Southern Cameroons

BaretaNews is getting a very disturbing report. The Colonial Divisional Officer of Nkambe Central Abba Abdouraman has threatened Fr Andrew Kushu Solii Ngah, Parish priest of Christ the King Parish, Nkambe Town. The Catholic Priest had gathered with his Christians to pray at a site for the current crisis.The DO confronted the Priest and said he must take permission from his office before gathering to pray. He went further to say the priest will be abducted. We are sending this information to all Catholic Christians in West Cameroon to be aware. Father Andrew Ngah has already been tagged and many more Priests are being tagged. When has praying openly requested that permission must be sought from the authorities? We denounce this strongly and call on all Christians to be vigilant.

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Rita Akana

24.Jan.2017

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The Alliance of Progressive Forces (AFP) says "Yes to federalism as a mode of administration"
In an open letter signed by President Alice Sadio, the Alliance of Progressive Forces (AFP) has called on the government of Cameroon to listen to the voices of its citizens! We do not govern against the people, but with the people and for the people. "

The entire AFP position:

The Northwest and Southwest Regions have been disconnected from the rest of the country and the world for some time. In a dictatorial system such as ours where most private media are compelled to use the minimum service, the Internet remains the most effective means of information and a guarantee of transparency. The AFP by my voice, urges the CPDM regime, to comeback to their senses by having in mind the principle according to which: the State is us all! We do not govern against the people, but with the people and for the people. 

 In Cameroon as elsewhere, social networks have played a remarkable role of counter-power, which has made it possible to expose and curb the abuses of dictatorships. AFP is particularly concerned about this suspension of the Internet in the protesting regions of Cameroon (North-West and South-West). It is only behind closed doors, in darkness that the worst atrocities have perpetrated in the history of humanity, we fear for the security and the rights of the Cameroonian citizens living in these areas. The right to information is one of the fundamental rights of EVERY citizen. No one can deprive him or her of it without interfering with Democracy.

There is an Anglophone crisis in Cameroon

Leaders that you were yesterday in talks with, have now been relegated to the rank of "maquisards" ... You changed tactics and now embark on abduction and intimidation! And yet, we know that mutual respect, intellectual honesty, taking into account the fundamental concerns of the stakeholders ... are the prerequisite for any constructive dialogue! Indeed, as we feared, it is rather the strategy of the suppression that is in progress regarding the crisis that prevails in the anglophone parts of Cameroon. When the Government embarks today on the inviolability of the Constitution to stigmatize the Anglophone Consortium and others, it forgets that no one has violated the Constitution as much as the CPDM dictatorship.

They have probably postulated that we Cameroonians are suffering from collective amnesia and thereby claiming to forget that the CPDM marched on the blood of Cameroonians in 2008 to modify the constitutional provisions in the interest of a single individual: Paul Biya. But when a community as representatives as that of two whole Regions show almost unanimity in the demand for the revision of the systemic pillars of the State, you take refuge behind this same Constitution, perpetually trampled under foot, implemented to a level of  less than 50%, to enact" outlaw "citizens whose only crime is to have the audacity to consider Another future for our children.

Who do you mock? It is clear to any common sense observer that in the management of the Republic, only the interests and priorities of the CPDM count.The position of AFP in the issue of the right to self-determination is indispensable as it should be in any democracy. Consequently, the tortures will do nothing, the people will eventually have the last word. Yes to federalism as a mode of administration. The number of federated states to be determined by referendum. 

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Rita Akana

23.Jan.2017

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Southern Cameroonians residing in Germany are gearing up for a big demonstration against the brute regime of Dictator Paul Biya and the liberation of Southern Cameroonians from the occupational forces of La republique Du Cameroun.The demonstration is scheduled to take place on  Friday the 27.01.2017 in Berlin Germany.demonstrators will be pouring in to Berlin from all regions of Germany and elsewhere in Europe.Cameroon Concord had the chance to speak with one of the demonstrators from the SOUTHERN CAMEROONS NATIONAL COUNCIL (SCNC), Mr Gwan Philip Ngassa, who had this to say:

My friends, to fight for our people is a matter of conscience and obedience to God's commandment!

We cannot afford to regard as normal the burning alive of our grand parents and burning down of our villages; We cannot regard as normal the reckless gunning down of our youth and systematic raping of our daughters.

Below is a press statement released by Dr Elad on his Facebook wall:

Dear lovely people of West Cameroon living in Germany and around the world, I am Dr. Lawyer Kizito Logan Elad, one of the coordinator of the upcoming demonstration in Berlin on Friday the 27.01.2017. I am writing to confirm the worries of many people who have called to verify if the demonstration is genuine. YES, it is.
All the police paper work was ready before the first announcement was sent out.
Let me use this opportunity to thank all our West Cameroon citizens for being fully determine to carry this our common struggle right to the end.
Fellow West Cameroonians, I am asking you all to please honour this call and come out in your numbers so that, we can put a final "full Stop" on the existence of la Republique in our territory 'West Cameroon, a land of hope ". Remember that, "it is during our darkest moment that we must focus to see the light", Aristotle Onassis. Thanks, yours, Dr . Elad.
For any information you can reach me on: +491799154188  

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Rita Akana

23.Jan.2017

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West Cameroon (21 Jan 2017 ) -- A recent release warning some media organs in Cameroon and threatening them with either suspension or outright bans was read Thursday on the state broadcaster, CRTV. The National Communication Council accuses the media outlets in the release of publishing and broadcasting seditious articles that glorify Federalism and or Secession ideologies, thus threatening peace and national unity. Trusted sources et the Ministry of Communication (MINCOM ) and the National Communication Council (NCC) revealed to the Consortium that the release had been prepared by two state politicians ; the Minister in Charge of Special Duties et the Presidency of the Republic , Atanga Paul Nji, and a Senior Official at the Ministry of Communication, Felix Zogo.
The dubious release was taken to the NCC to be rubber stamped.

The NCC boss, Peter Essoka, was threatened to sign it, our sources hinted. The NCC boss reportedly resisted signing the document, "citing procedural violations and the need for a session to be held to examine the issues raised to no avail."
Cameroun imposed control on key internet providers MTN and Orange, through its state-run internet service provider, CAMTEL, citing dubious "security concerns." A recorded phone conversation with MTN South Africa Bureau confirmed that the 34-year regime ordered MTN to stop the supply of its internet services to millions of citizens in West Cameroon. A highly Confidential Mail NO. 006/DG issued by the CAMTEL Boss, David Nkotto Emane, on the 18th of January, 2017 to the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications and leaked out to the Consortium by a reliable source at Minister Libom Likeng Minette's cabinet, explains that MTN and Orange were coerced to deprive the West Cameroon from its access to internet services in a bid to inflict untold sufferings to the citizens.

The Consortium has also been reliably informed that the regime would block WhatsApp nationwide next week because citizens from West Cameroon cross over to neighbouring Bafoussam and Douala which are border towns closest to Bamenda and Tiko respectively, to upload pictures on World Wide Web that report gross violations of human rights, all forms of torture and the use of brute force on civilians, mostly women and children.

Journalists are reporting that the Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bak, had previously, personally called a few of them working with the private press by telephone and threatened them to stop the coverage of the Anglophone problem or he would ask their bosses to them. A few days later, two audience-pulling TV journalists working for LTM, a Douala-based TV Channel, were sacked without prior notice.

Call for Condemnation

The United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression ; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers".
Several international instruments including the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, ratified by Cameroon forbid such repressive acts against the free speech. It is unacceptable that while other countries in Africa have leaped from autocracies to democracies, Cameroon is left behind despite its millions of citizens who are willing to push forth universal rights and freedoms through dialogue, understanding, and integration of all parties.

Violating basic rights is condemnable and punishable. Citizens must not keep living in fear and tyranny in the 21st cent,. President Paul Biya must stop the ever-increasing violations of the rights of the own people of Cameroon. We .11 on the international community of goodwill to immediately puncture a brewing genocide nursed by President Paul Biya and his supporters of bad faith. The people need dialogue and not deadlock. We remain convinced that current affront on the credible press in Cameroon falls within the realms of what one-time US President Thomas Jefferson said: "No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first objective should, therefore, be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions."

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Rita Akana

21.Jan.2017

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