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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria’s government on Monday summoned a representative of the the U.S. ambassador to explain reported remarks by President Donald Trump that immigrants from Africa and Haiti come from “shithole countries”, the foreign ministry said.
Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama “sought clarification on the veracity or otherwise of the substance of the remarks, stressing that if they were true, they were deeply hurtful, offensive and unacceptable”, the ministry said in a statement.
Trump reportedly made the remarks at a private meeting with lawmakers on immigration on Thursday. A U.S. senator who attended the gathering said the president used “vile, vulgar” language, including repeatedly using the word “shithole” when speaking about African countries.
The Nigerian foreign ministry statement noted the “very warm and cordial relations that presently exist” between Nigeria and the U.S.
The United States, represented by Deputy Chief of Mission David J. Young as the ambassador was not in Nigeria, said there were contradictory accounts as to whether the remarks were made, the statement said.
In a separate statement, a U.S. embassy spokesman said Young “reiterated the excellent relations that exist between the United States and Nigeria and they discussed future cooperation between the two countries”.
The U.S. president on Friday denied using such derogatory language. But he has been widely condemned in many African countries and by international rights organisations. African Union countries demanded an apology on Friday.
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The elite of Manyu Division led by the Minister in Charge of Special Duties at the Presidency of the Republic, Victor Arrey Mengot have laid down a plan to physically eliminate North Westerners who have acquired property and are resident in Manyu.
Mengot, Tabetando, Hon. Mrs Okpu and others have resolved to also destroy the properties acquired by North Westerners in Upper Banyang subdivision in several acres of plantations in revenge for what they call a "graffi" war exported to Manyu to discredit and bar them from occupying juicy positions in Yaounde.
Mengot and other CPDM Elite of Manyu are accusing Prime Minister Philemon Yang and his CPDM cohorts of the North West of sponsoring Cho Ayaba and his ADF Force that was waging attacks against security forces in the North West to transfer their operations to Manyu, so that he, Yang and other "graffi" top guns will maintain their high jobs in government at the detriment of Manyu.
The plan, my informant noted, was crafted after President Paul Biya reportedly expressed disgust at the Manyu elite for being unable to halt the massive killing of security forces in that division.
Biya reportedly expressed open regrets at the death of late Peter Agbor Tabi, outlining emphatically that if Agbor Tabi were alive, Manyu would never have become the bastion of Anglophone resistance.
To give the evil plan flesh, the elite have also agreed to organize themselves village-by-village so as to easily identify the targets and execute them, destroying and looting their property along.
In line with that approach, Hon. Mrs Okpu who is from Kembong has convened the elite of that village to a strategic planning meeting at the OIC premises in Buea this Saturday the 13th of January 2018. The Member of Parliament who has never been heard even once at the National Assembly condemning military brutality on her people aims to mobilize the elite against fellow Anglophones in her village, Kembong.
As the Kembong elite prepare to meet tomorrow, reports indicate that the Tigers of Ambazonia, the ADF and all other self defense groups that have cropped up, have set up means to identify all participants at the meeting in order to hold "private" talks with each of them after the meeting.
Some concerned Manyu elite have expressed disgust at what they consider a "diabolic" plan of self destruction to please a man who "does not care about the common man in Manyu".
This Saturday the 13th of January 2018 is thus a significant day and rendezvous in the life of the struggle for the restoration of the independence of Southern Cameroons.
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This is the time to reminisce on the prophetic declarations made by two eminent Cameroonians: Felix Nkongho Agbor aka Balla and Joseph Wirba MP. The first made his prophesy during: "Carte sur Table", broadcast on STV and he said: "the time will come when the government will talk about federalism and no one will give an ear in Anglophone Cameroon". That time is now. Federalists have in fact become independentists in disguise.
As for the second, he made his prophesy at the rostrum of the Cameroonian parliament. He said: "when the people of West Cameroon shall rise, even the combination of French and Cameroonian forces won't defeat them". Like the first, the second was also correct. Those two prophesies like many others before were defining moments in Anglophone nationalism.
No one in the government took the prophesies of the aforementioned men seriously and today, I am afraid there's no turning back. Cameroon is finish and as I wrote last year, this year 2018 an epitaph will be written on the tombstone of the dead nation.
Only the people and I must insist, only the people of Anglophone Cameroon will have a say on the fate of the comatose country. The outcome of the secret negotiations in Abuja,when made public, shall not be binding, if it doesn't contain the will of the majority.
In West Cameroon, if the demonstrations of October 1st or September 22nd 2017 are in guides, then, the majority wants independence.
But it will be very cavalier to conclude that, because millions came out to demonstrate in favour of restoration, it is over and done with.
Those against it will always challenge it legality. They could with conviction, say what happened on the 22nd of September and October 1st 2017 were fruits of manipulations from Anglophone nationalists. It might not be entirely wrong. Now how do we settle this dispute once and for all?
To put an end to all suspense, the solution will be to organize a referendum under the supervision of the UN,UK, USA, the European Union and the African Union. West Cameroonians, shall be the only ones to participate in such a referendum.
Places where referenda were held to solve similar crisis
Across the world, referenda have been used to settle such. In Quebec, two referenda have organized to decide whether the majority Francophone province wants to stay in the Canadian Federation. On both occasions, they stay campaign won,which meant that, the block Quebecois did not represent the voice of the majority.
In Scotland, the Scotich National Party,SNP , fought had and got a referendum and was shocked to discover that, for the noises of the Scots,they prefer to stay in the UK.
In Indonesia, a referendum was organized in East Timor and the results were overwhelmingly for independence. In Ethiopia, a referendum was organized to see whether the Eritreans wanted to stay in Ethiopia, they voted no and in Sudan, normally two referenda were to be held in the South.
One to ask the people of Abyei whether they wanted to stay in the Republic of Sudan or South Sudan. This first referendum was not organized because, the Obama administration wanted to please Khartoum, Rhyad and the Moslem world.
However, the second referendum in the deep South was organized and a majority voted for independence. The other places on the continent where referendum will be employed to solve it's problems are Somaliland and Western Sahara.
The truth is that, you can kill a movement deeply ingrained in the conscience of people as the current feeling of distraught is among the Anglophones. You can't also decree unity as Yaounde thinks, it has to be natured. The most recent example took place in Catalonia, Madrid stupidly dissolved the regional parliament and organized a snap election, just to be won again by the independentists.
That is why , in Cameroon to stop all the senseless lost of lives, the wastage of monies the government doesn't have, a referendum remains the only solution to adjudicate the current crisis.
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The giant projects previewed for 2020 are geared towards fast tracking development and realizing the 2035 emergence dream. This declaration was done by the Minister of Planning and Regional Development, Mr. Paul Motaze.
It was during an outing aimed improving good governance and transparency, aimed at improving government way of doing business. Most of the giant projects which stand as the pivot for the economic transformation agenda are to be piloted by the 2018 Financial Budget .
He therefore called on economic operators to take responsibility and ensue that they pay taxes to the state and freely. Mr. Paul Motaze said these second generation projects shall crate jobs and fight unemployment as well as preempt the hazardous illicit migration trends, that have witnessed lots of Africans die in the sands of the sahara and the belly of the Mediterranean sea.
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[19:05, 1/15/2018] +61 406 854 305: The story of the UN-British Trust Territory of Southern Cameroons has been a sad history of failed or uncompleted “decolonization”. This story has been deliberately and manipulatively reconstructed to produce one spun off the tangent of truth of her legal history in order to justify a denial of Southern Cameroons’ national identity and right to self-determination without just cause. The correct and verifiable legal history of Southern Cameroons renamed Ambazonia since October 1, 2017 when the Citizens of southern Cameroons recongregated as nationalist freedom Advocates declared a restoration of their independence from their second colonizer, their neighbor and sister African Nation, “La République du Cameroun”, is summarized hereunder:-
1. There has never been a proper, and thus definitive ending of the United Nations Organization –British Trusteeship over British Southern Cameroons;
2. The United Nations-British Trusteeship Agreement as applied to Southern Cameroons permitted the initial administration of the Trust territory to be attached to the then colony of Lagos and afterwards, to the Eastern Region of the Federation of Nigeria.
3. In 1954, dissatisfied with condescending treatment of Southern Cameroonians by the Ibos, the Southern Cameroonians quit the Eastern Nigeria Region and set up her own internal self-government in Buea within the territory of Southern Cameroons which handled the run up to independence.
4. In the run up to independence, Southern Cameroons was screwed up into a narrow choice from two equal alternatives by which we were denied the direct access to independence. The now infamous “Two Alternatives” put to us upon which the Plebiscite was run, was born out of an justified fear of vulnerability to “Communist infestation” and a then hidden but now very clear political economic undertone of foreign interest in the subsoil of Southern Cameroons at the time which has continued to this date to be the curse on our right to self-determination.
5. The results of the February 11, 1961 Plebiscite on British Southern Cameroons’ pathway to independence was consecrated in UN Resolution 1608(XV) dated April 21, 1961, which fixed the date of independence for Southern Cameroons for October 1, 1961. The said United Nations Resolution also set clear mandatory guidelines for its implementation by which the French CameroUn Republic and the already independent erstwhile British Southern Cameroons, were to work out the constitutional basis of their “joining” in order to create a national Federation of two-States of equal status.
6. Regrettably, on September 30, 1961, aided by the then British Ambassador to that “La République du Cameroun” that had acceded to “nominal independence” much earlier on January 1, 1960, overran Southern Cameroons thereby frustrating the ceremonial projected for October 1, 1960 in UN Resolution 1608(XV). Effectively thus, without any legal basis Southern Cameroons was recolonized sadly this time by a sister African Country that was just coming out of her own colonization under France.
7. The Foumban so-called constitutional talks of July 27, 1961, were a failure for non-conformity with the prescriptions of UN Resolution 1608(XV) to wit: That the Southern Cameroons Delegation to the Talks should be accompanied by the British and to hold the talks with independent French Cameroun Republic. The Foumban Talks were never also concluded, reason why no record of such conclusion exists.
8. It is significant to note that before coming to the Foumban Talks of July 27, 1961, President Ahmadou Ahidjo had already effected some cosmetic changes on the “Gaullist” independence Constitution of his country top read Constitution of the Federal republic of Cameroon”. In effect the Constitution of a Federal Republic of Cameroon was forged and promulgated before the projected “ACT OF UNION” that has NEVER BEEN”.
9. No “ACT OF UNION” exists anywhere in the world attesting to a legal or anything close thereto, as joining of Independent “La République du Cameroun” and the Erstwhile United Nations-British Trust Territory of Southern Cameroons (now renamed Ambazonia since October 1, 2017). The provisions of Article 102() of the UN Charter and Article 4(b) of the Constitutive Act of the African Union apply ;
10. The above re-colonization has been consistently resisted under scourging oppression until early May 9, 2015 when, led by the Southern Cameroons Lawyers (Common Law Lawyers) , not only the resistance was reignited but the reignition eventually consumed the entire Country of Southern Cameroons leading to virtually everyone standing up resolutely and definitively against their further colonization;
11. The Southern Cameroons restorative peaceful revolution has rapidly progressed to involve beyond the Southern Cameroons national territory, to include the entirety of the Southern Cameroons Diaspora world-wide;
12. On October 1, 2017, the Declaration of restoration of Southern Cameroons Independence was made. The declaration was subsequently followed by establishment of the Interim Government of Southern Cameroons now renamed Ambazonia ;
Southern Cameroons has since the decision to stand up for her independence, been subjected to an initially smoldering genocide which has now gone full scale;
In the face of all these developments the world has shamefully turned a blind eye to that part of humanity called Southern Cameroonians;
We are in desperate need of World Leaders in international diplomacy from The United States, Britain, Nigeria, South Africa, besides the United Nations, European union, ECOWAS, SADECC, EAEC as well as Civil Society Organizations like Amnesty International, Human rights Watch, American Bar Association and more, engaging discussion in response the to cry of the over eight million Southern Cameroonians facing genocide from the French Cameroun Republic this part of humanity gets exterminated. Do not let Rwanda repeat itself under our watchful eyes.
Prepared by Harmony Bobga Mbuton (Esq.
USA January 15, 2018
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Le Monde news site A French news site has pointed out that Cameroonians lack the desire to live together like one people. After all, they are not one, it has added.
Le Monde Afrique made the statement at the backdrop of the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon.
A nation is bound by two factors: A common past and the desire to live together, the site has revealed.
But Cameroon is missing both factors. The 35-year-old regime is unable to make the people feel at home.
A great part of Southern cameroons doesn't feel as if they belong in Cameroon, the news site has said. Some observers could embrace the assertion, given that hate speeches are still commonplace in both Francophone and Anglophone Cameroon.
Words and phrases like "les Bamenda", "francofools" are yet to disappear from the lexicon of so-called united Cameroon.
This is coming at a very crucial period, when Cameroon has to organize several elections while battling with the Anglophone crisis and Boko Haram.
And it's very unlikely that Mr Biya will step down at the end of his current mandate in a bit to avoid throwing the nation into chaos.
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