The 4th February announcement over Cameroon National Television (CRTV) ending the Teacher’s strike has raised a lot of controversies and doubts towards the ongoing Anglophone Crisis. West Cameroonians were specifically worried considering the fact that they have not received any such instructions from the Anglophone Civil Society Consortium. However, reports from West Cameroon suggests SMS were going viral within West Cameroon debunking the CRTV report of school resumption especially as their leaders are still in detention.
However, the interim leadership of the Consortium quickly issued a communique debunking the false release from the few teachers trade union who signed. They wrote: “Fellow West Cameroonians, we have all heard on CRTV that some leaders of Teachers’ unions have been coerced by the government through the Governor of the North West Region to sign a release calling off the school boycott. We are all aware that the true leaders designated democratically by all the interest groups fighting for the liberation of Anglophones are either in detention or are on the run.”
The consortium continued to say that the pioneer leaders had stipulated clearly that the strike action shall only be called off at a press conference publicly with all components of the consortium present. Therefore, the announcement over CRTV and other media outlets calling off the strike is declared null and void- writes the Consortium. In this regard, the Consortium reiterated that the strike action with the ultimate boycott of 11th February 2017 continues. The interim leadership went further to emphasize that everyone must observe the ghost towns on Monday 6th, Friday 10th and Saturday the 11th of February, 2017.
Interestingly, amongst the Teacher’s Trade Unions who signed the famous communique purportedly declaring resumption of schools was AYEAH EMMANUELA of Cameroon Baptist Convention representing their Teachers Trade Union. Following much anger and backlash from the public, the executive President of the Cameroon Baptist Convention issued a short statement indicating that the CBC continues to advocate for a reasonable and peaceful settlement of the ongoing crisis without oppression and injustice.
The executive president of CBC clearly distance CBC from any document anywhere or anyone mandated to do so on their behalf. The CBC, therefore, calls on all West Cameroonians to discard all scandals that the CBC board have been bribed. According to the report, CBC has not taken any money from anyone and noted that when all government schools resume CBC schools will follow.
BaretaNews notes that this is a plus towards the struggle, the CBC declaration adds more grounds to that of the Catholic Education Community which has always stood with the people of West Cameroon. Recently, the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bamenda had declared the academic year blank and closed the doors of Catholic schools in the entire West Cameroon until further notice.
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The struggle continues (One people, One Faith One Destiny )God Almighty is our Force.
IF GOD BE WITH US WHO CAN BE AGAINST US “OUR MIGHTY GOD IS IN BATTLE WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED
WHAT A USELESS MAN SO CALL BIYA
we thanks the CBC for reacting to our doubts by calling the trading of signatures to he that did so the population can handle such grain of salt on this cube of sugar. We are still waiting to hear from the politician in the name of a modrator of the PCC and the other stake holders who have said to have traded this pride for personal interest. we want to collectively remove this grains of salt from this cube of sugar. Long leave the struggle long leave the Federal Republic of Southern Cameroon. Not forgetting we want to tank the stand of the Dioces of the Catholic church for reminding the international community that we have pass the surpose 300 hours they say for declearing the academic year blank and viod so what are they still waiting for. The struggle contineous.
A PRAYER FOR OUR COUNTRY SOUTHERN CAMEROONS.
Lamentations 5:1-22
[1]Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
[2]Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
[3]We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
[4]We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
[5]Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
[6]We have given the hand to the Egyptians,(la republique du cameroun ) and to the Assyrians( FRANCE ), to be satisfied with bread.
[7]””Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.””
[8]Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
[9]We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.(BIYA AND FRANCE)
[10]Our skin was “”black”” like an oven because of the terrible famine.
[11]They ravished the women in Zion(BUEA), and the maids in the cities of Judah.(BAMENDA)
[12]Princes (OUR LEADERS)are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. (FONS )
[13]They took the young men to grind, (SLAVERY )and the children fell under the wood.
[14]The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.(THEY FILL PRISON HOUSES )
[15]The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.(GHOST TOWN )
[16]The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!( OUR COUNTRY SOUTHERN CAMEROONS )
[17]For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
[18]Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes LA REPUBLIQUE AND FRANCE) walk upon it.
[19]Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
[20]Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
[21]Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
[22]But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.