On May 24th, one Dr. Benjamin Akih from New york USA sent out a damaging letter to the Belgian authorities against Mark Bareta. The letter is below

Boh Herbert, Spokesman of the Movement for the Restoration of the Independence of Southern Cameroons (MoRISC) reacts

I have just read, in horror, an “open letter” in which an obviously half-baked “teacher” of Physics at the otherwise renowned Syracuse University in New York (USA), launches a cowardly, bound to fail, backstabbing attack on Mark Bareta.

Why am I not surprised?
Well, for one thing, the fellow (Ben Akih is apparently his name) perfectly fits the mold the colonizer has designed from the beginning of the recolonization project. Ben Akih isn’t an accident. Alas, he is formatted as thousands of other Cameroonian intellectual prostitutes. He comes from a class of ass kissing “book pipul” who have sold any shame they ever had. No surprise, therefore, that Ben Akih is apparently schooled enough to hold a PhD, but not educated enough to know – even in hindsight – that there is a Mandela, the Freedom Fighter; and a Mandela, the Terrorist. He cannot still tell that there is a Martin Luther King, Jr. the Terrorist; and a Martin Luther King, Jr., the Freedom Fighter and Civil Rights Champion.

No surprise there, either. Ben Akih is living proof of why “half book” is more dangerous than “no book at all”. This is something that should have, truly, been surprising to us. We should have worried if this and other “agents provocateurs” of the colonizer did not attack Mark Bareta and those, like him, who are actively campaigning for the restoration of the independence of Southern Cameroons.

Think about it for a moment. Ben Akih lives is terrorized, indeed. He only has to admit what he is so afraid of and not make up these tales of being for peace and unity, when he did not feel the same urge to speak up for peace and unity when security forces terrorized students, parents, teachers, lawyers, traders, Okada riders, and more. It has, indeed, to be terrorizing to intellectual prostitutes and sellouts like Ben Akih to witness the rise of a new breed of Southern Cameroonians who, like Mark Bareta, have wholeheartedly rejected being fed crumbs from the colonizer’s table. Ben Akih and others of his ilk are terrorized by bold heroism of those like Mark Bareta who seek freedom, dignity and independence with the kind of courage that “half book” dictator worshippers like Ben Akih cannot even fathom. What should worry those of us, parents and peace loving citizens the world over, is the fact that a fellow Ben Akih – most likely sick in his mind – is not getting the care he desperately needs. Crawling out of the closet may help win him that care. Hopefully. As parents, we should worry that someone like Ben Akih still has access to the classroom and is, even as we speak, contaminating more young, innocent minds with the same kind of sickening poison that he spews in his piece to the Belgium government and security forces.

If Ben Akih is schooled enough to have earned “permanent head damage”, why is he not
educated enough to know that you cannot teach the Belgian government and security forces
how to do their job? Why is he not educated enough to know that by asking the Belgian
government and security forces to do their best, you are, in fact, saying they are not doing well? Is that the kind of compliment Ben Akih teaches his students to pay if they want a government to arrest someone like Mark Bareta? Is Ben Akih’s brain big enough to earn a PhD and yet too small to understand why the Belgian government and security forces have not done to the leaders of the Flemish Movement of Belgium what he advocates should be done to Mark Bareta? Why would the Flemish Movement have the right to advocate the foundation of an independent Flemish republic and to campaign for the preservation of the history and culture of the Flemish people, yet Mark Bareta cannot do same for the people of Southern Cameroons?

Helloooooooo! Why write an “open letter” with such a closed mind?
Well, because Ben Akih is using the letter as a means to an end. We have seen this product
before. A certain Paul Atanga Nji wrote the original script from New Bell Prison, claiming – as Ben Akih does – to speak in defense of peace and unity. From behind bars at New Bell Prison, Paul Atanga Nji demonized the SDF. More intellectual prostitutes will follow Paul Atanga Nji’s and Ben Akih’s lead, not because they care for peace and unity. Nay! They will do so simply in the hope that it satisfies their lust to be seated at the table of Emperor Paul Biya bi Mvondo. Ben Akih hopes the regime reads in between the lines, as it did in the days of Paul Atanga Nji. Like the latter, the former would appreciate an offer from the Biya regime in order to begin plans for the return flight across the Atlanta Ocean to some kind of juicy position within top staff of the colonial regime in Yaounde. Ben Akih dresses his supplication for a post within the regime with the same intellectual dishonesty that cronies of the Inkatha Party used to justify Apartheid in South Africa. Like all intellectual prostitutes, it is your guess as well as mine that the likes of Ben Akih are willing – even desperate – to sacrifice Mark Bareta and everyone else,
including their wife, children and grandmother, in order to reach the depths of political disgrace they mistake for honor.

Sad, that they seem to have found whom to fool all too easily. As for our people, and the
people of Belgium and other Western democracies, they know that we will not be misled by
just another “Mister Book Miss Road”.

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By Ntumfoyn Boh Herbert (Yindo Toh)*
* Spokesperson, Movement for the Restoration of the Independence of Southern Cameroons
(MoRISC).