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Honorable Wirba Joseph has finally broken the silence following reports that he has fled Cameroon to avoid arrest. See what he wrote via his official Facebook page below...

My Dear Sisters and Brothers,

The struggle of the people of West Cameroon is on course. I wish to welcome all of you to my new official Facebook page. You can also join the #WirbaForce on Twitter (@HonWirbaJoseph) and Instagram (@WirbaJosephM). This will enable me reach out to you and participate in your determined push for our freedom.

Let me take this opportunity to thank all of you, on behalf of our people, and from the bottom of my heart, for all your prayers, support, and unquestionable commitment towards our struggle.

I will also want to inform you that after I led the persistent hard push on the colonial government, their brutal military forces came searching for me. The order for my arrest was given by the Secretary General at the presidency of Cameroon in agreement with the Minister of Interior and designated the Chief of Police, Mbarga Nguele to execute. There were two names in that arrest order: WIRBA JOSEPH, SDF MP and AYAH PAUL ABINE! The execution date was January 20th, 2017! The Cameroon government's goal was to stop me from reaching Kumba, in the South West Region where I was to lead a follow up rally after the one in Kumbo, North West Region! The manhunt for me was thus launched and I am sure their main target was to assassinate me.

My experience from the 1990s when we fought in the streets to ensure the SDF party survived the brutal onslaught of our oppressors, helped me stay ahead of my hunters. My immediate goal was to stay safe in order to continue the fight for our freedom. All you need to know for now, is that l am safe and despite the overwhelming challenges of life on the run, my spirits are very high because of my firm belief that the time to seize our freedom is now! We will remain vigilant and smart in our strategies.

My brothers and sisters, l will not sleep, rest or have any peace as long as some our children lie dead and others hospitalized from the brutal guns of our oppressors; as long as some of our brothers and sisters are in jail, on the run, in hiding, or violently forced into exile! How can l have any respite when millions of West Cameroonians at home live the daily misery of man-made poverty under violent government oppression?

For now, social media presents a convenient forum, especially to those of you in the diaspora with unlimited access. It presents an opportunity for you and I to connect, communicate, and forge a stronger and united team to resist oppression and take back our freedom.

I will continue to remain honored by your commitment, participation and prayers.

Please feel free to share any communiques that are published on my page to as many sympathizers and supporters as you can to help advance our cause for freedom.

I wish you all good health and God's abundant blessings.

Stay blessed Hon. WIRBA.

Details: Mbi James; 23.Mar.2017; Hits: 3018

Long serving House speaker Cavaye-yeguie-djibril has retained his position for the 25th time following elections of the executive bureau of the National Assembly in yaounde. He however did not have an easy ride as SDF opposition MPs raised concerns over the respect of article 123 of the Standing Orders of the lower house in an attempt to block the elections.

Hon Fusi Ndamukong took to the floor and proposed a motion to amend the article which was supposed to give the position of First Vice President to an anglophone. His move was violently denied by the Doyen of the House Enoh Tanjong, sparking outrage between CPDM MPs and their opposing colleagues.

While most of the parliamentarians proved their non mastery of the standing orders of the house, others saw the amelioration of the Orders before elections of the executive bureau as irrelevant. After one hour of boiling tension followed by a 15minute recess, the motion of Hon Fusi Ndamukong was recieved and put for voting.

CPDM MPs overwhelmingly voted against the motion due to their majority paving the way for the election of the MP for Tokombere Cavaye-yeguie-djibril who has been in parliament for the past 47years with 147 out of 167. SDF MPs felt disappointed. Hon Cyprain Awudu Mbaya told our correspondent that: "It was a miscarriage of justice. The recent events have proven that Anglophones want to play leading roles. It's just unfortunate some people think otherwise."

Hon Hilarion Etong, another francophone also maintains his position as first Vice President above Hon Monjowa Emilia Lifaka who is second Vice speaker

At the Senate, tradition was equally maintained as Marcel Niat Njifenji and his bureau have been voted for the 4th consecutive time to lead the affairs of the upper house for the next one year.

Details: Rita Akana; 22.Mar.2017; Hits: 3008

Well-wishers say the decision of the Former President of the Cameroon bar council to answer present at the Central investigation Unit of the National defense Secretariat in Yaounde may not be a wise one considering the massive and unlawful Anglophones arrests and detentions that have plagued people from the North and South west origins within the last 4 months of Anglophone unrest.

“It is better he stays away and be safe. He will contribute better while out of the country. Many people in the diaspora operate very well from there” Says a young Anglophone Cameroonian in Douala. In fact, now that the internet has been cut off from the 2 Anglophone regions, it is the diaspora that is carrying on with the struggle.” he adds.

Others are waiting to see whether the former Batonnier will stand on his words and come back to Cameroon to face what awaits him or will simple run away like many.

“This is the time for the Akere Muna to show his people that he is not a coward by coming back from South Africa and facing what awaits him boldly. If he stays away then this will only proof to the government that the best way to scare away the Anglophone people is to issue more convocations and threats” says a Douala based critic.

According to the Barrister, he understands the worries of many well-wishers who are asking him to stay away but says Cameroon is his home and he is prepared to face whatever awaits him. Any lawyer according to Akere Muna who is worth anything should not sit quiet on the face of suffering and blatant violations of human rights.

Many well-wishers seem to already know the end result but are still hoping that the Barrister will not follow the same fate like other activists.

Details: Tawe Gije nkfunji; 22.Mar.2017; Hits: 2458

I have been flooded by calls and messages from many Cameroonians who seemed worried for my safety. I hereby state the facts, as I know them, to avoid any unfounded rumors.
On Monday 20th March 2017 at around 15.00 hrs a bailiff dropped at the Muna Foundation, a letter addressed to the President of the Bar Council Batonnier Jackson Ngnie Kamga . He was told that he should take the letter to him he refused and walked away. My staff brought the letter to me, which stated that investigations had commenced against me at the central investigation unit of the “Secretariat a la Defence” ordinarily known as SED.

In the letter, Batonnier was asked to accompany at 9.00 to the central investigation department on Wednesday March 2017. SED is where the Anglophone lawyers and Anglophone activists have been taken to. I immediately wrote to the Secretary of State informing him that I was delivering a keynote address in Johannesburg on Wednesday March 22nd and that I will be back on Thursday and will ask the Batonnier to accompany me on Friday March 25 th. Today March 21st I boarded an Rwandair Flight 10.05 from Douala and left for Johannesburg.

I will defer to the summons and be present on Friday. I understand the worry of many well wishers who are asking me to stay away. Cameroon is my home and I am prepared to face whatever awaits me. Any lawyer who is worth anything cannot sit by in the face of suffering and blatant violation of the basic and fundamental rights of any other human being. By remaining sheep for too long, I am afraid we have turned some people in our government into emboldened wolves. The comfort of my home and my office cannot justify my silence in the face of what we are going through in our country right now. Come what may.
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Akere T. Muna (Of Lincoln's Inn London)
Barrister-at-law
Sanctions Commissioner of the African Development Bank
Chairperson of the International Anti-Corruption Conference
Member, High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa
Member, Governing Board, Africa Governance Institute
Former Chairperson, Eminent Persons Panel of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM)
Former President, Pan-African Lawyers Union
Former Presiding Officer, Economic, Social and Cultural Council of the African Union.

Details: Rita Akana; 21.Mar.2017; Hits: 3287

The veteran CPDM loyal politican replaces Peter Mafany Musonge who was appointed to chair the National Commission for the Promotion of bilingualism and multi multiculturalism.Going by the statutes of the commission, its membership is not compatible with any other post. This explains why the former prime minister whose hands were overfull with positions.had to be changed.

The coming of Chief Tabe Tando as the CPDM senate Group leader means Peter Mafany Musonge has lost his membership at the senate and will automatically move out of the upper house.
Dima Gabriel former counsellor for the Limbe city council who has been living under the shadows of the former group leader as alternate senator will now replace him.has been a Senior Attorney with a prominent law firm in Douala, Republic of Cameroon since 1975. Mr. Tabetando is a Founder of BowLeven PLC and served as its Executive Director from 2001 to May 5, 2015 and also served as its Member of Group Management until May 5, 2015 He is a Founder of EurOil and serves as its Chairman. He He serves as a Director at BowLeven Resources Limited, EurOil and Equity Chambers. Mr. Tabetando is a qualified lawyer, a second class chief of Bachuo Ntai village in Manyu division and CPDM Central Committee.

His initial position as Vice President of the Constitutional Laws Commission has been filled by the youngest Senator, Mbella Moki Charles.

These changes emanates from a crucial CPDM Paliamantary meeting which was held this today in Yaounde. In the meantime the election of the executive bureau of the National Assembly and Senate is underway.

Details: Rita Akana; 21.Mar.2017; Hits: 3512

There was another suicide bombing in Cameroon on Sunday morning. One terrorist was shot dead while the other blew herself up killing no one else. It was not clear whether the attackers were males or females.

Yesterday’s attack came only two days after at least three suspected members of Boko Haram were killed on Friday by Cameroonian troops.

Boko Haram members, it was learnt, had attacked their positions in the country’s far north.

Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel, said the attack on Sunday morning took place in Kolofata, a locality not far from the Nigerian border where the terrorists are based.

There, one terrorist was shot dead by a member of the local civilian vigilante group while the other blew himself/herself up, the newspaper said.

On Friday, Cameroonian troops killed three members of Boko Haram when they attacked their position in Soueram, the newspaper reported. The locality is also in Cameroon’s far north.

Every week, there are several incidents reported. A suicide bombing here, a gun attack or landmine buried there, several dead here and there.

Thousands of civilians have been killed by Boko Haram in Cameroon while about 150 soldiers and policemen have died since 2014 while fighting the ruthless terrorists who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in March 2015 and have been modelling their barbarism after the Middle East killers.

From hiding, the Boko Haram factional leader, Abubakar Shekau, attacked President Paul Biya of Cameroon in message released online, accusing him of lies and other things.

Mr. Biya had not visited the war front since Boko Haram began attacking his country in 2014, and the attack against him at a time when there are other protests in the country’s Southwest and Northwest seemed to be a calculated attempt to play into anger already rising against a man who has been in power for more than three decades and is preparing to run for office again in 2018 even though he would be about 86 years old.

Details: Simon Ateba; 20.Mar.2017; Hits: 3233

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