The British Passport : Every Southern Cameroonian is entitled to – We are BPP (British Protected Persons) under the 1981 British Nationality Act! How can you acquire your own? Read on …

This is a must read document. I’d wanted to make this publication as early as February 2017 but constraints of the struggle have not permitted me. I have just been tickled by the recent debate on this subject on social media. Read, share, give a critique.

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The British Nationality Act of 1981 clearly spells out the six different classes of persons eligible for a British Passport viz British Citizen, British Overseas Territories Citizen, British Overseas Citizen, British Subject, British National (Overseas) and British Protected Person.

We, the Southern Cameroonian people fall under the last category – British Protected Person. For the records, a British Protected Person (BPP) is a member of a class of certain persons under the British Nationality Act 1981 associated with former protected states, protectorates, MANDATED AND TRUST TERRITORIES whose external affairs and defence were once under British control [Notice my emphasis in capital letters – Mandated and Trust Territories].

The UN Trusteeship Council assigned the British Southern Cameroons to the United Kingdom of Great Britain for administration towards independence.

One of the most important resolutions (that which really implicates the United Kingdom of Great Britain) is United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1608. The UN General Assembly Res. 1608 (XV) of 21st April 1961, the UN fixed the date and time of the termination of the British trust mandate over Southern Cameroons to be at midnight on 30th Sept 1961; and prior to the termination, a tripartite conference between Britain as the Administering Authority over Southern Cameroons, the Government of Southern Cameroons, and the Government of La Republique du Cameroun was to take place URGENTLY. The motive was to draw up with a mutually agreed terms of union, as in a Treaty of Union between the parties and, naturally, in compliance with the governing provisions of the UN Charter Arts 102/103; Southern Cameroons was to become independent on 1st October, 1961.

But as we all know, the United Kingdom, in flagrant violation of the Trusteeship Agreement and more particularly, the UNGA Res 1608, left the Southern Cameroons unceremoniously without leading the Southern Cameroons towards independence. No signed treaty of union was produced by the two Cameroons and therefore, there is no document at the UN Secretariat General. This violates art 102 of the UN Charter which attracts the penalty in art 103 rendering the union null and void.

So as things stand, the Southern Cameroons remain a UN Trust Territory under the British Administration. And, as the British Nationality Act of 1981 provides, the Southern Cameroonians are still British Protected Persons, BPP. Some years back, Fon Fongum Gorji-Dinka, the President of RoA, a SCACUF constituent member sued the British Government in its own courts and was issued a British Passport. You too are a BPP with the following rights;

– Hold a British passport;
– Get consular assistance and protection from UK diplomatic posts

However, you:

– are subject to immigration controls and don’t have the automatic right to live or work in the UK;

– aren’t considered a UK national by the European Union (EU)

My Comment: I am not saying that we should apply for a British passport to empty into the UK, no! In order for us to step up pressure on Her Majesty’s Government, they will quickly do something on our case by rigorously stepping up the game on the international scene. If they see 1,000,000 applications for British passport on their desk within one month, they’d tell their Frenchi cousins, ‘look, the pressure is too much, we are giving in…’

I call on the interim government of the Southern Cameroons to create a preparedness through which a law firm, preferably London based, could receive applications for persons needing UK Passport…then, the law firm would make the application every month to the UK Immigration.

Now, I know that people from La Republique would want to suddenly become Southern Cameroonians. Sorry but we would fish you out. I am also surprised that, since this debate came up, Southern Cameroonians who called themselves ‘federalists’ and those who referred to the struggle as, ‘that wonna thing’ have also suddenly started asking procedures for application. Wonna don see wetti?

AKOSON

From a federalist to an ‘independentist’. The Southern Cameroons MUST be free