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Rose Mbah Acha, Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of the Higher State Control has condemned the strategy used by unarmed West Cameroonians to denounce their marginalization by the forces of La Republique.
Speaking to Cameroon Calling (a programme on the lone state broadcaster, CRTV) on Sunday, she said school boycott was irrational for the struggle.
A thief cannot enter your house and you put your child in front [as a shield], she was quoted as saying.
To her, Southern Cameroonians are using their children as shields against the oppression of La Republique. By saying so, she is insinuating that the parents don’t love their children as much as she loves hers,which to me is quite absurd. Even the Bible says no parents would give their child a snake if it asked for a fish, however bad the parent.
For that reason, it is worth reminding Mrs Mbah Acha that good parents whip and tie up their children with the hope of making them better persons tomorrow. A good parent will give half of the food in the pot to their child and reserve the rest for tomorrow.
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The Government of Cameroon is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that schools in Anglophone Regions, which have been grounded since November 21, 2016, resume on Monday, September 4, 2017.
The Government has unleashed its most dread forces, the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR), which was hitherto used to combat Boko Haram in the three Northern Regions of Cameroon and Pirates in Bakassi Peninsular to the North West Regions to keep all confessional schools clean.
The BIR surprised the Bamenda population today, when they started cleaning the compound of Sacred Heart College Mankon.
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Bar Human Rights Committee Of England & Wales(BHRC) has ordered President Paul Biya to discontinue the trail of Mancho Bibixy and others who are still held in police dragnet.
According to the association, the trial of the journalists and his co still held in detention by the Government does not only breach the fundamental rights to due process and a fair trial, but its use of military tribunals to try civilians is an aberration to international laws. The association stand is contained in the press release signed on September one read full press release below.
Press Release
London, 1st September 2017
BHRC today welcomes the release from detention in Yaounde of 54 Cameroonians from the South West and North West Anglophone regions. The individuals were on trial for alleged crimes associated with terrorist actions against the State, to which BHRC and other organisations have raised concerns. All charges have been dropped against them following a 30 August order of President Paul Biya.
On 30 August the President of the Republic of Cameroon issued a statement discontinuing the proceedings against those who have been detained in connection with peaceful protests at the imposition of French-speaking judges and the civil law system on Cameroon’s English-speaking minority, in areas governed by Anglophone common law, as well as the French educational system. The President’s decision was said to be in line with numerous measures taken to address concerns raised by the Anglophone region and to seek a peaceful solution to the crisis, which began in October last year.
BHRC treasurer Jodie Blackstock observed the trial of 28 accused in April, due in particular to the proceedings against leaders of the Anglophone reform movement Felix Agbor-Balla (a human rights barrister), Fontem Neba (an academic) and Mancho Bibixy (a journalist). She identified a number of serious breaches of the defendants’ fundamental rights to due process and a fair trial, including the use of military tribunals and accusations of abuse by the police.
The prosecution has entered formal notice of abandonment of prosecutions in respect of these individuals. However, the Military Tribunal retains jurisdiction in respect of Mancho Bibixy and other individuals arrested in connection with the protests. Moreover, it has asserted the power to recommence proceedings if any new evidence is found.
While BHRC is encouraged by the release of the detainees, we urge the President to ensure that all those connected with peaceful protest are released as soon as possible, and in the interests of finality and certainty, refrain from the threat of further proceedings for all who have been held in detention in the capital since January, many hours travel away from their families.
Trial Observer Jodie Blackstock said,
“These individuals have for many months been detained in poor conditions and on trial in a process unfair by international standards. We welcome their release and a return to peaceful dialogue with the Cameroonian Government towards equality of treatment in the Anglophone regions.
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The family of Chief Justice Paul Ayah Abine has demanded a public apology from President Paul Biya and his cronies for the arbitrary arrest and detention of their father for 10 months without any charge.
According to them, the abduction of their father was an aberration of the law.
The family is determined to explore other avenues to ensure that those who are guilty of this crime are brought to book.
Chief justice Ayah was practically kidnapped from his Yaounde residence and whisked-off to detention at the Gendarmerie Headquarters (SED) in Yaounde.
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The National Chairman of the Social Democratic Front(SDF), Ni John Fru Ndi has asserted that the amnesty granted by President Biya to the detained Anglophone Leaders is a little too late and may not douse the flaring tempers of Anglophones who have suffered the brunt of political highhandedness and military brutality for ten months now.
The SDF Chieftain was reacting to the press, a few hours after the presidential decree of August 30, ordering the release of all Anglophones who were arrested in the wake of the Crisis.
Here him: I want to tell Biya that his amnesty is coming a bit too late. I would want to know whether it is unconditional release of all Anglophones, which is what we have requested for nine months. I have the firm belief that when you are fighting with a person and he gives one, take and continue. If that is the case, I will also want to know if the president has also included teachers and lawyers on the run or on exile to come back. Our sigh of relief is in the direction of lawyers and teachers whether they can resume work. Mind you, we the SDF did not call for boycott of schools and courts. The regime should stop further arrests, intimidation and torture of people who request for their rights.
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Traders in Bamenda, chieftain town of the North West Region of Cameroon, this morning went wild after they got up and discovered that the Government Delegate to the Bamenda City Council, Vincent Nji Ndumu, has shut down four major markets in the metropolis.
The Ntarikon, Nkwen, Food and Bamenda Main Markets, which are all controlled by the Bamenda City Council, were heavily guarded this morning by police, gendarmerie and other military officers, thus preventing the traders from having access into the markets to carry out their business activities.
The decision to ground all commercial activities in the four major markets came after the Government Delegate held a meeting with the traders last weekend and exhorted them to defy ghost towns, overcome fear and carry on with their business activities.
During the meeting the Government Delegate said it was irrational for the people of the Region to keep impoverishing themselves through ghost town operations.
The traders in constructive dialogue with the Government Delegate agreed that the ghost towns and threats from unknown sources have slowed down their business activities for the past nine months. A situation which they all agree must stop.
Nji Ndumu then beseeched to defy calls from adventurers, fugitives, and activist living out of the country and continue with their normal lives.
But the ghost towns on Monday dubbed Ndumu’s Ghost Towns were more severe that what has been going on that is why the Government Delegate decided to seal all the markets and added locks to those of the traders in the various stores.
Uncertainty now looms in Bamenda and Cameroon Concord willbring you details as the event unfolds:
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