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A group of students have made their desire known to protest at the Minister of Administrative reforms office this Monday 18 December 2017.
They were highly dissatisfied when the final results were published. They could not find their names on the list, after the performance the candidates said they had. "It is very inadmissible that we have very good marks in the oral part of the exam and not be able to find our names on the list. We are not that bad to be disposed of so shamefully. There are certainly some modifications done on the final list of this exam" the candidates lamented.
The students said this protest of theirs is meant to propel admission by merit and nothing more.
They flashed back to the first lists which were published and republished, as a result of annulment by the Minister of Administrative reform, who did it with the pretext that the right procedure was not followed before publication. According to the enraged gandidates, the manipulation of these results started from that point.
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Soldiers embarking at Egbekaw River in Mamfe on the perilous trip to Akwaya via Agborkem German to go and kill Manyu people. It is indeed a shame that these are the kinds of boats the regime is using to send its soldiers to their death in a place they don't even know. After 56 years of failed unification, the only way to get to Akwaya by road is through Nigeria, which cannot allow foreign soldiers into its territory as this amounts to a declaration of war; so they have to travel by boat....Let them come; we are waiting...the resistance just began.
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President Paul Biya has made two damaging declarations of war against Boko Haram insurgents and the second declaration against the people of British Southern Cameroon's.
Both wars have rocked and shaken this nation like a ship baffled by life threatening storms.
Wars aren't declared in a hurray or in s rush. Before any war us declared, the Generals and the President sit to asses the level of preparedness both financially, materially and level of preparedness of the soldiers and their equipment that can guarantee successes and victories in the battle field.
Wars must be sustainable if they are to be declared. The situation on the ground in Manyu that talks about absconding soldiers fleeing combat and the casualties makes observes to conclude that the declaration was a false pass that the regime is regretting and lamenting about such a hasty decision.
Wars are a wasteful way in resolving conflicts and disagreements. The dialogue table is the cheapest pattern of resolving conflicts and managing crisis of any magnitude.
Today the fall outs of this declaration of war by the head of State of LA Republique Du Cameroun shall forever haunt LA Republique Du Cameroun.
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An Ambazonian youth has died as a result of serous injuries he sustained after being tortured by Cameroonian military men. Sources narrate that, Akatop was picked up by the military in Otu as he was going back to Otu following the S.D.O's communiqué that was revoked on Saturday 2'nd Dec, 2017. He was mercilessly beaten and released at 3:00 am on Sunday, 3'rd Dec. He went to the Eyumojock district hospital for treatment. On the Tuesday, 5'th Dec, 2017, he managed to see me as you can see from the pictures that I took. I took him to the D.O so that he could be witness to the brutality on my people.
His motorbike and ID card was confiscated by the military. I pleaded with the D.O to give orders for his items to be returned. Two days later, his family came again to my palace to request for his motorbike and ID card, again, I wrote a letter to the D.O asking for his intervention and cooperation in the matter. His family decided to take him to Nigeria to continue treatment. He died yesterday.
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The Cameroon's joined the Commonwealth Association of Nations in 1995 thanks to the historical trajectory of the Southern Cameroon's once being a British Trustee territory and thus the French speaking Cameroonians benefited enormously from this connection.
Today the billion dollar question that begs for an answer is " Why has the Commonwealth of Nations not dismissed LA Republique Du Cameroun from being a member of the Association despite the fact that she has rubbished all the tenets of the Association like good governance, equity and justice, tolerance, independence of the judiciary as well as a strong rejection of torture of every form.
LA Republique Du Cameroun is today littered everywhere with mass graves of Anglophones gruesomely murdered by beast tagged BIR as well as elements of the Presidential guards.
Extra judicial killing undermines the treaty of Rome ratified in 1968 and known as the Convention Against Torture, abbreviated CAT.
The scouts of LA Republique Du Cameroun fondly tagged as Soldiers are extremely stupid and poorly trained and poorly motivated.
Since they are the regimes hunting dogs, their training in the domain of respect for the fundamental human right isn't fundamental in their short and inconsequential training.
Instead they are told or instructed to maim, torture,rape, maim, incarcerate and kill Anglophones.
Why has the Commonwealth not sanctioned LA Republique Du Cameroun for the quantum number of innocent and unarmed civilians gruesomely murdered by state thugs under the guise of maintaining the territorial integrity of the nation.
How can two separate nations with two distinct territorial boundaries and maps internationally recognized become one and indivisible nation?
The facts are glaringly true that Francophones had wrongfully assumed that they had subjugated and assimilated the Anglophones.
The Commonwealth should summarily dismiss LA Republique Du Cameroun just like it did to Nigeria when Sani Abacha ordered the killing by hanging of eight ogoni people, including Ken Sara Wewa,the famous Nigerian play writer and poet. Zimbabwe equally was suspended from the Commonwealth and only readmitted after the fall of Robert Mugabe. Why can't LA Republique Du Cameroun be summarily dismissed,despite the heinous crimes and treatment meted on the Anglosaxon culture and on the Anglophone people of the Cameroon's?
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A preacher once told his congregation: “Next week, I plan to preach about the sin of lying. To help you understand my sermon, I want you all to read Mark 17.” The following Sunday as he prepared to deliver his sermon, the pastor asked for a show of hands. He wanted to know how many had read Mark 17. Every hand went up. The preacher smiled and said: “Mark has only 16 chapters. I will now proceed with my sermon on the sin of lying.” This joke says a lot about human nature, but shows how Francophones are often caught committing the sin of lying about the Anglophone problem. Francophones are wont to wish into reality what is not there, and to deny the truth when it suits them. Lying is a sin that was committed by five Francophone Ministers who told the world at a press conference that there is no Anglophone problem in Cameroon. The integrity deficit associated with lying about the Anglophone problem is a travesty that insults and diminishes every Cameroonian and must stop.
The point must therefore be made, and with emphasis, that there is an Anglophone problem but the problem is deeply embedded in the asymmetrical political structure of the country, which has led to institutional paralysis engendered by leadership failure. Anglophones are divided over the Anglophone problem, just as Francophones are united in their bellicosity and belligerence towards Anglophones whom they cast as treasonable felons and secessionists who cannot be trusted. Francophones have used this self-fulfilling fallacy as an excuse to exclude Anglophones from the commanding heights of decision-making and treat them as second class citizens. But facts don’t lie like the lying laity of Mark 17.
Consider this: over 55 years after independence and re-unification, there has never been an Anglophone President or an Anglophone Secretary General or Director of Civil Cabinet at the Presidency. Nor has an Anglophone ever held the strategic ministerial portfolio of Defense, Finance, Territorial Administration, Communication, External Relations, National Education or even in charge of the Police, Gendarmerie, the Army and Intelligence services; not even ambassadors to English-speaking countries like the USA and Nigeria. For a region that represents about 20% of the population, accounting for over 60% of GDP, the fact that the lone oil refinery named in French (SONARA) is in Anglophone Cameroon, yet has been run by Francophone general managers with a predominantly Francophone workforce since its creation is unacceptable. It just cannot be that there are no competent Anglophones to occupy these positions.
As if that was not enough, higher institutions like the National Polytechnic, ENAM, IRIC, ESSTIC, INJS, IFORD, CUSS, Public Works, ENSPT, IRAD, are heavily laden with French courses; another way of saying, Anglophones need not apply. Although Cameroon is officially a bilingual country where both English and French are equal, when has the president ever made an official address to the nation in English? All official correspondences are in French, even when directed to Anglophones. French is the language used in the administration, police, gendarmerie, army and the courts. Anglophones have to seek translators at their own expense. All road signs are in French and there is not a single word in English on the FCFA currency in circulation; is this constitutional?
The facts and figures of Anglophone marginalization under President Biya are staggering. Of the 700 ministers appointed since Biya took office in 1982, only 76 (10.8%) have been Anglophones. In the current 63-member cabinet, there are only six Anglophones (9%) and only, Philip Ngole Ngwese (2%) out of the 38 Ministers has a cabinet portfolio. There are four Anglophone Secretary Generals (10%) and three Anglophone DAGs (7%) in the central administration. In state corporations, there are less than 15 Anglophones (11%) out of over 130 general managers. Of the over 130 Board chairmen of state corporations, there are only 10 Anglophones (7%).
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