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Schalke 04: Come Back Rudi Assauer

18, December 2020

Schalke 04: Come Back Rudi Assauer 0

The Bundesliga’s bottom club Schalke 04 on Friday confirmed the sacking of Manuel Baum after just 79 days as head coach, with Huub Stevens returning for his fourth stint to try to end their 28-game winless streak in the league.

Schalke are already on their third coach this season as Stevens, 67, replaces Baum, who was appointed on September 30 after predecessor David Wagner was sacked.

At the time, Baum was described as the club’s “last bullet” in the fight against relegation.

Wednesday’s 2-0 home loss to Freiburg left Schalke three matches short of the league record of 31 games without victory, set by Tasmania Berlin in 1965/66.

This Saturday’s home meeting with Arminia Bielefeld, who occupy the relegation play-off spot, is a chance for Schalke to claim a first Bundesliga win since January.

After nearly 30 years in Germany’s top flight, Schalke are six points from safety.

“The game against Bielefeld has enormous meaning for our club,” said Schalke director Jochen Schneider.

“The team needs a new impulse and we trust Huub Stevens and (his assistant coach) Mike Bueskens to bring just that.”

Stevens is a club legend having steered Schalke to their 1997 UEFA Cup final triumph, beating Inter Milan on penalties when Bueskens was in the side.

Stevens last stepped in at Schalke when Domenico Tedesco was sacked in March 2019.

The Dutchman led the team to a 4-2 win at arch rivals Dortmund the following month which kept Schalke in the Bundesliga at the end of the 2018/19 season.

“That was definitely the last time,” Stevens insisted at the time, yet just over 18 months later he is back.

The Gelsenkirchen club, who have huge debts, are taking a financial gamble with Wagner and Baum, who both signed contracts until 2022, still on their payroll.

Source: AFP

Southern Cameroons continued resistance will attract help from the UN

18, December 2020

Southern Cameroons continued resistance will attract help from the UN 0

A senior adviser to the exiled leader of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government, Dr Patrick Ayuk says he is confident that the European Union and the United Nations Security Council will develop more interest in the Ambazonia quest for an independent state if the people of Southern Cameroons continue resisting French Cameroun control of their territory.

Dr Patrick Ayuk made the remarks late on Wednesday during a telephone conversation with our London Bureau Chief.

Stressing the importance of funding the Ambazonia Restoration Forces and maintaining unity in the ranks of Southern Cameroons front line leaders, Dr Patrick Ayuk noted that, “It is only unity and support for the fighters in Ground Zero that will force the international community to think and rethink the Southern Cameroons question.”

The South Africa based Southern Cameroons academic also said that he is very confident the heroic steadfastness of the Ambazonian people and their Interim Government will get the United Nations Security Council to hold a session and return to their commitments and realization of the UN multilateral treaty obligation towards the Southern Cameroons on 1 October 1961 which Great Britain by some strange happenstance handed the articles of sovereignty over the territory to French vassal state of French Cameroun and France’s proxy army of occupation in the night of 30 September 1961.

The Vice President of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government Dabney Yerima has expressed a willingness to work with the new members of the UN Security Council including Ireland to get a UN fact-finding mission to Southern Cameroons, something that the Ambazonia Interim Government says should be done without precondition given the ferocious intensity of the French Cameroun genocidal onslaught in the Southern Cameroons.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Dr Patrick Ayuk praised Vice President Dabney Yerima for what he described as “responsible leadership”.

By Chi Prudence Asong with files from Isong Asu in London

EU, UK officials concede big gaps remain in post-Brexit talks

18, December 2020

EU, UK officials concede big gaps remain in post-Brexit talks 0

Britain and the European Union provided sober updates Thursday on the state of post-Brexit trade discussions, with only two weeks to go before a potentially chaotic split.

While Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Union’s executive commission, noted “substantial progress on many issues,” she voiced concerns about the discussions taking place around fishing rights. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also warned that a no-deal outcome seemed “very likely.”

The two spoke early Thursday evening, their latest in a series of conversations in the past couple of weeks aimed at unclogging the talks, which have moved at a snail’s pace since Britain left the EU on January 31.

Britain remains within the EU’s tariff-free single market and customs union until December 31. A failure to reach a post-Brexit deal would likely lead to chaos on the borders at the start of 2021 as tariffs and other impediments to trade are enacted by both sides. The talks have gotten bogged down on three main issues — the EU’s access to Britain’s fishing waters, the level playing field to ensure fair competition between businesses, and the governance of any deal.

Following their latest conversation, von der Leyen warned that bridging big differences, in particular on fisheries, “will be very challenging.” Negotiations, she added, would continue Friday.

According to a statement from Johnson’s office, the prime minister stressed that “time was very short” and that it “now looked very likely that agreement would not be reached unless the EU position changed substantially.”

Intractable dispute

Johnson, like von der Leyen, focused on the lack of progress on fisheries. which has proved to be a hugely intractable issue in the talks — even though it accounts for only a very small amount of economic output.

On fisheries, the EU has repeatedly said it wants an agreement that guarantees a reciprocal access to markets and waters. EU fishermen are keen to keep working in British waters and Britain’s seafood industry is extremely dependent on exports to the 27-nation bloc. Johnson has made fisheries and British control over its waters a key demand in the long saga of Britain’s departure from the EU.

According to Downing Street, Johnson stressed that Britain could “not accept a situation where it was the only sovereign country in the world not to be able to control access to its own waters for an extended period and to be faced with fisheries quotas which hugely disadvantaged its own industry.”

The EU’s position, according to Johnson, “was simply not reasonable, and if there was to be an agreement, it needed to shift significantly.”

Earlier, the European Parliament issued a three-day ultimatum to negotiators to strike a trade deal if it is to be in a position to ratify an agreement this year. European lawmakers said they would need to have the terms of any deal in front of them by late Sunday if they were to organize a special gathering before the end of the year.

If a deal comes later, it could only be ratified in 2021, as the Parliament would not have enough time to debate the agreement before that.

An anti-Brexit placard is held in Parliament Square, in London, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday…

An anti-Brexit placard is held in Parliament Square, in London, Dec. 16, 2020.

‘Intolerable’ uncertainty

“We give until Sunday to Boris Johnson to make a decision,” said Dacian Ciolos, president of the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament. “The uncertainty hanging over citizens and businesses as a result of U.K. choices becomes intolerable.”

A trade deal would ensure there are no tariffs and quotas on trade in goods between the two sides, but there would still be technical costs, partly associated with customs checks and nontariff barriers on services.

Britain’s Parliament must also approve any Brexit deal, and the Christmas break adds to the timing complications. Lawmakers are due to be on vacation from Friday until January 5, but the government has said they can be called back on 48 hours’ notice to approve an agreement if one is struck.

Though both sides would suffer economically from a failure to secure a trade deal, most economists think the British economy would take a greater hit, at least in the near term, as it is relatively more reliant on trade with the EU than vice versa.

Both sides have said they would try to mitigate the impact of a no-deal, but most experts think that whatever short-term measures are put in place, the disruptions to trade will be immense.

“The prime minister repeated that little time was left,” Downing Street said in its statement after the call. “He said that, if no agreement could be reached, the U.K. and the EU would part as friends, with the U.K. trading with the EU on Australian-style terms.”

Australia does not have a free-trade deal with the EU.

(Source: AP)

Putin says if Russia had poisoned opposition leader Navalny he would be dead

18, December 2020

Putin says if Russia had poisoned opposition leader Navalny he would be dead 0

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday rejected reports that Russia’s security services were behind the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, saying that if they were, the opposition leader would not be alive.

Navalny, 44, fell violently ill during a flight from Siberia to Moscow in August and was hospitalised in the Russian city of Omsk before being transported to Berlin by medical aircraft.

Experts of several Western countries concluded that the Kremlin critic was poisoned with the Soviet-era Novichok nerve agent — a claim that Moscow has repeatedly denied.

A joint media report this week revealed what it said were the names and photos of chemical weapons experts from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) that had tailed Navalny for years.

Speaking to reporters at his annual end-of-year press conference, Putin described the report as “the legalisation of materials from the American special services”, adding that the Kremlin critic “has their support”.

The Russian leader said that if Navalny was supported by US special services, then Russia should of course tail him.

“But this does not at all mean that it is necessary to poison him. Who needs him?” Putin said.

If the Russian special services had wanted to poison Navalny, “they would have taken it to the end,” he said.

‘Putin admitted to everything’

The joint report on Navalny led by the investigative website Bellingcat said that the FSB agents had shadowed the opposition leader on a regular basis since 2017.

Bellingcat said it had made the conclusion based on volumes of data, including phone logs and travel records.

The joint report with CNN, Der Spiegel and Russian outlet The Insider did not establish any direct contact between the 44-year-old opposition leader and the named agents.

Navalny said Thursday that Putin’s comments amounted to an admission.

“Putin admitted to everything,” the Kremlin critic wrote on Twitter. “That is, yes, the FSB tailed me for 4 years.”

Navalny had earlier said that Putin was behind his poisoning and that he will return to Russia once he has made a full recovery in Germany.

In response to the poisoning, the European Union has imposed entry bans and frozen the bank accounts of six people suspected of being responsible, including FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov.

Source: AFP

More than 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolboys handed to govt

18, December 2020

More than 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolboys handed to govt 0

Security forces on Thursday rescued nearly 350 schoolboys who had been kidnapped by suspected Islamist gunmen in northern Nigeria and taken into a vast forest, the governor of Katsina state said.

The abduction last Friday night had been claimed by Islamist militant group Boko Haram in an unverified audio recording.

Gunmen raided the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara town, Katsina state, on motorbikes and carried off the boys in the biggest such incident in the lawless region in recent years.

Governor Aminu Bello Masari said in a televised interview with state channel NTA that a total of 344 boys held in the Rugu Forest in neighboring Zamfara state had been freed.

“We have recovered most of the boys. It’s not all of them,” he said.

In the rescue operation, security forces had cordoned off the area where the boys were being held and had been given instructions not to fire a fire a single shot.

“We had already established indirect contact to try to make sure that we secure the release of the children unharmed,” Masari said. “We thank God that they took our advice and not a single shot was fired.”

The boys were on their way back to Katsina state and would be medically examined and reunited with their families on Friday, Masari said.

The abduction gripped a nation already incensed by widespread insecurity, and evoked memories of Boko Haram’s 2014 kidnapping of more than 270 schoolgirls in the northeastern town of Chibok.

Abduction of schoolboys shows ‘a very dangerous trend’ toward radicalisation of crime groups in northwest Nigeria

News of the release came hours after a video started circulating online purportedly showing Boko Haram militants with some of the boys.

The video, which featured Boko Haram’s emblem, showed a group of boys in a wood pleading “Help us, help us.” Reuters was not able to immediately verify the authenticity of the footage, the boys, or who released it.

The father of one of the missing boys, who gave only his first name Umar, said his son, Shamsu Ibrahim, was one of the boys who is heard speaking in the video .

“All the armies that have come here to help us, please send them back. They can do nothing to help us,” the boy says.

Boko Haram has a history of turning captives into jihadist fighters. If its claims were true, its involvement in northwestern Nigeria marks a geographical expansion in its activities.

Earlier on Thursday, protesters marched in the northwestern city of Katsina under a banner reading #BringBackOurBoys as pressure mounted on the government to improve security.

“Northern Nigeria has been abandoned at the mercy of vicious insurgents, bandits, kidnappers, armed robbers, rapists and an assortment of hardened criminals,” said Balarabe Ruffin of the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), which focuses on the welfare of northern Nigerians.

Armed gangs that rob and kidnap for ransom, widely referred to as “bandits”, carry out attacks on communities across the northwest, making it hard for locals to farm, travel or tap rich mineral assets in some states such as gold.

Criminal gangs operating in the northwest have killed more than 1,100 people in the first half of 2020 alone, according to rights group Amnesty International.

In the northeast, Boko Haram and its offshoot, Islamic State West Africa Province, have waged a decade-long insurgency estimated to have displaced about 2 million people and killed more than 30,000. They want to create states based on their extreme interpretation of sharia law.

Buhari, who comes from Katsina, has repeatedly said that Boko Haram has been “technically defeated”.

A former military ruler, Buhari was elected in 2015 in large part due to his pledge to crush the insurgency. Under his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, Boko Haram grew in strength and controlled territory around the size of Belgium.

Source: REUTERS

Ambazonia Interim Gov’t offers 200,000 dollars bounty for capture of Ngolle Ngolle and Paul Tasong

17, December 2020

Ambazonia Interim Gov’t offers 200,000 dollars bounty for capture of Ngolle Ngolle and Paul Tasong 0

The Southern Cameroons Interim Government (IG) has finally put a huge price on the heads of some members of the ruling crime syndicate also known as the CPDM.

A source close to the IG has revealed to the Cameroon Concord News Group that Paul Tasong and Elvis Ngolle Ngolle each have USD 200,000 on their heads.

The source, which elected anonymity, said the two Southern Cameroonians, who have given up their nationality and are serving the Yaoundé government as consultants, are still seeking to influence life in Southern Cameroons.

The source added that the IG is particularly upset with Elvis Ngolle Ngolle who is working very hard to demonstrate that there is no problem in Southern Cameroons and has been giving the newly minted country a bad name by speaking very bad English.

The price on Ngolle Ngolle was put when he decided to head to Kupe Muanenguba in an armoured car to campaign for the enemy.

His action was viewed as a gross violation of the 2017 death penalty issued against any enablers of the corrupt Yaoundé government.

Mr. Paul Tasong is also accused of similar offenses and he will surely be picked up like his friend Professor Lambo who was picked up and kept in protective custody in one of the beautiful green jails of Southern Cameroons in 2018.

“The IG is very serious. It has ordered its troops to only engage in hit and run tactics for now to minimize civilian casualties,” the source which lives in Amsterdam said.

“The IG is determined to keep the heat on those infidels until they crack. The IG will, in the days ahead, announce new effective measures which will make the arrest and physical elimination of these enablers very possible,” the source added.

“The corrupt Yaoundé government is holding our leaders in their dungeons and it is in no hurry to liberate them. We are gradually transiting from soft tactics to very harsh tactics which will include physical elimination of so-called CPDM militants in Southern Cameroons,” the source underscored.

“We will stop at nothing when it comes to the liberation of President Julius Ayuk Tabe and his collaborators. We are no longer interested in the government’s version of dialogue. The Biya government which is on its last leg lies through its teeth and speaks from both sides of its mouth. It cannot be trusted and we are convinced that the only things it understands are an iron fist and a tough language,” the source stressed.

“We must hit the dying government where it hurts the most. High value targets remain our focus, but we will continue to turn the heat on those low-class, ill-behaved commoners who pass off as chiefs and fons who have sold their souls to the devil for food and drinks. They are all bereft of integrity and they don’t deserve to walk on our land,” the source said.

“Some of them are not even worth the bullets our fighters use. Many of them will even die like the chief of Dibanda who cheated the Southern Cameroonian justice system by dying even before he was questioned. His financial desperation and stress coupled with his reckless lifestyle had reduced him to a bag of bones. His health woes were known to his family though some dishonest imbeciles are seeking to pin it on our effective and professional law enforcement officials,” our source pointed out.

“These chiefs and fons are supposed to be apolitical, but hunger and financial desperation have pushed them into the waiting arms of the corrupt Yaoundé government. Ever since the Yaoundé government started paying them stipends, many of these chiefs and fons have abdicated their responsibilities and the only thing that pleases them now is for them to attend CPDM rallies in their dirty traditional attires,” the source said.

“They must choose between doing their job objectively or attending those rallies organized by the notorious crime syndicate that has been in power for 38 years with nothing of value to show for such a long stay in power,” our source said.

“Maybe they want to end up like chiefs Tabetando who is also moonlighting in Yaoundé as a senator, Dion Ngute who has willfully accepted the death penalty by taking up his current function, Edward Ako of Ossing who is suffering from acute insomnia due to morbid fear of Southern Cameroonian fighters. He seems to be wearing a crown of thorns and he has lost his smile ever since he made that trip to Ossing under police escort. For Chief Ayuk Hope, his fate is sealed and for more than a year, he has been without a fixed address ever since he skipped town because he could not come up with the modest CFAF 1,000,000 Amba levy. Some chiefs like Tabetarh have been quiet for a long time, but we will like to know their position on this matter. We know he has been collaborating with the enemy behind the scenes and has never paid any levy,” the source said.

“As far as we are concerned, silence is acquiescence in this situation. It is simply not golden in this context. Our people are dying and the living are living rough. More than 700,000 Southern Cameroonians are either internally or externally displaced. Zipping his lips does not make him a responsible chief. The ball is in his court,” our source said.

“Of course, they know their fate. Those who still have doubts can check with the Fon of Babanki who returned home yesterday after posting bail. He might not talk in public due to the agreement he signed and he knows there are special eyes on him. However, he can share his experience with his fellow fons and chiefs for them to adopt the appropriate conduct. The Fon of Kumbo also knows how things get done when you violate the people’s law. He is a treasure trove of information for any Fon who is still hungry and is in denial,” our source concluded.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Southern Cameroons Interim Gov’t says revenge for Ambazonians killed will come soonest

17, December 2020

Southern Cameroons Interim Gov’t says revenge for Ambazonians killed will come soonest 0

The Vice President of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government Dabney Yerima has reportedly told an Ambazonian think tank in the United Kingdom of Great Britain that revenge for all Southern Cameroons women and children killed by the Cameroon government army, are certain and will be exacted at the right time.

Vice President Dabney Yerima made the remarks last week Saturday at a meeting with ASCAP UK. Members of The Coalition for Dialogue and Negotiations (CDN) were also present at the meeting.

Comrade Yerima drew the attention of the forum to the numerous funerals that are currently taking place in Southern Cameroons of civilians including women and children killed by the Francophone dominated army saying that revenge will come in due time.

The exiled Southern Cameroons leader added that 2021 will be a decisive year for the war in Southern Cameroons.

Yerima also cautioned the so-called Southern Cameroons CPDM elites including Prime Minister Dion Ngute saying that “Harsh actions against the pro French Cameroun corrupt elites will be separate from the revenge that will be exacted on the French Cameroun army and administrative structures in Southern Cameroons.”

Dabney Yerima said the continued detention of President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe has turned him not only into a national hero for Southern Cameroonians, but also a hero for all oppressed people around the globe.

Yerima furthered that the people of Southern Cameroons are now using the name Sisiku for mobilization and resistance.

By Isong Asu in London

US Covid-19 death toll reaches new daily record, President-elect Biden 78, is in a high-risk category

17, December 2020

US Covid-19 death toll reaches new daily record, President-elect Biden 78, is in a high-risk category 0

The United States on Wednesday widened its network for administering COVID-19 vaccines to doctors and nurses on the frontlines of a pandemic killing more than 3,000 Americans a day, even as a major storm threatened to slow progress on the East Coast.

While medical professionals at a growing number of hospitals rolled up their sleeves, lawmakers on Capitol Hill said they were nearing a long-elusive bipartisan deal on $900 billion in economic relief to pandemic-hit U.S. workers and businesses.

The aid package, to be attached to a massive spending bill that must pass by Friday to avert a federal shutdown, was not expected to include COVID-relief funds for state and local governments, as Democrats wanted, or protections for companies from pandemic-related lawsuits, as sought by Republicans.

Rollout of the first tranche of 2.9 million doses of a newly authorized vaccine from Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE was in its third full day, with shipments headed to 66 more distribution hubs nationwide.

A second vaccine from Moderna Inc could win emergency-use approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week.

Express delivery companies FedEx and United Parcel Service, sharing a leading role in vaccine shipments, said they were monitoring potential impacts of heavy ice and snow that began to disrupt transport along the Eastern Seaboard.

U.S. Army General Gustave Perna, overseeing the government’s Operation Warp Speed campaign, said FedEx and UPS have developed contingency plans to keep any delayed vaccine shipments secure until they can be “delivered the next day.”

“We are on track with all the deliveries we said we were doing,” Perna told reporters at a briefing. He cited a minor glitch involving four trays of vaccine – two sent to California and two to Alabama – that arrived at temperatures lower than prescribed. The trays in question were shipped back to Pfizer and later replaced, Perna said.

Some 570 other vaccine distribution centers received the bulk of the initial batch of shipments on Monday and Tuesday, and an even larger wave was due for delivery to 886 additional locations on Friday, Perna said.

From each distribution site, vaccine doses were divided up among area hospitals and administered to healthcare workers, designated as first in line to be immunized. Some were also going to residents and staff of long-term care facilities. Later vaccine rounds will go to other essential workers, senior citizens and people with chronic health conditions.

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, who has said he would get the vaccine publicly to help instill confidence in its safety, is expected to receive his first injection as soon as next week, according to his transition team.

Biden, 78, is in a high-risk category for the coronavirus due to his age.

‘Not over yet’

It will take several months before vaccines are widely available to the public on demand, and opinion polls have found many Americans hesitant about getting inoculated.

Political leaders and medical authorities in the meantime have launched a media blitz assuring Americans that the vaccines are safe while urging them to avoid growing weary of social distancing and mask-wearing while the pandemic rages on.

“It is not over yet,” Dr Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, told CBS News. “Public health measures are the bridge to get to the vaccine, which is going to get us out of this.”

Data shows surging infections and hospitalizations are driving healthcare systems to the breaking point across much of the country, with many intensive care units at or near capacity.

The United States reported at least 3,459 additional coronavirus deaths on Wednesday alone, a record that marks the fourth time in a week the daily toll has surpassed 3,000, according to a Reuters tally. The seven-day average has topped 2,500 lives lost every 24 hours for the first time this week.

To date, COVID-19 deaths total more than 304,000 nationally, while the mounting case load of 16.7 million known infections represents roughly 5% of the U.S. population.

With hospitalizations setting a record for the 19th day in a row – nearly 113,000 patients under treatment on Wednesday – health experts warn that fatalities will rise higher still in the weeks ahead, even as the vaccine campaign steadily expands.

Another 2 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 5.9 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine could be allocated next week, U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar told a conference call. Both require two doses, given three or four weeks apart, for each person inoculated.

In all, the United States has options to buy up to 300 million doses of those vaccines, Azar said, plus hundreds of millions more doses of vaccines yet to receive approval, including some single-dose drugs.

The United States could have a surplus supply of vaccines in the future, if all the vaccines it has secured are authorized for use, Azar said, which could eventually benefit other countries.

The Trump administration was also in talks to secure additional antibody treatment doses from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc and Eli Lilly and Co, Operation Warp Speed chief adviser Moncef Slaoui told the same conference call.

Source: REUTERS

Southern Cameroons Crisis: Babanki Fon Posts Bail

17, December 2020

Southern Cameroons Crisis: Babanki Fon Posts Bail 0

As part of efforts to cleanse Southern Cameroons of the infidels who are enabling the Yaoundé government, the Small Babanki Fon, Uiyuoh Nelson Sheteh was brought to the Southern Cameroons Special Investigation Unit (SIU), North West Division, on Saturday, December 12, 2020, where he has been helping the SIU agents with their investigations.

After a thorough security assessment and a psychological evaluation of the Fon who was determined to have political intercourse with the corrupt Yaounde government, it was determined that he could post bail and professional and seasoned SIU undercover agents will continue to keep a special eye on him.

Some Southern Cameroonian Fons and Chiefs have taken to political crime and Southern Cameroonian security operatives are not leaving any stone unturned when it comes to watching over these strayed citizens.

The Fon of Kumbo is one other fon who has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. His long collaboration with the enemy is well documented and despite multiple arrests by SIU agents, the Kumbo Fon keeps on returning to his old bad ways.

The last time he had to skip town to Foumban, screaming like a desperate swine, when SIU agents were closing in on him.

 He has run afoul of Southern Cameroonian law on many occasions and he knows how things are done in the beautiful green jails of Southern Cameroons.

After serious negotiations, he was allowed to return to his palace, but information reaching the Cameroon Concord News Group’s global headquarters in the United Kingdom says that the Fon might have participated in the last electoral charade organized by the criminal and outlawed Yaoundé crime syndicate known as the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM).

According to a source close to the SIU, the Kumbo Fon is in the cross hairs of the SIU, adding that in the days ahead he might be brought in for soft questioning.

The SIU has a long list of people who will be brought in in the days ahead. The list includes all those who are still militating in the ruling CPDM which is considered a terrorist organization in Southern Cameroons.

Meanwhile, the Southwest SIU has put in place Operation Sphinx which will, in the days ahead, weed out those chiefs who are still defying the 2017 decree issued by the USA-based Interim Government.

Some Southwest chiefs have already left their chiefdoms for unknown destinations following an increase in pressure by ruthless and brave Southern Cameroonian fighters.

Chief Ayuk Hope of Sumbe had to skip town one year ago when he could not come up with an Amba levy of CFAF 1,000,000 that was required of him. He has been loitering all over East Cameroon and he is gradually giving up hope as the fighting protracts.

Chief Adolf Tambe of an obscure chiefdom is currently hiding in Buea and he has been duly advised not to return. There is ample and incontrovertible evidence that Chief Adolf Tambe is enjoying his political intercourse in violation of the 2017 Interim Government Decree.

There is also another mad dog known as Moja Moja (to use his real name Ewome John Eko) who is courting death. It is a misnomer to call him a chief and he is clearly in the cross hairs of Southern Cameroonian fighters.

From every indication, he has not learned from the mistakes of the former mayor of Buea, Patrick Ekema, who thought Buea belonged to him. He died of a massive heart attack leaving behind all what he thought he was fighting for.

According to a senior Southern Cameroonian official, “these scums do not deserve to live among us. They have betrayed the people’s confidence and have fallen short of their glory.”

The Southern Cameroonian official who elected anonymity said that “Southern Cameroons will never be the same again. These scums have robbed themselves of the people’s respect. They will never enjoy that in this territory. They will only be coming in their armored cars to conduct business. Any of them who shows up without the Yaoundé government’s security will surely not have the time to relate his ordeal. The 2017 death penalty issued by the USA-based Interim Government still stands.”

“We are determined to ensure that these traitors pay with their lives. I hear Dion Ngute was in Buea yesterday. Luckily, there was security for him. He is one of those criminals hiding in Yaounde and evading Southern Cameroonian justice. We will keep on waiting until we get our opportunity. We must take our pound of flesh,” he stressed.

Many chiefs and fons in Southern Cameroons will surely not be having a good Christmas period. There will be massive arrests in the days ahead and the fighters on the ground are prepared to disrupt the activities and lives of those chiefs who have turned their backs on their people.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai in Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany

Covid-19 Party: Cameroon keeper Fabrice Ondoa sacked by KV Oostende

16, December 2020

Covid-19 Party: Cameroon keeper Fabrice Ondoa sacked by KV Oostende 0

KV Oostende has terminated Cameroon goalkeeper Fabrice Ondoa’s contract with immediate effect after he organized a party during Belgium’s ongoing Covid-19 lockdown.

According to the club website: “During the night from Saturday to Sunday, the Ostend police were called up because of noise nuisance in the apartment building of Fabrice Ondoa in the Koningsstraat.

“It turned out to be a lockdown party in which ten people violated all corona measures.

“When the police arrived, they were also verbally harassed by the revelers and 11 police reports were drawn up.”

Ondoa though was unhappy by the way the club handled the situation and denied holding a party.

“I just heard the news this (Tuesday) afternoon in an e-mail almost at the same time as the press,” he posted on social media.

“They are taking such a serious decision without even bothering to hear me. I just got a letter from their lawyer. It’s scandalous!”

“If they had bothered to invite me to explain, they would have understood that I have done nothing wrong. I have not organized anything at all and it sure wasn’t a lockdown party.”

The club’s executive president Gauthier Ganaye said 24-year-old Ondoa’s behaviour was unacceptable.

“As a football club, we cannot tolerate such selfish and irresponsible behaviour,” he said.

“We are relieved that we have not had any Covid contamination so far and we are doing everything we can to keep it that way.

“That is why we always remind our players of their duties and they also assume their responsibility.

“KVO as a club is above the individual and given the seriousness of these facts, we therefore feel compelled to initiate the dismissal procedure against Fabrice Ondoa.”

Ondoa had been with Oostende since 2018 and had been second-choice keeper this season behind Guillaume Hubert.

Source: BBC

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