Africa.

Let's remind them that Egyptians had a language and its writing and Arabic was the language of research and knowledge transmission in the University of Timbuktu. Being one of the oldest University is a tale tell story that Africans were better than they are at moment after their savagious experience in the hands of the West through slavery,colonization and neocolonialism.

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Bernard Ngouche Ndim

01.Jun.2017

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The commission for the promotion of bilingualism and multiculturalism led by former Prime Minister and Senator, Peter Mafany Musonge that was created last March 15, 2017 by the president of the republic, Paul Biya as one of the measures by government to solve the Anglophone problem is yet to make any perceptible moves on the field.

For a commission that was heralded to be a possible panacea to the Anglophone problem and used by many politicians and government officials as a bargaining chip to quell the flaring tempers of Cameroonians of the Anglophone extraction, the deafening silence from the body after its members were officially installed last April 27, 2017 has been raising eyebrows.
A part from the impromptu and informal meeting held on the day of their installation were members resolved and expressed the wish to mediate in the current crisis rocking the English regions of the country, the commission has failed to meet ever since.
Inside sources have revealed a quiet discomfort amongst committee members who have sent in proposals to the body’s secretariat but a meeting is yet to be convened by the president of the commission.
The maiden official meeting that was scheduled to hold on the June 2-3 has equally been postponed to an indefinite date.
Members of the commission were appointed on March 15, 2017, by the President of the Republic with the task of promoting bilingualism and multiculturalism in Cameroon in view of maintaining peace and strengthening the people’s willingness and day-to-day experience with respect to living together.
Hence, they are charged with submitting reports and recommendations on issues related to the protection of bilingualism and multiculturalism; monitoring the implementation of constitutional provisions establishing English and French as two languages of equal status; conducting studies and proposing measures likely to strengthen cameroon’s bilingual and multicultural character; receiving petitions against discriminations arising from non-compliance with constitutional provisions on the said topic, amongst others.

ELAH GEOFREY MBONGALE

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Rita Akana

01.Jun.2017

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A suicide bombing in Cameroon on Thursday morning left two dead and two injured in another attempt by Boko Haram terrorists to sow fear and forge ahead with the desperate building of their bloody caliphate.

That caliphate, they hope, would spread from Nigeria and extend to Cameroon, Chad and Niger in the Lake Chad Basin.

Today’s suicide attack took place in Djakana village of Cameroon’s far north, along the border with Nigeria where Abubakar Shekau’s men are based and from where they launch deadly attacks in this West and Central African region.

Djakana is located in the town of Mora, the department of Mayo-Sava in Cameroon’s far north.

The two bombers died instantly in their own attack and injured two civilians who are members of the vigilance force in Djakana, reported Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel. It was a provisional death toll, the newspaper said.

Bomb and gun attacks in Nigeria and Cameroon have escalated in recent weeks, a method adopted by ISIS-partners in West Africa, after losing much of the land they were controlling in the build up to Nigeria’s 2015 election.

It is not clear what Boko Haram wants. In videos, their leaders claim they are fighting against ‘sinful Christianity’ and trying to build a Caliphate where strict Islamic laws and life would apply. But, in practice, Boko Haram has bombed mosques, churches, market places, killing many Christians, Muslims and people of other faiths.

Many believe that the attacks in the Lake Chad region are connected to oil below the ground and sponsored by Western or Eastern forces where the heavy weapons are being manufactured. 

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Simon Ateba

01.Jun.2017

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Bareta in one of his tweets today 31 May 2017, says there will be an immense ghost town on Monday 5th June 2017, throughout Southern Cameroons.

 This time around, the resistance is taking another dimension, as some innovations have set in.

Mark says, after an assessment of popular opinion, it was concluded that henceforth, all ghost town days be named after those who lost their lives in the struggle for Southern Cameroon's freedom.

He said this Monday's ghost town will be named "Akum Julius ghost town". This hero who will forever be remembered, is one of our freedom fighters who lost their lives due to the Satanism of the regime in power. At the time he died, he was a student in the university of Bamenda.

The Consortium leader further said that, this ghost town will equally be in respect of our PCC pastors  and Catholic Bishops, who are to appear before the high court in Buea on that same day.

Bareta in his tweet calls on every Southern Cameroonian to be present at the Buea high court, to support the Religious leaders.

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Rita Akana

31.May.2017

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Following  what the SDF party says is government's intransigence to end illegal arrest, torture and detention of Anglophones in the North West and South West regions, the party has created a Commission to investigate right violations by security forces in the two Anglophone regions.

Clestin Djamen, National Secretary for Human Rights tells Cameroon Concord that the Biya regime has been publishing false information which the intention of circumventing the truth from the international Community.  He cited the case of the 2008 Hunger strikes where the Government "lied" that the death toll was 40, whereas international rights groups claimed more than 1200 people died. 

Djamen laments that many Anglophones arrested have never been put in jail. but disappeared into thin air. And the regime is trying to cover up that.  He explains that the Commission will investigate and establish the real truth of the matter. The Commission will be made up of NEC members, Senators and Parliamentarians, Civil society organs, lawyers and the press.

Quizzed on the way forward after the month long probe, Djamen reveals the report will be made known the international Community for legal action to be taken against the state of Cameroon.

The SDF has never hidden its dissatisfaction with government's handling of the crisis. The atrocities of the military has condemned the party to believe government is fighting an undeclared war with anglophones. The frontline opposition party has called for sustained dialogue on the form of the state as a solution to end the imbroglio.

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30.May.2017

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