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Commercial motor bike riders in Mamfe, popularly called bensikins, have sent a deadly ultimatum to the Common Law Lawyers, promising them hell and brimstone if they (the Lawyers) attempt to betray Anglophone Cameroonians or their independence struggle.
According to them, it will be advisable for the Lawyers not to come to Mamfe at all than to come and ask for the suspension of the 11 months strike action.
“If you are coming to Mamfe to call-off the strike action, please come along with our kinsman, Maxwell Oben, or don’t come at all if he is not with you,” the leader of the bikers’ union stated in a recent communiqué they published.
Maxwell Oben is a staunch SCNC activist, who was arrested in 2014, at the Mile 17 Motor Park ahead of the celebration of the so called 50th anniversary of reunification.
Since then till date, Oben has been languishing behind bars without any trial. He was arrested for reading a book on guerrilla warfare.
The officers, who arrested Oben, accused him of reading the book on guerrilla warfare and learning tactics to use in destabilised the country.
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Elements of the Rapid Intervention Battalion known by its French Acronyms as BIR, over the weekend (September 16) averted a bomb from detonating in the Northwest Regional capital, Bamenda.
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The former Minister of External relations in Cameroon, has been appointed to head a team in charge of the reformation of institutions in the African Union.
According to sources, this acts as a reward for this IRIC lecturer who was chased out of the government by the head of State eventhough Paul Biya had personnally sent him to represent the presidency at the Assembly of the United Nations at that time.
He was deposed as Minister of External relations a few minutes before he spoke in front of the UN assembly. when he finished from there, he took his plane back to Cameroon no longer a Minister.
That is all in the past now, for he presently has won the hearts African Union dignitaries.
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Gentlemen, we started climbing the ladder for purpose beyond fixing exclusively the conditions of our practice. Right from our May 9, 2015 inaugural Conference Resolutions we insisted on a constitutional assurance of the sustainability of a grant of all our demands.
Today none of our demands have been met in due and proper form, worse still, our request for a constitutional foundation that recognizes and protects our chosen by way of inheritance and adoption has at bet been brutally snobbed.
We went to Buea on February 13, 2016 facing a serious threat to be our focus but we weathered the storm with the passage of time following the Common Law Council becoming moribund. Early October 2016, you all rallied behind a decision taken by the four Presidents of the constituent Associations of Common and made remarkable strides that ignited first the Teachers and then other professions and trades to join us in our finally blossomed quest for national be identity over and above mere temporal cultural rights ornamentals. Even though the emergent Consortium had be us in leadership we quickly reminded ourselves that it is only when we are standing that we can truly and effectively lift others who are down and looking up to us.
Inspired by this stock taking, we returned to ourselves to sharpen our focus in Kumba on January 13, 2017. That was quite be a hieght we attained because on that occasion following the announcement of the creation of our own Bar independent of the Cameroon Bar pending a decision on the petition I had filed on our behalf before the constitutional council of the Cameroon Republic demanding proof of legality of the union claim which has permitted the Yaounde Government to continue to occupy our nation Al territory without conforming with UN Resolution 1608(XV).
When our leadership was dispersed by arrest, incarceration and covertly enforced exile. All our Associations were banned. We were reduced from status of cats to mice in captivity. In the face of all these developments our efforts continued to receive soaring recognition beyond the territory despite the insensitivity of the Yaoundé Government and their be friends in the international community.
Notwithstanding, we have been gaining ground with our cause in remarkable ways. This explains why I took the liberty if leadership and announced in March 2017 the upgrade be of the Common Law Bar to the Southern Cameroons Bar in strict compliance with our rights under UN Resolution 1608(XV).
I have also created a Non-Profit outfit (Southern Cameroons Bar Foundation) that will be employed to mobilize support for the redevelopment of our profession and place it on solid ground to be a watch dog for justice in a restored Southern Cameroons.
I will be back to answer the question whether to be in Mamfe on September 23, 2017 for what purpose and what means by which to achieve that purpose?
Harmony Bobga Mbuton -President of the Southern Cameroons Bar."
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The truth in Cameroon is that people are living in fear. Believe me, if you talk to Prof. Ako or search his heart of hearts, he is disgruntled with the Francophone government. I have not talked to any Southern Cameroonian alias Anglophone personally, but I know even they are not happy with the Francophone government. Who will be happy when out of 35 ministers in Cameroon, only one (1) is English speaking and even the one (1) was educated in France. In the line of succession, if the President is not there, the next person is the Speaker of the National Assembly (Francophone), the next is President of the Senate (Francophone) and then the Prime Minister (fourth position - Anglophone)! Even the Prime Minster does not have the powers some Francophone Ministers have.
The Prime Minister is deceived that he is head of government, does he appoint any minister? Does any minister take orders from the Prime Minister? Someone appropriately called the office of Prime Minister as sinecure position and that is what it is. Yes, our son Minister Mengot knows himself that nobody regards him as anything in the presidency. I am not there and nobody told me, but I know that is the truth. All Southern Cameroonians alias West Cameroonian are frustrated people in the Republic of Cameroon. Everyone is afraid.
To show that 95% of Southern Cameroonians are frustrated with being under the Republic of Cameroon, that is why the ghost towns are more effective in villages than in the cities. In the cities, francophone children go to school, francophone business people open their stores, but in the villages you cannot try it.
No one goes out to warn people not to send their children to school, but every family knows that his/her daughter has a degree but is jobless meanwhile all the jobs (menial and important) are occupied or filled with francophone children. Wait till when francophone become totally bilingual in a way that you will not be able to distinguish when the speak English, all jobs will be filled by their children. Some of us think the push for bilingualism is to advantage us. No! If we do not succeed to address the situation now, the situation ahead would be devastating. Even the crumbs we now enjoy will no longer be there. Francophone might even come and seize our lands and tell us to go to hell.
Some of you were not born when the Igbos were in Cameroon. What happened then and push our fathers to jump from fry pan to fire, will return. At that time the Ibo man would force you to buy his/her merchandise and if you did not, you called the police man, he was Igbo, went to court, the lawyer and magistrate were ibos, etc. It would be worse! even those pro La Republique du Cameroun will not be exempted.
The not closing of Anglophones schools in La Republique du Cameroun is due to fear. The Catholic bishops, Moderator of Presbyterian church had to open their schools because of fear. Has anyone heard that the President ever responded to the letter to written to him by the Catholic bishops of Southern Cameroons outlining the grievances that brought about the strike? When bishop Balla of Ebolowa was eliminated, everyone is now afraid. Bishop Tutu never succumb to apartheid government of South Africa but our bishops have been cowed. English schools in LRC would have been shut down in solidarity but if they did, most of them would have been dead meat now. Fear is what is ruling in Cameroon.
Anglophones in high positions in LRC are grumbling quietly in their homes and small circles. Dying in silence. Our parliamentarians would perhaps have left LRC as our forefathers did in Enugu, but they fear we might led them down since fear controls us. The Wirbas are few. The Paul Ayahs are few.
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SCACUF, the southern cameroons ambazonia consortium united front, has issued a communique urging Ambazonians to register massively on their website in the wake of the UN General Assembly Meeting.
Below is the full press release:
Attention! Attention! Attention!
THIS IS AN URGENT COMMUNIQUÉ, SO TAKE ACTION NOW.
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Fellow southern Cameroonians,
Dear Ambazonians,
The United Nations General Assembly meets in New York on 22nd September and we have got intelligence that our struggle would feature amongst some of the international issues to be addressed. Even if it doesn't, the planned protest of the diaspora during the meeting would draw attention to our situation. To booster the already internationalised status of our fight for freedom, it is important that you the freedom fighters Register your Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia citizen membership immediately at www.scacuf.org and prove to the United Nations that you the people want our restoration now.
Massive registration of Southern Cameroonians at www.scacuf.org will show our determination to be free.
Act now. A fast and speedy registration is required to swell up members and prove our case in terms of population. A huge Demonstration at the United Nations and Massive registration of membership will get us closer to victory.
GOOD NEWS
Don't worry if you cannot afford your monthly citizenship levy immediately because for now, the initial registration is free and you can make your other citizenship commitments later on. If you don't register, you are considered only as an activist, but your registration legitimise you as a Southern Cameroonian/Ambazonian activist that is recognised by SCACUF and UNO.
Thank you.
Information and Communication
Department,
SCACUF Governing Council.
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