Chief Justice Ayah Paul Abine has for the first time since leaving jail issue a public thank you to all people of the Cameroons who stood with him and supported him during his many months in jail. In a message published on his Facebook page he equally called on the people of the Cameroons to forgive him for saying thank you too late. Read on
September 19, 2017
FORGIVE ME, PLEASE. THANK YOU
When my two brothers died in the last decade and I was left with only two sisters of the 13 of us from the same womb, I wept, telling the world how I was now “all alone”. I do so hate myself today for such ungodly feeling and utterances!
Not too many people have the grace to see their own funerals. But such rare grace has the Most High bestowed on me by my captivity. Verily I say unto you, my lamentation is inconsolable today. Forgive me for the courage to tell you I am in tears even as I write these words – very much as it has been ever since, “like a bird from prison that has flown”, I flew out of captivity.
How ungodly of me that I refused, failed or neglected to visualize the millions of brothers the good Lord has given me in you worldwide! How godly of you, the universal children of the Most High, for taking up the case of “small me” in such immeasurable proportions! So many of you – in your millions!
Indeed your constant prayers did inspire hope in me all through. Your financial support ably sustained the family in the flesh. And your physical pressures could but impose retreat on my assailants.
I pray you to bear with me that I found it difficult to express my gratitude earlier. You did wipe my tears for 223 days. You that I knew. You who knew me. Particularly you that I had not known; you who had not known me!
I am still blinded by tears: tears of gratitude; tears for those still in captivity because I know what it feels to be where they are; above all, tears for those who do lose their lives through alike human monstrosity! May the good Lord continue to give you the grace to persist in your love of neighbor ever more.
Just two empty words “THANK YOU”! But in them are silver and gold from the CORE of my heart. May God bless you all!
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Justice Ayah Paul, may God Bless You for your simplicity and humanity. I know it is not for me to say this but don’t let your humanity compel you to forgive Biya and his gang of criminals. How is it possible that after all they did to dehumanize you, no one has yet come out to tell the world exactly the crime you committed?
At least some of us take solace at the firebrand response of your niece when some thought that the world should be happy just because you were released.
This is a moving thank you Justice. I can feel the energy. We thank God for you.
Master, you don’t need to, You paid a heavy price and we are so grateful you held on and came our save. It’s one for all, all for one.
Accepted. Just don’t mention about federation with la republic in any way shape or form, because is you do, I will be the first one to abandon you. As long as you are for total independence of Southern Cameroons Ambazonia, PEACE be with you.
You are welcome for your gratitude, a lot of us worked in the background and prayed for all the other prisoners, maimed and murdered comrades. I never doubted that you and all the other innocent prisoners were going to be released and our EVENTUAL INDEPENDENCE.Rest well, take care of yourself and reflect on what happened and is happening right now, DO NOT FALTER you and ALL who suffered physical, emotional and financial loses are the MANDELAS of this UNSTOPPABLE TRAIN. THINK POSITIVE, THINK INDEPENDENCE, so these atrocities NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. WE are all still supporting and watching your leadership. Thanks a million.
Pa Ayah thanks god that you were set free. Abducted by the criminal regime of Biya. We will not forget what they have done to you and to many other Southern Cameroonians. I know that since you have served Cameroon for so long your bond to that state still exists. But after all you must recognize that even in your position you will always remain a second class citizen. Believe me there will be no change. We hoped for so long for change. But you see how many of your francophone colleagues visit you in prison. How many? They are all hypocrites. The one and indivisible is a big lie. My brother my father open your mind. Free yourself. Disengage. The only way is the restoration of our statehood. God bless you and your family.
it is a civilised and kind appreciation from Justice Ayah, this man was not born yesterday,he is even smarter than biya and all those incompetent arrogant ministers,personally he must not be trusted to keep a secret with this struggle, people must understand that, biyas crooked 56 years old regime will never ever release any Anglophone jailed for speaking the truth without a hefty price, the Consortium must keep important people and information far away from Balla, Ayah and any other released detainee, these SCs men can be honoured after Independence, they might even have some chip put in their bodies to monitor their everyday movements and conversations as desperation is lrc, they have lost the SW/NW regions therefore less power, intimidation, oppression, control,lrc genocide,dictatorship, brutality, abuse of Human Rights,has been exposed to the entire world.