Cameroon in Crisis: Let the people decide

This is the time to reminisce on the prophetic declarations made by two eminent Cameroonians: Felix Nkongho Agbor aka Balla and Joseph Wirba MP. The first made his prophesy during: "Carte sur Table", broadcast on STV and he said: "the time will come when the government will talk about federalism and no one will give an ear in Anglophone Cameroon". That time is now. Federalists have in fact become independentists in disguise.

As for the second, he made his prophesy at the rostrum of the Cameroonian parliament. He said: "when the people of West Cameroon shall rise, even the combination of French and Cameroonian forces won't defeat them". Like the first, the second was also correct. Those two prophesies like many others before were defining moments in Anglophone nationalism.

No one in the government took the prophesies of the aforementioned men seriously and today, I am afraid there's no turning back. Cameroon is finish and as I wrote last year, this year 2018 an epitaph will be written on the tombstone of the dead nation.

Only the people and I must insist, only the people of Anglophone Cameroon will have a say on the fate of the comatose country. The outcome of the secret negotiations in Abuja,when made public, shall not be binding, if it doesn't contain the will of the majority.

In West Cameroon, if the demonstrations of October 1st or September 22nd 2017 are in guides, then, the majority wants independence.
But it will be very cavalier to conclude that, because millions came out to demonstrate in favour of restoration, it is over and done with.

Those against it will always challenge it legality. They could with conviction, say what happened on the 22nd of September and October 1st 2017 were fruits of manipulations from Anglophone nationalists. It might not be entirely wrong. Now how do we settle this dispute once and for all?

To put an end to all suspense, the solution will be to organize a referendum under the supervision of the UN,UK, USA, the European Union and the African Union. West Cameroonians, shall be the only ones to participate in such a referendum.

Places where referenda were held to solve similar crisis

Across the world, referenda have been used to settle such. In Quebec, two referenda have organized to decide whether the majority Francophone province wants to stay in the Canadian Federation. On both occasions, they stay campaign won,which meant that, the block Quebecois did not represent the voice of the majority.

In Scotland, the Scotich National Party,SNP , fought had and got a referendum and was shocked to discover that, for the noises of the Scots,they prefer to stay in the UK.

In Indonesia, a referendum was organized in East Timor and the results were overwhelmingly for independence. In Ethiopia, a referendum was organized to see whether the Eritreans wanted to stay in Ethiopia, they voted no and in Sudan, normally two referenda were to be held in the South.

One to ask the people of Abyei whether they wanted to stay in the Republic of Sudan or South Sudan. This first referendum was not organized because, the Obama administration wanted to please Khartoum, Rhyad and the Moslem world.

However, the second referendum in the deep South was organized and a majority voted for independence. The other places on the continent where referendum will be employed to solve it's problems are Somaliland and Western Sahara.

The truth is that, you can kill a movement deeply ingrained in the conscience of people as the current feeling of distraught is among the Anglophones. You can't also decree unity as Yaounde thinks, it has to be natured. The most recent example took place in Catalonia, Madrid stupidly dissolved the regional parliament and organized a snap election, just to be won again by the independentists.

That is why , in Cameroon to stop all the senseless lost of lives, the wastage of monies the government doesn't have, a referendum remains the only solution to adjudicate the current crisis.