Barrister Agbor Nkongho Feedback Of Today’s Meeting
A moment ago, Barrister Agbor Nkongho met with the British Minister of State for Africa Harriett Baldwin. The meeting held in Buea, Southern zone to discuss the problems the Cameroons is facing, most importantly,the Southern Cameroons crisis. Public opinions about the meeting has been negative from Ambazonians who saw the move as a wasted efforts and some sending strong words against Barrister Nkongho. In BaretaNews, we want to be clear. In as much overwhelming majority of Ambazonians want separation, we cannot hush down on others who differ and are doing their own job. Diplomacy is a very complex thing and not what is on the surface sometimes is said on the open especially considering the area one find him or herself. Ambazonians may disagree with Balla, but come on the man is doing his own, talking and acting at the same time, taking out the messages that matters out there and those messages are the current happenings on the ground. We need these talks and I am confident Balla et al only gave the situation on the ground and the need for dialogue. While we continue making homeland ungovernable, we cannot stop those on the ground from talking and doing so carefully. War or not, we will all end on the table. While our self defense actions are meant to defend homeland, it also helps to push diplomacy which will need talks. What matters is that the final decision rest with us: You and I. We must as a matter of fact halt all insults against leaders and disagree with them respectfully. Below is a short statement from Balla in line with today’s meeting.
Meeting at Mountain Hotel Buea, with The United Kingdom’s Minister of State for Africa, Harriett Baldwin and H.E Rowan Laxton, British High Commissioner to Cameroon.
We discussed a broad range of issues, including the growing refugee crisis, internally displaced due to the current crisis, conditions of detainees with some facing trial in military courts and some detained without charges or trial, continuous arrests ongoing in North West and South West Regions, burning of houses and villages reportedly done by the military, killings going on in both regions and the conditions of the terrorised civilian population caught in the middle of war.
Raising concerns on the extradition of Ayuk Tabe Julius and 46 others arrested in Nigeria. Currently detained incommunicado, with no access to family and lawyers.
Pictures of the meeting in Buea
In the presence of civil society representatives and clergy, we mutually agreed that, finding solutions to the human rights and security situation remains a priority.
However, to find a long lasting solution to the crisis, The United Kingdom and other international partners must push for dialogue with representatives of the people.
—Agbor Nkongho
CENTRE for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa.
26 comments
Balla does not speak for me, as a matter of fact.
This dialogue will never take place in Cameroon. If La Republic with the complicity of Nigeria and France can arrest our President and cabinet and detained incommunicado,then be rest assure that the same madness can happen with those selected to dialogue with the occult regime in Yaounde. Balla is not the only voice for southern Cameroon/Amazonian. Its high time these fake diplomats start engaging with our Interim Government.
Why is the minutes of the meeting not published on here do that every patriotic SCs can see what was said?Balla is working on the behalf of lrc,all of his meetings with foreigners are in closed doors,too many naive SCs still trust him as their saviour mouth piece of all SCs,lrc didn’t let him out of jail because he was cute,many SCs naivetivity, short seighted,too nice, too trusting,too scared,too reliable on fake people is going to loose this struggle,what does Balla contribute to this struggle financially,some SCs within this struggle are starting to loose their focus
Balla will never speak for me either. And no one will bush Balla on to us a leader. Once bitten twice shy. Even if he is a leader people have the right to call him out on what ever thy feel is not right. And Mark stop your ping pong games trying to persuade people to our man. Each and everyone has the right to their opinion about him and you will never take it away. Grow up, don`t be too quick to act, stop being all over the place. There is a saying that goes does a hand that go too much to the back will come back with shit.
Please my dear people. Forgot about the international community. We are on own. The international community especially the British are on the side of France and La Republique.
Our focus should be to raise money to cut off the supply of oil, timber, banana from CDC, liquidfied natural gas and other resources from Southern Cameroons to La Republique. Until then, nothing will change .
That’s it. It is the only language they understand when it comes to us Africans, it at all they do.
Those who say we should forget about the international community are ignorant of the fact that no country can succeed alone.lf your country is not recognised globally then you get no where. You will only survive by doing illegal deals.
This struggle will never end unless the international community steps in to force dialogue. Remember that.
There cannot be any recognized Ambazonia without a referendum organized by the international community you want to forget about. To achieve any solution we must win the support of countries that have power to make things happen.
Like it or not
There is NO path to independence without the international community. Period.
People posting and insulting Agbor Balla are not on ground zero because if you have tasted the hell those people are going through right now you will not insulting people looking for solutions.
Agbor Balla has helped hundreds of people to come out of jail for free. How many of the people insulting him have helped even 1 person to leave prison?
Agbor Balla is thinking ahead than most people do and that’s the quality of a good leader.
Remember not everyone is for separation and you cannot force people to follow you. You have to persuade them. If not you become a dictator like Biya.
I fully agree with what you say concerning diplomacy. War will not solve that crisis. But what you say about Agbor I have my doubts. “quality of a good leader” My question is who is he leading? Agbor believes in public for federation. In private he wants to be the first president of Ambazonia. Has he brought strong arguments for federation? Has he tried to convince the population? A good leader should listen to the people he wants to lead. He needs a vision. He should assemble and try to unite people. Everything I don’t see in my brother Felix but with my other brother Sisiku.
Give me one example, in the case of self determination, in recent memory where the international community has stepped in voluntary to help. Freedom is not given. It is TAKEN. The very act of taking your freedom conotate the use of force.
Force does not necessarily imply conventional war. We will need force to prevent La Republique from exploiting our resource.
A clear distinction exist between (1) the international community as In the U.N., E.U, A.U and (2) establishing bilateral relations with friendly countries. We need the later-(2). Kosovo is not a member of the U.N. but it has recognition from more than 100 countries including the U.S.A.
Know that the international recognition of The Federal Republic of Ambazonian depends on the recognition and respect its gets from its own citizens.
Mark, I knew you have limited resources but the case of Balla does not require a lot of investigative resources to figure out. Balla changed his position in support of La Republique while in detention. If you have good sources, then they should be able to arrive at the conclusion.
As a general rule in this struggle, the fact that someone was a leader does not mean they cannot betray the struggle later. We cannot offer people blind loyalty and support simply because of their pass contribution to the struggle. Only offer your support to a leader based on their current position regarding the struggle.
Dr. Munzu once led this struggle during the AAC 1 and AAC 2 including a delegation to the U.N. to present our case. He suddenly abandoned the struggle and miraculously got a job at the U.N. Today, he says he has never advocated for the independent of Southern Cameroons. If that is the case, then what was the purpose of the mission to the U.N.? To advocate for Federation? In fact the resolution of AAC 2, which he played a key role in, call for the declaration of independence of Southern Cameroons if La Republique did not respond to the request for a return to federation.
The point is since 1961, La Republique has always used corruption to buy weak leaders in this struggle. Trust a leader based on their current position. That guide a lone will tell you Balla is working for La Republique. He moved from calling for a referendum for West Cameroon, as he called it, to now advocating for a unified Cameroon.
What you said concerning Balla and Munzu clearly distinguish a leader from opinion makers. Neither Balla nor Munzu were leaders. If you change your position because of opportunity your are not a leader. A leader shows integrity and by doing so get respect and authority.
George,
You got it. The problem is most of our people lack the skill to distinguish between an accidental leader like Balla and Dr. Munzu and a real leader. Real leaders don’t sellout.
The deal with Balla was simply. He was going to be released to lead some kind of dialogue in which he was going to represent the ‘anglophones.’ Bottom line is it was going to be a fake dialogue because La Republique already knew what the results were going to be.
This plan fail because by the time Balla was released, we had a governing council with Sisiku at the head. Balla tried to test his authority by calling for school resumption. It did not work. A trip to London and other places did not work.
Anybody remember when he said la Republique took his ID and freeze his bank account? How can your ID be confiscated but you are allowed to travel in and out with your passport? That felt flat.
The truth is we are in a free world. Balla has a right to change his mind as he sees fit. Infact he has publicly said he stands for a unified Cameroon. As such he is at odds with the hope and aspirations of the people for an independent and separate homeland. He can therefore not be or represent himself as a leader of the people.
@Ni Jack well spoken. It is time we start learning and stop acting like uneducated people. Most of us only talk about war and destruction as we are stronger than the anybody else. I want you guys to read some independence books before making noises. Our brother balla is doing the right thing.
Read this article. Britain has to correct its wrong. People worried in the British Parliament when this went down. Unfortunately, the fear of that parliamentarian is playing out today.
http://www.langaa-rpcig.net/+Public-Documents-on-Southern+.html
Why is this Balla man always imposing himself to meet and talk to these people on un-permitted behalf of the Amba people like this British representive, the British commonwealth secretary etc.
Just as Ni Jack said.We cannot get out of this situation without dialogue and that can only come through diplomacy which is very complex and complicated in this world of today.Mballa is doing a very great job for this struggle and he understands how complicated and international diplomacy moves.We have to appreciate what he is doing ok!
I agree with you. But international stakeholders should start talking with those representing the majority of SCs. The solution lies in the IG. They should not be afraid of. Diplomacy takes time. But people should be honest.
Each one has a part to play in this struggle. If the struggle moved from rumours to effective stand up by the people, its because Balla spoke out fiercely on the issue, Wirba opened the gate of NO FEAR in the lion’s den, Tassang et al., stood their grounds and said no to any form of corruption by la republic, the diaspora roared in support of its people quest for over 57 years, before the we could even start hearing of Morisc, AGC….. we barely heard of who now has surfaced to the frontline. We have travelled so far thanks to the various contributions which we should be grateful of.
We need to map out a history to this struggle and make sure we keep memories of all these heroes and what they have done each with his competency and professional prowess.
Thanks Mark for always calling us to see beyond our emotions that blinds our vision.
The struggle must continue..
Any body toying with God’s Plan for His people is doing so at his or her risk.Britain and Lrc should understand that the past years were result of this crises because of their conspiracy over the anglophones.The Experiment for the marriage has FAILED.The amount of blood spilled in this crises is enough if it’s True that you are GREAT BRITAIN.
Well done Balla.
Keep on with the good job.
Balla is not a leader because he had the temerity to ask for children to be educated? being a leader does not equal being foolhardy. Balla is INFLUENTIAL and that’s why he is INVITED to meet with these people. Ambazonia = Biafra.2.0 if people with good judgement, the ability to dialogue and compromise (like Balla) dont step up.
I don’t think so. I am even wondering how you can compare two things which have nothing in common apart of being a conflict in Africa. We humans are just afraid of splitting up. We are afraid of divorce and possible consequences. In the diplomatic world there is a fear of that. But by that it causes even more problems. We Ambazonians should ask us two questions. And if we can answer those two questions with a clear YES everything is fine and we forget what we did the last at least 35 years.
1. Has the Southern Cameroons benefited from that union with LRC?
2. Are we going to benefit in the future from that union?
George
1) No
2) No
Separation is the only solution, because I will never look at the people East of the Mungo the same way prior to the struggle.
Fools
I think emotions will not help us. You rather expose your desperation. The idea of a union shall be that both parties benefit from that. We haven’t seen that. Therefore we must ask ourselfs this question. For gods sake why shall we keep that marriage while only the bigger partner benefit? It is irrational.
@George
Listen carefully George, All these questions you arise are rubbish.
Don’t fool people, you stay behind your keyboard and write these nonsense.
We cameroonian from NW and SW don’t need your stupid idea of separation.
How many of you ? Come to Bamenda, to Kumba, Mamfe, Limbe Buea and see.
You just stay abroad and talk rubbish, shut your mouth, nonsense
Look at a whole bunch of fools !
Whites are there plotting to annihilate the BLACK MAN, even Trump is hinting us. But the BLACK MAN can only do what he knows BEST, kill his own BROTHER, even without being hired to do so.
How many seconds is Ambazonia Rep. going to survive before being like South Sudan?
Bunch of FOOLS.