Ambazonia Restoration Forces are the most civilised crimeless forces with no experience or training ever existed in the human history of liberation struggles. They know how to take care of anyone of them who tries to go against the norms to exploit the community. They in their own ways protect their communities and they receive vast support from Ambazonians both home and abroad in whatever ways and forms possible. Restoration forces continue to receive our unflinching support and blessings. They act within international norms and are setting the pace for a civilised discipline force post restoration. In fact, they are everything La Republique colonial corrupt terrorist Forces could never be.
Story of the gods!
In a village along the Kumba-Mamfe-Bamenda road, a curious trial took place. At a funeral I attended, village youths who gathered for grave-digging, witnessed the trial (in my presence) of three young men who, the previous day, had assaulted two other young men over a negligible social issue. From the brutality of the fight, it looked like a gang fight. Eyewitnesses said the attacking “gangsters” were under the influence of marijuana and tramadol.
The first among the “gangsters” to be brought to the “dock” and ordered to kneel down, told the “jury’ that their assault was intended to punish the victims for snatching someone else’s girlfriend – she is not the girlfriend of any of the gang members.
The leader of the village youths said he wanted to know in what capacity the three took upon themselves to “discipline” the “woman-snatchers”. The gangster kneeling before the jury said they simply sought to teach the woman-snatchers a lesson as they had warned them repeatedly to leave someone else’s girlfriend alone. But word had gone around the village that the gangsters claimed they were “Amba Boys” seeking to impose order in that capacity and that they were acting under the influence of their newly acquired Odeishi powers. Odeishi is believed to be a charm that renders its users invincible and provides them protection against machete cuts and bullets.
It turned out that their claim of belonging to the Ambazonia Defence Force, ADF, or its related factions had reached the ears of “authentic” Ambazonia separatist fighters in the bush, otherwise called Amba Boys or Odeishi Boys. Credible sources say the ADF boys visited the village at night to enquire after claims that “some rascals are using our name to commit atrocities in the village.” The graveside trial was thus, staged for the attention of the “authentic Amba Boys”.
The Amba Boys stood right opposite the youth “judges”, behind the litigants and observed quietly as they testified. Someone standing by elbowed me discretely and whispered to me, “Those are the real Amba Boys.” They all carried strange amulets. Confused, I asked, also whispering, “Real Amba Boys how? Who are the fake ones?” Then I was told about the Odeishi /Amba Boys claim by the gangsters.
As the trial proceeded, the other two gangsters walked to the scene. Ordered to join their “accomplice” in kneeling down, only one of them obeyed. The third resisted, haughtily ranting, boasting and daring anyone with guts to force him to his knees.
I saw one of the “VIP guests” closing in on the ranting young man. Short and stout and looking vexed, the “authentic Amba Boy” grabbed the stubborn village youth by the legs, lifted him with ease and flung him to the ground, head first. He pulled out a machete from… his trouser pocket, it seemed, and made a gesture like to slaughter the young man he had flung to the ground. At this, the entire “jury”, the rest of the youths present and even his fellow Amba Boys, rose like one man and pounced on his machete.
A village youth who grabbed the machete was left with a bleeding palm from the machete cut. Someone standing by said the wound could be fatal because weapons used by the Odeishi Boys are always mystically lethal so that a mere wound or scratch from their machetes or bullets was a certain cause of death. No treatment! Minutes later, when I saw the wounded young man, he had a red piece of cloth wrapped on the wrist of his wounded hand. He said the Amba Boys gave him as an antidote.
The graveside scuffle led to a commotion that brought the trial to a premature end. The Amba Boys told the village youths not to bother. They said they would handle the matter their way and left the village.
No Rape, No looting, No Extortion
In another village, young men with guns and machetes riding motorbikes, stopped at a sales point of smuggled fuel and whisked away gallons of fuel. The salesman and onlookers were dumbfounded. The act looking like looting, they stayed mute, at least thankful they were not hurt. But to their utter surprise, the young men who “seized” their fuel returned the next day and paid for the fuel they took away.
Some bike riders have testified that sometimes the Amba Boys seize their bikes to get away to some location, but once there, they call someone they know to ask them to collect their bikes where they abandoned them before entering the bush.
When Amba fighters went on the rampage at Wone Village, also along the Kumba-Mamfe road, where they burnt down a lugging trailer and had bloody fire-fights with defence and security forces, travellers who ran into their “checkpoints” say the boys asked for money to buy cartridges for their dame guns. Their driver offered FCFA 2,000. The boys asked him to throw the money on the ground, explaining that they do not receive money directly to their hands. When they, the passengers, each offered their own share of money, the Amba Boys turned them down and said what the driver had given them was enough. Just FCFA 2,000!
The Odeishi Boys only enquired whether there were any soldiers in disguise in their vehicle. After performing a ritual by swinging a machete in front of them, which it is believed, would have turned red or smeared with blood were an “enemy” in the vehicle, they were allowed to drive on.
A driver told me on March 29, in journey to Bamenda, that, on his way to Kumba earlier that day, he ran into the Amba Boys at Kendem Village, just under 40km from Mamfe. He said all they asked from him and his passengers was, “Any Gendarme dey inside dis moto?” (Is there any Gendarme in this vehicle?). They were allowed to drive on.
“Some passengers were afraid they would search and seize money and their property, but those boys do not ask for money,” said the driver.
My preliminary Conclusion
As well as there are concordant testimonies and reports of neither looting nor extortion by the Amba Boys, there have equally been no reports of rape. These three are the acts of atrocity most commonly reported by guerrilla fighters for obvious reasons: they would rape women because staying in bush hideouts for long could leave them sex-starved; they would loot where they attack and leave people fleeing for their lives; they would extort money from frightened persons, taking advantage of their intimidating posture with arms. Besides ransoms reportedly collected from hostage-taking, none of these atrocities have been blamed on the Amba fighters.
Short of my wished opportunity to interview the Amba Boys, one-on-one, it is generally believed that their Odeishi cult prohibits them to have contact of any kind with women, including sex and even eating food cooked by women. I am yet to confirm that. It is said their cult equally bars them from stealing/extorting or looting.
“If they do any of those, they will lose their powers and lose their invincibility,” said someone claiming to be familiar with the dictates of the cult.
“That’s why some of them are killed in battle, but on the whole, most of them do not succumb to bullets, reason why they are fearless and have the courage to attack soldiers, without waiting to be attacked.”
If this is true of the Amba Boys, can’t I conclude that their war will be a sane war, one free of atrocities, and thus a Holy War of sorts? Doesn’t that impose a kind of rare discipline on the troops?
By Lucas Muma,
Managing Editor – BaretaNews
11 comments
Mr. Muma war is never good and it can change every good man into a bad person. Our defense forces can only succeed if they have the support of the people. In any case they must restrain from looting, stealing and raping. They shall support the people to cut any ties from LRC. That’s it.
You are absolutely right and on point, our boys are really good, really damn good. It blows my mind how they operate.
They are really smart and intelligent.
Now bother Muma, you can see that these are not opportunists. The real opportunists are the Atanga Nji, Patrick Ekema, Tabetando and the cpdm militants in our territory who when they collect their loots from Biya are willing to sing and dance at the caprice of Biya.
The same Atanga Nji who has been screaming at the top of his voice at Etoudi about how there is no Anglophone problem, when awarded with a ministerial post for being a buffoon is now going around with a peace plant in his hands.
Gee these people just now realise that chaos and muscles flexing wouldn’t get them to Buea?
Look at pathetic talking public relations (PR) while forgotten that they the one kill numerous student who crimes was only foe wanted to gobto school. The same people who kidnap, looting and killing innocent people are now show how clean they are. Amnesia!!
A guy who is one day a Bami and on another day an Ejagham is blaming other of having Amnesia. You’re ZERO percent credible. We Southern Cameroonians laugh about you rediculous clown. Your notorious lies cannot convince anybody. Maybe you try it on CRTV.
I am not in the business of convincing people, especially those who whole existence is only on the internet. After all this time in Europe with nothing to show, you @George find a perfect opportunity to make up for your lost time. You keep posting crapnews to lure people to invest in your fantasy. How sad! this war will be over soon and you will go back to your shithole. You have a nerf to call yourself southern cameroonian? Last time I checked biafras were only in Nigeria.
These boys are groomed in a typical Southern Cameroon way. You get paid for your work, no looting etc. They were not thieves before volunteering to defend their families. This war was brought to them by demented borrow-biya and they have accepted it. When he declared the war, he thought it will be shock & awe, then Ambazonians will come kneeling/begging for pardon. But guess what, it is the annoying fish bone on her throat. It is wearing lrc down. The loan she received has run out, especially as his cabinet of thieves members are enriching themselves (which I don’t care) on pretext of seeking solutions. For example, who doesn’t know that traditional rulers do not speak for the people for Atanga Nji to have spent time with them thinking it will move a pin in their favor. How many times has Pholemon seen them or they going to Yaounde, paraded on CRTV with biya and nothing happens.
They have had multiple so-called high security military meetings with no consequence. They have created a military base in Bamenda and nothing has happened.
They brought helicopter gunships, outdated rubber tire machine guns, which they are all gathering molds in our cities. Stupid pipo. It’s now 16 months and we are only gaining steam. We shall continue to undermine them to submission. Please go to http://www.mytriptobuea.com and make your contributions so we can accelerate this freedom fight to the finish
You are 100% correct. Our boys on ground zero are doing well but need more support. As long they are backed by our population I don’t see any problem. As I wrote before LRC is wasting its time.
Remove your army or let those young conscripts die.
Jojo u are so right. When has kidnapping become crimeless? When has ‘bounty hunting’ become legitimate? Everyday ‘God, God, God…’, yet u associate yourselves with powers from deep hell in the name of odeshi. Yet u wonder why churches are now shying away from your course. It’s only a matter of time guys. We go know yah. Tif thing dem.
BossB aka Jojo aka Cashmire, u are right the regime kidnapped hundreds of peaceful Southern Cameroonian protesters and brought them to Yaoundé. Now they, civilians, are tried in a military court. Others are held incommunicado without access to their lawyers. Yes, Southern Cameroonian church leaders were brought to court for fictional crimes. Later on the accusations against them were withdrawn. Was this intimidation by LRC? Yes it was. Pls spare the church out of that. They just want peace and justice for their people.
These so called amba boys are all victims of circumstances,let alone criminals. They are worst youth we ever had in our community before this terrorism. Now they ‘ve taken advantage and can rape young and old women in the name of liberation. Kidnapping their fellow brothers and sisters and asking for ransoms. Time is almost up for them and their leaders who are roaming the streets of Europe. The english people are now starting to realize themselves and will fight back to stop these atrocities caused everyday by these terrorists.