My New Stance On School Resumption.
On July 19, 2017, I stated emphatically Why School Must Resume. However, I owe the population of Southern Cameroon the truth at all times, besides the fact that I elect to be dynamic and objective. Therefore, in my new stance, I stand for “No School Resumption” I personally think I was right to have proposed a 40-day Window for schools to resume pending negotiations with LR, until Biya and his blood-imbibing reps proved me wrong.
I might not have the correct figure of the number of Southern Cameroonians held in detention neither do I have the exact number of Anglophone children out of school. But at least, I know that to guarantee someone a sumptuous feast with exquisite dishes, you must make provision for a wide range of cuisines to choose from. Like you wait for rain after a dry spell, the children wait to resume.
But, the power stick that the Biya Regime holds to negotiate has become completely a stage show. Biya isn’t confronting where he needs to shake the Anglophone crisis out of it’s slumber and wrestle with what’s really coming at him. As a matter of fact, he must start taking anti-depressants because much of Southern Cameroon is witnessing a wave of genuine revolution especially given that the only thing that isn’t coming is Biya’s ability to see reality. It’s bad enough!
The gridlock and willful denial to see into the cases of our detained brothers and sisters are even more dangerous than Adolf Hitler’s antics. As far as I can remember, only nothing has been done to negotiate since the arrest of our leaders.
I have followed with heed attention, the team Biya dispatched abroad for only God knows what reasons. Until now, I would have really loved for schools to resume while we negotiate. But the single action by Biya to have deliberately abandoned Barrister Balla and others to send a team abroad shows that LR isn’t ready even in the next 100years to call for dialogue with our leaders. How can you allow the involved to go explain to outsiders??? LR is indeed unrepentant. Biya has failed to heave himself up over a ledge.
Laurent Esso and team are now perfect movie-stars, like something that could be on a 90s marquee with same loose-limbed charm as Samuel Eto’o. But all of that is a little too late. I now pluck this opportunity to call on all and sundry to keep their children home and only wait for an official announcement from the Southern Cameroon Interim Government.
Eric Tataw
