Fru Ndi Tells UN Emissaries: Release Detained Anglophones Or Forget About School Reopening

The National Chairman of the Social Democratic Front (SDF), Ni Johne Fru Ndi, has told the visiting United Nations Human Rights team to the Anglophone Regions that there will be no effective school resumption in the two Regions of Cameroon, until those arrested in the wake of the on-going Anglophone Crisis are released.  

Fru Ndi was speaking at his Ntarikon residence, while receiving in audience UN human rights team led by the Regional Director of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and Democracy for Central Africa, Ahowanou Agbessi.

The SDF Chieftain told the UN visiting team that the Biya regime is not prepared to dialogue with the disgruntled teachers and lawyers. 

“This is a Government that is not ready to dialogue with its own people, but will prefer to negotiate for the release of captives from the fangs of Boko Haram with huge ransoms.” 

Fru Ndi further stated that the SDF, in its last executive meeting, resolved that schools can only resume effectively, if all the Anglophone detainees held in Yaounde are freed, if all lawyers who have gone on self exile are brought back to the country and if all haphazard arrest and detention of Anglophone are stopped.

Speaking at the occasion, the Regional Director of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and Democracy for Central Africa, Ahowanou Agbessi, expressed worries that the Anglophone Crisis may plunged the country into a civil war.

According to Agbessi, the UN officials in Geneva are worried that there is no lasting solution to the crisis yet, and as such,  they keep asking us to get down to the field, take the pause and render an account of what is actually happening. 

Agbessi, however said, UN role is to promote human rights and democracy and not to name and shame anybody but to encourage constructive dialogue for a peaceful resolution to the Problem.