Ambazonian Struggle for Independence Transformed to Witch
Hunting, Kidnaps and Abusive Arrests
Ø Mme Nagera, Victim of Circumstance
This, orchestrators of the teachers and the Lawyers strike
recounted to this Reporter three (3) years after trade unionists went out
clamoring for their legitimate rights before their French brothers and the
regime of Biya in question.
Three (3) years after that is from October 2016 till date
March 2019 the two English speaking parts of Cameroon has known no peace. Both
in the hands of the regime in question that has been using repressive military actions
and measures against the ever resilient armed groups who have stood their
grounds to restore nationhood at all cost.
Today as a result of the socio-political crisis rocking
Anglophone Cameroon, over 50000 Cameroonians have fled from crisis hit zones to
boarder towns and countries, residing there as refugees.
Back at home a cross section of the population now suffer in
the hands of armed rebel groups who go about terrorizing and kidnapping fellow
ones for ransoms in the name of support to the struggle.
Teachers and Lawyers whose strike actions were kidnapped by
separatists fighters today, have to pay to stay or quite Anglophone Cameroon to
both the military or restoration forces.
We are here making reference to the sad situation of early
June 2017 where PSS Nkwen Staffs were kidnapped and huge sums of monies paid
for their release. September 2018 witnessed another similar scenario where
teachers of almost all schools in Bamenda centre were kidnapped and taken to an
unknown destination only to be released upon the payment of money. Abducted by
who one cannot really tell or security reports.
Today the situation has taken a horrible dimension as
separatists are now asking teachers out rightly to quite service or pay to
continue teaching, while government is threatening to cut salaries for teachers
who have vacated teaching milieus for quite some time.
A pathetic case in point or situation is that of one Mme
Awasum Joyceline Nagera, a teacher, guardian councilor cum senior pedagogue who
happened to have undergone ruthless torture in the hands of the restoration
forces kidnapped amongst PSS Nkwen teachers, who is presently at large and yet
to recover from the trauma.
This last scenario has left a cloud of noise around Bamenda
and is a subject of daily discuss as it has caused many a teacher to flee their
work place amidst government threats to sack them or cut their salaries.
Back in the quarters, the routine is that an average
Cameroonian is subjected to “buy his way or head” in what is termed as
contributing for the struggle or tagged a “Black Leg” subjected to kidnap by
separatists force.
The ugly face of the whole show is demonstrated in recent
times with the kidnap of civil servants for ransoms and body parts are
mutilated for their ritual rites in the name of the Anglophone struggle.
It is common placed today to hear that there is shooting in a
portion of the town and people are still going about their activities, to say
somebody has been kidnapped, killed or has just received a stray bullet or
homes have been burnt or a village have been stormed or barricades have been
put up to obstruct movements, bridges have been dug is normal.
Where we are from the look of things the struggle has
virtually caused Mayors, Parliamentarians, Principals, Teachers, Lawyers to
flee their principal towns. The aspect of no “Schools” in the English speaking
part of Cameroon has caused many a parent to send their children to other regions
of the country. North West or South West
Regions of Cameroon as we report is virtually empty because many have fled for
their dear lives.
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