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Images circulating on social media feature a building going up in flames in the name of GBHS Kimbo in Kumbo, North West Region.
No perpetrators have been identified yet, at least for what we know.
Though the motive has not been broadcast, some may conclude that it's the handiwork of Southern Cameroonian activists who are militating against school resumption.
Several other schools have been burnt across the region.
School resumption may remain a nightmare in West Cameroon for yet another undetermined period. Monday, resumption date, was greeted by an unprecedented ghost town in most of West Cameroon.
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- Rita Akana
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The Governing Council of Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia is overjoyed by the great act of affirmation expressed by the Southern Cameroons Ambazonia community today, Monday September 4th, 2017.
In adhering strictly to the call for ghost towns and nonviolence from the Governing Council, you have demonstrated to the government of La Republique and to the international community that you do not take orders from the occupiers anymore.
By this act, you have also sent out a clear message; that you want your homeland back. The international community and media that have been monitoring the event have understood the message clearly.
Dear people, the Governing Council is committed to a peaceful resolution of this crisis. We are trusting God and the international community for a speedy and civilized resolution.
The speed with which this happens shall be determined by our determination to frustrate the regime in Yaounde. Re-member that the Prime Minister of La Republique told us in Bamenda during his last desperate attempt that we were embarrassing his government by refusing to send children to school. Also, be reminded that instead of withdrawing French speaking teachers from our classrooms as was agreed upon with the unions, Yaounde has added more even during their last postings and transfers.
This is a clear signal to us that if we fail now, then the future shall cease to exist for our children. Therefore, we must hold the forte. The key and for now, most effective weapon we have at our disposal is ghost towns and school shutdown, as speed up our diplomatic offensive to achieve the restoration of the independence of Southern Cameroons.
We condemned in the hardest terms the shooting to death of a teenager in the village of Kifem, Kumbo in Bui County. Such excesses, which we had warned would be exacted on our people during this period that Yaounde is spoiling for war, demonstrate unambiguously the need for quick outside intervention.
This week and month are very important for the struggle. The UN General Assembly is in session as from September 12. We must maintain the resistance while they are in session. We must make sure that ghost towns are respected as prescribed; three days a week and continue to keep the children home until after the basic demands made by the unions and the Common Lawyers Associations are met to the last one, as well as the total and unconditional release of all abducted. The Governing Council once more commits itself to announce the date of school resumption in our territory as soon as Yaound6 satisfies the above. This could happen sooner than later.
Let the resistance continue. God is with us and for us.
For the Chairman
Deacon TASSANG Wilfred, Vice Chair
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- Rita Akana
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Reports reaching us say at least one person has been shot dead by a military officer in Kumbo, North West region of Cameroon.
At least two others were reportedly injured.
The victim has been identified by some as Cyprain Sevidzen ,16.
He was shot earlier on Monday amid growing uneasiness over school resumption in Southern Cameroons.
Some sources suggest he was brought down by a stray bullet which hit him in head.
Government's cunning tactics to push for school resumption on Monday in Southern Cameroons met with an unprecedented ghost town.
Here are no words to express the anger and sadness over the brutal killing of peaceful demonstrators by security operatives.Many Ambozonian activists have taken to Facebook to express their anger and frustration after the killing.
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The Governor of the South West Region, Bernard Okalia Bilai, on Friday, September 1, 2017, shocked the population of the Region, when he hijacked the President of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium, Barrister Agbor Felix Balla, and ferried him to an Ecumenical Service that was organised in honour of the victims of the Mile 29 accident.
Many were stunned by the Governor’s action, given that Agbor Balla was just released a few hours before the event and had not had time to rest.
The Barrister and the other released Anglophone detainees who were held in Yaounde travelled throughout the night and only arrived Buea in the morning, before the Governor hijacked him to Mile 29 to trumpet Biya’s magnanimity and save his face.
Many Anglophones berated the Governor and accused him of playing double standards, given that, he was the one who rallied the forces of law and order to arrest Barrister Balla, Dr. Fontem Neba and others and was now pretending to be happy for their release.
Besides, Governor Okalia Bilai has on several occasions stated that the law must take its course on the arrested Consortium leaders, who he unequivocally called terrorists and secessionists.
If the law were to take its course like Governor Bilai has wished, then Barrister Balla and Co- will have been handed a death penalty for acts of terrorism.
“Why is this Judas Iscariot pretending here? Was he not the one who ordered for their arrest? Shame on to them. They will never succeed because our forefathers are with us,” One disgruntled Southern Cameroonian stated.
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Two government education ministers are expected to launch the 2017/2018 academic year in West Cameroon on Monday September 04.
The Minister of Secondary Education will move to the South West Region. Meanwhile the Minister of Basic Education will go on stage in the North West Region.
This is one of several desperate moves by the regime in Yaoundé to push school resumption through. Militarisation has also been used alongside alleged cases of bribery and corruption.
In the meantime, opinions in West Cameroon seem pretty divided as some people back further school boycott while others disagree.
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- Rita Akana
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Reports circulating on social media suggest that the leader of the interim government of Southern Cameroons will tonight accord an interview to the BBC at 8pm Cameroon time, 19hrs GMT. "Interview with Chairman Sisiku AyukTabe tonight on BBC Radio Africa from Leicester, United kingdom," the message reads in part. Southern Cameroonians are overwhelmingly ready, it adds. "It is highly expected that our leader, Chairman Sisiku AyukTabe, will make some very serious declarations," the message says. "Ambazonians are advised to record the interview for replay (if possible) while listening to it". "Signed: SCACUF UK Secretariat"
There are no other confirmations yet as we await the promised time. This possible interview is a likely build-up to the resistance against the cunning tactics of Biya in the struggle for school resumption on Monday.
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