Anglophone Crisis: Consortium hands over leadership to the diaspora after government ban

In this regard, we are tasked with the following:

1. To ensure the most effective month-long ghost town from Jan 23rd to Feb 23rd, 2017, every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in the entire West Cameroon.

2. To ensure the strict respect of peace in all our actions as we fight to promote democratic accountability, the rule of law, and good governance among the peaceful people of West Cameroon under colonial pressure from the brutal and barbaric regime of President Paul Biya.

3. To propose, coordinate, endorse, and implement any other strategy meant to attain the goals of the legitimate consortium.

We call on the public to give us the leadership trust and remain strong for the big win. We must remain united. We succeeded to UNITE West Cameroon this week.

Creation of the Consortium

When lawyers and teachers finally went on strike in October and November 2016 respectively, after several months of government inaction, government ministers of the Departments of Higher Education, Justice, Communication and Secondary Education, in keeping with the policy of disregard and disdain for Southern Cameroons flooded the public media with invectives and disparaging comments.

Perhaps, the most incendiary incident was the repeated outings of Mr. Atanga Nji (Minister without Portfolio) who demonized his fellow Southern Cameroonians, threatening them with fire and brimstone. They denied the existence of ‘An Anglophone Problem’ and their remarks inflamed public passions.

In the midst of the furore and the multiplicity of groups which emerged from the embroglio caused by the Government ministers, it became necessary to create an umbrella organization which will canalize, constructively, the desires, the demands and the aspirations of the people which have found legitimate expression in the on-going strike actions.

In this regard, on 5 December 2016, Civil Society organizations, trade unions and professional groups came together and created a platform which would henceforth articulate their interests, advocate, advise, speak for and on behalf of the marginalized people of Southern Cameroons by identifying and making known these problems and providing policy alternatives that can better the lives of our indigenous people.

The Consortium shall work to rebuild our unity which had been fractured by half a century of divide and rule, political greed and selfishness.