Politics

A form five student of Government Bilingual High School (GBHS) Kosala in Kumba, Meme Division of the South West Region, has challenged the President of the National Union for Democracy and Progress (NUDP), Bello Bouba Maigari, on the Anglophone Crisis.

The student, Chelsea Bessem Ntui, challenged the NUDP National Chairman to use his political alliance as part of the Presidential majority of the Biya regime to end the protracted Anglophone Crisis.

The challenge is contained in an open letter  Bessem Ntui, wrote to Bello Bouba through the Youth President, Elvis Ndasi Noukam.

Noukam was in Kumba to oversee the election of the party’s section executive.

According to Bessem, the damage caused by the ongoing crisis on the young people is immeasurable.

''Some of our elder sisters are now pregnant, our elder brothers have engaged themselves in unhealthy social acts leading them to police cells,'' she said.

Bessem further asserted that ''we shall hold all political party leaders in our country responsible, if our future is put in jeopardy.

As a major political party leader of this nation, who is the architect of the 1996 Constitution and who has contracted a political platform with the CPDM led Government, we do believe that you stand in a better position to help solve this ongoing crisis in the Northwest and Southwest Regions. We do plead with you Mr. President  that sincerely  you should serve as a bridge between the protesters and the CPDM Government to find lasting solution to the ongoing crisis before September for effective school resumption,'' the letter further reads.

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Abeh Valery

13.Jul.2017

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It is true that we are all in the struggle for the good of p Anglophone Cameroonians, but in the course of this “la Lotta continua” it is unacceptable-that we lose the very values in which we the West Cameroonians were formed and brought up and which we are struggling by this very struggle to reestablish.This is the value of respect for elders and men of God. Mr. Boh Herbert who is now insulting the Bishops of the Bamenda Ecclesiastical Province, is a product of Catholic Education, at least from Primary school to secondary school. He did not just go to any secondary school but went to Bishop Rogan College Buea which is a minor seminary, and thus he had nursed the intention to become aCatholic Priest at some point in time. More so, Boh Herbert went to Bishop Rogan college at the time that many of the boys from the villages could hardly pay fees and the missionaries either paid for them or let them study for free. It is a shame that today, it is Boh Herbert, who would record his voice not only to challenge but insinuate insults on Bishops, who are men of God and successors of the Apostles. That voice clip will remain in history and Boh’s children will listen to it and be ashamed of their father, and his own father will turn in his grave in shame of his son. Mr. Boh cannot claim that he loves West Cameroonmore than any of the Bishops and what the Bishops have done in this struggle for justice to be established among the people of West Cameroon, Mr. Boh has not done and cannot do. The Bishops who are our spiritual fathers look at the global picture for the common good of our people and above all for our children. Mr. Boh sits in the United States of America and thinks that he can take hostage all Anglophone children and turn them into illiterates and use them as bullets for the struggle. Herbert is living out of context and thus he does not even know the realities on the ground. Generals command war from the battle ground and not from some hiding place where they are completely safe and they are instructing foot soldiers on which direction the fight should go. Boh should follow the example of our hero Hon. Joe Wirba and come back and stand up tobe counted and he will be a real commander. There are people who in the course of struggling in this fight in either camps, have lost their reasoning and they risk incurring curses upon themselves and upon their subsequent generations. Some of these include Paul Atanga Nji,Ekema Patrick, Okalia Bilai, Achu Julius and now Boh Herbert is struggling to join their ranks. Why do I say so?
Mr. Boh, if you went to Bishop Rogan college, it means that you have abit of knowledge of the Scriptures. The Scriptures say, “Do no touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm” (Ps.105:15) and I advice you to follow the wisdom of David who had the occasion to molest and kill King Saul,but he instead told his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do this to my Lord the King and attack the Lord’s anointed one, for the Lord himself has chosen him”.(I Samuel 24:6) What you are doing Mr. Boh is that you are behaving exactly like the authorities of La Republique du Cameroun, by forcing your opinion and your will on others and thanks you have no army, you would have been worse in brutalizing citizens more than the colonial masters you are seeking to expel from our territory. La Republique du Cameroun thinks that bishops are nobodies and because they are the moral voice of the Anglophone Cameroonians, they have to smear dung on them and disgrace them, and that is why they are in courts with criminal charges on their heads, brought by agents of LRC. You are doing exactly the same, although your own court to which you have dragged the bishops is the social media. The Bishopric is a divine institution and no matter the foolishness and weakness of those who carry it, they are chosen men of God and deserve respect. Even if the bishops took a foolish decision, it is not you, a born and brought up Catholic, that will go to the social media and think that you can disgrace them. You act exactly like Okwonkwo in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart” who thought that he would be considered a hero if he killed his own son. Go and read Genesis 9:22 and see the curse that came upon the man who saw his father’s nakedness and started laughing and invited the others to come and see, instead of getting a loin cloth to cover his father. That is the risk you are running Mr. Boh. Above everything, if after all the church has done for you. Mr Boh, you can turn around and insinuate that the Bishops are fools,unreasonable, etc, then know that these words are for you: "But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, 'You good-for-nothing,' shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, 'You fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.” Mtt.5:22. I hope this write up will put an end to this rubbish that anybody thinks that LRC has set them the standard to get up from their sleep and insult our bishops and try to treat them like small children and unreasonable rascals. This is not the moral formation we received in our days in West Cameroon and it is not the behavior we want our children in the Anglophone territory to copy. Bishops have said that schools should begin in September 2017 and schools will begin. But “La lotta continua”.

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Rita Akana

13.Jul.2017

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Former Mayor of Buea, Senator Mbela Moki Charles, whose elevation to the higher powers of Yaounde was greeted with joy by a majority of Anglophones has lashed out at his successor calling him an Academic terrorists.Patrick Ekema Esunge stole the spotlight during the installation of Ngomo Horace Manga and Ako Edward Oben as Vice and Pro Chancellor of UB respectively when he was jeered for entering the prestigious institution through the back door, haven failed his A levels.

Senator Mbela acknowledges academic fraudsters as terrorists and questioned why the youths didn’t request the Mayor to be escorted out of the ceremony.He further explained that no fraudster is to be granted any courtesy to mount a high stage in a place like UB.

Additionally, he questioned leading authorities of Buea for locking up Barrister Balla and Fontem but couldn’t arrest the said fraudster. It is no doubt that the legacy left behind by Senator Mbela has been completely ruined by his successor whose reign has been marked by violence.

The mayor has once been involved in a case of adultery where naked photos of him and his mistress stormed the social media. He has also been involved in a case of gun assault and brutalization involving fellow citizens. Ekema Patrick was the 1st Deputy Mayor of Mbella Moki but the pair became foes following

All eyes on this one, as the masses look up to see the reaction of his godmother Dorothy L. Njeuma, former Vc of UB, who granted him admission.

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11.Jul.2017

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At about 4am July 7, prison guards stormed the cells hosting leaders of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium Leaders in the Kondengui Principal Prison in Yaounde.

Barrister Felix Agbor Balla NKongho and Dr Fontem Aforteka’a Neba were taken unawares when the wardens barged into their cells, ransacking them and confiscating valuables. We gathered the prison guards seized all communication gadgets they found in both jail cells and equally took away all money they found therein.

We also gathered the consortium leaders have been under lock and key since July 7. Visits are said to have been curtailed and the few visitors who are privileged to be given access to the duo, are thoroughly searched down to their underwear. The visitors are allowed to speak with the inmates only in the presence of a multitude of prison guards, we learned.

Sources say the raid on the jail cells was carried out following instructions from the Ministry of Justice. Our source posited government could be trying to look for evidence to use in the on-going trial at the Yaounde Military Tribunal, of the consortium leaders and 71 other Anglophone detainees.

It is alleged the confiscated material were taken to the ‘Department for External Research commonly known by its French language abbreviation DGRE. The security facility beside the Yaounde Municpal Lake is said to be investigating the alleged crimes of the Anglophone detainees. Fears are rife the Consortium leaders may be transferred to secret detention centres of the facility where detainees are said to be tortured and locked up in unmarked poorly ventilated cells.

We also learned last Friday’s raid was not limited to the consortium leaders. Jailed RFI journalist, Ahmed Abba, former mayor of Kolofata, Maitre Harrisou, a certain pastor and four other detainees were reportedly subjected to the same treatment.

It should be recalled that Barrister Felix Agbor Kongho and Dr Fontem Neba were arrested on Tuesday January 17 in Buea and transferred overnight to Yaounde where they were detained in the dungeons of the gendarmerie headquarters for two days. They were transferred to the Kondengui Principal Prison January 20 and were later on charged by the military tribunal with terrorism, rebellion, insurrection, revolution among other related offences. They face a death penalty if found guilty.

Many other Anglophones, including journalists arrested for allegedly committing crimes during the on-going protests against marginalisation of minority English-speaking Cameroonians, are yet to be charged. Such is the case with Atia Tilarious of The Sun newspaper, Amos Fofung of The Guardian Post and Mofor Ndong of Voice of the Voiceless newspaper arrested in Buea on February 9 and transferred to Yaounde. Others include Suh Funwi Paul Vincent, arrested on March 31st, Acha Constantine, Nyalum Gilbert, Nyombella Valery, Atanga Celestine,Mbuh Rene, Rev Fr Andrew Ambeazieh and Nche Benjamin.

Critics are wondering why Government will resort to such crude moves if it is confident it has a good case against the Anglophone leaders.

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11.Jul.2017

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It wouldn't be an over statement to affirm that Ngoketunjia division in the north west region, is a fertile ground for inter-tribal violence.Babessi village and Mambim ( a small quarter within the Babessi village which harbours some Bamoun minority)  both in the said division, have been in a fierce battle over a peace of farm land since the morning of June 10th 2017. Eye witness account hinted  Cameroon Concord that, even though  no casualty in human live has been recorded,  houses, cars and lots of other valuable properties have been set ablaze in Mambim as  inhabitants took to their heels  to seek refuge in Fon Chafah's palace in Bangolan. Sources close to Fon Chafah confirmed to us that, the senior magistrate and alternate senator has enjoined his notables in Bangolan to give proper care to all who fled from the confrontation and took refuge in his palace. Our informant also made it known to us that fon Chafah and the fon of Babessi have engaged peaceful negotiations while waiting for the administration of la Republique  to open investigations. 

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11.Jul.2017

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Before he was sent on retirement by President Paul Biya in his July 3 Presidential decree, appointing, transferring and retiring Senior Divisional Officers (SDOS) in Cameroon, Peter Tien Ndeh, SDO for Manyu, begged the people of Akwaya for a ceasefire in witchcraft and other occultic practices. 

According to Tien Ndeh, the use of occultic practices by the people of Akwaya to resist Francophone administrators sent to the area has made them ungovernable.

The former SDO of Manyu was speaking in Akwaya while commissioning Nelson Yongkhuma Gamsi, as the new Divisional Officer (DO) of the area.

He pleaded with the people to give the new DO, who is one of their sons, the opportunity to carry out his functions freely. 

“He is one of you (an Anglophone), he understands your problems and he will help you solve them in the best possible way he can because he is also affected by the same problems.”

Since the surreptitious arrest and detention of one of the elites of Akwaya, Justice Ayah Paul Abine, the people have developed an antagonist attitude towards the Government, and have been resisting all forms of administration.

The former DO of Akwaya, had repeatedly complained to the SDO of Manyu that the people were using occultic practices and witchcraft to make administration on bearable for me.

To the new DO, Tien Ndeh said “you should educate Akwaya youths that why their role as the active arm of the society cannot be over emphasised, they must avoid using force to get their way in situations that cannot in any way benefit them.”

Meantime, since the arrest of the retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, his kith and kin have repeatedly threatened to secede from La Repulique and join Nigeria, if the Southern Cameroons does not fight to free herself from the shackles of the marriage of convenience which she got herself into with La Repulique in 1961. 

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Abeh Valery

11.Jul.2017

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