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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that, Akatop was picked up by the military in Otu as he was going back to Otu following the S.D.O's communiqué that was revoked on Saturday 2'nd Dec, 2017.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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Southern Cameroonian citizen releases video footage of his body badly injured after he was shot at by Soldiers from French Cameroun.
In the footage, he shows how the bullet penetrated his upper body.He narrates that he was home with his wife last weekend on saturday breaking Sunday with his wife, and around midnight, he heard a knock on his door, so his wife reponded asking who is there, what they heard as a reponse was shutup!!at that same moment , their main door was smashed the door.Fearing for his life, he escaped throuhh the back window into the neigbouring bush.He kept running for his dear life, one of the soldeirs who stormed his residence, took chase of him, firing many shots at him, with one penetrating his body.
Citizens in Manyu are living under serious fears as the area has been invaded by trgger happy soldiers who are patroulling the whole region.Many residents have sought refuge in neigbouring Cross River State of Nigeria.A small conitgent of armed yoths have decided to take matters into their hands to protect heir villages from the invading soldiers.There have been instances of exhange of fire between soldiers and the unkown gunmen over the past days.Today alone, there have been several reports of fighting in the area.
National Telegraph, a Manyu insider media organ reported that, only less than 24hours ago, unknown gunmen have entered Mamfe Town and there are indiscriminate exchanges with LR soldiers.
National Telegraph's secret stringer is reporting that there's total confusion in Mamfe Town as we write. Reports say the unknown gunmen are heading towards GHS Mamfe as National Telegraph reported yesterday.
National Telegraph can capture pictures of parents running helter skelter to schools to get their children. It's red in Mamfe, a parent tells National Telegraph. National Telegraph will bring you details in the moments that follow.
The Management of the venerated National Telegraph now states that to have a hint isn't a crime. We are on ground and are trusted by all and sundry.
Another active news organ namely Baretanews reported that, as we write, there has been an ongoing open day light gun battle between colonial gendarmerie forces and Southern Cameroons Restoration Forces in Mamfe town. You can compare it to Baghdad. We will overcome
BaretaNews (14/12/2015, 11:25, Amba Time).
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The Biya regime has commissioned General Daniel Elokobi to massacre his own people in Southern Cameroons.
Mr Elokodi, who comes from Southern Cameroons, was appointed to led the oppression in his homeland in the wake of growing sporadic attacks on security forces.
To La Republican du Cameroun, it's a tactical way of forcing the crocodile to eat its own tail. But they forget that once the crocodile feels hurt, it will turn against anything else it sees around.
Let's take a step backwards into history.
General John Garang was commissioned by Sudan to massacre his own people in South Sudan when they rose against the central government in Sudan in 1979 for breaching the accords of 1972 signed in Addis Ababa under the OAU[AU today ].
After fighting for the government for a while, John Garang turned against the same regime one morning .
Sudan was finally partitioned in 2011.
Instead of deploying armed forces to murder the people of Southern Cameroons, the regime should rather organize an inclusive dialogue with the leaders of Ambazonia.
But shockingly, the main preoccupation of the forces behind the scenes is to help Biya rule for life, even if it means killing as many people as possible.
However, it's worth noting that these killer armed forces may get fed up some day and turn around to handle the masters.
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This week it became clear that 85 year-old President Biya has a death wish. It appears that he and the diabolical old men around him (Cavaye, 77; Niat, 83; Esso, 75; Musonge, 75; Yang, 70, etc), have become metaphorical vampires who have decided to sacrifice the blood of young people on the altar of power, intransigence, and political inflexibility. Biya’s march of folly has taken him straight to Manyu, which might well be the Waterloo of his regime.
Manyu county/division is a difficult place for any occupation force. Manyu is arguably the intellectual power house of Southern Cameroon. The Manyu and Akwaya peoples are also fighters and survivors. Unlike other Southern Cameroonians, the people of Manyu are politically diverse. Manyu is the home of two towering men at the center of the Anglophone uprising: Barrister Nkongo Felix Agbor-Balla, leader of the banned Consortium of Anglophone Civil Society, who was jailed for 7 months by a regime that has no notion of human rights, and Julius Ayuk Tabe, President of the self-styled Federal Republic of Ambazonia, which symbolically declared its independence on October 1, 2017 amid much bloodshed. A third person, or rather group of persons from Manyu who complete the picture of political diversity of the county is the CPDM block led by Chief, Senator Ndieb-Nso George Tabetando, Senator Simon Anja, MP Susan Okpu, MP Elias Igelle, and Minister Victor Mengot.
The Manyu were the first to put up resistance against the occupation forces of la République du Cameroun in October 2017. When Biya declared war on Anglophones on November 30, 2017, Manyu was the first target of his military action. When the unelected, colonial prefect, Oum II Joseph committed a crime against humanity by expelling poor, powerless, men, women and children en masse from 15 villages in Akwaya, Eyumojock, and Mamfe into the forest, everyone expect a reaction from the Manyu elements in the halls of power. Chief Tabetando and his CPDM became as silent as the grave to which their people are being consigned on a daily basis. Did Tabetando and his colleagues lose their nerve and their tongues? They did not lift a finger to protest the deportation and slaughter of their people, a clear crime against humanity. The silence of all the vibrant Manyu cultural associations in Cameroon is also deafening indeed!
Nevertheless, the Manyu youth on the ground have shown that they are the fighters we thought they were. While Biya’s army, paramilitary gendarmerie, and police have tortured, killed, raped, maimed and imprisoned hundreds of Anglophones for simply and peacefully calling for change, his war against Anglophones has not turned out to be a walk in the park as his warmongering tribesmen and women had expected. The casualties sustained in Manyu are rising dangerously high. In the last three weeks, the army and gendarmerie have lost an average of eight dead and several wounded per week. No army can sustain those kinds of losses. It is only a matter of time before Biya runs out of money to fund the expensive military occupation–and buy caskets. Biya has to continuously buy over-priced military hardware from France. Actually, the son of Manyu who has been put in charge of the suppression and elimination of his people, General Daniel Elokobi, is in France begging for lethal military supplies. Biya will also go to France next week, cap in hand, begging President Macron for money to buy weapons and feed his occupation forces. Will Macron do what his predecessors did and throw Biya a financial and military lifeline to massacre Anglophones?
A Burkinabé proverb states, “ the abuse of power wears out power, abuse of force transforms the abuser into a spent force.” The Anglophone is first and foremost a political problem. Only a damned fool thinks it can be solved militarily.
In the meantime, there are signs that this armed resistance is spreading to Kumba. Before two long, it will reach the Northwest, and its clans of fearless warriors. I am thinking specifically of Nso, in Bui county/division, home of fiery MP. Joseph Wirba. The Anglophone uprising is not going away. It has now taken center stage in the Cameroon Parliament, the Senate and the media. As I predicted, the Anglophone problem will bring down Biya’s government. The man is not aware that he is sleep-walking on an active volcanic crater. Don’t wake him up, please.
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