Advice Biya to release detained Anglophones or face civil war, Fru Ndi tells UN Emissaries

The National Chairman of the Social Democratic Front (SDF), Ni John Fru Ndi, has told a United Nations visiting mission to Cameroon to advice President Paul Biya for the umpteenth time to release all detained Anglophones or the country will disintegrate.

The SDF Chieftain told the UN visiting mission that he should not be held responsible for anything if the country is plunged into a deadly civil war.

“Biya has snubbed all calls for him to release Anglophone detainees held in Yaounde prisons. The situation is fuelling a lot of resentments in the Anglophone Regions. If the UN thinks that it can’t interfere in the internal affairs of a country, it should not intervene when war breaks out ….”

Fru Ndi, was speaking to the visiting UN delegation to Cameroon, led by UN Electoral and Political Affairs Assistant, Pascale Roussy, and Francis Nadjita, UN Special Representative for Central Africa.

During the meeting, the SDF officials and the UN delegation also discussed conditions for credible elections in Cameroon.

To the SDF Chairman, “the text creating ELECAM is so ambiguous and has set confusion between the body’s top notches. The Chairman of the Electoral Board and the President of Elections do not even know what their obligations and limitations are.  Quiet often, the two are confused and that is when conflict sets in. You cannot have two bosses who are always confused on who is supposed to do what,” Fru Ndi remarked.

Meanwhile, the head of the UN visiting delegation said they have not come with a bag of solutions to Cameroon’s electoral woes, but to gather information and see how the UN team can support Cameroon Government and ELECAM, together with electoral stakeholders to better organise next year’s, elections.