BaretaNews can authoritatively report that La Republic’s military forces stationed in Ambazonia are making a lot of money from school principals in the name of providing security for schools. It is important to note that in an attempt to penetrate the schools shutdown in Ambaland, the colonial government had deployed combat ready officers to strategic schools in the towns and villages of Southern Cameroons.
However, Bareta news has learned that the presence of these security forces on Campuses is not for free. PTA’s and school principals are being compelled to pay at least the sum of 150,000frans as monthly security fees for two mobile police offices keeping watch on each campus every night.
Last Thursday in Buea, Baretanews reporter witnessed a bitter exchange between one of the commissioners of police and the principal of a popular boarding mission school in Buea. The Principal had resisted paying the monthly 150000frs to the commissioner of police due to the ineffectiveness of the colonial forces in guarding the school. Baretanews reporter overhead the principal frankly telling the commissioner that his boys have been sleeping in the night instead of keeping guard and so she cannot continue to pay that amount. The commissioner however insisted that she must pay, else he will pull out his forces from keeping guard at in the school.
This extortion by the colonial forces is enough proof to conclude that the military may be orchestrating arson in schools in order get more security jobs for themselves. If not, what accounts for the continuous burning of Amazonian schools, especially visibly secured ones, even with the presence of these forces on campuses?
The Southern Cameroons crisis has proven to be a brisk business for both politicians and security forces and we don’t think they may interested in seeing it end so soon. They will continuously create security situations that they can use to make their money from the coffers of colonial Masters.
Baretanews can only advised parents to Continuously keep their children home. No one should be entrusted with the security of their children. Not La Republic forces and certainly not the head teachers or Principals.
By James Agbor
BaretaNews Political Analyst
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What do we expect for a military that has money for guns and bullets but can’t feed those carrying the guns and bullets, they are hungry like hell.
It will appear like it is said that some people just never learn. As a young man growing up, all I knew about these forces of law and order was their criminality of harassing and extorting monies from the common man. In some cases, they have been caught red handed sharing their loots with their commanding officers. The principals of all these schools who think they are undermining the ghost towns (Country Sundays) better open their eyes and face the reality
Soon, these terrorists will come after them as terrorists only know how to do just one thing; that is how to terrorize. So what do they expect when terrorist are send into our neighbourhood? I hope we did not expect them to play mister nice guy. Whole neighbourhoods in Southern Cameroon have been emptied because they were terrorized to become refugees in Nigeria and now they want to justify their dubious stay in our land because they are protecting schools. The fact that they are paid ransom monies is testament to why these criminals from LRC have been insisting that schools should resume so that they will extort more ransom money