After Hon Ayah’s arrest: Southern Cameroonians are making Akwaya ungovernable for Francophones-SDO

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.