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On WWednesday, 12.07.2017, Abine Ayah Ayah, son of Chief Justice Ayah Paul recounted on his social media wall what happened as he left hospital with his sick dad.
Below is what he wrote:
"As we left hospital for SED, under very tight security as usual, with dad being escorted and paraded around like a criminal as always is the case, I witnessed some French speaking Cameroonians saying: (translated)
"That's one of those terrorists, that old fellow. He will rot in jail, we pray so. He taught he was strong, let him prove to the state now just how tough he is. They are the ones who want to divide and destroy Cameroon. Take him back to Prison his home and hope he rots in there. May he never see freedom again...."
I listened to all that with my own ears. Well, they are forgiven for their ignorance. If only they knew the truth and what the anglophone problem is all about. I enjoyed their freedom of speech though it's a pity we can still find this dimension of ignorance and hate speech at such a crucial epoch..."
This post comes barely a few days after Ayah's son wrote exclusively how deplorable it felt like, to be in La Republique’s detention.He had gone to the military tribunal in Yaounde on Wednesday, 7 June 2017, to attend the court hearing of some Anglophones who were locked up in relation to the strike in the English speaking regions of the country, before being arrested.
He said he came to understand what our Anglophone brothers and sisters have been going through in La Republique cells. “There is need to pray for all those under detention, especially the Anglophone detainees on the account of the Anglophone crisis” Ayah disclosed. Most of them have been languishing in pain for months now, but the authorities in charge are not helping it in any way with the constant postponement of their court cases.
Ayah Ayah also talked about his father’s manipulated retirement, which has greatly reduced his chances of slipping off the hands of the regime’s forces. This will only help to worsen his health which is not even the best, according to sources.
The Advocate General’s son could not forget his mom who bailed him “thanks be to God for letting my entire family and especially my mom for bailing me out of this wahala”. After the release, he felt the urge to call on the rest of the Ambazonians to pray for those in detention, for they are in hell.
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Gov't imposes travel ban on Anglophones
Just weeks after wasting taxpayers money to organize a so-called forum for the Cameroon Diaspora (FODIAS 2017),the gov't has imposed a travel ban on Anglophones from entering the country.
The contradictions are simply mind-boggling and shows a gov't completely out of touch with a reverse sense of its own priorities. Obviously, Diaspora Anglophones are now an endangered species whether or not they support the ongoing Anglophone struggle, but any responsible gov't will not shut the door on its citizens; while at the same time asking them to come back home and invest. Is the gov't pretending not to know that the all the Cameroonians who attended Diaspora forum hold passports and resident cards from their countries of origin? Who is fooling who?
The same gov't rolled out the red carpet for a group of Black Americans who claimed to have traced their ancestry to Cameroon; yet deny entry to its natural born citizens. The gov't would do well to send its "blacklist" to the embassies to screen visa applicants because issuing someone a visa only to turn round and block the person at the port of entry only reinforces Cameroon's international image as a country with highly dysfunctional institutions where bizarre things happen.
This pig-headed policy is ill-advised, counter-productive and plainly egregious in its stupidity. Either way, it is the economy that loses because those rejected Anglophones constitute part of the Cameroon Diaspora that have helped sustained the Biya regime with remittances.
Granted that Cameroon does not recognize dual nationality, even though most Ministers and top gov't functionaries hold French passports; but must you bite your nose to spite your face? Can the gov't survive if Diaspora Cameroonians boycott Western Union and MoneyGram for just one month?
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Despite a wobbling 2016/2017 academic year, the Minister of Secondary Education, Jean Ernest Ngalle Massena Bibehe, has suspended Government subventions to some 15 private secondary schools.
The subvention has been suspended for the violation of the law governing the use of State subventions.
The 15 schools were suspended following decision no 363/17/MINISEC/SG/NCBPSES issued on June 27.
Of the 15 schools suspended, eight are from the Littoral Region, four from the Centre Region, two from the West and one from the East Region.
The suspension of the subvention to some of the 15 schools will last for a year, while others will last for three years.
According to a communiqué signed by Minister Ngalle Bibehe, Wouri Division in the Littoral Region is the most affected as schools in the Division will be facing these sanctions.
Schools in Douala II and IV, College Prive Laic La Bergere, College Bilingue New Look, College Progressif Ngounou and Institut Bilingue Saint Benoit will be excluded from the 2017 State subvention.
College Bilingue Le Petit Rousseau will be excluded for two years (2017 and 2018).
Whereas, College Polyvalent Kouakeu De Tonfe, College Polyvalent Sainte Louise and College Polyvalent Bilingue Elisabeth Nkwamegni will be excluded from the State subvention for three years(2017, 2018, and 2019).
Meanwhile, Gopal Bilingual Secondary School, College d’Enseignement General Et Technique De Nyom II, of Yaounde I in the Centre Region will suffer the same fate, as they have been suspended for three years, while Institut Mak Mbe and Institut Prive Laic Mbe of Yaounde II and III will also be sanctioned for two years.
In the West Region, Mifi Division has two schools: College Prive Laic Mbe Sombe and Institut Mbe Sombe Bafoussam, will both be excluded from Government subvention for two years.
The East Region has the lowest number of schools suspended. In the Lom and Djerem Division of Bertoua I, College Bilingue De L’Orient will serve a three-year suspension.
The Minister’s communiqué states that, the suspension was informed by the reporter on the control of State subvention for the 2014, 2015 and 2016 academic years.
The report carried out by the National Control Brigade of Private Schools is contained in press release No. 31/17/MINESEC/SE/NCBPSES of May 15, 2017.
Article 2 of the Minister’s communiqué stipulates that the Directors of Vocational and Technical Training, Regional Delegates, Educational Secretaries and competent authorities should enforce the Minister’s decision.
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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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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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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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