Politics
My Fellow West Cameroonians,
A few hours to the start of our "Civil Disobedience", the weapon we have been divinely instructed to use against the forces of oppression that wreak havoc and cause bloodshed, I wish to remind you again that:
1. Our struggle is a peaceful resistance, not a violent one. No citizen, worthy of West Cameroon should take part in any form of violence or take part in any bloodshed. Teachers will not go to school, so children, don't bother to go to school. The indigenes of West Cameroon are heroically and collectively resolved to resist until their demands are met.
2. Any one who dreams of enjoying the citizenship of West Cameroon should do well to keep their children at home so that State provocateurs will not use them to inflict violence on our community again. We have known shame, lack, abuse and all forms of human suffering, but only self-discipline will take us through.
3. Our God is God of justice and truth. He defends the weak. He delivered Israel from the hands of Pharaoh with his mighty army. He will do same for us. So, we do not have to fight to achieve it. God will do it for us.
4. Anyone who plans to betray this cause should imagine what will happen when God finally gives us the victory. The shame will be too much for you and your future generations. Think about that and don't doubt what God can do.
5. Finally, I thank the Church and all the Men Of God for their prayers and intercessions. We look forward to a nation that will serve God in truth and in spirit, free from intimidation, marginalization and the fear of the unknown.
God bless our peaceful struggle.
Dr. Fontem A. Neba
Secretary General
Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium
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A group of police officers have paraded the empty streets of Bamenda early this morning to stage an anti ghost town protest.
The officers who were all dressed in civilian attires were carrying banners and posters denouncing the still down of activities in the city on Mondays.
The banners carried messages claiming the population of Bamenda denounces ghost towns. Ironically, our reporters in town informed Cameroon Concord that those who took part in the sham demo were numbered below 30 persons.
Southern Cameroonian logger and activist wrote this on his wall:
While Ghost town is going effectively in Bamenda, we are seeing few police men and ladies disguise as civilians marching and they could be heard speaking in French.
La Republique you lost it. We are in charge.
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Since Friday night, life at the family residence of the arrested Justice Ayah Paul Abine has not been the same again as unidentified individuals stormed the residence and injected fear and panic to the family through threats of death.
The family during a press conference over the weekend explained an incident during which unidentified terrorists as they called it attacked and menaced them with threats of death.
“Friday night, there were some terrorists at our gate, they tried forcing themselves in for 2 hours but did not succeed. They rang the bell severally and even called out on us. We don’t know who these people are working for; we don’t know who sent them and we don’t know what they need but we know that they were after us” says one of the family members of the arrested Judge. “It is very difficult to say this is a coincidence because this is happening at a time when our father has been under illegal detention following his forced arrest on January 21 2017. Can this be a coincidence?” he questions.
We are calling on the authorities that they should take this very seriously, because the lives of the Ayah’s are under siege. Our family is under attack. These terrorists are ready to do everything to get us.
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April 20, 2017 will go down in history as the day Paul Bathelemy Biya bi-Mvondo suffered his most devastating political humiliation in the more than 40 years he has roamed the halls of power as Prime Minister and President. In the midst of the unprecedented uprising by the oppressed and marginalized Anglophone population in Cameroon and the Diaspora, the Napoleonic tyrant ordered his minions, Minette Libom Li Likeng, Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Issa Tchiroma, Minister of Communication, and the Director General of Camtel Nkoto Emano to pull the plug on the Internet in the Northwest and Southwest regions. The blackout took effect on January 18, 2017., and lasted 93 days. This was the longest, politically-motivated, punitive, Internet blackout in Africa. Biya wanted to punish the Anglophones collectively. All he succeeded in doing was to fatally weaken the foundations of his Napoleonic state. Cameroon will never be the same again, never!
Like dictators in Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Burundi and elsewhere, the ailing lion of Mvomeka thought that by cutting off the Internet, and carrying out barbaric human rights abuses against innocent men, women and children in the dark, he would stifle and destroy the Anglophone movement that represents an existential threat to his rotten and tottering dictatorial regime.
The problem is that Biya and his henchmen were so comfortable in their little French colonial bubble they underestimated the resolve and will to freedom of the oppressed Anglophones. They also did not realize that Anglophones are a free people who have no fear of Biya’s murderous regime. They also had not been told that English is the global lingua franca. They have learned the bitter lesson the hard way. Strikes, and continuing ghost towns at home, demonstrations abroad, and informational activism in cyberspace have made the Anglophone problem a global issue. The result is that for the first time in the history of Francophone Africa, a minority has made a blood-thirsty dictator back down.
Now that Biya has suffered a crushing political defeat at the hands of the Anglophones, it is time for him to pay compensation for the millions of dollars his illegal and inhuman act cost. He is a billionaire. He can afford it. The IMF, World Bank and other economic institutions show that the Internet blackout cost millions of dollars per day. Millions of individuals, the Silicon Mountain Internet start-up hub, banks, businesses, schools, universities, and so on, suffered financial loss. It is time for Biya bi Mvondo, Minette Libom Li Likeng, Issa Tchiroma, Nkoto Emano, Camtel, MTN and others to pay the penalty.
When former Egyptian dictator, Hosni Mubarak shut down the Internet in Egypt for six days in 2011 in a futile effort to hang on to power, he failed miserably. After his fall, civil society groups sued Mubarak, the Egyptian government and responsible ministers for this gross human rights violation, and for economic loses. An Egyptian court fined the defendants millions of dollars. Biya and his gang must not get away with murder and go scot-free. In order to teach them a lesson, Anglophone lawyers need to take the fight to them. They need to act as a group and file a class-action suit in Douala and Yaounde. against Biya, La Republique and the other defendants, on behalf of all victims of the Internet shut down. Suits should also be prepared for the Buea and Bamenda High Courts went the lawyers’ strike is over. We know in advance how the cowardly Francophone judges and courts will rule but the media coverage will be priceless. Finally, Anglophone lawyers need to lodge a human rights complaints at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the United Nations Human Rights Council and other international jurisdictions. Make them pay!
It is said that a fanatic is one who, having lost sight of his objectives, redoubles his efforts. Biya gambled and lost. It is time for him to face the legal consequences of his reckless human rights violations.
I see nothing but loses ahead for Paul Biya. He is in a no-win situation. If he releases the Anglophone leaders, he loses. If he keeps them in jail, he loses. If he changes even a little bit, he loses, if he does not change, he loses. He already faces potential expulsion from the Commonwealth, loss of American military and economic aid due to Anglophone protests, and increasing unrest in la Republique itself. Anglophones have introduced the word “resistance” into the vocabulary of the Francophones. The momentum is clearly on the side of the Anglophones.
Mola Eko
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The Coordinator of the Anglophone Dialogue Forum says Dialogue must be all inclusive to end the crisis in the Anglophone regions.
Taking part in CRTV's flagship program, Press Hour, Dr Simon Munzu reveals that only the Head of state has the responsibility of calling a national dialogue to discuss the Anglophone Problem. To him, this dialogue must embrace all issues affecting the anglophone community. The problems of lawyers and teachers are just a fallout of political injustices in 1961 and 1972.
Commenting on steps made by government on the judicial and educational sectors as the restoration of the internet in the North west and South west regions, the outspoken legal figure says those steps cannot solve the pains of Anglophones.
He is calling on all parties to be free to chat about all every issue that affects their existence. Dr Munzu has warned the regime to stop censoring opinions and allow Anglophones to discuss in a free atmosphere without room for intimidation.
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One of the stories that have undoubtedly sold more than hot cake in recent times is the Anglophone Problem. This mighty crisis that began like a drop of water in an extraordinary ocean has raised eyebrows across the globe. “All the examinations organized by the ministries of basic and secondary education must be taken this year as usual…” That was part of a press release read on the state broadcaster, CRTV, a few months back.
It implies tacitly that just like all the other examinations, the GCE will be taken without any worry. If that is the case, then we will have a question to ask: Who is eligible to sit the examinations? The doors for registration are all shut and locked when the majority of the students do not have their names on the list; we are less than two months to the examinations, and yet very little practical lessons have been done in the two regions where tensions are not yet completely out of play.
With these revelations, is it not possible for us to repeat our question: who is eligible? Or maybe we are ignoring one glaring fact: classes have been effective in all other parts of the nation. Those who have been going to school normally are eligible. They want to do the examinations. Indeed, they can. But those who have done nothing should not be used as a shield. By the way, if everybody were to do the examinations, what nature would the questions take? Would they be set based on equity or equality? If you take the former, you agree with the fact that the questions will be set in relation to the programme covered by each school.
Those who had studied more receive more questions and vice-versa. Gong by the latter, the questions would be the same everywhere. In that case, how balanced is your scale? Or there could be a third option: the examinations descend far below standard so that everybody makes it. But then this option is not void of crises.
The students who have had a normal school year will not only do exceedingly better than their counterparts who have not had a steady school year, but they will also do incredibly better than all previous batches. Consequently, they will stand head and shoulder above everyone else in every competitive sphere where a GCE certificate is required. Thus, if the GCE were to be taken this year, the date ought to pass under another, more serious review. The two weeks postponement is not really enough to make the difference.
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