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Just two million signatures are needed for Southern Cameroons to gain independence, says Mola Njoh Litumbe, veteran Anglophone independence activist.
According to Njoh Litumbe, their journey to the UN is yielding fruits as they have been asked to provide “just two million signatures of Southern Cameroonians” in support of their independence from La Republique for the UN to dance to the music.
Mola Njoh recounted that when he went to the UN and narrated the independence issue, as he has often done, he was asked whether it is because he has not been made a minister that he is complaining.
“Everyone else in Cameroon is happy, we have no news,” Mola Njoh said he was told.
“Do you want us to start killing ourselves before you come?” Litumbe said he retorted, and “that’s how the idea of a signature referendum came about.”
Litumbe said he was asked to provide two million signatures of Southern Cameroonians and the rest will be done.
“Locally, we have started,” Litumbe said, adding, “You don’t need to march or hold a meeting and be arrested. The pen is mightier than the sword. I wouldn’t tolerate you going to the bush to fight.”
After sitting through a court session in Buea on Thursday, August 25, Litumbe said La Republique has tended to divide the people of Southern Cameroons in order to rule them.
He showed pressmen the sheets on which signatures are to be collected as well as those already signed by die-heart Ambazonians.
Litumbe said he is part of the fourteen Southern Cameroonian activists detained at Buea Central Prison.
“I am part of those accused because I believe in the same principles as they do,” Litumbe said as he listened to his fourteen comrades being arraigned for what was termed as holding an unauthorised meeting in a restaurant in Buea recently.
To him, the relationship between the two Cameroons is illegal because there has never been a legal union between the duo.
“I have been saying all along that we never really joined La Republique….they just came to colonise us the night the British Army left at midnight on 30th of September 1961 and disregarded the fact that the UN had on 21st of April passed a resolution granting Southern Cameroons independence as from 1st of October 1961,” Litumbe said.
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In advance societies like USA, UK, Germany, China, Japan, etc, you will see a lot of industries and less number of religious worships centres. In poor societies like Nigeria, Haiti, Jamaica, Liberia, Cameroon, etc, you will see a lot of religious centres and very few industries.
Any country that has more religious worship centres than industries will automatically go poor.
To savage Nigeria economic problem we need more of industries that can go into more exportations and less importations. This will bring more dollar into circulation and strengthen the naira value against the dollar. Unfortunately, while India is exporting technology, Nigeria is exporting religion - Africa is doom.
We as a nation need to look inward because change have to start within.
It is very clear that religion is not helping Africa it is only destroying what we are paying taxes for. We should start discouraging our able body men and women from becoming clerics let them start industries or put their brains into other profitable things. We have had religious centres enough. Let the rest go start industries. Why will our good brains be diverted?
Poor mentalities is affecting us seriously; the more the religious centres the more evil the society is becoming. Sometimes we thought Africa is serving God more than others but we are actually serving the devil if we really search inward. God have mercy!
I think Karl Marx is right when he said religion is the opium of the masses.
It is poverty and bad leadership in Africa that is oppressing us making us flocking religious centres for help.
This is a time to plan. We do not have to continue doing the same thing over and over and expect a change, that is insanity. If we fail to plan for the future, the future can disappoint us.
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N'DJAMENA A landmine planted by Islamist group Boko Haram killed four Chadian soldiers on patrol near Chad's border with Niger on Saturday, two security sources said.
They were traveling in a vehicle that rode over the mine at Kaiga Kindji, in the Lake Chad region, which has been plagued by the militants since 2009.
The Nigerian-based Boko Haram wants to create a breakaway Islamic state in the region and once occupied an area the size of Belgium.
But a regional offensive led by Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Niger - the four countries most affected by Boko Haram - has chased it out of much of that territory.
The group has in response retreated to Nigeria's Sambisa forest, from where it has fought a guerrilla campaign against civilians and security forces.
Boko Haram is thought to have killed as many as 15,000 people since the launch of its insurgency seven years ago.
Its insurrection has strangled economic and farming activity around Lake Chad, leaving tens of thousands hungry.
Nearly half a million children around the lake face "severe acute malnutrition" due to drought and the insurgency by Boko Haram, UNICEF said on Thursday.
Reuters
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Considering that Cameroon signed and ratified the Charter of the United Nations which is based on the principles of the dignity and equality of all human beings and seeks, among other basic objectives, to achieve international co-operation in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion,
Considering that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that all human beings, Nso people inclusive, are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set out in the Declaration, without distinction of any kind, in particular as to race, colour or national origin,
Considering that the United Nations has condemned colonialism, and all practices of segregation and discrimination associated therewith,
Taking into account the failing top-bottom approach to governance in Cameroon, the misuse of public funds, the abuse of public institutions, and the irrational privatization of institutions that provide the basic rights such as access to safe water and sanitation,
Taking into account the fact that, the people of Nso are citizens of Cameroon and have the inalienable rights to cultural and community development activities that provide for their basic needs including safe water, health, sanitation, and food,
Alarmed by the manifestations of administrative blunders, secretive privatization and bypass of traditional authority still in evidence in Nso, as imposed by the 34-year ruining and ruling regime by means of legislative, administrative, judiciary or other measures, in the form, inter alia, of bad governance, segregation, and separation,
Convinced that the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) clearly protects and promotes cultural rights in Africa and for all Africans and that culture is an integral bond that factors into effective growth and development strategies,
Convinced that all forms of discrimination against culture, still more so, governmental policies based on the prejudice of tribal superiority or on hatred, besides constituting a violation of fundamental human rights, tend to jeopardize friendly cultural relations among peoples, cooperation between tribes and national peace and security,
Convinced further that the building of a Cameroon society -- free from all forms of segregation and discrimination -- factors which create hatred and division among men, is one of the fundamental objectives of the United Nations and the Cameroon constitution,
1. I solemnly affirm the rights of the people of Nso to keep managing their community development project -- Kumbo Water Authority -- which they have been relying on to successfully supply safe water and sanitation to entire communities for more than 40 years;
2. I solemnly affirm the importance of adopting community-base approaches to governance, development, and growth, citing the case of Nso in particular. It is important that decentralization is seen in every stratum of the society and that culture should be promoted as a development strategy while recognizing the pivotal role played by traditional rulers and opinion leaders in their communities;
3. I solemnly support the Fon of Nso for standing for the rights of the people. I support every action to promote individual and collective rights. The Nso water project is a collective right and the people have a say in every decision taken by the regime;
4. I solemnly encourage open and inclusive dialogue, negotiations that bring together every relevant stakeholder identified in growth processes within the society. We cannot keep up with a top-bottom approach when it keeps failing us ever since we gained independence in 1961. We must learn to empower the local communities to manage their own affairs, support those communities and not rip them off with harsh and dubious policies;
3. Opinion leader and traditional rules in the African culture are pivotal in peace and security with any sovereign state. and for a fragile state like Cameroon, with increasing threats of terrorism, swelling grievances against the regime's loopholes, it is imperative that the HRH Fon Sehm Mbinglo must be seen as a citizen and a pivot seeking to promote unity and cohesion in his Fondom.
Fon Sehm Mbinglo, you have the motion of support from the youths who stand behind you. You have my support. Remain blessed and steadfast with your drive. You are a nation builder.
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The Alternate Senator for Boyo Division in the Northwest Region, Prudential Ndim Wibua, has petitioned President Paul Biya against the recent appointments in the Ministry of Basic Education and other Ministries that were orchestrated recently by Prime Minister Philemon Yang.
The petition, dated August 10, a copy which The Post procured, has as subject matter; “The extreme tribalisation, egocentric and scandalous appointments in Basic and Secondary Education as well as other ministries by the Prime Minister Philemon Yang Yogi.”
The appointments leaked to the social media which went viral, to the disappointment of those who were tipped as new delegates.
Ndim Wibua holds that the Minister of Secondary Education appointed a Regional Delegate of Education who, to her, is one of the most experienced and competent personnel, but the population became flabbergasted and embarrassed that his name was dropped a week later, “because the Prime Minister had to appoint his tribesman “
The CPDM Alternate Senator tells Biya, who is their party Chair that; “We the CPDM militants in the Northwest and even beyond are not happy with the extreme tribalism exhibited by the Prime Minister as far as appointments are concerned.
In his subdivision of Oku, the best facilities in all Ministries are given to the staff administrators,” the letter reads in part.
To buttress her facts, Ndim Wibua points out that the Director of Technical Education is a son of Oku, from Prime Minister Yang’s village, the Regional Delegate of Basic Education for the Northwest is from Oku; Divisional Delegate of Secondary Education for Momo is from Oku; the recently appointed Chargé des Mission at PMs Office, hails from Oku; Representative of the PM’s Office at SNH Yaoundé, is “Yang’s brothers son. What an act of tribalism!
All the Principals and Headmasters in Oku Subdivision are sons and daughters of Oku, just to mention these few,” Ndim averred.
The Alternate Senator appeals for prompt investigation by the Head of State, else the consequences will be too huge to bear.
Cameroonpost
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After postponing his trip twice, the head of State of Cameroon will be leaving Yaounde in the coming hours for an indefinite stay in Europe, according to sources at the presidential palace in Yaounde and Nsimalen International airport.
The city center of Yaounde has been put on hold with heavily armed presidential guards blocking the entire stretch of road leading from the presidential palace right up to Nsimalen Airport.
Reportedly, Paul Biya Biya will be heading to Switzerland, where his family is.Sources say the President is travelling abroad to bring home his wife and children from holidays.
Paul Biya regularly veers off to Switzerland for some cooling off each time he leaves Cameroon for an official visit to Europe. His stays in the Alpine country don't come cheap. Some years back, the French press published reports indicating that the Biya entourage was spending $40,000 a day on 43 hotel rooms.
It is hardly ever announced when Biya leaves Cameroon, but his stage-managed homecomings always receive rapturous publicity. Droves of supporters chanting ego-enhancing, masturbatory messages and clad in fabrics with his smiling face embossed on them swarm the Yaoundé Nsimalen Airport.
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