President Paul Biya, on March 15th appointed members of the Bilingualism Commission, 9 of which are Francophones and 5 Southern Cameroonians. Southern Cameroonians have largely rejected the commission. The present “Anglophone” crisis is about statehood restoration and got nothing to do with language etc. Mr.Jay Zee Macaulay in his discuss analyse the commission.
1. Mafany is a regime insider. No matter the goodwill and genuine peacebuilding ideas, efforts and strategies of Mwalimu George Ngwane, Mafany will still influence the final outcome/resolutions of the commission.
2. Jean Marc Afesi Mbafor was thrown into the mix because he “controls” the CPDM youths. Biya now thinks Mbafor will be to that commission, what Tapang and Bara Mark are to the Consortium.
3. Abioem a Choye was brought in because Biya knows that he (Abioem) knows the unadulterated truth on the burning issues of this struggle, and could potentially ‘spill the beans’ like he did in his recent press outings.
4. Mwalimu George Ngwane is ‘The Thinker’ of the commission, and Biya could not leave him out entirely. He is a good man wanting to help. However, watch out for how he might be ‘choked’ and ‘overpowered’ by Biya’s henchmen in the commission. Then sooner or later, he may cry foul about non-respect of certain decisions taken by the commission.
5. Ama Tutu is of NO CONSEQUENCE!!! Even as Minister of Culture, she was zero. So she might just be there for ‘gender’ reasons!
6. Is Nalova part of the commission too? Well, UB is a “Commonwealth hot spot”, an “Evidence 1A” and the face for cases of human rights violation in this struggle. So, somehow, Biya is bringing Nalova in to give a semblance of having the university administrator concerned, to assist ” in government’s effort to find lasting solutions to… bla bla bla”.
We know their rhetorics!
7. Above all, expect the usual bossy arrogance from the francophone members of the commission. It is in their DNA! And mind you, they will come with SPECIFIC instructions from…!
8. Finally, the commission may either just end up like the others; make proposals which will never be implemented (like those on decentralization drafted 20 years ago) or just another rubber stamp commission with resources wasted, no work was done! Then we will all be back to ground zero!!!
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Can some one who has the contacts of Nwalimu George Ngwane pass him this message?
Mwalimu Ngwane, stay off that thing like Pius Njawe did in the 1990s with the Communication council’s appointment.
Going into that thing wil be lending credence to the fact that our people abducted and taken to Nkondengui are guilty. Accepting that appointment means that Agbor Nkongho, Justice Ayah should be hang men.
Sitting at that commission without the release of our people , you Nwalimu? Unbeleavable
I was in Cape Town in September 2006 and met on Tanzanian who was very interested in knowing Roger Milla was. I told him that Mr Milla was Roving Ambassador and he asked me why was he not visiting Tanzania as well? I then asked the man whether Tanzania has another Nwalimu after Julius Nyerere. He cut in sharply and told me: “No, no, no, there can never be two Nwalimus in Tanzania” He then told me that America has their Thomas Jefferson and we have our Nwalimu. Nwlimu taught to look into our selves and build development. When he died, people wrote all types of nonsense. What happened? The World Bank brought in that nonsense called Structural adjustmen program and Africa is practically recolonized” The rest is another story
Mr George Ngwane, by adopting the title Nwalimu, you know which shoes you were about to wear. The Nwalimu Juis Nyerere never compromised on his ideals.
That commission is no deal for you!
Please back out
Agien Nyangkwe (Aaron) taking all the risks of putting this accross to you
TO “MWALIMU” GEORGE NGWANE: HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN SO SOON?
By: C.NSAM
It’s a pretty long time “Mwalimu”.
My eyes however strayed last night on articles published by Bareta News and Cameroon Intelligence (Online edition) announcing your appointment as member of Mr Biya’s ambiguous bilingualism commission. My immediate reaction was to scan your blog, and appreciate your reaction to the appointment. So far (i.e. at the moment of scribbling this open note to you) I am still to know if you have accepted the appointment or not!
Whatever position you take, the fact is that your name conjured memories of moments that I consider very key to the Southern Cameroons struggle. Consequently, you will permit me to pose a few questions to you “Mwalimu”!
Do you still remember those days in Buea “Mwalimu”? The days we all passed around for a community of “Idealists”? Do you remember how we thronged the rocky streets of Great Soppo in Buea? Draining the last “33”dregs at “Olivia” after launching the front at “Gaston” or “Pa John” at Bolifamba? Those were great days! Great company! Great minds! How soon have the beautiful ones gone.
“Mwalimu”, can you still recollect those days? The names? The people? Some of those people have gone ahead of us all – BB (Bate Besong-RIP), Julius Afoni (RIP), Teche (RIP). Some are still alive – Francis Wache, Anu Vincent, Barrister Charles Taku etc. Those were great days “Mwalimu”! Do you still remember them?
Do you remember the famous Pamphlet (Book) launch at the Buea Youth Centre! I mean the launch that was organized to celebrate the Pamphlet you quickly published to “honour” Bate Besong (BB), who was pronounced ANA (Association of Nigerian Authors) Laureate – Drama Category for that year? Do you remember all of those hopeful eyes that flooded the Buea Youth Centre? Do you at all remember “Mwalimu”?
Do you still remember the title of the pamphlet you wrote? – “Bate Besong or Symbol of Anglophone Hope?” Can you still remember the lightening sparks that came out of that moment – Simon Munzu’s words? Barrister Ekontang Elad’s words? Carlson Anyangwe’s keynote? Do you still remember “Mwalimu”? Do you even still remember that you were at the centre of the mobilization of the entire Southern Cameroons to this eventful moment? Do you still remember “Mwalimu?”
Do you still remember that this was the moment that gave birth to the All Anglophone Conference 1 (AAC1)? Do you still remember this glorious newspaper headline that I casted after the Buea Youth Centre Pamphlet Launch – “IS IT NOT TIME FOR AN ALL ANGLOPHONE CONFERENCE?” Have you suddenly forgotten “Mwalimu?”
Do you remember how old Dr Agbor Balla was then “Mwalimu”? Or have you also forgotten that “Little Agbor Balla” of the times then, is the now versatile, courageous, selfless leader of a struggle that you once claimed to stand for?
Can you really tell me that you have forgotten “Mwalimu”? Have you forgotten that in those days, when the mantle seed of the Southern Cameroons, rocked and rattled, “Little Agbor Balla” looked up to you? Have you forgotten? Teacher, don’t tell me you have forgotten!
Yes, “Little Agbor Balla” looked up to you. You were the great master of ceremony during AAC1 (Mount Mary); you were this articulate columnist in Kebila Fokum’s edition of “The Messenger”. Yes that’s who you were. Have you forgotten “Mwalimu”? Have you truly forgotten? So soon?
I don’t want to believe that you have so suddenly forgotten, even though I have just stumbled upon reviews written by our contemporaries who believe that you have never ever been serious or genuine about your southern Cameroons chanting. Most of our contemporaries believe that you have always been the self-seeking schemer, nosing around and sniffing any opportunity that will swell your ego!
Can you then prove them wrong by turning down this appointment “Mwalimu”? After all what is there in this club of gangsters that you can change? Or are you now one of them? Or you were already one of them as some of our contemporaries hold? Can you please disprove them? Can you show the world that there is nothing in common between you and sycophant greed eaters like Peter Mafany Musonge? Or have you grown to become one of them “Mwalimu”?
Dear “Mwalimu” George Ngwane, truly I have not met nor seen you for a very long time. But I want to believe you are still a fervent Christian; 1John 2:4-6 echoes these holy words:-
The Man who says, “I know him” but does
Not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in
him. But if anyone obeys his word, God’s love is truly
made complete in him. This is
how we know we are in him:
Whoever claims to live in him
must walk as Jesus did.
Is there anything in the Biya regime that has happened in the last 34 years of Cameroon’s tortured history that you can call truth “Mwalimu”? Is there anything that this man has done in the past 34 years of the history of the nation that you can place to define the love that he has for the country “Mwalimu”? What therefore makes you believe that your presence in this farce will change anything “Mwalimu”?
Mr. Biya, and his disciples have told Cameroonians lies for 34 years today. There is no iota of truth in anything that has ever come out of his mouth since he assumed the mantle of power in Cameroon 34 years ago. That is why in all these years, one common factor has rest as the identity of his disciples – Lies!
My dear “Mwalimu” George Ngwane, let me close with one more scripture from the book of Philippians 2:5-8
“Your attitude should be the
Same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature
God,
did not consider equality
with God something to
be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of
a servant,
being made in human
likeness.
And being found in
appearance as man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death-
even death on a cross!”
I do recognize the cravings of man’s ego that causes us to lose reason, and even accept poisoned chalices as sweet incense gifts. Jesus Christ opens our minds to fresh scale of thought in this scripture; let us stay obedient to the truth, even when faced with the cross. For the glory that the Lord adorns us with will outshine the clustered dim of the wicked.
“Mwalimu” I do rest my case; say hello to George Mofor, Barrister Ashutangtang and all those crop of young Southern Cameroonians who have always looked up to you. God Bless You.
If this “Mwalimu”(teacher) Ngwane has a God given conscience, he will readily turn down his appointment to that inconsequential, manipulative tool – the Bilingual Commission. It is a sham a fraud and a Trojan Horse!!!. Who is the diaper wearing octogenarian despot called Paul Biya, He, is merely grasping for any straws he can lay his hands on, to divert attention from the gross criminal acts of inhumanity committed by his jack booted thugs cum soldiers, and Southern Cameroonians resolve of “enough is enough,” we want our dignity and respect back through the restoration of our independence. He is on the ropes because he never expected such a strong, unified response from us. He is now finding out that his old tactics of divide and rule and corrupt will not work this time around. Southern Cameroonians have wised up in the face of these latest indignities against our people. So, Anyone who normalizes these unconscionable acts of cruel violence by working for this evil francophone regime, will have to answer to future generations of Southern Cameroonians for their treacherous and treasonable actions. Paul Biya and his cohorts can fool some of the people some of the time, but they cannot fool all of the people all the time.”
How do you want him to reject the appointment?, you should know that the government do not appoint people without first of all talking to them at the background. If you see or hear that some one is appointed, just know that he already given his consent to the president before his name comes up. It seems as if only hungry southern cameroonians are complaining and that is why the struggle is always lacking a charismatic leader with all the qualities needed. The people are ready to do anything for their liberation but there is no leader to take them ahead. very pathetic indeed