Cameroun Minister Shut UP President Biya-Chief Justice Ayah

January 5, 2018

MINISITTER SHUT UP PRESIDENT

The commander-in-chief of the Camerounese Armed Forces, Mr. President of the Republic, was emphatic in his end-of-year speech that the war against Anglophones would go on unabated in 2018. His lieutenant, Mr. Defence Minister, has rubbished this by declaring the war over, and inviting Manyu (Anglophone) refugees in Nigeria to return “home”.

Nothing can be more cynical than such contradiction during war time. In war times, orders must be strict and unambiguous. In Vietnam, (or was it in Cambodia?), a superior army officer told his junior to “take care” of some prisoners of war as the former forged ahead in battle. Hardly had he left when the junior officer shot dead all the prisoners of war… During his court-martial, the junior officer’s defence was that “take care” in American meant “get rid of”… Only an imprecise order! How much more deadly the contradiction in point!

Our concern here is much more than just that. In a civilized society and in a disciplined army, the orders of the commander-in-chief are obeyed to the letter by everyone below. And we know no situation where the supreme commander declares a war and his lieutenant takes a contrary position. That’s why Mr. Minister’s arrogation to himself of the powers of the supreme commander is for all intents and purposes a naked booby trap for our people.

Mr. Minister is not unaware that the supreme commander’s clannish bigots/fascists continue to call for genocide against Anglophones with the encouragement or, at least, the connivance of the Camerounese Government. They have continued to proclaim that Anglophones are Nigerians/Biafrans on Camerounese soil with the conspiracy of some Anglophone rabid “dogs”; and that those refugees have only gone back home to Nigeria.

SO TERRIBLY IRRESPONSIBLE AND REPREHENSIBLE!

As the government has continuously given tacit approval to such bigotry by mute disdain thereby sanctioning that Anglophones are “stateless”, we are logically waiting for Mr. Minister to tell us where our brothers and sisters in refugee camps have to go to in order to obtain visas to enter Cameroun. We would hate to see them being expelled for “clandestine immigration”.

Again, Mr. Minister’s government has never failed to praise the military for their professionalism/restraint in prosecuting the war against Anglophones. Yet have the churches been consistent and categorical that the very military have shot and killed unarmed civilians even from the air. That they have broken into houses and killed, maimed and abducted Anglophones in their peaceful sleep. That the have burnt down dozens of houses at Kembong in particular…

How does Mr. Minister honestly guarantee the safety in his now conquered territory of those very persons they call and consider as “Nigerians/Biafrans”? Has Mr. Minister built refugee camps for those without houses to shelter themselves when they return? Or is Mr. Minister inviting them to return and shelter themselves in mass graves?

Mr. Minister may wish to inform himself, if their high level of professionalism did sidestep this fundamental fact, that even the UNHCR cannot force a refugee back to the land he has fled. Much less can the belligerent nation! Even the host country has no such authority. The decision to return to the land of hostilities comes from the exclusive, sovereign appreciation of cessation of hostilities by the refugees themselves! PERIOD!

Mr. Minister’s government through the Manyu SDO did chase the people out of their shelters by an order in writing, (contrary to international law – a clear occasion of crime against humanity). The very people are now being summoned orally to return to those very shelters – perhaps booby-trapped. Is there not a single person in that government who knows even just elementary administrative practice that only a document can revoke Mr. SDO’s document?

Be the case as it may, we know that the commander-in-chief of the Camerounese Armed Forces has asserted that the war must rage on this 2018. None of his lieutenant, nay general, can overrule him in the normal course of things! If Mr. Defence Minister wants us to take him seriously, his first step is to make himself the commander-in-chief. Even then, confidence-building would be the inevitable second step – not so easily surmountable!

EXPENSIVE JESTING!

ABIAR!