Biya Petitioned by Social Media Activists for a United and Stable Cameroon

Since November 2016, Cameroon has been shaken by the crisis in the two predominantly English-speaking regions, North West (NW) and South West (SW), which started as two separate union strikes but rapidly transitioned into a separatist project. The crisis has been sustained by school boycott, “ghost towns” and threats of violence. These punitive measures have led to economic hardship and identity crisis for most citizens in these regions. But it is also noted that the predominantly French-speaking Cameroonians, initially supportive of the unions in their demands, have become confused by the uninformed support for separation of the predominantly English-speaking regions from the rest of the country. Separatists have further argued that the socio-economic problems of predominantly English-speaking Cameroonians can be explained by the relative well-being of predominantly French-speaking Cameroonians. This obviously strains the living together of all Cameroonians, since it is generally felt that socio-economic problems are not a result of our diversity but rather the consequence of corruption, government inefficiencies and inertia in the face of a rapidly growing population.

Once the divisive level of support for separation is sufficiently reduced and the danger of a civil war minimized, we must proceed to reflect on recent events as well as measures to guarantee balanced regional development in future. Fortunately, through the actions of many patriots and the government, this atmosphere for reflection is now being created with more children returning to school each day. The best way to carry out the post-crisis reflections and actions would be by engaging with law makers and the administration in Cameroon with a prescribed framework.

In light of the above, we of the social media community called “English Cameroon for a united Cameroon” are therefore calling on the Cameroonian parliament and senate as well as the executive branch to join hands and heal our nation. They should further seek to improve conditions in the regions, especially in NW and SW where there is evidence of structural problems that have unfortunately fostered a sense of alienation, much to the advantage of separatists and to the detriment of our harmonious living together.  We demand that with effect from the official delivery of this petition:

1.      A truth and reconciliation commission should be created to discover the immediate causes, the course and the mistakes of this crisis, making recommendations to the state. The main goals of this much-needed exercise are

1.1. to restore the trust between citizens and the forces of law and order, seeing that despite the extra ordinary security work done in the latter stages of the crisis, the escalation was caused by manifestly unprofessional behavior and excessive use of power even against female students. The distrust was further worsened by events in Kifem and perfect bilingualism in the security forces could be seriously considered as an effective tool to bridge the gap in trust;

1.2. to work out what degree of clemency should be accorded to all those alleged to have committed crimes relating to the crisis, considering the lack of civic education, lack of access to proper information, and the high percentage of misled Cameroonians in the diaspora whose actions would normally merit a ban to enter Cameroon. Some of the leaders who fled Cameroon, on a case by case basis and a commitment to national unity, should be granted freedom to return on promise of good conduct.

1.3.  to reconcile our people and ensure that we avoid a similar crisis in future, either in the regions in question or elsewhere in the nation. Measures should be identified for effective reduction of support for separation to such a negligible level that the threat of separation no longer undermines the democratic process championed by legal political organizations.

2.      A task force for balanced regional development should be created, with special sensitivity to the two regions affected by this crisis. The goal should be to characterize and quantify socio-economic gradients in the country, recommending measures to reduce these. Beyond seeking fair distribution of resources and opportunities, the task force should also look to other models of emerging economies for inspiration on how to get the best results with our minimal resources, thereby eliminating wasteful spending and the growing national debt.

3.      To remain true to the rule of law, thereby showing a positive example to our citizens, we demand immediate concrete steps in implementing the provisions for the decentralized unitary state which are anchored in the constitution. This is a necessary first step toward bringing the government closer to the people while the citizenry is then educated on federalism such as its nature, merits, demerits, options for state-federal government power sharing and possible federal states in the case of Cameroon. The judgment whether to transition from a decentralized unitary state to a federal would then be up to the well-informed citizens.

4.      The commission on bilingualism and multiculturalism should be empowered to explore the possibility of a national youth service program whereby students will receive a stipend for a year to render service to the nation in different parts of the country. The locations should be chosen with the aim of breaking down linguistic and tribal barriers while advancing our unity in diversity.

We trust that all members of parliament, senators and the current administration will see the wisdom in meeting the demands in a timely manner. This plea should be viewed as coming from the yearnings of the whole nation for the restoration of peace and unity amidst. We do this in the hope that data-driven and timely policies will help us to preserve our heritage and emerge as a peaceful bilingual modern state with the best that Africa offers.

                              Petition initiated by English Cameroon for a united Cameroon

THE SECRETARIAT OF THE HONORARY NATIONAL CHAIRMAN FOUNDER AND FATHER OF CAMEROON PEOPLE’S PARTY – CPP -PRESS RELEASE-AWAKE TO FEDERALISM, A DREAM OF THE BOURGEOIS CLASS IN THE DIASPORA, BREEDING WRONGDOINGS IN THE NAME OF A LIBERATION STRUGGLE FOR THE ANGLOPHONES – THE DIASPORA IS MISLEADING THE ANGLOPHONES IN THE SOUTHERN CAMEROON STRUGLLE.

Should October 1^st 2017 come and pass futile as obvious it will be, with no independence for a southern Cameroon State as envisaged, what becomes the faith of the jailed leaders and those in the diaspora? Should schools in the two regions resume classes in January, 2018, as programmed by Southern Cameroon leaders, even though with a heavy mark of contradiction of what is currently going on in schools, what infrastructures will be in place as hired terrorists must have burnt or destroyed everything? Are they to use teachers trained in the Anglophone training institutions? The answers to these questions are hanging in the win. It is commonly accepted that you do nothing when you are angry. Like the Anglophone Scenario, how sound is it for us to place our own scrotums on a stone and crush them because we are angry? The cry coming from the wilderness is for Anglophones to stop crushing their own scrotums, because the end result gives frowns on no other faces but ours. The mouths that will open wide to cry will be ours, not those of the francophones, even though when your brother feels some pains, you might to some degree suffer with him, but he suffers most. I hope I am talking to some people who will listen without a bias to think that I am out un-necessarily touching a bee-hive.

We are enticed by some greedy desires, misled and finally trying to be divided. This tendency of going divided as strongly advocated out of greed by some Anglophone bourgeois class in the diaspora, failed to take serious note of the water that ran down and passed under the political bridge that linked the two brothers in their struggle to build a united and prosperous nation, best of its kind in the entire Africa-Cameroon, Africa in miniature. We the innocent people back at home are today given the deceitful impression by the bourgeois class in the diaspora that United Nations is coming to reverse decisions that were concretely taken, not out of Coercion, but out of sincere love of Unity and brotherhood for a better nation of Cameroon. How rational is such an impression to be taken so serious by the Anglophones, to an extend of going mad? However, it goes that those to be destroyed by the gods, are first rendered mad. And any cricket that comes out of its hole, crying so loud, is inviting nothing but death. That is the sure case of any fly that will want to go down into a grave with a corpse.

All archives worldwide can prove to us that on the 11^th February, 1961, a plebiscite was held in the Anglophone Cameroon, to confirm their sincerity to join their brothers (the Francophones) and to form a strong, single, United and indivisible entity- RE UNIFICATION. It went overwhelmingly in favour of reunification with the Francophone Cameroon who were already enjoying as a nation with her Sovereignty recognized by united Nations. The Anglophones not out of coercion unanimously agreed to move and be part of that sovereignty recognized by UNITED NATION, but on a simple understand that their dichotomy was going to be based on a federalism of two states. The Anglophone Cameroon was to remain a legal entity with all her organs, institutions, culture, legal systems, with a parliamentary system of government out rightly respected by the Union’s constitution.

In the Foumban constitutional conference, these terms were actually incorporated into the Cameroon constitution of 1961, in article 47, and was actually made impossible to unilaterally amend or destroy any part of the constitution without equally destroying the true structure of the Union between the Anglophones and Francophones. But barely five years, and that was in 1966, there was the dissolution of all political parties leaving only the Cameroon Nation Union that was Alhidjo’s party to stay. This was done and given all acceptance by all (Anglophones and francophones), with no respect for what was held by the constitution in place, and equally no protest.

We can not refuse the fact that silence, indicates consent. As Cameroonians (particularly the Anglophones) remained silent for many years, it gave room for any world body like the United Nations to conclude that they consented. Barely again after another five years, that was in the year 1972, the Foumban accord was abrogated as the Federal system was abolished. This again had no iota of protest from the people. Rather, there was usually enough jubilation each moment the constitution was abrogated. At this moment that there are complaints of dirty water in the washing basin, is it right for us to throw the water with the child? Is it the child’s fault to be in the dirty water? Finally, what does our bourgeois class in the diaspora expect of United Nations concerning situations that we deliberately could not use the wisdom that was required? Those who lack wisdom are bound to perish. For us to perish, we better go for dialogue and see how we can as a United entity, put right that which went wrong.

I have discussed with some persons with minds poisoned by the crooked notions of our bourgeois class in the diaspora, and they have placed plenty of interest on the idea that the Union between the Anglophones and francophones, had a trial period. If at all such a trial period as they claim had any sense, was there any complaint immediately the structure of the Union was tempered with? “No” is the clear answer. If we failed to complain, why should we today think that United Nations can reverse the hands of the clock and get into the game in favour of the bourgeois class in the diaspora? Our bourgeois class in the diaspora are giving the impression that they look more of watch-dogs racing behind a thief who stole many hours ago and vanished into the thin air. It is a waste of the people’s time and resources. It is more of exploitation for some persons with mark faces to benefit. That is as I see it.

There was a lot of abrogation of the principles of the Union between Anglophones and francophones. But for many years, total silence gave room for acceptance and no dust raised now should be taken seriously to be for the good of the people. There are faces behind the masks with vicious intentions that are not for the good of the Anglophone people, nor that of the francophones. Today, ignorant Anglophones are being exploited by the bourgeois class in the diaspora all in the sense that United Nations is on the way to give Anglophones a sovereign state, being a break away from the Republic of Cameroon. That is nothing but an illusion to keep Anglophones brave enough to be exploited by their own brothers. Let us all accept that United Nations has no section of its charter that can be used to split Cameroon into two, granting Sovereignty to an Anglophone state. The case of abrogation of the constitution of the Union’s agreement, if found surfacing and found irritating, can be redressed by Cameroonians in Cameroon and not the diaspora.

The truth as can be found now stands that faces behind the masks, should stop shading tears over spilt milk, but come over to face reality in Cameroon with their fellow brothers at home. Some days of recent, I went to my archive and discovered a write up on how some poor C.D.C  labourers came up with sound sums of money to support the struggle at the United Nations for a reverse to federalism in Cameroon. Too good if it were possible that United Nations can successfully handle a case like that to its victory. I see it only as a means to exploit the people. I emphatically observe that if an innocent man is cheated because of ignorance, the wise involved in the act, is punished by higher powers a hundred fold. The conscience in us should remain an open wound that only truth can cure. We should not because we need cheap popularity, present cases of the wise to the foolish and exploit them. It is sad to see brothers who are bourgeois in the diaspora floating about like butterflies, all in the name of Angels sent to savage the Anglophones. We can not get Sovereignty by flying pieces of cloth in bushes, but rather to stay United and indivisible in the Sovereignty of our great and blessed nation-Cameroon, that United Nations knows and respects. We must do all possible no where-else but in the Cameroon territory to give ourselves the required relationship that maintains our peace and unity for progress. Those heading to the United Nations, America, South Africa should stop wasting resources and let us concentrate here at home where the fight can be handled in our traditional context for our good and that of our children of tomorrow.

This long period of great storm in the Anglophone Regions of Cameroon needs to be rebuked for a great calm in the interest of all. Seeing the future bleak, the great storm should now provoke a great calm from our gods of mount Cameroon and those of the hills of Bamenda. Watching sorrowfully as the days pass by and the great storm keeps menacing the peace that reigns in the Northwest and Southwest Regions, it comes my humble plea for us to seek a great calm that can confront this great, storm. The opening of schools in September 2017, is anxiously begging for our collective challenges to the spirits that want our children to remain at home. It is the size of these challenges that can determine our sincere interventions in the interest of our children’s future.

TO KEEP CAMEROON ONE AND INDIVISIBLE REMAINS A TASK THAT WE MUST ACCOMPLISH NOW OR NEVER.

Done in Bamenda on the 13^th  Day of September 2017

    Sign:Rev. Prof. Tita Samuel Fon (ph.D)

      Honorary National Chairman, Founder and Father CPP

Surprise Military Raids & Arrests Programmed in NW/SW to Stop Anglophones from Watching Banned SCBC TV

This information, inner security sources hold that as prompt and immediate action to stop most Anglophone Cameroonians who hide in their small abbots to secretly watch the banned Southern Cameroon TV Channel dubbed SCBC with its intoxicating and manipulative reports, there is a surprised programmed raid by the military before October 1^st. 

 

This action accompanies the step up security measures that are been intensified in the North West and South West to stop leaders of the Southern Cameroon Liberation movement from stirring up a rebellion in Cameroon.

The rate at which SCBC TV has been poisoning the minds of Anglophone Cameroonians  is a serious call for security concern as they always make reference to the said banned TV as the source of all the orders they are respecting daily (Ghost Towns).

To put an end to what the Cameroon government is terming as tailored terrorist Madness called a TV out to excite and manipulate innocent Cameroonians, there is but absolute need for decoders to be seized, parabolic antennas destroyed and whosever caught watching it should be arrested immediately.

It is not also surprising that the government is quite aware that since the upsurge of the said banned TV and its wild increasing popularity, there has been serious increase demand for decoders and parabolic antennas to capture the said TV Channels in the North West and South West. Sources even hold that the love for the said channel has pushed sympathizers to make available the screening in bush houses around Oyumojok. Leaders of the said movement in the Diaspora, we hear have been passing through some agents on the ground to multiply the cable network in order to win more sympathizers for the struggle.  

As government Intensify calls for Effective School Resumption in the North West & South West:Hon. Njingum Musa MP Ngoketunjia Nord Launch Operation “NO SCHOOLS NO FARM”

To face squarely the ghost that has in planted fear in parents for the past nine months not to send their children to school and extremists who are calling on school boycotts, perpetrating continues burning of schools,. The Member of Parliament for Ngoketunjia Nord Honourable Njingum Musa who doubles as questor to the National Assembly and PAP representative, has embarked on a ruthless marathon effective back to school mobilization campaign in his constituency.

 

In all the stops, in his constituency, meeting his electorate, he expressed sympathy to the poor innocent children who were been used as shield by their parents in the name of fighting for a liberation struggle.

In his persistent calls, plea and appeal to parents in Ngoketunjia to send their children to school, he asked the population “what has politics got to do with children’s right to education? Why are children the victims? What future are we building for the children by keeping them home? Even after independence we shall need the intellectual man power?

In all the effective back to school crusade grounds, he reiterated the need for sound education to all if we want to secure bright future for our children and Cameroon.

He also seized the opportunity to heavily donate in kind and cash material needs to his electorate as per their priority demands. The materials or goods ranged from bundles of zinc, 1000s of bags of cements, cartoons of soaps, bags of salts and over 200 scholarships ditched out.

Rounding up his tour on Sunday 10^th September 2017, around Ndop central, he and his section President Dr Ntoh Daniel challenged prophets of doom and called on detractors to embark on constructive criticism. While assuring the population that security has been beefed to the teeth to ensure that children are safe while in school. He also promised coming back to donate books to all those who will brave the odds and send their children to schools.