Politics

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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Rita Akana

31.Aug.2017

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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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Abeh Valery

31.Aug.2017

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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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Abeh Valery

29.Aug.2017

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Since the escalation of the Anglophone Crisis in November, 2016, many self-proclaimed Prophets, Apostles, Evangelists, Right Reverends and other men of God went amok with a galore of prophecies over the envisaged new polity.

But ever since Government responded with a heavy fist, characterised by haphazard arrests, intimidation and threats of incarceration, most of the Prophets, whose pulpits were gradually transformed into liberation rally grounds under the guise of prophesies, have suddenly gone taciturn.

Many of such Pentecostal preachers, who were noted for issuing minute-by-minute prophecies on what twist the crisis was going to take next have since gone into oblivion.

Rumour mill are already grinding that the rather change of attitude by the clerics is due to the fact that most of the Churches are yet to be granted authorisation by the Government.

The situation is further compounded by the fact that the Government recently launched a fierce war against clandestine churches in Cameroon. So, many of such men of God are scared to attract unnecessary attention, because of such prophecies.

But a pastor in one of the Pentecostal churches, who spoke this reporter, asserted that “Government has nothing to do with our prophetic messages. It is not every message that God gives his servants that must be made public,” he said.

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Abeh Valery

28.Aug.2017

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Exasperated by many attacks and killings, at least 400 Cameroonian villagers stormed a Nigerian territory on Friday in search of Boko Haram terrorists, but details were just beginning to come out.

Local newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel, said the inhabitants of Madina and Boulo localities in the Logone and Chari department,  Cameron’s far north, conducted a raid in Nigeria on August 25.

Despite assurances from Cameroonian and Nigerian authorities that the terrorists were on the run, more people are being killed regularly and the populations seem to be taking their destiny into their hands.

Boko Haram has been wreaking havoc in Cameroon since 2014, killing thousands of people and displacing hundreds of thousands.

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Simon Ateba

28.Aug.2017

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The National Chairman of the Social Democratic Front (SDF), Ni Johne Fru Ndi, has told the visiting United Nations Human Rights team to the Anglophone Regions that there will be no effective school resumption in the two Regions of Cameroon, until those arrested in the wake of the on-going Anglophone Crisis are released.  

Fru Ndi was speaking at his Ntarikon residence, while receiving in audience UN human rights team led by the Regional Director of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and Democracy for Central Africa, Ahowanou Agbessi.

The SDF Chieftain told the UN visiting team that the Biya regime is not prepared to dialogue with the disgruntled teachers and lawyers. 

“This is a Government that is not ready to dialogue with its own people, but will prefer to negotiate for the release of captives from the fangs of Boko Haram with huge ransoms.” 

Fru Ndi further stated that the SDF, in its last executive meeting, resolved that schools can only resume effectively, if all the Anglophone detainees held in Yaounde are freed, if all lawyers who have gone on self exile are brought back to the country and if all haphazard arrest and detention of Anglophone are stopped.

Speaking at the occasion, the Regional Director of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and Democracy for Central Africa, Ahowanou Agbessi, expressed worries that the Anglophone Crisis may plunged the country into a civil war.

According to Agbessi, the UN officials in Geneva are worried that there is no lasting solution to the crisis yet, and as such,  they keep asking us to get down to the field, take the pause and render an account of what is actually happening. 

Agbessi, however said, UN role is to promote human rights and democracy and not to name and shame anybody but to encourage constructive dialogue for a peaceful resolution to the Problem.

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Abeh Valery

28.Aug.2017

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