Biya dispatches spin doctors to assuage Cameroonian Diaspora as Anglophone Crisis surges on

 The Prime Minister, Philemon Yang, on the high instruction of President Biya, has dispatched some Government spin doctors to assuage Cameroonians in the Diaspora as the Anglophone Crisis surges on.

The Government emissaries to the United States of America are made up of the Director of Civil Cabinet at the Prime Minister’s Office, Prof. Paul Ghogomu Mingo, the former Minister of Forestry and Wildlife, Prof.  Elvis Ngolle Ngolle, and the Technical Adviser at the Prime Minister's Office, Fabien Nkot.

The mission of the trio is to tell Government own side of the story concerning the ongoing Anglophone Crisis to the United States’ Government and to assuage Cameroonians resident in America.

Ghogomu, Ngolle Ngolle and Nkot will be in the USA from August 3 to 9, 2017.Since the escalation of the Anglophone Crisis in November 2016, Cameroonian Diaspora in the United States has been singled out by the Yaoundé regime as the main sponsor of the uprising that has paralysed socio-economic and professional activities in the North West and South West Regions.Since then, the demonstrations have taken different twists and turns as one segment of the English-speaking Regions is asking for a return to Federalism, while another segment is demanding for complete secession from the French speaking section of the country and the creation of a new state.

But the majority of Cameroonians based in the United States think that Federalism is the only way out of the Anglophone Crisis. The Cameroonian Diaspora had seized the American authorities and alerted the international community of the atrocities perpetrated in Cameroon by the Biya regime.When the demonstrations broke out, Government rolled out its military arsenal to squash all the dissenting voices that rose in protest.

The octogenarian Biya repeatedly insisted that "Cameroon is one and indivisible and intends to remain so."Government determination to quell the uprising led to numerous human rights abuses such the slaying of protesters, the haphazard arrests of Anglophone leaders, political witch-hunting and scores settling among others.Many of the ring leaders, especially those of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium were all arrested and are being tried in the military court in Yaounde for acts of terrorism, secession rebellion and for putting the security of the State in jeopardy. If found guilty, they would be given a death penalty, according to the recently adopted Cameroon Penal Code.