Mr. Aboubakary Siddiki is a cellmate to most Anglophone Detainees in Prison, in this heartfelt open letter to US Ambassador, Yaounde, he explained how he has come to understand the Southern Cameroons Crisis different from what they were made to believe about the historical perspective of what is commonly known as the Anglophone regions. In this letter wherein he voiced out the truth, he asked the Ambassador certain questions if those he called on the round table discussions have any bearing on the revolution. He challenges the Ambassador to get the real actors, get the Government of Paul Biya to act swiftly as the current war is consuming the Cameroons. Read on

 

TO: The Ambassador
(Mr Peter Henry Barlerin)
US EMBASSY
Y’de, Cameron

FROM: Aboubakary Siddiki
Prison Principal
Kondengui
Y’de, CMR

Dear Mr Peter Henry Barlerin,

THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONIAN CRISIS

I’ve learnt with the utmost joy and gratitude through the media that you have invited my fellow citizens from a broad spectrum of the society: civil society, the clergy, human rights defenders, and political actors both in the ruling govt and the opposition.

As I understand, Sir, your aim is to find a lasting solution to the conflict that is decimating the anglophone community in Cameroon. As a Cameroonian and especially a Francophone Cameroonian, I am eternally grateful and I congratulate you for this initiative that might safe not only Cameroon but the entire Gulf of Guinea.

Dear Sir, kindly permit me to proffer my modest contributions to this laudable initiative. For having been a cellmate here at the Kondengui Maximum Security Prison, of Barrister Agbor Ballad, Mr Mancho Bibixy, Dr Fontem, Mr Asah Patrick NDANGOH and a few other front line leaders of the Anglophone struggle, I have invariably gained a profound understanding on this crisis from a perspective different from the conventional Francophone’s take.

Dear Mr Ambassador, we have all watch this crisis form itself from a trade unionists’ demands into a full fledged armed conflict. That is exactly what it is. Cameroon is at war in the Anglophone region!!

And this war pits two belligerents. On the one hand, the armed forces of the Republic of Cameroon. On the other, the separatist forces of Southern Cameroon/Ambazonia. Among whom are the ADF, the Tigers, ARA, Vipers, Dragons and SOCADEF. Just to mention the most pronounced armed separatist groups.

Politically, there is the state of Cameroon with all the trappings of its powers and the need for its integrity. On the other side, calling the shots is the Interim Governing structure of the Ambazonians.

Dear Sir, the choices of your interlocutors are crucial as you venture solutions to this crisis. To be mistaken in your choices and to so business with the wrong partners shall be a waste of time, and, I dare say putting the chart in front of the horse.

Before all negotiations and, or dialogue one invariably must answer the following questions:

1) what is the true weight and value of one’s negotiating counterparts on the forces on the forces present in the field?

2) These counterparts can they successfully order and bring about an end to the ghost towns and civil disobedience?

3) ln the current dispensation can they even order a cease fire and make it hold?

4) These counterparts can they tell you whom has captured the Cameroonian officials and is keeping them hostages? And why and where these officials have been captured and kept as hostages.

If your interlocutors can answer in the affirmative then they are good business partners. Failing that Sir, then you must look elsewhere.

WHOM, THEREFORE , ARE THE RIGHT INTERLOCUTORS??

“To Greater Evils Greater Solutions” are necessitated. I believe Sir, that it is imperative that in addition to those with whom you have already begun to dialogue the following people or entities should be invited to the dialogue table. Or their legitimate representatives:

1. Members of the Ambazonia Interim Government
2. Representatives of the Armed Factions of the Ambazonian Defense Forces
3. Figures of prominence amongst the imprisoned Southern Cameroonian community
4. Neutral parties, and
5. The granting of a general amnesty to all arrested as a consequence of this struggle.

Dear Sir, it must also be emphasized that to show good faith and to demonstrate Cameroon’s attachment to a state of law and respectful of human rights and of fundamental liberties those Ambazonian leaders, including Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, who were abducted from Nigeria and transferred to Cameroon should simply be taken back to Nigeria.

For it must be noted that as long as they are continuously kept out of the reach of their loved ones and their lawyers ALL YOUR EFFORTS SHALL BE IN VAIN.

Dear Mr Ambassador, a day doesn’t go by that we do not hear or read of am attack, a kidnapping, am entire village being burnt down with occupants in their houses or of hitherto unheard of crimes in the Anglophone zone of Cameroon. At this rate we are sure to unfold, witness and maintain a war with genocidal consequences.

I sincerely pray your good efforts, as you turn to the right quarters, shall bring all of us the solutions to this war before it’s too late.

As I await your reply, Sir, accept my distinguished regards.

Sincerely,

Aboubakary Siddiki

National President
MDPSC Party

{Condemned to 25 Years of Imprisonment zero proof and/or any witnesses}