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The mood in Cameroon is not jolly, even though supporters of Paul Biya's regime in Washington DC, Paris, Brussels and London would want the world to think differently. There are killings every day of civilians and soldiers. And it is not any good for life is precious.
Yes, those backing Biya are the same pretentious people who market liberal democracy to as the best form of human governance. And it's true.
Since genuine pro-democracy are out of stage in the U.S., France, Britain, Canada and Germany, we are left with westerners who have no values and can sell everything including their mothers because of money.
It may explain why, they are ready to allow a repugnant and barbaric regime who inflict regular bouts of horrific violence on its people to survive longer than expected, as long as they can secure contracts.
Are you now surprised that, the United States is supporting Saudi Arabia that is killing innocent Yameni children every day? They can growl at Iran, pretend on Burma, an evil regime practising ethnic cleansing on the Royinga people.
Their only crime? Because they are Muslims. I just wish to tell the brave people of West Cameroon, who are daily humiliated and disparaged in their own country to know that, they are on their own. An orphan must know how to fend for itself or know which fights to pick and fight . Good morning from Lagos, Nigeria.
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The President of Ambazonia was kidnapped in Nigeria breaching international protocol in Nigeria before being illicitly taken to Cameroon. This illegal transaction between Buhari and Biya void of any legal justification based by an extradition convention has placed Nigeria in hell. Her battered image has been made worse since Buhari chose the part of evil, sheepishly assuming that the case of Southern Cameroon's was just like that of the Biafra's in Nigeria.
Unfortunately for him, this isn't the case and Nigeria and Nigerians are sweating under this heat that has ruined the few chances that APC had in the forth coming Presidential and other elections in Nigeria. Diplomatically Buhari's folly has damaged Nigeria's image as the giant of Africa. Since their purported arrival in Cameroon as announced by the minister of Communication, nobody knows their whereabouts and lots of speculations have been made. Some persons had assumed that they had been killed, others assumed that they weren't even brought to Cameroon in the first place.
Sixty days incommunicado and without any information filtering out is cruel and inhumane. Illegally kidnapped to Cameroon on the 26th of January, national and foreign media had announced that thirty seven others were arrested in Abuja had been illegally incarcerated at the Secretary of Defence ( SED) There is nothing to this date to proof that they had been detained there. The other source of information that was given by Spokesman of the Cameroonian military, Colonel Didier Bandjeck, the mulatto claims that Ayuk Tabe and his close collaborators had been handed over to the Judicial Police for investigations to be conducted.
According to this arrogant and nauseating Mulatto, Colonel Didier Bandjeck,it's judged not to be necessary to divulge where they are detained. " I don't have the right to talk with somebody in custody , address all your supplications to the Attorney General of the Republic. All over the world, such instructions are sacred and the opportunities to speak are restricted by the Attorney General of the Republic" declared Colonel Didier Bandjeck, in charge of Military communication.
This case is giving Nigeria, the UN and LA Republique Du Cameroun sleepless nights as another wave of massive demonstrations have erupted against the Nigerian embassies, the seat of the UN and against Britain. This wave of massive demonstrations are planned to humiliate an already disgraced cow driver, Buhari Muhammadu and his vampire friend, Paul Biya of Cameroon.
Lawyers Ben Muna and Agbor Balla have complained about the lack of collaboration between the lawyers and Police elements that doesn't permit them to meet with Ayuk Tabe and his close collaborators. The wife of Ayuk Tabe, the leader of the restoration movement of the Southern Cameroon's has equally shown her frustration seeing or meeting with her husband as well as his release..
" In a missive widely circulated on the media, she categorically states that her husband isn't a terrorist but a humanist who saw the misery and frustration of Southern Cameroonians, illegally panel beaten by francophones and treated as slaves in their own land" She equally requested that the vicious regime of LA Republique Du Cameroun should show a video of her husband and his collaborators to attest that they are still alive.
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The allies of the Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement have rallied towards the upcoming Elections. Six members of Government under the auspices of the Minister of Communication, who are not members of the CPDM are involved. According to Mutation daily of the 5th of March 2018, the President of the Republic, following the cabinet rebrand, has reassured all the allies of the CPDM that the nation is on a good footing. According to our correspondent, the head of state has allowed election issues in the hands of the six ministries of allied Political parties.
They are in charge of the upcoming elections. The closest election that is on schedule is the senatorial election, previewed for the 25th of March, 2018. It's worth noting that on the 7th of February, 2018, the President of Republic signed a decree summoning the electoral college. Granted on this day and after Election Cameroon, ( ELECAM),the body that has been empowered to register, conduct and proclaim the results of Elections in Cameroon. Only nine political parties have indicated their willingness to participate in the Senatorial election that has on offer of 70 senatorial seats.
Coming back to the most recent appointments and cabinet reshuffle, it can be noted that Bello Bouba Maigari, the minister of Tourism and Leisure( MINTOUL) president of the National Union for Democracy and Progress. ( UNDP),a political party allied to the CPDM, remains as the minister of that ministerial portfolio.
It was in 1997 that Bello Bouba Maigari signed a platform with the CPDM. In 2004 and 2011, these political parties have made special appeals to their respective militants to vote for Paul Biya as their Presidential candidate. Mutation recalls that according to this platform, those who had signed an alliance with the CPDM, were handsomely rewarded with ministerial portfolios. In 2011,Marie Rose Dining militant of the party was appointed Secretary of state at the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. Another political party that have envisaged the Senatorial election but is so quite is the ( FSNC) of Isa Tchorima Bakary, the minister of Communication.
This minister is amongst members of government who have beaten longevity records as members of government, according to the press. The National Alliance of Democracy and Progress ( ANDP) a break away faction of UNDP is also preparing quietly for the senatorial elections. Having a senator in the just ended Senatorial mandate, they are aspiring to improve on their membership. In order to do so, they have registered to contest in South West and Far North Regions.
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The Minister of Transport was sacked when he was expected to officiate the opening ceremony of the new Port in Kribi. According to information from French Newspaper Nouvelle Expression published on the 5th of March, 2018, Edgar Alain Mebo Ngo'o felt humiliated following the cabinet reshuffle.
He was in charge of the ministry of Transport since the last cabinet rebrand of 2nd October 2015. He was replaced by Jean Ernest Messana Ngalle Bibehe. Paul Biya's Presidential decree as stressed by our correspondent came when the erstwhile Minister of Defence would have presided over the opening ceremony of the new port of Kribi.
Invitations and ceremonial gadgets and badges had already been printed and highlighted "Under the distinguished patronage of the Minister of Transport" In the supposed official opening of the Kribi Deep Seaport, that was programmed for the 2nd of March,2018, the Minister of Transport was supposed to officially launch the epic opening of the Kribi seaport.
Instead it was the Senior Divisional Officer for the Ocean Division, Antoine Bisaga, who had to officiate the opening ceremony of the port. The Kribi Deep Seaport nevertheless remains a white elephant project harnessed from borrowed funds that won't generate the much trumpeted returns. Lack of foresight and insight has ruined a beautiful project that was carried out without adequate environmental analysis as well as checking at their respective neighbouring countries, so as to see what kind of projects that are being carried out. If this was meticulously done, the Kribi Deep Seaport project would have been shelved for another lucrative project with ascertain financial returns.
The Senior Divisional Officer did the opening ceremony following very strict instructions from the Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon. The opening ceremony was bizarrely done void of speeches as many onlookers and public opinion that deems such occasions to merit speeches. This presumed grandiose occasion was to remain an illusion because it would have been officially launched by President Paul Biya.
The Governor of the East who was on his way to Kribi was obliged to make a u-turn back to Ebolowa.
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The house of clowns have once more dramatized their acts of folly. To have maintained the same faces and persons in their respective bureau doesn't make any sense or doesn't make it look democratic. Must a consensus list of the CPDM party nominees for any position in the National Assembly come from the Presidency?
If the answer is yes, then there isn't any need to have either the legislative or the Judiciary arms of government in Cameroon? No wonder the state of Cameroon is suffocating under the weight of a bad leader. How can the speaker of the National Assembly be allowed to be in the Parliament for 48 years and 26 years as the President of the National Assembly? 140 parliamentarians voted Cavaye Yeguie Djibril as the Speaker of the National Assembly and 18 null votes. The First vice presidents is Hilarion Etong and five other vice Presidents, four Questor's and twelve secretaries that were already voted in 2017.
The parliamentarians were summoned for the March Parliamentary session that's generally meant for the the reconstitution of the bureau of the National Assembly. The 6th of March shall witness a joint session of both the Senate and the National Assembly, in order to receive the 11 newly appointed members of the Constitutional council, being the first in Cameroon.
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The KNDP was formed in 1955 by John Ngu Foncha. The party initially sought a close relationship with the UPC Union of the Peoples of Cameroon the main opposition party in French East Cameroun.
The KNDP , in the early days, contained a number of UPC members who had fled persecution in the French zone.
The SDF was formed in Bamenda in 1990 in opposition to the ruling CPDM party that was born from the UC –UNC party of Mr. Ahijo in East Cameroun.
The SDF, in her early days contained, a sizable number of francophone members who had fled persecution in the UC, CNU-CPDM in the French zone.
The KNDP was dissolved by Mr. Ahijo into UC to form CNU = UC+KNDP now called CPDM, at the behest of the French colonial master of those days called Mr. Jean Ramadier .
The SDF is in an all evident close relationship, not with an opposition party in East Cameroun, but with the ruling CPDM party that is responsible for the current constitutional mess in both Cameroons. (UC+KNDP)=CNU = CPDM ).
The same story ( our history not Mr. Foncha nor Mr. Ahijo's story ) is repeating itself today with Mr. Fru Ndi but with the odd paradox that the SDF,which is the main and only anglophone opposition party might be absorbed into the ruling CPDM just as the KNDP was dissolved into the CNU.
We must recall and never forget that the CPDM is the son of Mr. Ahijo's UC (Union Camerounaise) hence CNU or UNC ( Union Nationale Camerounaise) and today’s RDPC ( Rassamblement Democratique du People Camerounias), which translates into “ Democratic Reassembly of the Cameroon Peoples”. All these different names are a cosmetic makeup to fit the convenience of the French nominated Cameroonian politician to stay in power and toe the line of the 26-12-1959 Cooperation agreement between France and the nascent pseudo independent state of La Republique du Cameroun so as to safeguard the French colonialist unionist ideology at the end of the UN Trust Territory agreement in 01-01-1960.
It must be stated that France sole interest in LRC is nothing more than the goal of capturing and securing the rich oil wells of the Ex UN Trust Territory of Southern Cameroons which was not, cannot and shall never become a colony of France. France sole interest in LRC is for the capture and indirect annexation of Southern Cameroons in a fraudulent way and against international Law, UNGA Resolution 1806XV against which France and all her ex colonies except Mali voted on that fateful day 0f 21-04-1961 at the UNGA.
France fraudulently misinterpreted the UN Trusteeship Agreement as a developement contract for which the UN or LRC must pay France for her development services in LRC. The pre independence cooperation agreement between France and LRC was based mainly on her reliance on the Ndian and Bakassi Oil wells as a legal tender since LRC is void of the black gold that is petroleum.
This fraudulent and illegal annexation was to be done as per the classic French colonial policy and ideology of the “Code Noir” i.e. the Black (Slave) Code designed by France for the administration of the Slave camps in the West indies with specific reference to Haiti .
“The Code Noir was a decree originally passed by France's King Louis XIV in 1685. The Code Noir defined the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire, restricted the activities of free Negroes, forbade the exercise of any religion other than Roman Catholicism, and ordered all Jews out of France's colonies.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Noir)
The Code Noir was hence upgraded into the “code de l’indegenat” for the administration of the same slave camps ,but this time right there in Africa after the abolition of the slave trade. Old habits die hard !
“The Code de l'indigénat was a set of laws creating, in practice, an inferior legal status for natives of French Colonies from 1887 until 1944–1947 but it lived on in many former ex French colonies in Africa and in LRC until this day.( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indig%C3%A9nat)
The code de l’indegenat during the colonial era enabled the enslavement of the African right there in his Continent with no need of deporting him to the Americas. The indigenes just as in the slave camps of the America and Haiti were and are nothing more than indigenes as compared to French colonial interests in raw materials of these colonies where basic human rights are a secondary and insignificant detail.
The KNDP was dissolved into the CNU now CPDM at the behest of the French colonial master of those days called Mr. Jean Ramadier .
The SDF (just as the KNDP) is in the process of being absorbed into the CPDM at the behest of the same french colonial master.
Both the KNDP and the SDF just as the UC-CNU and CPDM were/are financed indirectly( via exorbitant loans) by the colonial master France pulling the strings behind the stage in LRC which is the only Country in the world that does not recognizes nor celebrates her Independence Day ! Of course ! France will do any and everything so as not to lose the rich oil wells of Ndian and Bakassi !
Prior to independence, St Dominique – the country that is now Haiti – was France's most profitable colony, thanks in no small part to its particularly brutal system of slavery. In 1791, the slaves revolted, and in 1804, after defeating Napoleon's armies, founded the world's first black republic.
Following Haiti's independence, former French slave-owners submitted detailed tabulations of their losses to the French government, with line items for each of "their" slaves that had been "lost" with Haitian independence. In 1825, the French King, Charles X, demanded that Haiti pay an "independence debt" to compensate former colonists for the slaves who had won their freedom in the Haitian Revolution. With warships stationed along the Haitian coast backing up the French demand, France insisted that Haiti pay its former colonizer 150m gold francs – ten times the fledgling black nation's total annual revenues.
Under threat of a French military invasion that aimed at the re-enslavement of the population, the Haitian government had little choice but to agree to pay. Haiti's government was also forced to finance the debt through loans from a single French bank, which capitalized on its monopoly by gauging Haiti with exorbitant interest rates and fees.
The original sum of the indemnity was subsequently reduced, but Haiti still disbursed 90m gold francs to France. This second price the French exacted for the independence Haitians had won in battle was, even in 1825, not lawful. When the original indemnity was imposed by the French king, the slave trade was technically illegal; such a transaction – exchanging cash for human lives valued as slave labour – represented a gross violation of both French and international laws. And Haiti was still paying off this "independence debt" in 1947 – 140 years after the abolition of the slave trade and 85 years after the emancipation proclamation.
A lawsuit launched by the Haitian government to recuperate these extorted funds was aborted prematurely in 2004, with the French-backed overthrow of the government that had had the temerity to point out that France "extorted this money from Haiti by force and… should give it back to us so that we can build primary schools, primary healthcare, water systems and roads".
The French government was similarly quick to suppress a Yes Men-style prank announcement last Bastille Day pledging that France would repay Haiti. On 15 July, the day after the hoax, a spokesperson for the French ministry spokesperson told Agence France Presse that the French government was pursuing possible legal action against the pranksters. https://www.theguardian.com/.../2010/aug/16/haiti-france
The problem here is that the Cameroon politician and their political parties seam not to be aware of playing the same French colonial policy in their very own Country that can never progress democratically, institutionally, economically in such a neocolonialist and absolutely illegal scenario where it is abundantly clear that the ideology of “ one and indivisible Cameroon aka French slave enclosure” has woefully failed the People of both Cameroons. These Cameroonian politicians are unable to set the terms for a termination of the 26-12-1959 Cooperation agreement between France and LRC of which the ex UN Trust Territory of Southern Cameroons was not a party.
COOPERATION AGREEMENTS BETWEEN FRANCE AND LA REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN:
ALREADY 57 YEARS ON!
Signed December 26, 1959 by President Charles de Gaulle of France's and President AHIDJO.
Up to this day, neither Paul B, Georges Pompidou, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, nor François Mitterrand, nor Jacques Chirac, nor Nicolas Sarkozy nor François Holland, have changed anything in it. But it's article 6 which arouses more curiosities because it was added after the Independence of Southern Cameroons on 01-10-1961. Article 3 lands us in the heart of the STRUGGLE !
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1. France will determine the political, economic and sociocultural policy of Cameroun.
2. France will have to mint a currency the FCFA for Cameroun,
3. France will guide the determination of school programs at all levels
In Cameroun
4. France will hold in her Treasury, a portfolio called “operation account, 100% of the reserves of Cameroun.
NB: this percentage was modified in 1972 and 1973 respectively via Brazzaville and Dakar to the BEAC and the WAMU, at 65% and finally today it stands at 50%.
5. Cameroon's strategic raw materials will have to be exploited by France in priority. If they are not interested, only then will Cameroun be able to find another partner or exploit them by herself.
6. November 10, 1961: military assistance. Whenever the Camerounian president will be overwhelmed by external aggression or internal rebellion, he may appeal for the military aid of France. If he is no longer in the ability to do so due to the absence of some means of communication, the Ambassador of France in Cameroun can do so in the place and on behalf of the Cameroonian authority.
This is the agreements a “country” signed...
Clearly, La République du Cameroun has never been out of colonization and her independence of 01-01-1960 was rendered null and void by the traitorous “accord de cooperation signed by Ahijo and Charles De Gaulle some 5 days before her independence day!
However! Southern Cameroons was not and shall never be a colony of France.
Is it far-fetched , in the light of the above, to conclude that nothing has changed in the mindset of both anglophone and francophone Cameroon politician in the past 60 years ?
The KNDP of Mr. Jean Fonstia of Dschang brought us into this mess and the SDF of Mr. Jean Fouda Ndi of Babajou is maintaining us in the same mess and has gone as far as asking Mr. Jean Ramadier for a colonial military base in Bamenda to secure the illegally and fraudulently expanded French slave enclosure of Cameroun? AMBAZONIA & LRC SHALL BE FREED !
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