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From 1972-2018, Cameroon has earned $618 billion from Ambazonia crude oil sales with nothing to show for it. And Biya is killing our people because he wants to continue this theft at all cost. Would Abraham Johnson Batey Batey and sundry ranting SW provincialists and self-elected managers of the SW estate blame the graffi man for these unsettling statistics?
In the early 1990s, during an interview with state-owned CRTV, Jean Assoumou, then General Manager of the National Hydrocarbons Corporation aka SNH said the money from the sale of Cameroon’s crude oil was so complicated that only he and President Biya can understand it. He refused to disclose how many barrels of oil per day Cameroon produced as well as how much oil revenue Cameroon was earning. That was then; now thanks to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), Cameroonians now know that from 1972-2018, Cameroon has earned a jaw-dropping $618 billion from crude oil sales. And this oil has come from Ndian Division in the Southwest region of Ambazonia.
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- Rita Akana
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The pig-headed life sentences of Ambazonia leaders is an act of judicial imbecility by a Kangaroo court that reinforces Cameroon's battered international image as a country with highly dysfunctional institutions where bizarre things happen. In its pleadings, the gov't sought the death penalty and never prayed for any specific or general monetary relief for damages, yet the court awarded FCFA 250 billion.
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- Ekinneh Agbaw-Ebai
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The downfall of Sudan’s military leader, Omar al-Bashir follows the same trajectory with that of Algeria’s 82-year-old Abdelaziz Bouteflika who was forced to resign, following mass protests against his regime. It was a popular and principled uprising, which shook the Algerian and Sudanese political establishment to their foundations. The denouement also sent a strong message to other African despots who promote the ignominious narrative that government should be at the whims and caprices of selfish and deluded individuals. The era of sit-tight leadership is over. Truly, sit-tightism has lost traction because it adds no value to good governance. Africa has only a few left, tired old men with a messianic complex who believe the nation would end without them. Presidents Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea (in power since 1979); Paul Barthelemy Biya’a bi Mvondo of Cameroon (since 1982), and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda (since 1986) are chronic cases of Africa’s leadership tragedy. Hopefully, these holdout dictators can hear the fire engines and begin charting ways for a smooth change of leadership.
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- Ekinneh Agbaw-Ebai
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The case pitting the President of the interim government of the self declared Ambazonian state is at its third presiding judge though the matter seems to be a long way from concluding on preliminary objections, (PO).
It should be recalled that Judge Col. Mem Michel was pulled off the case by a presidential decree appointing him President of the Military Tribunal of Buea. The appointment is widely interpreted in many circles as an attempt by the establishment to shroud and cover up the RECUSAL against him and his two panel members. The drama in the Military Tribunal last Friday stemmed from this and several other pending motions before the Yaoundé Appeal Court, the which motions the new judge sought to overlook.
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- Marcus ABENDONG
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Amidst an intense violent conflict were opposing factions have taken extremist positions to the detriment of the vulnerable masses they claim to protect, through a secured channel that allows the concerned masses to air their views, the outcomes are always very amazing to some and shocking to others. Such a realistic opportunity exhumes the value of truth through factual individually recorded lamentations, anxieties, fallacies and verities construed in support for the cause the individual believes in.
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- Kelly Ngyah
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Biya extends largess to 400 Manyu refugees in Yaounde. Even as soldiers have reduced his native Manyu to a killing field where youths, especially males are shot on sight, Special Duties Minister, Victor Mengot, found it worthwhile to thank Biya for donating foodstuff and other items to 400 Manyu refugees (IDPs) on asylum in Yaounde, where they are hosted by 120 Manyu families.
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- Ekinneh Agbaw-Ebai
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# Paul Biya and his regime
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