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Members of the ad hoc committee charged with examining grievances raised by Unions of the Anglophone sub system of education enter day 2 of frank discussions in Bamenda today. After yesterday's discussions, some sources emphasized that while the government bench is so far demonstrating the will to bend full circle, there are a number of issues on which they may only propose for hierarchy to dispose.
In as much as the overall goal is to free the Anglophone sub system from assimilation by the French system and to put an end to the Francophonization of the English educational institutions of higher learning, the Consortium officials insist they have not lost sight of the fact that the demands of West Cameroonians go beyond just a few reforms of the educational sector; they insist that far reaching solutions are needed as all sectors are affected.
Although it is obvious that the number one intention of government representatives at the talks is to guarantee the lifting of the teachers' strikes, trusted sources say that has not yet come to the table and it is unlikely that will happen when youths arrested and taken to Yaounde from all parts of West Cameroon have not all been released and those missing accounted for.
Again, the teachers' union representatives note that the Biya-led government cannot be taken at its word; they have stated unequivocally that any agreement must be materialized into signed decisions and decrees before the lifting of the strikes could be contemplated.
Talking to this reporter, one of the negotiating officials dismissed press reports that because they sat through the meetings and will sit again today meant the suspension of the strike is already in view.
"The strikes will only be lifted by the Consortium after clear deliberations and at a press conference when it becomes necessary", he concluded.
The entire nation has its eyes and ears turned to Bamenda.
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Several youths were Tuesday and Wednesday January 11 and 12, arrested in Mutengene, Southwest Region and taken to yet to be identified detention centers in the country. The Cameroon Journal gathered that the youths were picked up along Tiko Road, Limbe Road and Buea Road exits of the town where they had gathered at night, burning tyres and mounting barricades on the road to prevent trucks transporting fuel from the National Oil Refinery in Limbe to Yaoundé.Witnesses said the youths were acting in solidarity to the ongoing crusade for West Cameroon independence.
Eyewitnesses say multiple gunshots were heard across Mutengene at about 2:30 amon Tuesday and at about the same time Wednesday morning.“On Monday night, several people were arrested at Atlanta and Rangers neighborhoods along Limbe road. On Tuesday morning, a truck from the gendarmerie came and picked up more people from those areas. Nobody knows where they were taken to,” a Mutengene resident told The Journal.
Another eyewitness who craved anonymity blamed the protesters. “The Consortium which is commanding the strike asked everyone to stay at home, but these boys will not listen. Businesses and schools were all closed on Monday as we observed a ghost town.
Tuesday businesses resumed but schools remained 100% closed,” he said, noting that people like this make things difficult for the consortium” because they cannot be struggling to release people in Yaoundé while others are getting themselves arrested here in Mutengene.
“Unconfirmed reports say some 17 truck loads of security officers left Yaoundé Wednesday night for the Southwest region. The region was hitherto seen by government as a lesser threat, as security was before reinforced solely in the Northwest region since common law lawyers strikes sparked a crisis in both regions.
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The Ghogomu-led ad hoc Committee resumes talks in Bamenda tomorrow without schools resuming; a pre-condition the Professor raised before any dialogue could continue. That may seem like a kind of bending, but it is not, at least from information filtering out of government circles.
After the humiliation of last Monday when the government was virtually brought to its knees, the authorities are bent on having their own pound of flesh at the least opportunity, reliable inner circle sources have said.
They contend that the youths who are still in detention will not be released, but negotiations will go on and the strikes must be lifted. The highly placed sources say the government plans to judge the young men based on the anti terrorism law on grounds that they were the ones who burnt the country's flag in Bamenda.
The plan is to play softball and then turn around and go very hard on the youths when the uprising would have lost steam, using that as an example to anyone who would ever dare touch national symbols or take part in such revolutions, the informant hinted.
As at now, uncertainty looms on the academic year and the team heading to Bamenda tomorrow would have to produce results by all means, failing which the Head of State himself shall head to West Cameroon next week with a bag full of goodies, the source concluded.
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The state of Cameroon must be obliged to conduct a series of medical examinations on all the released erstwhile Southern Cameroonians because the rogue regime is so dangerous to be trusted.
They have always made attempts as well as have poisoned those they have often kidnapped and jailed in their dungeons. Those arrested from the erstwhile Southern Cameroon's have always been subjugated and subjected to mental,physical,psychological as well as spiritual torture. The Biya's rogue regime has exposed the cruelty, inhumane nature of francophones and their brutish attitude.
French mentality is brutish and incivility to the extreme. My exposure to Savage Beti and Ewondo and Bassa have ruined my likeability of anybody whose cultural background is French. French men and women by nature are thieves,dishonest, manipulative and above all savages. This sadly got induced to their colonized and assimilated people. Today the world's most backward and primitive minded people are those that savages colonized.
The amount of clientele rackets found across French colonies or la Francophone is eloquent proof how they planted disaster and its whirlwind that has resulted from what that planter called France had planted.
Those who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind and France is reaping it full dose. France must be rudely reminded to hands off their very miserable nations and allow them to manage their own affairs and economic challenges. If this happens then economic uplift meant shall be witnessed across all the erstwhile French Colonies.
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As the governor of the North West handed over 21youths arrested in Bamenda today, Parents particularly mothers are still on blended kneels with heavy hearts for not seeing their respective children amongst those released.
Many school of thoughts thinks that those who can't see their children within this latest release should just forget about him.
They stressed that if their children were not within those released this Tuesday January 10 2017, then it's clear they child is already dead. Some even went further to say and I quote " Because on that fateful day when the masses were shooting stones at the Police, gendarmes and Army along the commercial avenue stretch, many where killed and buried secret locations.
He spoke with certainty that let the parents just forget and have it in mind that their children are dead and buried somewhere.
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