MORISC At Daggers Drawn With Consortium, Who Is Doing The Sabotage Here?

"It is 4a.m. in Houston (Texas) and I have just made it into my hotel room after the meeting with the consortium followed by the meeting with MoRISC Houston Members & Sympathizers. If I'm posting late or so early it is because I want to make sure you, Members of the MoRISC Steering Committee, are the first to have the most accurate information on our meetings.

1. Despite MoRISC's show of good faith at the meeting with the Consortium this evening, the Facebook page of Mr. Ivo Tapang is full of spin and misrepresentation this dawn. For example, his totally false headline reads "MoRISC merges with the Consortium". Very sad to see the Consortium trying its hand at some of CRTV's dirtiest distortions of the truth.

2. The Facebook posting by Mr. Tapang this dawn is clearly meant to mislead MoRISC members and the public by suggesting that the MoRISC event is no longer holding. He is suggesting, falsely, that MoRISC invited everyone to converge at the venue of the event by the Consortium. Not true. The Consortium hopes that pulling such a last minute trick it would empty the event MoRISC had scheduled in favor of their event.

3. MoRISC told participants at the closed door event that it was too late to cancel any of the two events so late at night (in effect barely hours before both are to open). MoRISC regretted that the Consortium refused the offer which MoRISC made many days earlier for the Consortium to use the same venue as MoRISC especially given that at the time the Consortium still had not secured a venue.

4. Let it also be known that we rose from the meeting inviting the Consortium officials present to check back with their "commanders" and counsel and on the level of their comfort to speak openly about the restoration of independence agenda or even the level of their comfort to be with MoRISC. This was requested because a high level of discomfort had been shown by the Consortium in the past in failing to join MoRISC at rallies such as the one last week at the United Nations.

5. Contrary to the claim that MoRISC will be assisting the Consortium in raising funds, MoRISC reiterated the fact that it has repeatedly offered financial support to the Consortium from MoRISC's existing funds only to see the Consortium refuse such financial support in the past. MoRISC even pointed out a specific recent item (printers) the Consortium had funded that MoRISC would have financed.

6. In short, while MoRISC and the Consortium agreed to work together more smoothly going forward, MoRISC stressed the need for the Consortium to realize that the Houston meeting did not constitute bringing leaders or organizations together. Only 12 individuals reported present for the meeting; only one of them (yours truly) was from MoRISC while the rest were overwhelmingly Consortium sympathizers. MoRISC underlined the need to bring the other movements (SCNC, SCAPO, Ambazonia, SCYL, AGC, etc.)

7. MoRISC also made clear that it would not dignify with a reply the many anti-MoRISC propaganda pieces produced and disseminated by some of the same Consortium sympathizers who attended the meeting. MoRISC, however, insisted that it believes urgent attention needs to be paid to what it considers the troubling nature of power play and/or change of guard at the helm of the Consortium, including a change announced during the meeting granting yet another interim role for someone else.

8. In closing, therefore, please note that the two events are going ahead on Saturday at the two different venues although both MoRISC and the Consortium recognize the need to work more closely together going forward. MoRISC offered four principles that it hopes can be adopted to guide any partnership going forward: Frank collaboration; Division of Labor; Complementarity; and Teamwork.

9. Prof. Carlson Anyangwe and Dr. Atang who also attended this meeting can testify to the accuracy of the above account. In addition, Dr. Atang can testify that when the Spokesperson presented even this outcome as "work in progress" pending a decision later, Houston-based supporters of the restoration of independence agenda went up in arms, angered by what they consider a high level of sabotage by some of the Houston-based sympathizers of the Consortium."

Now, you know!

Ntumfoyn Boh Herbert (Yindo Toh)
Spokesperson, MoRISC