Interim Government of Ambazonia Extends Invitation to All Ambazonians & Revolutionary Leaders for Consultations in USA

The Acting President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, H.E Dr. Sako Samuel Ikome, has sent out a national invitation to all Southern Cameroonians/Ambazonians and key Leaders of Liberation Groups, for an “All Ambazonia Consultative Council (AACC)” scheduled for August 18th and 19th, 2018

The invitation letter which is dated July 27, 2018 with reference number PD-FRA 070/18, reads as follow:

“All Southern Cameroonian/Ambazonian Stakeholders and friends of Ambazonia are invited to a global Consultative Council, code named “All Ambazonia Consultative Council” on August 18th and 19th to hold in the USA. Location will be disclosed to leaders individually. To be inclusive, deliberations shall be in two parts:

PART I: First Day August 18th. Will be a global telecast for thousands of Southern Cameroonian/Ambazonian Stakeholders and Friends of Ambazonia worldwide, who cannot travel to the US but are invited to make their voices heard, focusing on The Modalities of Separation of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia from The Republic of Cameroun. Leaders will recommend and vote on a Final Communique based on global inputs.

PART II: Second Day August 19th. Will be highly restricted to Leaders of Liberation Groups, Civil Society,

Episcopal Communities, and Human Rights Activists. They will talk about Unity and Collaboration, sign a Unity Declaration, and present a Joint Statement concerning our proposed Terms of Separation after the declaration of the restoration of our statehood of the former British Southern Cameroons /Federal Republic of Ambazonia.”

Apart from the fact that the invitation is open to all Southern Cameroonians/Ambazonians – that’s both Federalists and Restorationists, the following leaders have been individually and collectively invited:

• Leader of the AGC, Dr. Cho Ayaba
• Leader of SCYL, Dr. Ebenezar Akwanga
• Leader of ROA, HRH Fon Gorji Dinka
• Leader/Representative: ASC
• Leader of MORISC, Mr. Boh Herbert
• Leaders of Civil Society, Mola Njoh Litumbe & Dr. Simon Munzu
• Leader of Catholic Episcopal Community, Cardinal Christian Tumi
• Leader of Human Rights Community: Barrister Agbor Balla
• Leader of Ambazonia Pastor’s Network: Pastor Victor Mbah

The Acting President further states in the invitation that; the AACC telecast is an open event and is subject to Registration, which is currently going on in the website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/all–southerncameroonsambazoniaconsultative–council–tickets–48501235501?ref=estw

The invitation for the consultative assembly is coming after a group of Southern Cameroons religious leaders led by the retired Christian Cardinal Tumi, the Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroun and leaders of the Ambazonian Muslim community, met in the economic capital of the colonial master La Republic du Cameroun (LRC) two days ago, and convened what they called the Anglophone General Conference (AGC). According to the clergy men, the Conference which is scheduled for 29^th and 30^th August 2018 is to discuss the issues at stake in the ongoing war with colonial Yaounde, and prepare a team for a possible dialogue in relation to the conflict.

The said conference has however received a lot of backlash from Southern Cameroonians/ Ambazonians, for the following reasons: It is being organized in Buea, the capital of Ambazonia, by a die heart Federalist Dr. Simon Munzu who doesn’t believe in a free Ambazonia. This means that all restoration leaders will not be able to attend because of the determination of the colonial dictator to assassinate all Ambazonian frontline leaders.

The conference is expected to take place in Buea on the 29th and 30^th of August, 2018, one month to the colonial Presidential elections which the colonial president Paul Biya desperate want to organized in Ambazonia and consolidate his colonial kingship in both territories of the Cameroons. Ambazonians therefore see the said conference in Buea as a leeway for Mr. Biya to come in and organized the sham elections to enthrone himself again as the slave master over Ambazonia once.

The wisdom of the Interim Government to schedule the Consultative Council meeting before the AGC in Buea and its decision to make it inclusive by inviting all the representatives of Ambazonias whether Federalists or restorationists, is worth praising. It is evident that majority of Ambazonians want to recover their lost country from the colonial master. The consultative meeting in the USA will therefore be an opportunity to make the stand of majority of Ambazonians across the globe known concerning the AGC of August 29^th and 30^th in Buea.

Ambazonians had long waited for such a meeting of all liberation leaders, which had not been forth coming due to disagreements and dichotomy in revolutionary opinions by the different revolutionary leaders and groups. The summoning of the AGC by the religious leaders two days a go has therefore acted as an advantage to the revolution as it will now bring all the leaders together, to chat a common course for the revolutionary journey. After all, everybody all this while has been heading to Buea, though in different revolutionary trains and captains.

It is therefore time to use one train and a captain at a time, supported by able assistants, in order to avoid delays, traffic and confusion on the way to freedom.

James Agbor

BaretaNews Political Analyst