Fellow Southern Cameroonians – Ambazonians,

The IG’s Call to Social Citizenship Towards the Appeal Against the Nocturnal Trial and Life Sentences to our President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his Close Aides

Accept Revolutionary Greetings from our Leadership in Detention (LIDs) who on black Tuesday the 20^th of August went through a 19 hours Nocturnal Trial ending at 05h38 with illegal life sentences. This, despite the Nigeria Abuja High Court Judgement of the 1^st of March 2019 that declared their abduction and transfer to Yaoundé illegal and by implication the trial and sentences. La Republique du Cameroun and its alias thought by given life sentences to our leaders, they will stifle our revolution. Unfortunately, it has rather re-engineered our struggle for total independence or resistance forever.  We therefore owe a collective responsibility to

Comrades; President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe; Deacon Wilfred Tassang; Professor Augustine Awasum; Dr. Cornelius Kwanga; Dr. Henry Kimeng; Dr. Fidelis Ndeh-Che; Dr. Egbe Ogork; Barrister Shufai Berinyuy; Barrister Elias Eyambe, and Pa. Nfor Ngalla Nfor all of whom were handed life sentences by the Military Tribunal in Yaoundé to explore all available local remedies despite the lack of rule of law in La Republique du Cameroun.To this regard, today, the 29th of August 2019, our LIDs have just been notified with a Certificate of Appeal and other documents confirming their appeal against the verdict of their case at the Military Tribunal in Yaoundé, La Republique du Cameroun. This will require $10 000 in the next 10 days on or before the 7^th of September 2019.

We know that there is no rule of law in La Republique du Cameroun and that we should not subject our leaders to their Kangaroo Nocturnal Courts. However, we need to evaluate the competing needs of our limited resources against the competitive advantages of (i) Keeping the LIDs in high morals that we have not abandoned them; (ii) explore all local remedies in an effort towards continental and international actions (iii) improved media exposure of our struggle; (iv) improved advocacy of our struggle; (v) international diplomacy value and (vi) uniting factor of the struggle. The above are just the top six competitive advantages amongst many other reasons why we as a people must rise up as One Ambazonia to raise the $10 000 just as we did in June 2019 for the legal case within the next seven days on or before the 6^th of September to enable timely transmission. Payment options are available in annexure A of this release not as ransom from LRC but exhaustion of local legal remedies.

Justice for the Nera10 Leaders

Short Live the Revolution

God Bless the Federal Republic of Ambazonia

Yours in Servant Leadership

Dabney Yerima

Vice President – Federal Republic of Ambazonia

Annexure A to:

The IG’s Call to Social Citizenship Towards Appeal Against the Nocturnal Trial and Life Sentences to our President Sisiku AyukTabe and his Close Aides

To ensure total accountability and stewardship to our people, you are encouraged to use the following payment platforms into the IG-Care Treasury.

PAYMENT METHODS

(1) Paypal/Zelle: payment@ambagov.org.

(2) Cashapp #: 6462759595.

(3) Bank Transfer: Name of Account: Ambazonia Humanitarian Relief, Inc

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(4) South Africa:

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Justice for the Nera10 Leaders

Short Live the Revolution

God Bless the Federal Republic of Ambazonia

Yours in Servant Leadership

Dabney Yerima

Vice President

Federal Republic of Ambazonia

The Ambazonian who is shaping French and Southern Cameroons political future was taken back to his small room where a huge wall separates him from the other jailed members of his cabinet and visitors. Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, the Interim president of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia was charged with rebellion, sedition and terrorism and sentenced to life in prison by the Yaoundé Military Tribunal.

President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe was the main figure in what is now known to be the most important political case ever brought before a Cameroonian court. The Ambazonia president is one of 10 Southern Cameroons civil leaders who appeared before the Yaounde Military Tribunal on charges related to secession and subsequent declaration of independence.

The Military judges that dealt with the case were all from President Biya’s Beti Bulu tribe. It was through their hands that La Republique du Cameroun handed over the controversial verdict on the gravest political crisis the country has faced in its 57 years of so-called reunification. The trial process and the judges were manifestly biased and acted following a President Biya- French Cameroun political criteria.

No one expected that the Sisiku Ayuk Tabe trial was going to be fair! But it has become a lever for democratic change in the face of a state which has greatly regressed in democratic terms. President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe may be behind bars, but the Ambazonia leader has serious political clout and remains in charge of the Southern Cameroons revolution.

The leaders in the diaspora have attempted to impose a lockdown in Southern Cameroons which some have argued is unfortunately winding down the struggle. Some political commentators including Dr Joachim Arrey of the Cameroons Concord News Group have opined that the changing dynamics in the crisis calls for a different approach and that using crude means to mount pressure on the Biya Francophone government could be counterproductive.

However, Ambazonians view the Yaoundé Military Tribunal and the French Cameroun political elites as those unfairly prosecuting their leaders for defending the basic democratic rights of Southern Cameroons citizens. The children of the jailed leaders have not been able to see their dads for more than two years only because their fathers are defending the right of Ambazonia to exist.

In his indictment of the Ambazonia leaders, the French Cameroun judge described the actions of President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his aides as an attack on La Republique du Cameroun’s constitutional order.

Of course the Southern Cameroons leader declaration of independence was to force La Republique du Cameroun to accept the separation of that territory now referred to as the one and indivisible Cameroon, a goal that he still maintains will be attained.

President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe told our Yaounde city reporter that he and his cabinet ministers were not guilty of any of the offenses they were charged with.

President Ayuk Tabe observed that he’s ready to spend as many years in prison as it takes until Southern Cameroons gains its independence.  Many including some in French Cameroun believe the Ambazonia leaders should not have been given a life sentence.

Sisiku Ayuk Tabe had pointed out some few days before the Yaounde Military Tribunal verdict was made public that even if it sounds strange, unilaterally declaring the independence of a territory is not a criminal offense.

The French Cameroun judges acted on Biya regime orders! But the Southern Cameroons leader has said that establishing an independent state of Southern Cameroons with headquarters in Buea is the only way forward.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

The politically motivated life sentences slammed on Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and nine Ambazonian leaders by a Court-martial in Cameroun with the complicity of the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is one more unfortunate example of the militarization of justice, civil and political rights in African through inter-state terror. The ten victims, who were in Nigeria under the protection of international law, were abducted from a hotel in Abuja Nigeria in a coordinated operation carried out by Nigeria and Cameroun intelligence and paramilitary operatives. A Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria has since decided that the abduction and rendition of these victims was illegal and violated the Nigerian constitution and international law and ordered the return to Nigeria of the abductees; a decision, the Nigerian government has so far ignored.

The entire operation leading to this Cameroun staged night judicial terror is a slur on the rule of law credentials and constitutional governance of Nigeria and Cameroun. It provides cattle fodder for the validation of the criticism made by an increasing number of observers that the two countries may be paying lip-service to the supposed fight against Boko Haram in which the international community has deployed extensive resources. Going by the interstate abduction and court-martial of these victims in a night judicial ritual, a method allegedly used by Boko Haram in its operations, could this hydra-headed monster so-called Boko Haram not be but a stealth interstate ruse used to create instability to justify political brigandage and the corrupt externalization of political power relying on international resources and support? Why will supposed sovereign nations prefer interstate terror to the international rule of law in the conduct of international relations?

This irrelevant parody of justice against Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and Southern Cameroons leaders is about ten individuals. It is about the consequences in Nigeria, La Republique du Cameroun and Africa of the legitimization of abduction and state terror as alternatives to the international rule of law. The international community must make a strong statement condemning this travesty and judicial brigandage and seek the unconditional release of these victims. Its indifference may unfortunately be construed as a tacit validation of impunity in an explosive region where violence is not a rare commodity.

No one should be under the illusion, that the impugned court-martial process and its outcome is a victory for French Cameroun or Nigeria that collaborated in it. It is an international symbol of shame for the two countries and a validation of the just claims of the Southern Cameroons to sovereignty and freedom. The ten did not present the case of the independence of the Southern Cameroons by violent means. At their abduction, they were merely articulating the claims which the Southern Cameroons have strenuously presented for the past fifty-seven years, at the United Nations, at home and worldwide. Rather than seek dialogue to resolve the conflict, Cameroun declared war with impunity, hoping to subdue the aggrieved people of the Southern Cameroons through genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Nigeria government which Africa and the world relied on to mediate in this and other African disputes, decided to throw its support to the government of French Cameroun in the mistaken belief that the abduction of these victims would end the crisis! By its own miscalculation, Nigeria, lost an opportunity to oversee a peaceful solution to a potentially protracted conflict in its own backyard.

Ambazonia is an albatross on the neck of the Republic of Cameroun which will loosen its grip only when Ambazonia is fully liberated. The life sentences only extend the duration and complexity of the conflict which neither the present leaders of Cameroun or Nigeria will be around to see how it plays out. May be only their progeny, may as fate often does, have the chance to have glimpses of these victims when they will be liberated to partake in the celebration of an independent and free neighbouring Ambazonia. The night justice of shame will not define the cause they stand for. The sustained resistance, self-defense and the unbreakable will and resolve of a people who have craved for justice with peace plants, memoranda to the UN and the international community, their precious blood and the eternal conscience of humanity will determine the outcome of this conflict and not conspiratorial carnage, terror and the arrogance of ephemeral power of a frail failing dictatorship. For this reason, by imposing the so-called life sentences and other coercive conditions of life on Southern Cameroons captives, they might in this occasion, have put their own poisoned portions on their own lips and that of their nation.

By Chief Charles A.Taku

Yaoundé is still not prepared to launch a campaign that would explain to the world that the trial of the Ambazonia leader, President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his senior aides will be held with total transparency as it unfolds. The Francophone regime headed by 86 years old President Paul Biya has not realize how much is at stake and that they have to do things right.

The whole process of abduction and extradition to Yaoundé from Abuja has discredited both Nigeria and French Cameroun democracies and the Biya Francophone regime as well. The President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and the NERA 9 trial is the most politically explosive in modern French and Bristish Cameroons history.

The Ambazonia-French Cameroun trial also reflect how divisive the so-called one and indivisible Cameroonian nation has become : while the Cameroon government and its ageing leadership insist the trial of the Ambazonia leader is an exemplary demonstration of justice in action, the Ambazonian Interim Government has warned it will prove that French Cameroun’s judiciary is not fit for purpose.

Ten prominent leaders of the Ambazonia Interim Government are in the Yaoundé Military Tribunal and the whole trial process has been shameful, disgusting and disgraceful. They could face the death penalty or a jail sentence of up to 25 years if found guilty of charges of terrorism presented by public Francophone prosecutors predominantly from the Beti-Bulu tribal extraction.

The Vice President of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government Dabney Yerima has warned that the outcome of the trial is a foregone conclusion, because, he claims, the judiciary is controlled by Biya and his French Cameroun political elites who are determined to punish not just an alleged violation of Francophone law but Southern Cameroons nationalism as a whole.

Vice President Dabney Yerima told Cameroon Intelligence Report that the NERA 10 trial is not against a crime, because no crime was committed against French Cameroun. He opined that the Yaoundé Military Tribunal Theater remains a political trial and a prosecution of pro-independence ideology.

Dabney Yerima pointed, for example, to the fact that the NERA 10 have been in Nigeria and French Cameroun custody for more than a year and the Yaounde court keeps changing its trial judges.  Another major bone of contention has been the charges themselves particularly that of terrorism, which implies the use of violence, something that President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe has always publicly rejected.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

More facts are beginning to unravel about the level some Southern Cameroons political figures serving the Biya regime in Yaoundé are ready to go in order to stifle the Ambazonia revolution and stay in power including regaining their political relevance. Cameroon Intelligence Report has gathered that a majority of the local militias operating in Southern Cameroons towns and cities are on the payroll of Anglophone CPDM ministers in Yaoundé.

Our investigations have also found out that Mayor Patrick Ekema of the Buea City Council who is wanted by the long arm of the law for countless criminal acts in the University of Buea owns and runs a huge militia. Our chief correspondent in the Northern Zone of Southern Cameroons revealed that the Government Delegate to the Bamenda City Council, Vincent Ndumu with the support of Territorial Administration Minister, Paul Atanga Nji who has entangled in diverse act of criminality in both French and British Southern Cameroons are using private militia groups to torment every persons that crossed their path.

Armed men operating in the Kupe Muanenguba County and sponsored by Minister Paul Elung are wreaking havoc and causing mayhem. From the landslide of evidence available, Ministers Mengot Victor of Manyu and Paul Tasong of the Lebialem are now chairing the reign of terror in their various constituencies.

The criminality of these so-called CPDM cabinet ministers and barons has been downplayed by the local media out of fear that the media outlet that would be brave enough to do so might be visited with tragedy, including physical attacks that can lead to death of prominent figures in such organizations or the particular journalist who dares the devil.

 It is also shocking to learn that even the diverse security agencies deployed to Southern Cameroons by the 86 years old President Paul Biya are helping the militias in places like Tiko, Limbe, Buea, Kumba and Bamenda.  The emergence of a multitude of pro Yaounde militias in Southern Cameroons is not a strange phenomenon. The Francophone dominated government has always allowed popular crime perpetrators like Paul Atanga Nji to hold public offices.

Be reminded that some years ago, it was documented that a member of the Mukete Royal Family committed atrocities and deadly attacks across Kumba, the chief city in the Meme County for which unfortunately, he received a lot of accolades from some political players such as the late Governor Oben Peter Ashu and Hon. John Ebong Ngolle presently standing trial for fraud in SONARA. The Mukete was subsequently appointed national president of YCPDM.

One worthy to note was the alleged murder of Barrister Eseme Midiki. Although the Kumba police made some arrests at the beginning of the case, there were suspected foul play in the trial process and all those involved in the crime went scot-free and Chief Mukete himself became a Senator. That was the shocking end of that episode.

This editorial is in no way vindicating the smaller groups of criminals passing for Amba Boys said to be getting their financing from ransoms, extortions and illegal collection of revenue from innocent Southern Cameroons civilians.  The criminal Ambazonia militia groups are different from the pro French Cameroun ones for the simple reason that the militias with backing from Yaounde and Cameroon government ministers have engaged in ranged from murder, attempted murder, intimidation, abduction, extortion and repeated threats of prominent oppositions figures. Their activities remain general knowledge to persons in the political terrain in Yaoundé.

Having been identified as a man who has reputation of feeding fat from crisis, the Biya regime brought Paul Atanga Nji to supervise Yaoundé’s genocidal campaign in Southern Cameroons. Adding salt to injuries, Paul Atanga is wanted by the Special Criminal Court for corruption. Regrettably the worst politician Southern Cameroons has ever had thinks that he will go away with these crimes.

We of the Cameroon Concord News Group are saying to Ministers Paul Atanga Nji, Paul Elung, Paul Tasong, Victor Mengot, Patrick Ekema and Vincent Ndumu that bullets fired from AK47s do not only travel distance but also through time.  

To this I put my name

Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

President Paul Biya has again ordered a massive deployment of French Cameroun troops to Southern Cameroons.  Many political analysts now think that the war in Ambazonia is going to take another twist. But the French Cameroun soldiers are now moving only on the streets of some key towns in the Fako County including Bamenda in the Northern Zone.

The Biya military strategy is to bring about 15,000 army soldiers and gendarmerie to the doorstep of Buea the historic capital of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia that has some 8,000 Ambazonia Restoration Forces in the outskirts of Muyuka, Tiko, Muyenge and Muea ready to take over the city. The war is not going well for French Cameroun military commanders, but taking the fight to Buea and Bamenda has always been what Yaoundé wanted at least to paint a picture of victory to the international community.

French Cameroun Defense Minister Beti Assomo, the Minister Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh and ailing General Rene Meka are now developing several strategies for the days ahead in Southern Cameroons.

One bold approach under consideration is to remilitarize the city of Victoria-Limbe, the main highway linking Muyuka, Tiko and Buea.  Another would employ mechanized division to protect Francophone schools in Limbe and Buea to ensure a back to school for French speaking Cameroonians still residing in Southern Cameroons.  Either way, Biya and French Cameroun are about to enter a complex phase of the war in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

Cameroon Intelligence Report understands the military regime in Yaoundé is making a transition and as a result, it is changing the tactics and techniques of the Southern Cameroons war due to enormous pressure from the international community.

We gathered that instead of the usual maneuvering in the forest and grass fields of both the Southern and Northern Zones of Ambazonia that has claimed the lives of hundreds of French Cameroun soldiers, the French Cameroun military will be operating in the towns and cities. The weapon of choice will no longer be the AK47s, but small arms will be dished out to French Cameroun servicemen and women dressed  in civilian clothing. The deployment will also be different. Instead of being compact in barracks, they will be spread out in hotels.

For their part, Ambazonia Vice President Dabney Yerima has ordered Southern Cameroonians not to send their children to school due to the heavy deployment of French Cameroun forces in the territory. The exiled Ambazonian leader told Cameroon Intelligence Report that Southern Cameroons Restoration Forces will attack French Cameroun soldiers wherever and whenever with reliable intelligence about the location and inner workings of those troops stationed in hotels.

The final push in Southern Cameroons is also an attempt to intimidate the Fulanis of the Far North region who some reports have hinted are mobilizing to take up arms against the Biya regime. A special French Cameroun military aircraft has been transporting soldiers to the Far North region in their numbers recently. Yaoundé has so far observed that the Far North redeployments are for combating Boko Haram.

Urban warfare is most certain in this phase of the war in Southern Cameroons and the fighting is going to be centered in Buea, Limbe, Tiko, Bamenda and Kumba.  French Cameroun’s security apparatus still controls Buea, Tiko and Limbe in the Fako County and in recent days, the Biya Francophone regime seems to be taken a variety of steps to send a message to the international community that Biya remains in control, including his recent decree decongesting the prisons.

However, the recent blackout in Yaoundé has been seen by some French Cameroun government officials that Biya and the CPDM no longer control basic services. Military deployments in Yaoundé of late also indicate that a major figure is about leaving the country through the back door. This last push in Southern Cameroons may as well be Biya last journey of many dangers.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

For 37 years, the Cameroonian dictator has transformed himself into a cult master so to speak expecting citizens and cabinet ministers to bow in homage. When Biya appeared before the Cameroonian people lately, it was evidently clear that Mr. Biya also known as the “monarch” is now a colony of diseases. Cameroon Intelligence Report senior correspondent in Yaoundé observed recently that Biya is suffering from a failing heart, a failed prostrate and loss of memory which makes it hard for him to carry out his duties as a head of state. So, when will Biya die?

Moving around in diapers over the last seven years, the 87 years old health is now a huge concern not only to his closest collaborators but to the international community. He has not been seen ever since he appeared on state television with the out gone French ambassador to Cameroon.

He loses his mind during conversations and for many months now, it is his wife, Chantal Biya and her relation, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh who also moonlights as Minister-Secretary General at the presidency of the republic that have been pulling the strings behind the scenes.

Ngoh Ngoh and Defense Minister Beti Assomo have ordered the army to make a final push in Southern Cameroons. In the days ahead the world will witness more killings in Ambazonia all in a bid to get children back to school and avoid sitting on the negotiating table with Southern Cameroonians.

Biya is definitely not aware of this direction that his government has taken but senior Cameroon political commentators have blamed it all in Biya’s own political misjudgments and his refusal to acknowledge his mistakes.

The young Beti Ewondo French Cameroun political elites around him and the ailing Justice Minister Laurent Esso will not allow Mr. Biya to accept political responsibility to end citizens’ fear and the war in Southern Cameroons.

No one in Yaoundé knows when Mr. Biya will be willing to step down! No one knows when he will tell Francophone soldiers to stop killing innocent Southern Cameroons civilians including women and children. To be sure, Biya continues to head a government that no one takes responsibility, no one apologizes, and no one resigns.

All over the country, citizens are afraid of him and his killer squad, the gendarmerie, the police and the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR). There are no more combative press conferences in Yaoundé due to rising tensions in the city between the Bamilekes of the Western region and the Betis of the South.

Under the “One the one and indivisible Cameroon” principle, all media houses in French Cameroun have ignored the sufferings of those they once referred to as our “Anglophone Brothers”.

However, French Cameroonians are beginning to see for themselves the failures of the monstrous liability of a head of state they help in creating. Everything in French Cameroun, their cities, their homes have all been pushed into an abyss.

But none in the Biya Francophone regime is heartbroken by the atrocities committed daily by Francophone army soldiers in Southern Cameroons. This explains why their leader, President Paul Biya till this day has offered no concessions to Southern Cameroonians.

Biya does not have a conscience!! Correspondingly, many citizens have been asking recently when Biya will die.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Vice President Dabney Yerima’s deliberate silence over the poor conduct of some Ambazonia Restoration Forces in areas like Manyu, Bui, Menchum and Kupe Muanenguba is very disturbing! There are reports of horrible crimes being committed by Southern Cameroons Self-Defense Forces in Ground Zero which is slowly but sure pushing the local population away from the struggle.

We of the Cameroon Concord News Group opined recently that Southern Cameroonian fighters are no saints and popes. The situation has been made all the more complicated by the criminal elements financed by the French Cameroun government and some rogues who have become a threat to the local population.

These rogues that have infiltrated the Ground Zero Defense Council and the Ambazonia Military Forces kidnapping and molesting even Roman Catholic priests such as the case in Kikaikom in Bui and Akwaya in Manyu must be rooted out of our midst. Vice President Yerima should and must make sure that they be made to pay for their crimes.

Cameroon Concord News Group believes and fervently too that they are giving the revolution a bad name and this must be addressed forthwith. The people of Southern Cameroons should at no time be associated with the crimes being committed in our territory.

If the French Cameroun government’s stock in trade is killing, Ambazonians should let it accomplish its mission, after all the more people it kills, the more likely is the independence of Southern Cameroons. Let us give the international community more evidence of the French Cameroun government’s irresponsibility and wickedness.

The so-called activists living in faraway lands should be told to stop calling on those rogue elements that have been marauding our villages and towns to commit crimes in our names; we must know that we will be losing the sympathy of the international community that is breathing down the government’s throat.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Think of it that you are a Southern Cameroonian resident in either the Northern or the Southern Zone. Fifty-eight difficult years of marginalization, torture, rape, extra judicial killings, and exploitation are behind you; a huge, depressing darkness lies ahead with the French Cameroun army burning and destroying more than 200 of your villages and towns killing more than 3000 women and children and then the French Cameroun tyrant that dooms your fate declares arrogantly that everything will stay like this and that your children should be sent back to school.

Your territory will remain under French Cameroun military occupation forever and ever. The French Cameroun defense minister, Joseph Beti Assomo who hails from the same tribe as the 86 year old head of state Paul Biya and who is actually the second in importance in the crime syndicate regime in Yaoundé that subjugates your leaders, reechoes the two cubes of sugar rhetoric that a Southern Cameroons state will never be established.

Come to think of it that you are a Southern Cameroonian and your women and children are in danger including those who are living in the bushes and those who have managed to escape into neighboring Nigeria. Everywhere you turn, a Francophone gendarme or a Francophone soldier or a French Cameroun Police officer may open fire at you. Every night, your homes are invaded brutally by elements of the French Cameroun military known popularly as the Rapid Intervention Battalion, BIR. You will never be treated like human beings in a country where your older generation voted peacefully in a plebiscite to create.  They destroy, humiliate, intimidate, perhaps even arrest traditional and religious leaders, possibly without trial.

There are close to 2500 Southern Cameroons detainees. Many have simply disappeared in detention.  If one of your family members is arrested, you will have difficulty visiting him. If you succeed, you will have to pay hundreds of thousands of Franc CFA just to maybe get half an hour’s conversation.

Many Ambazonians have even become accustomed to the French Cameroun land theft policy. At every moment a, French Cameroun civil administrator or members of his family can invade your land, burn your crops or torch your fields and brandish a land certificate issued in French language stating that your ancestral land was handed to him by the government. The French Camerounian will not be brought to justice for this; the gendarmerie officers who are supposed to protect you will stand idly by.  French Camerounians own and run the courts so there’s nothing you can do.

You are indeed a Southern Cameroonian you can’t travel from Akwaya to Mamfe without going through Nigeria!! It’s not easy to move from Kumbo to Jakiri either or Weh to Wum.  A French Camerounian can go to Europe and all over Africa from all the nooks and crannies of French Cameroun name them, Garoua, Maroua, Douala and Yaounde, much more easily than you a Southern Cameroonians can go from Mamfe to Calabar.

Let this be known to Ministers Mengot, Paul Elong, Paul Tasong, Dion Ngute and Barrister Agbor Balla that there are no dreams, no wishes in this Southern Cameroons revolution. Children who are confronted with this kind of situation have a slim chance of accomplishing anything in life, even if they go “Back To School”. All they can look forward to is a life of humiliation and unemployment.

There’s no chance that this situation is about to change anytime soon. French Cameroun is not strong as the leadership claims but has French government backing, the United States is slow in acting, Ikome Sako and Chris Anu have weakened the Ambazonian Interim Government, Boh Herbert, Cho Ayaba, Mbah Akuro and Akwanga are all running out of cash and  isolated, and the world is losing interest in the Southern Cameroons fate. What should Ambazonians do?

We of the Cameroon Concord News Group think that there are two possibilities. The first is to accept, give in, give up and tell Papa Paul Biya that it was a costly mistake to even have tested his political will. The second is to resist. Whom have we respected more in history? Those who passed their days under the oppression and collaborated with it like Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso, or those who struggled for their freedom like Thomas Sankara?

This explains why we of this publication are behind President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his top aides who were arrested in Abuja, Nigeria and the Southern Cameroons young men and women who are involved in the armed struggle against invading French Cameroun soldiers. You have every right to resist. In fact, the great Hon. Wirba has made it clear to you all that it is your civil duty to resist. No argument there. Your right to resist occupation is secured in natural justice, in the morals of history and in international law.

The only limitation that the Southern Cameroons Interim Government now faces is on the means of resistance. Ambazonians should be moving from den guns to bombs if not all our demonstrations in capital cities in the West and the lives of our fallen heroes will be all in vain. Are we to despair and give up? This has almost never happened in history, so we’ll continue.  It is our right to resist.

Why should a Southern Cameroons lawyer and leader of the much respected Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium be clamouring for Southern Cameroons parents to again put their children in the hands of people who set live children on fire in Buea and Bamenda universities?

Southern Cameroonians don’t want armed settlers from French Cameroun who invade university campuses and raped students infecting hundreds with HIV.  Southern Cameroonians do not want to be in a country where judges sentence children for making a Boko Haram joke because of their origin. Southern Cameroonians don’t want French Cameroun supported by France to continue tyrannizing them, so they will resist. The Ambazonia Diaspora should start making available their money to Vice President Dabney Yerima. That’s what it means to be part of the Southern Cameroons resistance. We agree that sometimes our Amba Boys have acted with heinous murderousness, but even that is not as bad when compared to the crimes committed by French Cameroun soldiers in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

Ambazonians, it’s your right; it’s your duty

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai