According to unimpeachable sources, a high level delegation of Lawyers and Teachers, headed by Barrister Harmony Bobga convened in Ndawara, Boyo Division, at the legendary home of business mogul and Biya protege, Alhadji Baba.
Our concurring sources said the meeting was at the behest of President Biya who reached out to his friend Alhadji Baba. According to my sources, Alhadji Baba said that President Biya was not getting the truth from the men around him and had reached out to him so he could get to the bottom of the problems. But first, the President indicated that talk of federation had to be “off the table”.
Accompanied by France 24 because some participants “were in fear of not coming out of that fortress” alive, the lawyers and teachers maintained their demands, viz:
1) Common Law Bar;
2) Common Law Chamber at the Supreme Court;
3) Common Law School to train lawyers as well as Common Law Judges
4) Separate Education Council to take care of Southern Cameroons education from kindergarten through University;
5) Return control of entry into professional schools back to the Universities and away from the corrupt Ministry of Higher Education;
6) Return to two State Federation.
The 12 hour long session started Sunday afternoon and ended in wee hours of Monday at 2:00am, the time at which lawyers finished drafting the document that was immediately dispatched to the Presidency for translation and then forwarded to the President. The Lawyers, Teachers and Civil Society present hope to hear from the President soon.
But they made it clear, sources say, that if there is no reasonable action by the Head of State, things will move into phase three. In the meantime, talk was rife about an impending cabinet change in the wake of the monumental failure by PM Yang and the poor handling of the situation by Fame Ndongo of Education, as well as his colleagues at the Ministry of Justice and Paul Atanga.
By Innocent Chia
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Why did the teachers and lawyers position a two state federation as the last point? It ought to be the first point. The second point should be independence while the others follow in that order. The demands from points 1 – 5 are supposed to be granted by which government? How can you be demanding for a two state federation which is tantamount to desperation, and be demanding for other things to be done by the previous government? I sense ignorance, cowardice and some sort of manipulation. If teachers and lawyers are actually representing the voice of the Southern Cameroon people, they should demand for two things – A two state federation or total independence. Period. There is no need dangling and beating about the bush !!!
Cameroon journalists are a pathetic bunch of cowards. Its inconceivable that whenever they meet this Tchiroma none – absolutely none has the nerve to put him to task let him explain what his boss, Mr Paul Biya is so scared off to meet journalists and the Cameroonian citizens face to face to discuss national issues. Infact even if questions are given before hand, I wonder what stops them from giving in questions and then ask whatever they please when called. Now instead of organizing a national forum where the great issues of the state are discussed, the President has decided to cherry pick certain things to then select from them – and the next we will hear is that the national Assembly has debated in their kind of way and Mr President will then sign some phoney legislation that does not address any of the concerns of the Southern Cameroonians.We need return to the federation of 1960. One will safeguard our autonomy and guarantees equality with East Cameroon. We will have our own constitution and armed police, and above all the right to end the federation if slightest attempt is made by East Cameroon to interfere in our affairs. We should not give these people any chance again to dominate us. Now we have the watchful eye and strong arm of the international community looking over us. It is like the moon that shines and then goes away only to return after a month’s time But with this international watch it might only come again after many years. We better get everything done with this time or never. Let us not permit any tricks again. So the question I am asking. What was the purpose of sending a list of demands to the President by the consortium? Is it the memorandum which the President is supposed to have got right from the beginning or is he going to examine all by himself like some homework sent by a student to his teacher for correction and then brought back with a decision? I hope one of the demands submitted included the organizing of a national forum where the problem is openly discussed and decision taken and not that he and some of his blockheaded cronies like half educated Atanga Paul Nji will want to decide on behalf of the nation. .
all this biya’s talk of removing federation from the table is bullshit let him go to hell.
its either federation… if not granted then separation follows even if it means by blood.
I don’t like the order in which the lawyers present their points .looks like they r very willing to stay in LA republique if BiYa promises are favourable to them.
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I begin by expressing my gratitude to you all, for your relentless efforts in fighting for our course.
To you all I say Courage.
These are my own thoughts and analysis of what I see which is going on in our country and what I think might unfold and what I think you can add if need be. Please before you judge, you have to understand these are just my thoughts. You can add or minus from here anything you read.
You have struck the system so hard they can’t believe it. Trust me these guys are iron, and have been wounded by your iron blows. Some are still scratching their heads and pinching themselves to see if it’s for real. Some have gotten it and are rushing here and there consulting the best of their advisors.
Do not be fooled here are the things you will see been done to give a feeling we are together
• Delay tactics, using time in saying they are processing information we gave. (Very worrying point) time kills and interest might wane. Am worried!
• More ministers will start speaking in English
• Signs and billboards will be slowly changed to both languages with English appearing bold
• Important ministers in say 3-4 ministries will be Anglophones
• Majority Francophone staff in divisional and sub- divisional schools will be transferred
• Many Anglophone teachers will be posted to teach in Francophone zones with an increase in salary as compared to those in Anglophone zones (a pull factor,watchout)
• Some Provincial and divisional judges will be Anglophones in Anglophone areas
• Speeding up of the Kumba-Mamfe road construction
Do not be glad these things are just window dressings for they will soon fade away. Behind the scene right now are spies, sent out to spy and sabotage the leaders in the Anglophone struggle. Beware they are going to use women and money to bribe them. Do not be alarm if you hear of theft and sex scandals. It saddens me to say this, but some leaders will trip. They have employed hackers, who are working right now in trying to track and expose. I won’t name the country from where the hackers came from. Let all our prominent leaders mind what they say over the phone and in SMSes, they are listening to them and listening to the closest 5-10 persons in their circle of friends.
Working behind the scene right now are ethnologists and sociologists employed to cause great division among the Anglophones. These people know the weakness in our tribal cultures and are going to set a wave hoping it breaks our spine. Please do not start hating people in this professions, they are just been used because they know very well how societies are structured. Here are some of the things I think they will propose and try to do;
• Organize simple things such as canoe races between people in the coastal areas from Wouri to Bamusso with large sums of money to be won. Event will be covered by the media and historians will be called to start talking about their similarities and common ancestors, and you will start to hear things like sawa land, sawa people. Manyu will be ignored from these events and these will upset certain chiefs, elite and natives and that will be the start of the breaking of the peoples of the SW. The Mbo’s and Bakossi will be encouraged through cultural and sporting events to link up with Nkongsamba. As you can see these diabolic events have isolated Manyu and Labialem peoples. They will use our chiefs and elites for these evil jobs. My brothers and sisters do not be alarm and fall for these when you see these things unfolding. Warn your Cheifs and elites.
• Appoint a North westerner as Governor of South West or a big cooperation in the South West, and then get some chiefs to oppose publicly, so the Governor/General manager will be remove with the hope that people from the North West will be upset, and this will be made into a huge story. This trick will be to plant mistrust and their will media promote it.
This same trick will be used in the North West, but this time they will use someone from the Western province to plant division and isolate North West. My people like we say in pidgin “shine your eyes” and do not fall for these.
• Offer prime ministerial office to someone from Ndian hoping it will upset Manyu and to please Manyu, appoint one of their elite as governor in littoral/ centre province. Forgive me if you do not buy my analysis, but this is how I perceive the bite and blow from this diabolic “system”. They are trying to isolate North West at the same time divide South west making it to look like Manyu,Lebialem, Manegoumba and Bagem are against Fako,Bamusso and Meme
• For the North West they will stir tribal wars and make it national news. Favour weaker group over stronger one. Let not your hearts be trouble my people.”Shine your eyes and avoid falling for this.
They will also stir up news in West Cameroon that North West will rule and gain more, so as to frighten any weaker comrade. At the same time they will stir within South west that Manyu natives are more and will dominate and they (the system) will offer to help Fako and Bamusso if they reject Federation. Please let this not sway you, for the rule of law,open opportunity for all will have to be the bedrock of our federation. The shallow reason you see they are trying to set confusion amongst Manyu in SW and NW as a whole is that, they(the system) thinks these two benefit the most from others. But it is a lie. West Cameroon has lot of unexploited resources in the north west,such as iron ore in Ndop,Coal,rare earth minerals along Nkambe all the way to Furawa,following that mighty Katsina river,just to name a few. We know they do not release these info for fear of us separating. Same goes with Manyu,Bangem Labeliam,we know there is bauxite in Bagem and Labialem,some crude oil in Mamfe,pozzalan in Manegoumba and many more because as it stands our region is least exploited. The only resource heavily extracted is the crude from Ndian,timber from Korup and Nguti and now some crude from Limbe
We all have some differences, its normal but we should all rally around the Identity (Anglophone). Look the USA and Canada are made up of people from Africa, Europe and Asia. What binds us should be our Anglophones. Guard this closer to your hearts, for if we fail they will suck in South west into Littoral and North west into West, by creating what they will call Coastal/Sawaland state and Grassfeild state. This will come about by them proposing a 6-7 states solution. Flee from proposal, because if we are sucked in, only force can be use to liberate us and it will be deadly.
They are now back to their drawing boards planning drastic and carefully thought over ideas. There is blame game in their camp now and some heads will roll, some are saying they had been very arrogant and harsh with “assimilation” or “harmonization”. The implementation of their diabolic plans will be gradual this time, as you can see the system is very upset by what we have done. We have shattered what they have built since 1962 till date in just 2 years. We should be very tactical and foresighted, take no soft speeches in English by some as change or appointments as a solution.
It’s either Full Federation with all its tenets or Secession. Let the Consortium be careful with who they bring on board and how they draft and list their points. If all their points are satisfied but no federation granted it will take two generations to wipe the slate clean, and this might be deadly. If they say we are talking politics, we should agree, politics affects all sectors of life and politicians are the decision makers. We are talking about all these because of what politician did. Do not shy away when they say avoid politics.
Some of their advisors are telling them to offer us Full Federation, but the system is worried. The “system” says they need a guarantee, and it should be, we sign a clause which will state that Secession will never be raised in say 100 years from the date of such signing and it be enshrine in a new constitution. If we take this option, we also have to propose that all the points raised plus Full Federation with all its tenets, be protected and enshrine in the constitution and upheld to its fullest, and if it’s not followed we will opt out of the union and go our way as a separate state.
We should also ensure that the state flag bears two stars as a reminder that, these are two peoples living together under a Federal system. The name of our country should also include the words United and Federal. These are reminders and should not be left out.
Brothers and sisters I have more to say but I will reserve for now. Please feel free to use these info to educate our people if you dim fit, I have no copyright issue with it.
NB
A point to highlight, CDC might be lost; its destruction had been going for some time. She will suffer from competition brought to it by the “system”; the “system” has created large farms in the east and south growing palms and rubber. They have few workers and most are seasonal same as Herackles farm, so they stand a better chance of undermining CDC in selling their produce. This will cause CDC to be indebted and be forced to be privatized to foreign companies and behind these foreign companies will be top people from the “system” their family and friends. They will create companies abroad in what is call “company layering” and use these companies to buy shares in a foreign company and ask this foreign company to come and buy over CDC shares. We should watch out and teach our people to be vigilant and be vocal.