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More light has been shed on the news that rocked the media late last week; that a certain consortium of two parents were dragging the Bishops, Fathers, Sisters and Principals of the Catholic Church to court. The clarification came thanks to Colonel Tamambang Simon Nche who has washed his hands from the consortium of two parents. He says he is not connected in any way to the consortium and that he has never contacted any lawyer or bailiff to initiate any court action against the servants of God.
Although light has been shed on the issue, more questions have surfaced in the minds of many Anglophone Cameroonians concerning the matter.
Who then is Barrister Achu Julius and what will become of the ‘one parent left’ consortium?
Pundits say Barrister Achu Julius is simply a hungry Cameroonian who may have been driven by greed and selfishness to yield in to the devices of the evil one by accepting to be the defending lawyer of the said consortium.
Many foresee that the starving Barrister may soon have no other person in the consortium to defend on court day.
However, critics say the career of hungry Barrister Achu Julius may suffer simply because of the stance he took against his own people in the middle of a liberation struggle.
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The inhabitants of Bamenda are planning to give the reinstatement of the internet in the North West a welcome that has been described by many as one of a kind; they plan to observe a one day ghost town to commemorate the event.
A Bamenda local says “we cannot be distracted from the fight. The reinstatement of the internet is just one of the many demands we made to the state. The Anglophone problem remains unsolved and so we will dedicate a one day ghost town to cool down this excitement and make the population understand that internet was their basic right from the very start and should not have been taken away in the first place”.
Nji Tagne Vince, a critic, thinks Paul Biya should be impeached for trampling at will on the rights of others and playing a hero afterwards.
“Paul Biya is now behaving like God who can do what he wants when he wants. He orders the reinstatement of the internet to the two Anglophone regions and plays a hero. This type of behaviour is criminal and perpetrators need to be judged and sentenced accordingly” says Nji.
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Southern Cameroons Restoration Scores Major Victory
Fellow Southern Cameroonians, we are here to celebrate a huge victory! We have forced the Biya government to vomit back our internet in spite of themselves. This is another sign that we are going to speed up the process of taking back our country from colonization.
We are on course and there is no turning back until victory at last!
Tonight is not a time to celebrate what had always been our right, God forced internet back today to enable us better mobilize towards marking the 56th anniversary of the UN general assembly vote for our independence. We still have to show solidarity to our clergy who have stood with us throughout this struggle.
This Friday April the 21st is the same day 56 years ago when the then US Ambassador - Zabloiski congratulated Southern Cameroonians on "attaining self determination", and so we must all go out in great numbers with placards to mark this day. This Friday is a ghost town to free everyone to be part of the street action.
Concerning our clergy, be aware that the case has not been thrown out; a new date has been set in Biya's mind and the secret is that the government plans to move the matter to Yaounde far away from you. All Christians must still come out this Friday to send a clearer message on how far we are ready to go. As for the University Games, they are not necessary as our children are not going to school.
Let us all be ready to fight right down to the last man standing.
God is with us!
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Eyambe Elias - Deputy SG,
Tassang Wilfred - Programs Coordinator
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MTN, Nexttel, Orange and CAMTEL are the major mobile operators in Cameroon.
Tchiroma’s communiqué discloses that President Paul Biya has ordered the Minister of Post and Telecommunications to authorize mobile operators to restore the internet in Southern Cameroons.
According to the communiqué, government has realized that calm has returned in the Anglophone regions of the nation.
This move comes just three days to the start of the All University Games in Bamenda, chief town of the North West Region.
Issa Tchiroma urges the people of Southern Cameroons to remain vigilant, adding that the government retains the right bring order when and where necessary.
The two English-speaking regions of Cameroon have gone without the internet for over three months now.
Previously, the Minister Communication, Issa Tchirama had attributed the blackout to the government’s legitimate right to make peace and order reign.
The government of La Republique had accused the people of Southern Cameroons of using the internet to spread fabricated stories on social media meant to destabilize the nation.
The people of Southern Cameroon have been on strike since November 2016 against what they term their marginalization by La Republique, the dominant part of Cameroon speaking essentially French.
Schools have been inactive since the start of the strike.
Even during the blackout, the people of Southern Cameroons did stop spreading information meant to steer the strike towards their main objective. Ghost towns continue to paralyze socio-economic activities in Southern Cameroons. Children have still not gone back to school; the rest of the world has still being posted on the latest update of the plight of the people.
The strike that began with a protest by lawyers has witnessed violent manifestations from the people, accompanied by a tough crackdown from the powers that be.
The internet blackout has caused massive economic losses to companies from La Republique. Express Union, Express Exchange and other large businesses had to go extra mile to provide their usual services to customers. This entailed long and boring procedures in sending and withdrawing money, for these financial structures.
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The Supreme Court has in a ruling destroyed the hopes of detained Supreme Court Advocate General, Justice Paul Ayah Abine, of gaining justice after the appeal court rejected his appeal.
The Advocate General at the Centre Court of Appeal said Ayah’s lawyers knocked on the wrong door.
“If one has a problem and knocks at the wrong door, it will be the wrong person inside and that person’s problem would not be solved,” she said.
Ayah’s hopes flew out of the window when the presiding judge, Justice Mbonkeu, ruled in favour of the Advocate General for the State party.
Thus, Ayah’s hope to be freed from illegal detention was once more dashed.
The lawyers, however, took exception to the Advocate General’s submission. They said they filed their application in tandem with section 274 of the CPC.
They argued that since Ayah was arrested and detained at the Gendarmerie Headquarters in Yaounde on January 21, he has not been charged with any crime.
While stating their case, defence counsels Barristers Christopher Ndong, Luc Kisob and John Mbufor, said their action was predicated on Article 274 of the Criminal Procedure Code, CPC, which states that “the appeal shall be made by way of unstamped application in four copies and addressed to the President of the Inquiry Control Chambers.”
According to the defence counsels, Ayah’s arrest ran counter to article 119(4) of the CPC, which provides that ”except in cases of felonies or misdemeanors committed flagrante delicto (caught red-handed), remand in police custody should not be ordered on Saturdays, Sundays or public holidays.”
The lawyers said those who arrested Ayah violated the law because they virtually kidnapped him on January 21, 2017, which was a Saturday.
Ayah’s lawyers called the court’s attention to section 629 of pact 10 of the CPC which borders on privilege proceedings.
The section provides that “where a judicial or legal officer is likely to be charged with committing an offence, the competent Procureur General shall request the President of the Supreme Court to appoint an investigating magistrate as well as three other magistrates of a grade at least equal to that of the magistrate incriminated. And they shall, if necessary, hear and determine the matter at first instance.”
The lawyers said those who arrested Ayah flagrantly violated the law and urged the court to thrash the matter using section three of the CPC.
The provision reads as follows: ”The sanction against the infringement of any rule of the Criminal Procedure shall be an absolute nullity.”
According to Barrister Christopher Ndong, they learned for the first time from the State Counsel at the Mfoundi High Court that their client was arrested on charges of terrorism, secession and rebellion against the State.
Ayah’s lawyers decided to file an appeal to the Supreme Court after the Centre Court of Appeal in Yaounde maintained its rejection of the habeas corpus application they filed at the Mfoundi High Court recently.
The Appeal Court rejected the plea on claims that the defence lawyers addressed their appeal to the President of the Inquiry Control Chambers.
After listening to the submissions of the defence lawyers, the Advocate General at the Centre Court of Appeal said the counsels used the law correctly and presented their arguments very well.
She said their problem was at the level of the admissibility of the application. She said they did not address the application to the President of the court.
The Appeal Court ruling is a logical continuation of the Mfoundi High Court decision of last March when the defence lawyers filed a habeas corpus application, asking for the immediate release of their client.
Some magistrates, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Post that they are shocked and devastated by the barbaric manner in which the State is treating a super scale magistrate of the Supreme Court. Observers are looking up to the Supreme Court to see how Ayah’s colleagues would treat one of theirs when the case is finally entertained.
Meanwhile, Ayah has been facing failing health in detention.
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Following the summons of the leaders of the Catholic Church early this week, the Okada boys from the two main towns of the North West region, Bamenda and Kumbo are strongly mobilizing to storm the premises of the Bamenda Court of First Instance on Friday April 21 2017.
According to one of the Bike riders, they cannot sit back while their church leaders are being dragged to court and accused of crimes they did not commit.
“What have our church leaders done to be taken to court?” asks the bike rider. “They were instead the ones praying for this struggle to be resolved peacefully. Because of this summons, we are planning to visit the premises of the court of first instance tomorrow in our numbers to witness it ourselves”.
While pundits fear that the plan of the Okada boys to go out on April 21 may be deadly, others say there are no two ways to address the issue; they say the boys need to show massive support in their parade to up station.
However many have warned against violent protests given the heavy presence of the military in the city of Bamenda.
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