Cameroon Concord News Group now has empirical evidence of the unwavering support by an overwhelming majority of Ambazonians for the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia despite the public disagreement between two cabinet members of the Interim Government.

The disagreement which was predictable might not have been entirely of the making of the two key members of the Interim Government Hon Chris Anu the Communication Secretary and Hon Tabenyang, the Treasury Secretary. The public disagreements arose from matters and circumstances which in fairness to both Honourable gentlemen, were beyond their control.  Cameroon Concord News Group and indeed most Ambazonians have observed that despite their disagreement, the two cabinet members avoided any misstep which could have threatened the Interim Government.  This was the right thing to do.  Indeed, governmental discipline, the integrity and confidentiality of governmental action in times of a genocidal war, appeared to have been in the minds of the two Honourable Gentlemen as they delivered measured public statements on the matters, they held strong views about.

The question may be asked, should the matters in controversy have been addressed in public?  In normal circumstances, the answer will be in the positive, considering the need for transparency in democratic governance that Ambazonians hope to reinstall in Buea.  Should the issues have been brought up now when Ground Zero requires undivided attention?  Ambazonians are divided in their answers?  Cameroon Concord News Group will not take a position whether it was right or wrong to bring up the problems concerning the treasury and the ABC TV network now. Indeed, the trigger for the public disagreement arose from a meeting which was neither convened by Communications Secretary Hon Chris Anu nor the Treasury Secretary Hon Tabenyang Brado.  Yet the public exposure of their hither fore internal cabinet disagreement arose because of this meeting over which they had not control.

One way or the other, the fallout from that meeting was bound to come out considering the matters on the agenda.  The fact that persons who were not members of the cabinet were involved in the meeting was bound to bring about friction or aggravate existing frictions. Disagreements are   not uncommon in every government.  The two governmental portfolios of the IG are sensitive and matters coming within the mandate of each of the departments must entail profound security considerations. The treasury portfolio of the Interim Government cannot be expected to disclose in public or in that meeting which was presided over by the President, His Excellency Sisiku Ayuk Tabe sensitive information relating to overt and covert security operations undertaken for securing the Ambazonia homeland. Cameroon Concord News Group therefore is of the considered opinion that Secretary Tabenyang provided just enough information for the public record, to await the scrutiny of the exchequer through routine governmental procedure if the Interim Government so desires.

Hon. Tabenyang Brado was bound to provide this information not because Hon Chris Anu raised the matter publicly. Far from that! The fact that cabinet level matters came for discussion under unusual circumstances and in a French Cameroun potentially compromised environment, was a potential trigger for these records to become a potential source of controversy in different theatres. Among these are persons who have evinced every attempt to undermine or topple the Interim Government from the very inception.   That was an unusual environment and unusual audience to discuss appropriation matters including that relating to the funding of ABC television network.

It may be suggested that the meeting was enlarged to include supposed county heads. But then governmental practice require that appropriation and policy matters are best discussed in the cabinet; in time of war, within the national security council comprising members of the cabinet and certain individuals. Had that occurred, the simmering tensions within the cabinet that existed but had the possibility of containment would not have elicited consequential reactions which the convenors did not anticipate or could not control.

The issues on the table were matters that required wide grass root consultation.  A mere vote among participants was never going to be considered binding by the Ambazonia Diaspora and ground zero grassroots.  That had the potential to polarize the citizenry on the watch of the President. There is a significant Ambazonia public interest imperative to make far reaching consultations before attempting to take a decision on the proposed endorsement of the ANPN conference and the proposed merger of ABC TV and SCBC.

A governmental communication network is not just about TV appearances. It has significant intelligence and security implications.  A government TV or news agency is but the public face of an elaborate cobweb of security and intelligence operations. It is a platform, a conduit and a governmental outreach to multiple complex international relations.   No government in time of war will lightly relinquish its sovereignty over its communication policy of which a TV channel and other communication networks are key components. Relying on the social media over which it has no control, will be reckless and humiliating.

Can the meeting which triggered this public disagreement between cabinet departments of the Interim Government be entirely blamed for the contentious outcome that has caused anxiety to many Ambazonians?  Had to say!  While the meeting was probably ill-conceived, it begs one issue that requires urgent attention by the Interim Government. Cameroon Concord News Group has taken the position that the meeting ought not to be organized from a constraining environment controlled by the enemy. The risk of the enemy generating hurtful intelligence from this meeting, there is a risk that French Cameroun may point to this meeting to discount or challenge the complaints that the condition of detention of the President are inhuman and violates international human rights.

The fact that this meeting occurred may be suggestive of the inexistence of a highly classified mechanism to brief the President on important matters requiring his attention and counsel. The Interim Government must therefore put in place a highly classified and security sensitive mechanism for briefing the President His Excellency Sisiku Ayuk Tabe. In fairness to Hon Chris Anu, he is on record as stating over ABC Television that when and if negotiations or the all-inclusive dialogue with French Cameroun hold, it must be Sisiku Ayuk Tabe who will lead the Ambazonia delegation. He insistently stated that there will not be negotiations or all- inclusive dialogue without the unconditional release of the President, members of the IG in captivity and all Southern Cameroonians/ Ambazonians help in captivity.

These policy statements critically undercut the misstatements of persons of bad faith who are interpreting the public disagreement which are common in democratic governments as undermining His Excellency the President,Sisiku Ayuk Tabe.  It was not disaffection that motivated the mission to Nigeria by Hon Chris Anu to declare the battle for the release of the President and members of the Interim Government. It was not disdain or disaffection that motivated his ABC TV statement about the release of His Excellency Ayuk Tabe to lead the Ambazonia negotiating team in any internationally organized all-inclusive dialogue with French Cameroon.

The ongoing public disagreement has provided an opportunity for an overwhelming majority of Ambazonians to reaffirm their support for their Interim Government and the Acting President His Excellency Samuel Sako.  In coming to this conclusion, Cameroon Concord News Group analyzed the criticisms laid against His Excellency Samuel Sako by friends, foes and opponents of the Interim Government. The interest of the foes of the Interim Government has been to wish that the public disagreement leads to the collapse of the Interim Government. It is ironic that these anti-Interim Government forces are so desperate to seek the endorsement of the Interim Government which they have publicly professed their determination to overthrow along with the established order.

The criticisms that had merit were brought to the attention of His Excellency the Acting Interim President Samuel Sako and the public at large.  An overwhelming majority of Ambazonians considered the criticisms in good faith but nevertheless expressed their support for the Interim Government and the continued leadership of the Acting President His Excellency Samuel Sako. When Cameroon Concord News Group published these expressed wishes of the Ambazonia ground zero and diaspora masses, as expected, power mongers who believed that Cameroon Concord News Group had swept the carpet beneath their feet by bringing the criticisms of the Acting President to the public domain as well as the overwhelming public continued support for his leadership and the Interim Government, expressed bitterness at Cameroon Concords News Groups.  Cameroon Concord News Group stands by this balanced, fair and candid statement reflecting the public mode, public interest and the opinion of a majority of Ambazonians.

An overwhelming majority of Ambazonians have expressed the same sentiments regarding the public disagreement between Hon Tabenyang and Hon Chris An. They, consider the disagreement as an internal cabinet matter which they want to see resolved and resolved fast.  The subject of disagreement between the two cabinet members should have been resolved without a major disagreement, had a well-designed policy towards the development of the Ambazonia patrimony been designed and implemented.  They request that one should be designed with immediate effect. The current direct public appeal for Ambazonians to contribute towards the funding and running of ABC TV would have provided an alternative source of financing.   Now that the appeal is ongoing, Cameroon Concord News Group strongly urges Ambazonians to contribute generously.  In this age of technology where international diplomatic opinion is informed by serious media communication, the Interim Government of Ambazonia cannot depend on the social media to make a compelling rendition of its strong case to governments and international public opinion.

Some social media activists have developed the use of insults and reckless language to define informed disagreement.  Secretary Chris Anu and Secretary Tabenyang have demonstrated to these social media activists that reasonable persons may strongly disagree without rocking the boat and destroying the Interim Government which has wide international and national audiences and has compel reasonable international attention.  For this reason, Cameroon Concord News Group calls on His Excellency the Acting President Samuel Sako to quickly take this disagreement out of the public domain and get the two members of the cabinet of the Interim Government to heed to the opinion of Ambazonians and resolve outstanding issues as quickly as possible.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Chairman/Editor-in-Chief

Cameroon Concord News and Cameroon Intelligence Report have consistently stated that the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia is the greatest achievement in this revolution. The journey that led to the formation of the Interim Government may have been rocky. Rocky as it was, what matters is not the rocky journey but the Interim Government that was established to oversee and crystalize the realisation of Ambazonia’s 57-year-old dream of an independent sovereign Federal Republic.

The formation of the Interim Government rallied, reassured and refocused the struggle of oppressed people of Ambazonia for independence. With this appropriate leadership under His Excellency Sisiku Ayuk Tabe in place, the people of Ambazonia arose on September 22, 2017 in its overwhelming majority to express an irrevocable determination to proclaim its independence on October 1, 2017.  History has recorded that His Excellency President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe oversaw the realisation of Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia 57 years old dream. For this reason, he is a strong symbol of the liberation and independence of Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia. Because he is a symbol of liberation, independence and freedom, the people of Ambazonia are determined to fight to the last man to free him from the captivity of French Cameroun.

The mission to fight and liberate the President, members of the Interim Government and thousands of Ambazonian’s in captivity began with the historic mission to Nigeria by Hon Chris Anu. From the Nigerian capital, he dared the opponents of Ambazonia and put them on notice that nothing will dampen the resolve of a determined people to fight till the last person standing to free the leaders of Ambazonia and the totality of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.  That mandate and the mission must continue until the liberation of Sisiku Ayuk Tabe is attained.

It is a matter of profound regret that some power mongers who contested the leadership of Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and the Interim Government and have evinced every possible determination to derail and sabotage the IG and the liberation struggle, are up in arms organising all forms of dubious platforms to sabotage the IG and the peoples’ liberation agenda. Cameroon Concord News Group calls on the sovereign people of the Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia to stand on their way.

Ambazonians have resolutely sacrificed, toiled for these 57 years to liberate and re-establish their capital in Buea, with its mythical glory in freedom and democratic governance.  History has recorded that it was during the mass movement to Buea to raise the flag of sovereignty and freedom on October 1, 2017, that French Cameroun unleashed bombs on armless Ambazonia civilians with helicopter gunships killing hundreds and maiming thousands.

Cameroon Concord News Group considers it a matter of grave concern for Cho Ayaba to trivialize the sacrifices, the blood, the aspirations and will of the sovereign people of the Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia by daring to propagate the idea of the relocation of the capital of the Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia from Buea to another location in Ambazonia. If this were realised (God forbids!), it will tantamount to delivering this symbol of Ambazonian sovereignty and liberation to the enemy on a platter of 30 silvers.  The only person who would not shy away from contemplating this treachery was Iscariot. Since there was only one known Iscariot, Southern Cameroons/ Ambazonia should not tolerate the floating of this provocative idea by Iscariot’s surrogates lest it corrupts the gullible.

Being the symbol of freedom and sovereignty, the courageous self-defence freedom forces of Ambazonia are right to embark on the mission to liberate Buea, the capital of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia for this generation and generations unborn. As a state symbol of freedom and sovereignty, Buea will never ever lose its significance nor lose its symbolic relevance. It is a historical truth even to the jaundiced eye, that Buea is the internationally recognized capital of the Southern Cameroons. Only an agent of the enemy will dispute or seek to distort this fact. It is regrettable that the insane idea of relocating the capital from Buea is being fostered now to distract the attention of the people of Ambazonia from the county by county grassroots contributions to the Ambazonia self-defence war effort.

This genocidal war of choice declared by the arch terrorist Paul Biya of French Cameroun has displaced, killed, and maimed millions of Ambazonians within and out of its national territory. A key test of loyalty to Ambazonia is the individual and collective contributions to Ambazonia’s ground zero war efforts; the county by county contributions support, medical and sustenance support to the Ambazonian refugees, the Ambazonia Interim Government and symbols of the Ambazonia sovereignty. The treasury and communication channel of the Interim Government, the ABC television network are attributes of sovereign governance and must be strongly supported through the generous contributions of the Ambazonia diaspora.

Cameroon Concord News Group questions the patriotism and motivations of individuals or groups that have refused to make financial contributions for Ground Zero self-defence operations, Ambazonia refugees, the treasury of Ambazonia, key diplomatic efforts and the ABC television network to facilitate communication between the IG and the people as well as the international community. It is regrettable that some of these individuals are persistently campaigning to sabotage the IG and the people’s quest for freedom.

Milan Atam the SCCOOP leader, has not contributed to any of the liberation struggle in any of the above key areas.  He has publicly stated that his aim is to take power by any means possible and subvert the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. On occasion, he has boasted how he more than anyone in this struggle holds the key to the diplomatic community. Persons who may be bamboozled by this boastful self-glorification, are ignorant of the fact that there may be highly regarded and well connected Ambazonians in this struggle who may be working around the cloak to scale diplomatic barriers to get the much-needed attention and action in this case.  True achievers have no reason to rely on self-seeking  boasting or seek to tantalize the gullible with claims to influence in high places  and wealth to justify their claims to power through deceit rather than seeking power on the basis of their proven record of support to our refugees, the legal fund for the defence of the President and the self-defence war of liberation and Ground Zero operations to attain the objectives.

Cho Ayaba used demagogy and rhetoric to dazzle and confound gullible Ambazonians. He falsely raised the hopes that he alone possessed the military prowess to confront the enemy, liberate Ambazonians and protect the people.  A majority of Ambazonians, including the President His Excellency Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and members of the Interim Government under him, fell for that costly deceit despite the persistent warnings by Cameroon Concord News Group. On September 22, 2017 and October 1, 2017, the civilian population of Ambazonia that spontaneously mobilized in their millions to proclaim their sovereignty were attacked and hundreds were slaughtered in cold blood by the enemy and thousands abducted and carried into captivity. It is surprising that power ambitions of this individual is supported by some so-called activists and individual despite the calamitous slaughter on October 1, 2017 and his propensity to direct his guns against Ambazonia self-defence forces as opposed to the enemy.

He has caused his surrogates and activists to display sophisticated weapons sourced from social media and elsewhere as weapons distributed to his fighting forces in Ground Zero without evidence of a single battle against French Cameroun terrorist army. Like one crooked Nsoh Foncham before, some gullible activists have been quick to point to these pictures on social media as the wining AK 47 armoury.  These publicity stunts are aimed at raising money for self on the backs of the suffering masses.  A well-documented record of killing GZ fighters by Cho Ayaba’s forces do not match professed liberation claims propagated by him and his activists.

Cameroon Concord News Group strongly advises citizens of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia to support ground zero self-defence war efforts.  Support for the Interim Government, contributions to the treasury and ABC television network as well as contributing for the wellbeing of Ambazonia refugees and internally displaced, the legal defence fund for the President His Excellency Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, members of the Interim Government in captivity and hundreds of thousands of Ambazonia citizens illegally held captive in French Cameroun’s concentration camps are a litmus test for patriotism and recognition.   Failing this, citizens of the Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia should beware of cunny individuals who are in this struggle to enrich themselves or for self-aggrandisement. Lest we forget, French Cameroun has the mineral and natural resources of the Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia which it steals to use to corrupt everywhere, including some Ambazonians but the overwhelming majority of Ambazonians have but the love for the Ambazonia fatherland and the personal sacrifices and contributions they are making to recover their territory and their dignity.   With more determination and support, Ambazonia will cease to be French Cameroun’s Alibaba treasured paradise. It will be liberated soon through the contributions and support of its determined citizens.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Chairman/Editor-in-Chief

Cameroon Concord News Group has consistently cautioned Southern Cameroons front line leaders on the use of abusive language and blackmail against the Ambazonian Interim Government and Southern Cameroons cabinet ministers.  Good journalists and news reporters know that the international community will not use social media communication such as Face Book as basis of understanding the Southern Cameroons case.

Our recent criticism of Acting President Samuel Sako has falling on many different grounds of interpretation with some observing that Cameroon Concord News Group is seeking change at the head of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government. Far from it!! We of this publication simply want Dr Sako to sit up, go out there and meet Southern Cameroonians all over the world and motivate Ground Zero to feel him as a leader.

Until now it is only the Secretary of Communications, Hon. Chris Anu who has travelled to Europe to energize the Southern Cameroons European Diaspora base in the UK and Germany and raise funds for the struggle. That is part of the duty of the Acting President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia which he must take up immediately!

Cameroon Concord News Group has examined the leadership of Acting President Ikome Sako which we believe is fair and balance. But he needs to do a Southern Cameroons meet the people tour and raise funds for the struggle. What is actually distressing is that Acting President Sako’s inaction is affecting the European and the South African Diaspora bases including thousands on Ground Zero. Sako has very strong leadership qualities!! To be sure, he was at his best when he rejected Secretary Chris Anu’s resignation. He is level headed. He is not vindictive and he is a good communicator. Therefore, Dr Ikome Sako should take note of the Cameroon Concord News Group criticism because it was written to help him become a good Acting President.

Cameroon Concord News Group will also want the Southern Cameroons Interim Government to implement without delay the reform which Acting President Sako promised the Ambazonian people-which is to bring the county heads into government to be the direct representatives of Southern Cameroonians on Ground Zero.

We are also calling on the Acting President to improve contacts with Ground Zero through the county heads and other national and international media outlets. Cameroon Concord News Group reiterates that the Southern Cameroons Interim Government should not communicate to the Ambazonian people via Face Book because it is free for all and French Cameroun agents can either get to Face Book in order to distort or silent Ambazonian communication.

Cameroon Concord News Group also believes and fervently that ABC TV is the right thing as the Southern Cameroons Interim Government should own and run a media house. ABC TV is incorporated in the USA, regulated and protected by American constitutional guarantees which the SCBC does not have in South Africa. We got intelligence that the Yaoundé regime is now aware that the hosting satellite of SCBC is in a European country.

So far, the people who have opined that Acting President Sako should be removed from office are also not fit to govern the Ambazonian nation and its people. Cameroon Concord News Group wants Sako to sit up and we are very sure he can do it in difficult times like this!

Acting President Sako has urgent business at hand among them is rallying Southern Cameroonians to fund the defense of President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe including the hundreds of Ambazonians in enemy jails all over French Cameroun. Dr Sako should put more effort for our refugees in the bushes and in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He should rally and push for more diplomatic effort deep within the UN, US Congress, the House of Common and the Bundestag.

Acting President Sako’s decision to denounce people committing crimes on Ground Zero was the right thing to do!! Cho Ayaba and his criminal gang had become a serious opponent to the Southern Cameroons revolution with kidnappings, killings, robbery and extortion from the population. All what we have seen from the Cho Ayaba gang is simply a display of guns without carrying any actions against occupying forces.

Acting President Sako should sever all relationship with Milan Atam and SCOOP. SCOOP has never contributed anything to Ground Zero or to our refugees. Dr Sako should denounce Milan Atam with the same vehemence that he denounced Cho Ayaba. Ambazonians do not need criminals to succeed in this ongoing revolution.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Before Acting President Sako Ikome took over control of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government, the Ambazonian resistance was well organized and had the active participation of Southern Cameroonians from the Republic of South Africa, Nigeria, Europe, the Scandinavia countries, the US and Canada. We had one authoritative television channel, a sea of refined Southern Cameroons elites supporting the Interim Government with ideas and money and the participation on Ground Zero exceeded that of the ANC in apartheid South Africa.

If that trend would have been allowed to continue, the Federal Republic of Ambazonia would have long been a reality similar to South Sudan.  Cameroon Concord News Group estimated that the Southern Cameroons Interim Government had more than a quarter of a million dollars after Interim President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe made a tour of Europe and the US. After the abduction and extradition of President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his top aides, a Cameroon Concord News Group investigation of the Interim Government under Dr Samuel Ikome Sako found out that auditing reports of the Ambazonian Interim Government has been kept secret, due to Ambazonian unity interest.

Even after the emergence of Acting President Sako, the Southern Cameroons Interim Government received thousands of dollars from the Ambazonian Diaspora in the US and Canada including Europe without any serious demand for accountability. The present state of the Southern Cameroons revolution is a grim affirmation that becoming the Acting President of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government did nothing to change Dr Sako’s old Calabar habits.

Ever since Communications Secretary Chris Anu openly accused the Secretary of Finance, Tabenyang Brado of embezzlement, Acting President Sako has not showed any signs of transparency in the funds and a detailed report on how it is being spent. Acting President Sako and a few members of the Interim Government have declined to comply with popular demand for an independent audit of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government and many Southern Cameroonians have suspended financial donations for fear that the money will end up in the wrong pockets.

The rapidly growing frustration, very visible division deep within the Interim Government including the hiring of private cars and paying of private bills for Acting President Ikome Sako while most Southern Cameroonians live in dismal conditions on Ground Zero has started to threaten Dr Sako’s leadership of the Ambazonian Interim Government.

We of the Cameroon Concord News Group can now reveal that there was a complete cut-off from everyone within the first two weeks following his election at the head of the Interim Government, and that has continued till date. Dr Sako  does not pickup telephone calls, does not return calls, ignores text messages even from the Cameroon Concord News Group and it has become normal for Acting President Sako to go for 3-4 months without a one-on-one with cabinet ministers.

Sako’s leadership style is indeed appalling! We have recorded a sea of unilateral decisions without approval from competent departments or his immediate staff. There’s a plethora of such decisions!!  We gathered that the creation of ACCORN and the recognition of SCCOP took everyone in the Interim Government by surprise including those appointed to participate, such as Pr. Carlson Anyangwe.

Acting President Sako has transformed himself into a cult master so to speak expecting Southern Cameroonians to bow in homage!!  No one dares offers any dissenting views from that of the 2 bosses (Sako and Pr Ayim). If you do, you’re automatically anti-IG!! But we of the Cameroon Concord News Group can never be cowed down by any government!

Acting President Sako has not been consistent with leadership! When he announced ACCORN, he also told the world that he recognized SCCOP. There were conflicting signals as many Ambazonians were wondering how Southern Cameroonians were out there trying to prevent SCCOP from stifling the Interim Government, and the Acting President was making a public pronouncement that he had recognized SCCOP!!

The Decolonization Committee affair was even more controversial! The Southern Cameroons ministerial cabinet had no clue that Acting President Sako was invited to the decolonization committee as a representative of Western Sahara. The cabinet only heard about that on his 1^st of October speech! We gathered intelligence that not even Communications Secretary Chris Anu was aware. Cameroon Concord News Group believe and fervently too that Acting President Sako kept it away from his cabinet not because it was classified, but because he sees the cabinet as irrelevant.

Acting President Sako’s ill-advised decision to suspend the December ghost town operation prompted many around the world including our London Bureau Chief to start thinking that the Ambazonian leader has been compromised.  Monday ghost towns have become the most important achievement of the Southern Cameroons revolution and a de facto trade mark. It is hard to say what prompted Dr Sako to make such a move!!

Acting President Sako is not an accomplished Southern Cameroonian deep within the Ambazonian Diaspora community in the US and this is creating a lot of alacrity in the struggle. In suspending the ghost towns, he went all alone to do it!! He posted a message on the cabinet forum stating “Tomorrow I will be making a speech and in that speech, I will announce the suspension of ghost towns for the month of December”.

Three senior cabinet members (Chris Anu, John Egyawan and Caleche Bongo) advised that it was going to be a costly mistake to suspend ghost towns and he shouldn’t do it. Acting President Sako ignored them, did not say a word and went ahead and announced his decision the following day and the backlash was unimaginable.

Our correspondent in the United States of America confirmed that even the Ambazonia Self-Defense Council, ASC and Ground Zero commanders were not aware of Acting President Sako’s decision. He only reversed course and rescinded that decision when he realized Ambazonians decided to ignore him and staged the worst ghost town ever.

One of the major failures of the Sako administration centres on the Cho Ayaba London Oil Deal. Southern Cameroonians thought rightfully that the London scandal had provided them with an opportunity to put an end to the Cho Ayaba-ADF distraction!! By some strange happenstance, Acting President Sako came up with a letter, expressing solidarity with Cho Ayaba. Again this was another unilateral decision that left everyone deep within the Interim Government scratching their heads. The problems are endless. In the second part of this series on Acting President Sako, we shall be examining why as Acting President, Sako has never stepped his legs on European soil and also how he and the Secretary for the Economy spend Ambazonia money.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Things are falling apart for the Southern Cameroons revolution and the members of the Ambazonian Interim Government can no longer read from the same script. We of the Cameroon Concord News Group recently rejected the resignation of Secretary Chris Anu and we advised that cabinet issues be kept as a nuclear secret. To be sure, nothing seems to interest the Ambazonian cabinet ministers and they have blatantly refused to see how they can jointly strategize to forge ahead with the struggle while keeping their differences aside.

While free speech and democratic debate may justify some of the outings of the Ambazonian cabinet ministers, we of this publication are asking how they help Southern Cameroonians to terminate the cases brought by a vicious sanguinary regime against their leaders. Does a debate surrounding Ambazonian leaders organizing meetings with other leaders wanted by the enemy help or provide the enemy with evidence against the leaders and the Southern Cameroons cause? Who gains from this infighting deep within the Interim Government concerning meetings supposedly organized from the enemy’s dungeon?

Yesterday’s audio by Chris Anu questioning the integrity and honesty of the Secretary of State for Finance has reportedly made matters worse and more intractable. In the words of our London Bureau Chief, “The Southern Cameroons revolution is now facing a hydra-headed crisis.”

Reacting to Secretary Chris Anu’s audio message, a spokesman for the Secretary of State for Finance told Cameroon Concord News Group that “It is a smear campaign against Hon. Tabenyang Brado because of disagreement on the proposed conference.”

We understand the long standing differences between Chris Anu and Tabenyang Brado emerged ever since the creation of ABC TV. Why Communications Secretary Chris wanted $9500 a month for satellite cost and an additional extra $3500 a month for salaries, the Secretary of State for Finance has always maintained that the ABC remains a good idea but it’s also not sustainable.

We of the Cameroon Concord News Group had opined late last year that $13000 a month for just 6 hours of broadcasting was not good value for Ambazonian money. We also had reliable information that ABC had no viable business plan to grow into financial independence at a time when there are more pressing financial challenges for the Southern Cameroons struggle.

The Secretary of State for Finance has hinted Cameroon Concord News Group of his decision to make public a full detailed financial statement of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government from November 2017 when the Ambazonian government was formed to December 2018. Our primary worry is that His Excellency President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe’s involvement in these controversies is already creating a rift among Ambazonians in captivity in Kondengui. They are in their thousands.

President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe should have remained the mythical and emblematic leader that he is rather than a factional leader. Cameroon Concord News Group is of the opinion that if by any reason some Ground Zero commanders come up against his decisions and interventions then that may further weaken his authority. Acting President Sako, Communications Secretary Chris Anu and others even not as leaders may move back to their activist roles and continue the struggle but the loser will still be President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his ability to hold and influence the struggle together.

We of the Cameroon Concord News Group support his leadership but disagree with his involvement in the current controversy. Dr Akwanga and Barrister Agbor Balla who were in the enemy’s dungeon can tell him how the enemy operates. Atanga Nji, Laurent Esso and Momo who are controlling that prison are very ruthless. Very soon the Pen’s, Mancho’s even Tassang who is an arch enemy of Milan may disagree with President Ayuk Tabe and the split will continue outside and cause more harm.

Cameroon Concord News Group is concerned that President Ayuk Tabe’s involvement may find its way into his case and provide the enemy with evidence to allege that he is directing military operations from inside his detention center. We wonder what his lawyers are doing.

For President Ayuk Tabe to be too trusting to summon and preside over these meetings from the enemy’s jail is a grave error and a costly mistake.  Even most sympathizers and supporters may be very disappointed in the short and long term. This meeting was unnecessary and counterproductive and even harmful. We wish Chris Anu did not address it in public at all. We wish the damage can be mitigated by nobody keeping the talk about the meeting and the fallout alive. To be complacent in the enemy dungeon is a grave costly error.

Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Cameroon Concord News Group has received persistent information about the alleged resignation of the Cameroon Concord Man of the Year, Hon Chris Anu as the Secretary of Communication of the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.  No official communication from the Interim Government or Secretary Chris Anu has come into our newsroom to officially announce this resignation.  The information that Cameroon Concord News and Cameroon Intelligence Report received is therefore tentative.

Cameroon Concord News Group is mindful of the fact that for the resignation to become effective, it must be accepted by the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. No such endorsement of the alleged resignation has come into our newsroom as well.  Cameroon Concord News Group strongly urges Secretary Chris Anu if his alleged resignation is officialised to reconsider his decision. Cameroon Concord News Group also urges the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia to reject the resignation on behalf and in the interest of the people of Ambazonia whom he served with stoic determination, honesty and patriotic zeal.

Cameroon Concord News and Cameroon Intelligence Report does not deem it necessary to analyse the circumstances that led to the alleged resignation because doing so will not serve the best interests of the revolution. It will not serve the self defence needs of the civilian population of Ambazonia undergoing a barbaric genocide. It will not serve the legal defence needs of His Excellency Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and members of his cabinet   who were abducted and are held in captivity in French Cameroun’s enemy dungeon facing an ethnic Beti-Bulu criminal court-martial.  Suffice to state unambiguously for this purpose, that Cameroon Concord News Group’s rejection of the alleged resignation and strong appeal for the Hon Secretary Chris Anu to reconsider his decision, is informed by the dictates of necessity and overwhelming Ambazonia public interest.

Hon Chris Anu was overwhelmingly voted Cameroon Concord News Group’s person of the year by near popular acclamation.  The rejection of his resignation and call for him to reconsider his decision with frenzied and impatient appeal by the same masses that voted him person of the year, is an attribute of confidence in his competence, effectiveness, efficiency and undisputed patriotism in his service to the people.  The same people who voted him and many more are currently undergoing yet another genocide on the watch of the international community.  He cannot abandon them in time of need.

Cameroon Concord News Group stands by the people to strongly urge Secretary Chris Anu, that he must place the interest of his people above his personal sentiments, sensitives, anger and recriminations.    If anything, whatever angered and pushed him to take this decision should instead challenge him to fight on for the overall interest of the Ambazonia. The interest of his people and their fight for survival, liberation and freedom has greatly contributed to successes recorded so far. Secretary Chris Anu did not resign, flee or hide in fright as many people did after the abduction of His Excellency President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and members of the Interim Government of Ambazonia in Nera Hotel in Nigeria.  He took the bait and provocation by the enemy and like a lonely general, went to Nigeria and confronted the enemy on his own terms. The results of that effrontery saved the lives of our President His Excellency Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and members of the Interim Government. He cannot be heard to resign now when those who disappeared in time of need, come calling. Their intrusion should be considered an irritation and nothing more and ignored, rather than resign.

No one should be misled to speculate that the alleged resignation by Hon Chris Anu is a marked disagreement with the President His Excellency AyukTabe. Far from it.  Secretary Chris Anu has consistently supported in words and actions the leadership of His Excellency Sisiku Ayuk Tabe who is the emblematic symbol of the Southern Cameroons/ Ambazonia struggle. He has said so in international media and mobilized fellow Ambazonians and international public opinion to ward off attempts by power predators and opportunists to shift the focus and imperil the struggle.  It is therefore perfectly understandable that he like a majority of Ambazonians will take a hard stand against these power predators, profiteers and opportunists in any attempt no matter the circumstances to once more infiltrate and derail the focus of the struggle.

For the purpose of the struggle, Cameroon Concord News Group takes this opportunity to recall that the critical focus of all Ambazonians at this point in time must be: 1) The support of GZ operations through county by county and local government by local government operation structures for the self-defence of the people of Ambazonia under genocide, 2) The provision of emergency support to our internationally displaced civilian population and refugees in foreign countries, 3) The intensification of diplomatic action  to kick French Cameroun out of the territory of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and to bring French Cameroun terrorist genocidal regime and its murderous terrorist forces to account for their crimes, 4) The defence of our President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, members of the Interim Government who were abducted with him, hundreds of thousands of Ambazonians abducted and deported to concentration camps in French Cameroun or appearing before its court-martial execution arm of the genocide.

Cameroon Concord News Group recalls that the organization of conferences for what so ever purpose is not one of these priorities and so must neither shift the focus of the people on the above key issues begging our individual and collective attention nor divide the people.

Cameroon Concord News Group urges the people of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia to strongly support the leadership of the Interim Government under His Excellency Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, the Acting President Dr Samuel Sako, Secretary of Communication Hon Chris Anu, County by County operational leadership and Ground Zero commanders in moving this struggle towards the total liberation of Ambazonia and holding French Cameroun and its criminal agents within and without to account.

Finally, Cameroon Concord News Group gives notice that it will strongly oppose any attempts to shift the focus of this struggle from the core issues listed in the editorial even if that shift is engineered by the Interim Government or its leadership.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

As the world looks the other way, Cameroonian soldiers are pressing forward with their plan to exterminate the indigenous people of Southern Cameroons. As seen in the video below, many young men are being herded to an unknown destination by Cameroonian soldiers with instructions from the minister of defense for severe measures to be taken.

Over the last two days, the Yaounde government has intensified its violent military operations in the two English-speaking regions of the country as separatist leaders call for a one week total lockdown of the region.

It should be underscored that the government’s brutality against the indigenous people of Southern Cameroons has radicalized the people and created more than a million refugees, with over half a million living rough in neighboring Nigeria which does not have the proper infrastructure to receive such a large number of refugees.

Today in Cameroon, there are more than half a million internally displaced persons, with the majority living in Yaounde and Douala. They have to fend for themselves and in many cases, they spend the night in the open where they are harrassed and exploited by government soldiers.

It should be recalled that the government had burnt down more than 140 villages, leaving the local population which is caught between brutal government forces and armed Southern Cameroonians who claim they are fighting for the total liberation of their land helpless.

The Southern Cameroons crisis which started as a protest by teachers and lawyers has spiralled out of control due to the government’s unnecessary violent crackdown that has brought the Southern Cameroonian Diaspora into the fray.

Today, the people of Southern Cameroons prefer to take their cue from the Diaspora instead of the government that has been shooting and killing many young men who have nothing to do with the high level insurgency that is playing out in Southern Cameroons.

Southern Cameroonians have been complaining of marginalization for more than five decades, but the Yaounde government has preferred to deliver to them death and destruction, insteading of seeking to address the issues that have caused the people to feel marginalized.

It should be underscored that Southern Cameroons holds about 60% of the country’s wealth and in the event of any separation, East Cameroon will be reduced to a very poor country.

The Southwest region alone accounts for more than 40% of Cameroon’s wealth. It has huge oil deposits, gold, timber and diamond, but the Southwesterner has been reduced to a sorry spectator of events in his own land. The region’s rich volcanic soil makes it the country’s bread basket.

Added to this is its seas that contain huge fish stocks that are being harvested by foreign companies. Royalties for this wealth is not paid into the councils and municipalities located in the region.

These huge sums of money have been paid to councils in the French-speaking regions for years, and Southern Cameroonians want to rupture such an exploitative relationship that has impoverished the indigenous people of this region.

Since the conflict started in 2016, more than 5,000 Cameroonians have lost their lives, including some 2,000 soldiers. More than three thousand have been injured. Despite this gloomy picture, the United Nations and the international community are indifferent to the genocide playing out in Southern Cameroons.

The country’s army soldiers are killing young men and women indiscriminately. Even children are not safe. The uniformed, sex-starved and drug-inflamed rapists are on a rampage and if the world remains on the sidelines, another Rwanda will play out in Cameroon.

The conflict has crippled the country’s economy, but it has created brand new and lucrative opportunities for the criminals wearing national uniforms.

These days, they round up young men and women for no reason and take them to the nearest police station or gendarmerie brigade where they are required to pay about USD 1,000 to the soldiers. They are sometimes threatened with death.

The soldiers, most of whom are of Beti extraction, always threaten their victims that they would be taken to Yaounde where they would be incarcerated for months without any charges laid.

Impoverished relatives are sometimes asked to pay the money before a certain deadline and this has raised the level of stress and fear in the regions by so many notches.

The world cannot continue to be blind to the rivers of blood that have been flowing in Southern Cameroons for almost three years. How much blood still has to flow for this nasty conflict to draw international attention and condemnation?

The genocide in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions is real and the world must step in to check it. The world must learn its lessons. Rwanda had proven that a few people were capable of bringing death and destruction to a people.

The world had promised that such madness would be checked. But why is the international community indifferent to the sorry plight of the indigenous people of Southern Cameroons?

The world must not let the country’s president, Paul Biya, and his collaborators to mow down an entire people. They must not get away with genocide.

By God, it is great to speak English. So why are Southern Cameroonians being slaughtered while the French and the world keep on cheering Mr. Biya? This needs to end and the time is now.

When ailing President Buhari and his consortium of crime syndicates in the Federal Republic of Nigeria abducted and forcefully handed over His Excellency President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his top aides to the Biya Francophone regime in Yaoundé, Southern Cameroonians both at home and in the Diaspora struggled to make sense of it. First, Ambazonians were shocked when they got an insight into what transpired at Nera Hotel in Abuja which was never broadcasted on Nigerian television. The Southern Cameroons Interim President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his cabinet were held in an undisclosed location in Nigeria by a regiment of the Nigerian secret service currently being controlled by President Buhari’s Fulani kinsmen before they were extradited to Yaoundé.

So far, a detail explanation for this bizarre sequence of events emerged from Cameroon Concord News Group reporters in Abuja and Yaounde and many in French Cameroun and beyond agrees on the reason behind President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe’s abduction: Biya regime at the Sisiku’s increasingly confident leadership in the quest for Southern Cameroons independence. Above all, the Federal Republic of Nigeria is under French pressure because it is the strongest British colonial force that can chase away the French and liberate the Francophone African countries whose central bank is the French treasury.

The Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia began life some few years ago as an administration formed to defy French Cameroun’s 57 years occupation of Southern Cameroons. Since the election of President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe as Interim President, the Southern Cameroons Interim Government has successfully rallied Ambazonians throughout the globe to join the resistance.

The Interim Government contended from the very inception of the Southern Cameroons resistance that its growing arsenal was solely for self- defense in the face of numerous French Cameroun army attacks and for three years running the Ambazonian Interim Government has not been defeated militarily by French Cameroun with support from France and CEMAC nations. The Biya Francophone regime with the support of the French government and diplomats from Francophone African countries such as Chad, Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville have marked the Ambazonia Interim Government as a potential threat to regional stability in the Gulf of Guinea and the CEMAC region, a status the Ambazonia Interim Government retains to this day deep within the UN, the EU and the African Union.

The Ambazonia Interim Government’s political and self-defense power grew throughout the beginning of the Southern Cameroons revolution, but it was soon put to the test immediately after the arrest and extradition of President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe.  As French Cameroun political elites celebrated the criminal action that was jointly taken by the Biya-Buhari gangs, the Ambazonia Interim Government worked with the Ambazonia Self-Defense Council (ASC) to fend off French Cameroun sponsored groups such as the ADF of Cho Ayaba and Morisc of Boh Herbert trying to topple the Interim Government. Fighting alongside the Ambazonia Interim Government’s forces, the ASC came to play a critical role in the struggle and continues to do so.

In the closed to three years since the Southern Cameroons war began, the Ambazonia Interim Government’s self-defense power has grown disproportionately. Even though the Interim Government is yet to secure unhindered access to arms supplies due to stone walls erected by the President Buhari administration and valuable field experience. Politically, however, the Ambazonia Interim Government has given the Biya Francophone regime a run for their money.  Some unscrupulous Southern Cameroons political elites in the Diaspora have recently developed a greedy position towards the complex conflict. This has made the Ambazonia Interim Government too weak, both politically and militarily, to engage in a conflict with a neighbor supported by France and countries in the CEMAC region. Nonetheless, Acting President Samuel Sako Ikome and his powerful Communications Secretary Chris Anu are not sitting idle and watch Ground Zero fighters – fight alone to save the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

With Restoration Fighters on Ground Zero, the Ambazonian Interim Government has become something much more than a mere resistance body against French Cameroun occupation.  The Ambazonian Interim Government now possesses power that is typically reserved for African states with backing from the West: the power to help regimes rise or fall even in Mighty Nigeria.

If President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe wanted the Ambazonia Interim Government to stay in Nigeria and waged an armed struggle against French Cameroun, he would have done so immediately after he took over leadership of the struggle. That explains why Abuja invited him to the negotiation table but made a dramatic U turn and interfered so boldly and directly in the Southern Cameroons crisis. By arresting President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his top aides in Abuja, the God father of political Islam, President Buhari sought to pull the political rug from underneath Ambazonia Interim Government’s feet.

The Southern Cameroons struggle is now in a critical position. If the Ambazonia Interim Government gives up its popular support, that will be the end of the show. But should it heed the ASC’s advice it will come out as a more powerful administration.  Whatever the Ambazonia Interim Government does with the ASC, its ’s next move puts hundreds of thousands of Southern Cameroonians in Ambzonia, French Cameroun and Nigeria at risk.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai