Human Rights abuse of the most Horrible type

The shooting of civilians to death, using animal imagery to describe the Southern Cameroonians – rats, dogs, two cubes of sugar – has been a disgraceful fuel to what Ruanda went through in 1994. The Genocide. Until some few days ago our grand-mother from Ekona, a mother in her Nineties was pierced to death on the forehead by the evil hands of military bastards. Is there a good and bad method to portray wickedness? When a terrorist government wants to exercise beastly power over millions of unarmed civilians and protesters, when it has abducted hundreds and killed many, is what we call government in LRC any longer necessary? When that political cabal calls itself “ a one and indivisible State,” and it takes inspiration from atheist theologies abroad and rapes students and assassinates even prelates, why not refer to it as such? What’s the use of opting instead, to call it a government? We must learn to call things as they are for what has perpetrated the plague called North Korea is the fact that journalists had persistently called it before the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which is obviously the antithesis of a democratic republic. Deploying words against absolutism and despotism is difficult to do in Cameroon, even among writers, clergymen and journalists. Yet, in the words of Nigeria’s Wole Soyinka, “Art should expose, reflect, indeed magnify the decadent, rotten underbelly of a society that has lost its direction.” The artist must see the rotten underbelly stinking rubbish that spoils the air of is people and propose ways they can do away with it or escape its debilitating effects.

I take off my hat for the resolute poor masses, the hoipolloi of the Southern Cameroons and I denounce the many elites of our land for their promiscuous use of poor people’s revolution, their hijacking of the achababoys’s anger against a despicable system, and their using it to benefit their empty egos and financial positions in the name of a federation that is an unnecessary option for the typical man of the two Cameroons.

The southern Cameroonians’ determination in seeing LRC as an artificial edifice forced on their throat is dramatized in the thousands of calls its people have publicly made in protest. And therefore, the idea of a one indivisible Cameroon is an absurdity. Cameroon is a collection of two self-contained and distinctly independent Political States, estranged from one another by territory, by divergence of history and traditions, and by ethnological, political, social and religious barricades.

Political upstarts from Amadou Ahidjo to Paul biya have radically altered the rapport peace loving people had with their history and torn apart their people’s sense of identity. In fact, things have fallen apart – to invoke the title of Achebe’s first novel – with the arrival of the colonial programme of Paul Biya and his terrorist attacks on the Southern Cameroons. He has lost legitimacy over them – a legitimacy he never had in the first place.

LRC has a scary history of perilously balancing herself on the cliff’s edge from time to time. And each instant frequently comes with a considerable quantity of nervousness and deadening horror. See what humiliation the almighty Laurent Esso passed through in Belgium – and yet would not learn. They take decisions which scare even supernatural forces to sympathize.

La Republique du Cameroun(LRC), this so-called nation, has arrived at the frame of mind of a madman oblivious of where it is going to. The pathologies that LRC suffers are incurable. Now, those who have argued that we have even never had a country now look the wise ones. We have only one thing to do: embrace our country Ambazonia, a brand new country for ourselves, with a people-driven constitution, and a leadership that is answerable to the masses. Only our Anglo-Saxon heritage can deliver the goods to guide us through a democratic journey. No more no less.
The clamor for independence is the fundamental option of this era. It is fundamental because it is the final phase of the liberation of our people. Many people loud the word freedom as if it means everything we opt for. It does; but remember that even Paul Biya uses the word freedom when he emasculates us, remember he uses it when he abducts our children and parents. Remember that Tchiroma uses the word ‘freedom’ when he uses the apartheid LRC media to spew invectives on and parody our victimized and raped peoples. What I say is, that to qualify the plight of our people with the word ‘freedom’ or ‘federation’ is as lazy as the system that has put us in servitude for 56 years. It is independence we are talking about and therefore I am not just supplying an argument to the muddled debate over the evil that has been meted on the Southern Cameroons by LRC. I am making a case for the primacy of restoration of independence ,1st October 2017.

Father Gerald Jumbam

Priest Kumbo Diocese