President Paul Biya has become a master at dodging international forums, especially ones like the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting that usually cause some sense of discomfort.  The Biya presidency is indeed a crime syndicate in progress after 35 years as painted by the Cameroon Concord News Group.

Mr. Biya recorded yet another pitiful political performance by shying away from the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting that held in London. At 85, Biya has become a master at dodging national and international forums, especially ones with the potential of examining his continued stay in power. Last week, the Cameroonian dictator was conspicuously absent from the London meeting that was specifically going to address  Biya’s alleged role in the genocide currently going in Southern Cameroons.

All Biya has been saying is that he wants dialogue aimed at resolving the crisis in Southern Cameroons. It’s funny that Biya has been saying this for many months now and Cameroon government forces under his command have been slaughtering innocent Southern Cameroons civilians.  In both the so-called Senate and the National Assembly, Biya has made it impossible for debates to be held on the Southern Cameroons crisis. Of course Biya thinks the crisis will end anytime soon and his evil machinery will stay on top. It is not surprising then that Biya is dragging the matter out by appointing very unpopular Southern Cameroonians and ordering them to supervise the killings of their own people. Surely he has no appetite for anything Anglophone.

Cameroon Concord News Group understands that even French speaking Cameroonians are helpless as the remains of their loved ones keep arriving home, killed in the Southern Cameroons war. There is no key institution that can be exploited in holding Biya and his gang to account and the president in particular.  Mr. Biya himself has blatantly refuse to provide as much information to French speaking Cameroonians or, alternatively, at least show sufficient respect for state institutions ever since the Southern Cameroons crisis started some close to two years ago.

Biya and his men are not speaking about the crisis and have all maintained a kind of deliberate silence and this tactics has gotten us no closer to the complete answer sought in striking a compromise with the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

Biya’s new Minister of Territorial Administration, Paul Atanga Nji has of course taken evading questions to new levels. Last week, CRTV’s Ibrahim Sheriff put a range of their own CPDM sweetheart questions to him, providing him with plenty of room to discuss matters such as the extradited Ambazonian leaders and the way forward in resolving the crisis. The questions were so basic that Atanga Nji was allowed to rattle off Biya achievements informing the world that the leaders were putting on weight due to the quality of food being served to them in detention.

President Biya himself is implicated in corruption and none of his disgraced and detained cabinet ministers have ever appeared before the National Assembly to answer questions regarding nepotism and corruption. Biya only fire those who want his job or any of the ministers who have something to offer the Cameroonian people in terms of development and job creation.

No CPDM media guru is allowed to ask President Biya questions directly related to the Southern Cameroons crisis or statistics about unemployment and poverty or about his role in self-sabotaging the economy. In a nutshell, Biya’s management style displays reckless disregard for the people of Cameroon.

Here is a president who has failed woefully to understand the gravity of his actions when he declared war against Southern Cameroonians.  Indeed, French Cameroun political elites are facing many challenges and the Francophone dominated economy is especially fragile, so why exacerbate the situation by appointing two compromised, inexperienced Southern Cameroonians to the ministries of Territorial Administration and Secondary Education? The answer is obvious now that we have more armed groups coming up in Southern Cameroons and more killings on both sides of the political divide.

It has become clear that Biya is entirely disconnected from the state he presides over and the citizens he is meant to lead. He is now wholly focused on ensuring that his children’s Swiss bank accounts are full to the brim. Biya has no other goals for the Cameroonian people.

Parliament itself has become like a Roman spectacle with both CPDM and opposition MPs only interested in collecting their salaries and car allowances.  Biya is indeed a criminal unable to command the respect of his people, given that he is implicated in so many scandals.

There is an urgent need for French speaking Cameroonians to change tack and strategy and start putting the penetrating questions to the Francophone army to get rid of this monstrous liability of a head of state.

To this I put my name

Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

President Biya’s much anticipated departure is unlikely to alter the political climate of the country he ruined for more than three decades. It is already heading to two years ever since the Southern Cameroons crisis started and none of his fake policies seems to have delivered the expected result.

The appointment of an ardent Southern Cameroon criminal, Paul Atanga Nji as minister of Territorial Administration signals that Biya’s days of absolute and abusive power are over. This is not to say; however, that Biya – the Right Royal President – will quickly be forgotten. How can Cameroon’s impoverished masses forget a man who so cynically plundered Cameroon’s wealth, hiring a string of jets and stashing billions of Euros in Swiss bank accounts.

The bespectacled tyrant and his lavish lifestyle will long be synonymous with the worst excesses of corruption and greed. Having made himself head of state with full executive powers after the 1984 April 6^th coup, Biya and his gang embarked on a course which would quickly reduce Cameroon to a shambles.

In the 1990s and with the support of a Southern Cameroons pro CPDM comedian, Chief Inoni Ephraim, Biya proclaimed a fake anti colonial doctrine and the beautiful city of Victoria was renamed Limbe and Anglophones were urged to adopt a national costume of French Cameroun design. Not being one to hide his light under a bushel, the son of a wretched Roman Catholic Catechist, Paul Biya Bi Mvondo became the father of the Cameroonian nation.

Today, it is evidently clear that what Mr. Biya is actually leaving behind is a country in name only. In both East and West Cameroon, roads, ports, railways, schools, hospitals and public buildings have all been allowed to fall into such a state of disrepair that it will take any new regime in French Cameroun many years to fix the mess. Ever since the creation of the ruling CPDM crime syndicate in Bamenda, any pretence at good governance or fiscal accountability was dropped as Biya’s cronies dipped their hands in the public coffers and his political opponents squabbled pointlessly among themselves.

In Mvomeka’a, the village of his birth, he has constructed a gaudy palace, a multimillion dollar golf course with ornamental gardens and a runway long enough to accommodate a Boeing 747, which he often leased from Air France for family shopping sprees in Geneva. His cynical exploitation of Cameroon is made possible by French government support.

In return for providing bases from which the French can control the Central African Sub region, Biya has been able to extract the maximum of US and EU aid and indulgence. The French are on hand helping him to carry out the genocide currently going on in Southern Cameroons.

Biya still has the backing of the French government even though growing anarchy and lawlessness threatens him at home. Few could have predicted that the beginning of his end would be occasioned by an uprising born in the remote areas in Southern Cameroons. Reading from a small piece of dirty paper at the Nsimalen International airport in Yaoundé from a trip that took him to the Ivory Coast, Biya appeared like a man who has lost everything: his health, his family and above all, the respect of his people.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

When the Southern Cameroons crisis started in October 2016,few people thought it would last for a week. Very few even thought it would have an impact on the government. The two English-speaking regions were considered insignificant, especially as they only constitute 20% of the country’s population.

Senior government officials such as Laurent Esso and Jacques Fame Ndongo felt it was not even necessary to pay attention to the English-speaking minority. To the government, it had everything under control and if the population insisted on carrying through with its demands, then the government would stop at nothing to crush the English-speaking minority.

Mr. Fame Ndongo, who is the country’s higher education minister, is alleged to have compared the two regions to “two cubes of sugar” which could be easily melted in an ocean; with the ocean being the 80% Francophone majority. Little did he know that those “cubes of sugar” had stood the test of time and after 56 years of marginalization, the people of the North West and South West regions had had enough and were prepared to make their grievances known to the international community.

The fighting is ongoing, and it is getting nastier by the day, as government soldiers erase whole villages from the country’s map, a tactic it used to intimidate French-speaking freedom fighters popularly known as “Marquisards” in the 60s. These acts of violence do not seem to be producing the desired impact. Far from dissuading the determined Southern Cameroonian fighters, they are instead breeding revenge which is feeding the circle of violence that the government has triggered in the country.

Today, Cameroon government officials are gradually coming to terms with the fact that the two “cubes of sugar” will not easily melt. Instead of intimidating the fighters, the violence has now become a reason why the people of Southern Cameroons have to fight to the finish. They know the government is not willing to solve the problem and yielding to government pressure will only imply that they will have to go back to the status quo ante where they were regarded as second-class citizens.

The human cost of the conflict is staggering. Soldiers and civilians have been killed in a conflict that could have been avoided. The government has simply stopped announcing the killing of army soldiers, as this may have a huge impact on those who are being sent to the restive English-speaking regions.

The government has continued to put a brave face on a terribly bad situation. But behind the scenes, there is a gnashing of teeth. The government knows that fighting a war on multiple fronts is a dangerous thing to do. A source close to the Unity Palace has indicated that the government is slowly admitting that it had underestimated so many things, especially the role the Southern Cameroonian Diaspora that holds that it is time for it to play a key role in the country’s economic and political life.

After more than five decades of unnecessary marginalization, the Southern Cameroonian Diaspora believes that it can right the wrongs of the past by financing the various armed groups that are wreaking havoc in Southern Cameroons. Today, the region has become a no-go area for many people. The country’s administrative officers have become targets for the armed groups. Some government officials have been kidnapped, though none has been killed. But this act by the fighters is sending a very strong message to the government that has been giving the impression that it is in control of its entire territory.

But the reality on the ground is different. The armed groups are calling the shots and places like Menji in Lebialem Division have become lawless with police officers and soldiers living in constant fear, as the dangerous Lebialem Red Dragons are capable of striking right at the heart of Manji, the Division’s main town. This has been proven with the kidnapping of Professor Leke whose video went viral a few weeks ago.

The learned professor was undressed after having been charged with bringing illegal criminal aliens into the country with the intention of destabilizing the fatherland (Ambazonia). Professor Leke Tambo who has been freed, has left the country and he is currently in the United States where he is having a rest after his ordeal with Southern Cameroonian separatists. He was advised never to grant any interview by the Red Dragons. He knows what may befall him if he disobeys the instructions of the “Ambazonian military.”

A former judge, Mbeng Martin, was also recently picked up by Manyu Tigers, an armed group that is a nightmare to army soldiers in that part of Southern Cameroons. The retired and cash-strapped judge had been criticizing the Ambazonian President, Julius Ayuk Tabe, because he had been misinformed that his junior brother, a diplomat in Brazil, could be appointed as Cameroon’s Prime Minister. He got it all wrong and had to learn the hard way.

The spirit of the fighters is known to pick up its victims after mid-night and that was when the retired judge was picked up in his native Ewelle in Manyu Division. Wont to taking and giving bribe, the retired judge who had only CFAF 90,000 in his pocket was prompt at giving the money to the fighters who were infuriated by this act of corruption; an act deplored by Southern Cameroonians. This earned him a little beating. The fighters called him to order by hitting his head with a machete. The retired judge cried like a child as he knew he might never see his family again. But the fighters who have remained steadfast to their principle, released the retired judge at Eyumojock, many miles from where he had been arrested with a clear message. “Tell former Minister Ogork Ntui and Member of Parliament Susan Okpu that they have been excommunicated from Eyumojock Sub-division. If they make the mistake of coming to that part of the country, they will not have the time to regret their mistake.” Former Minister Ogork is taking this message seriously and ever since he got the message, he has been regular to the bathroom.  He understands what could befall him if he made the mistake of going to his village.

Close to two years after Southern Cameroonians took to the streets, Cameroon has become one chaotic nation on its way to becoming a failed state. Today, many Western embassies have advised their citizens to avoid parts of the country due to the violence that is playing out there. The American embassy, in particular, has advised Cameroonians, most of whom are Southern Cameroonians bearing American passports, to travel to Cameroon using their American passports. This follows a decision by the Yaounde government to arrest many Southern Cameroonians in the Diaspora for their role in the Southern Cameroons crisis that has given the country a very bad name. The Central African country that was being touted as an oasis of peace in a desert of chaos has become as chaotic as its neighbors.

The government’s inability to address the core issues that brought a revolt to its doorstep and its decision to pursue a military rather than a political action to resolve this crisis has instead made matters worse. Today, armed groups are cropping up all over Southern Cameroons like ragweed and these young fighters are giving government troops a good run for their money. Young, inexperienced soldiers are permanently in fear as they are not combat-tested. They know any mistake on their part will surely lead them to their graves. Ambazonian fighters are unpardonable.

Today, it now normal for junior officers to bribe their seniors so that they do not get sent to Southern Cameroons which in the minds of many army soldiers is synonymous with death. The military generals who are running the show are feathering their nests from the resources earmarked by the government for the prosecution of this unnecessary fratricidal war.

All across the country, it is also rumored that the country’s defense minister, Joseph Beti Assomo, is making a huge fortune out of the military chaos that is playing out in Southern Cameroons. A source close to the presidency has indicated that even the president is gradually questioning the rationale behind the war. His fear of a drawn-out war is gradually pushing him into suspecting those who had advised him against dialogue.

The Cameroon Concord News Group source at the country’s presidency has intimated that Mr. Biya is contemplating a troop draw-down in the two English-speaking regions, as the country’s finances dry up and the light at the end of the tunnel which his collaborators had shown him a few weeks ago is turning out to be a fire in a nearby burning house.

Though the power dynamics are in the government’s favor, many political analysts argue that Southern Cameroon crisis has simply overwhelmed the government. The country’s poorly trained military has been spread thin. With many armed groups popping up every day in different parts of the former West Cameroons, the government seems to be fighting a bloody war on many fronts.

What is more challenging is the fact that the war is not conventional, and the separatists’ hit-and-run tactics are hitting the frustrated and demotivated soldiers where it hurts the most. Since the armed conflict erupted in January 2018 following a declaration of war against Southern Cameroonians by the country’s old and ailing president, Paul Biya, more than 300 army soldiers have been hacked to death by Southern Cameroonian fighters who are thought to be using supernatural powers.

But the greatest victim is the country’s treasury. The conflict has messed up the government’s financial plans. It has hit the country’s economy like a ton of brick. Recently, the government had to review its grow figures. It has clearly acknowledged that Southern Cameroonian fighters have the potential to send the country’s economy into a tailspin.

The crisis that started as a joke has connived with other factors such declining oil production and falling oil prices to manufacture the perfect nightmare for the country’s leaders who had overestimated their financial ability to prosecute such a costly war.

The country’s leaky treasury is spelling hard times for the country’s burgeoning civil service. The country’s financial indicators are trending very low. Government coffers are empty, and many ministries do not have the resources to carry out some of the main projects that had been included in this year’s budget.

Mr. Biya is gradually losing sleep. The country’s empty coffers are gradually becoming a huge challenge. Over the last few months, Mr. Biya has been working overtime to find out where he can have money to pay the country’s military and civil servants. His Western backers are gradually back-pedaling, and this is pushing him into the hands of unconventional friends like China and Russians.

A recent trip to China only transformed him into a mobile buffoon. Mr. Biya’s trip to China was designed for him to sweet-talk the Chinese into giving him huge chunks of money for him to meet his mounting domestic financial commitments. But the Chinese, known for their craft and intelligence, carefully steered everything towards business and bilateral cooperation. To them, Mr. Biya and his huge delegation were simply circus animals which have come to China to entertain the moody Chinese population.

They understand that the Biya government is full of many thieves. They are aware that the country’s maximum-security prison is full of former cabinet ministers who have robbed their country blind.In their eyes, Mr. Biya himself is not a saint. A recent international report has clearly indicted the 85-year-old Biya for wasting his country’s resources on unnecessary trips abroad. The report also indicts his wife, noted for her flaming red hair, of being a “shopaholic” whose constant trips abroad have made a hole in the nation’s coffer.

The Chinese are simply not interested in pouring their money in a country wherein the president and his ministers have transformed the state treasury into their personal Automatic Teller Machine (ATM). Mr. Biya might have been promised lots of things, but he knows that it will be an uphill task for him to get free money from the Chinese who themselves are facing some financial headwinds, especially as the global economy has taken a nosedive.

Even the country’s defense minister, Joseph Beti Assomo has indicated that help from friends to help address the crisis could be welcomed. Mr. Assomo expressed that wish while on a recent trip to Russia where he spoke to the country’s press. Asked whether Cameroon was seeking foreign support to help curb the crisis, Mr. Assomo sounded ambiguous in his response. He said“we are not close to such prospects, but when you have a friend who is in trouble and if you are a real friend, you have to go to his rescue; you don’t wait for him to call for help. We are not asking anybody to come to our rescue, but if a friend, a real friend, comes and proposes to help us, we will examine his offer. We are not crying to the world to come and help us, we are open to all the opportunities that our partners and our foreign friends can present to us, but for now we are managing within Cameroon because to us, it’s a Cameroonian problem,” he said.

The Yaounde government is clearly staring down the barrel of bankruptcy. The government has a hot potato on its hands. The per diem paid to soldiers deployed to the South West and North West regions is gradually becoming a huge financial problem to the government. Besides, it is also causing huge cracks on the military’s wall as some soldiers hold that they are not paid their fair share of money for the risk they are taking.

But it won’t be long for these soldiers to figure out that the country cannot even pay their salaries. Like civil servants, they may be in for long, scary nights. The government’s recklessness is coming back to bite soldiers and civil servants and this may herald the beginning of the end of a government that has been conducting itself more as a crime syndicate than an institution that is supposed to be working in the intertest of its citizens. It is just a matter of time and the government will see the writing on the wall.

The government wants the Southern Cameroons crisis to end very fast. Its finances are in a total mess. Cleaning up the mess will take a long time. The shit will soon hit the fan if the government does not find alternative sources of funding. The noose is tightening and even the Prime Minister has been prompt at calling on government officials to cut down on cost. But a government wont to wasting taxpayers’ money will find it hard to mend its ways.

The wasteful government has been counting on the French, but the French alone will not be able to provide the much-needed resources to roll back the various armed groups in the English-speaking regions.

The French have their own problems and will not be able to help the Yaounde government to pay its shell-shocked soldiers. Mr. Biya has to come up with billions of dollars over the next months if he wants to continue to rule the beleaguered country. Elections are fast approaching and without money, the ruling party will surely not win the upcoming elections. It needs money to bribe voters, especially in the French-speaking regions of the country. If those resources are not forthcoming, then the government is in real trouble and it must know its days are numbered.

By Kingsley Betek, Cameroon Concord News Group West Africa Bureau Chief

Cameroon Concord News correspondents in Mamfe, reported that Justice Martin Mbeng, a retired Judge of the Court of Appeal in Buea Southern Cameroons was released after interrogation by Ambazonia Forces operating in the Manyu operational sector of Ambazonia revolutionary liberation war.   He was arrested a few days ago in his native Ewelle village in Manyu County of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and taken for interrogation. His release after interrogation by Ambazonia Forces highlights a determination by the fighting forces of Ambazonia to do no harm to civilians in the prosecution of the war. Cameroon Concord News applauds this principled policy.

The release of Justice Martin Mbeng like that of Professor Leke Tambo by the Red Dragons of Lebialem before, critically portray a determination by these forces to make a clear distinction between enemy forces and civilians who may not be taking active part in the war and crimes against citizens of the Republic of Ambazonia. This policy decision was clearly established by His Excellency Sisiku Ayuk Tabe the President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and reiterated by the Acting President His Excellency Samuel Sako. The Communication Secretary of the Interim Government Hon Chris Anu in decrying the execution of a civilian French Cameroun senior servant of Ambazonia nationality on the orders of a commander of one of the Ambazonia fighting forces reminded citizens of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia that we embarked in this self defense liberation war promising to protect civilians without a discriminatory basis in the prosecution of the war against our enemy, French Cameroon. The liberation of Martin Mbeng as that of leke Tambo is consistent with this principled policy commitment. We of this group of publication strongly endorsed the policy of the Interim Government and the widely acclaimed statements of Hon Chris Anu. Cameroon Concord News Group holds the considered position that the preservation of the sanctity of human life must be a sacred commitment of all.

In the light of this demonstrable policy which accords with the principles of international law and practices of civilized nations, Cameroon Concord News  and Cameroon Intelligence Report deems it necessary to once more highlight the history of international criminality on which French Cameroun was founded. This distinguishing criminal policy clearly defines French Cameroun’s identity and markedly distinguishes it from the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. The perpetual distinction between the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and French Cameroun lies in the premium placed by Ambazonia on the protection of civilians not participating in French Cameroun’s genocide war against Ambazonia and French Cameroun’s policy of cowardly criminal annihilation of armless civilians.  For example, while Ambazonia liberation forces arrested, interrogated and released, Professor Leke Tambo, Justice Martin Mbeng and other civilians, French Cameroun and its criminal collaborators like George Tabetando, kidnapped and executed in cold blood seven Ambazonia civilians in Kendem, Manyu County. In another cowardly act, a very desperate French Cameroun regime faked the abduction of foreign citizens who were controlled, protected and given safe passage by well-disciplined Ambazonia forces hoping to use the blackmail to obtain an adverse European Union resolution against the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and its revolutionary war of liberation. This criminal government network of kidnappers for ransom in French Cameroun and the immediate ethnic inner cycle of the Buhari government in Nigeria masked in the fight against Boko Haram superintended by this network are well documented. The Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia has expressly outlawed the abduction of foreign nationals and has consistently condemned the abduction of its President and members of its Interim Government by the criminal network in Nigeria and French Cameroun.  The plethora defining and distinctive irreconcilables between French Cameroun and the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, make life together in any form impossible.

One of the virtues of having a functional Interim Government is to enable the Federal Republic of Ambazonia to have a structured government to define, determine and direct our collective and individual actions in a manner that would clearly distinguish us from the brutal criminal enemy from which we have moved away. French Cameroun was built on the blood of its nationalists and citizens who sought true independence from the criminal French colonial empire of despair and death.  For fifty-six years, the economy of the Southern Cameroons has been raped, looted, pillaged and devastated to sustain the economy of the French colonial vampire.

The escalation of the fifty-six-year war of genocide against the Federal Republic of Ambazonia was determined by a declaration of war made by the French criminal colonial enforcement agent Paul Biya on his return from Abidjan Cote D’Ivoire where he went to brief and obtain permission from the visiting French President.  It did not surprise careful observers of the French Cameroun’s genocide in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia that the demented despot read from a script from his slave master declaring the war and genocide against the territory and people of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.  The preplanned genocide network which uses state and private media resources, administrative structures and a repressive military machinery to execute the genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes is directed controlled and supervised by Paul Biya.  Genocide ideologues and apologists like Issa Tchiroma, Enoh Meyomesse, Charles Ndongo, Laurent Esso, Fame Ndongo, Atanga Nji, George Tabetando, Mafany Musonge, Journalists of Television 4, CRTV, Cameroon Tribune and other French Cameroun media outlets consistently called for the extermination and genocide of Southern Cameroonians.  The superior commanders of the perpetrators of the genocide issued orders of a military and administrative nature to their subordinates. On their orders, several communities in Manyu were deported from their ancestral homes by the order of the colonial proconsul, one Oum II who also ordered the torching of civilian settlements. These acts of systematic criminality have been replicated in civilian settlements throughout the territory of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. The burning to death of innocent civilians in their homes, the destruction of the subsistence economy of persons in urban and rural communities, markets, commercial motorcycles and transportation vehicles was ordered by the government of French Cameroun and enforced by soldiers deployed for the purpose. The campaign of extermination has led to thousands of civilians being executed in cold blood and buried in mass graves. Several thousands of Ambazonia citizens have been abducted and executed in cold blood based on their Ambazonian nationality. Those they were unwilling to execute were abducted and court-martialed in a French Cameroun Military Tribunal presided over by a woman whose husband is overseeing the intelligence unit responsible for the tracking down and abduction of citizens of Ambazonia within and far beyond our national frontiers.  He is a prominent member of national security council whose secretary-general the criminal kingpin Atanga Nji was recently rewarded for his overzealousness and brutality in executing his criminal mandate against Ambazonians  by an appointment in a  cumulative position as a Minister of Territory Administration. The husband of the President of the Military Tribunal was a leading member of the criminal gang that in a joint operation with Nigeria intelligence operatives abducted the President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia His Excellency Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and members of his Interim Government on January 5, 2018 in Abuja Nigeria.  That operation provided the very hitherto election cash-strapped Mohammadu Buhari the money which he is relying on to seek re-election in 2019.

A system of justice where the husband abducts, murders victims and brings others before a court-martial presided over by his wife, is undoubtedly an instrument of criminality.  A system of justice where criminals preside over the destiny of the victims of their crimes must be condemned and the criminals overseeing it held accountable for their crimes. Ambazonia must define the enemy to include this justice system and the justice mechanism mandated to execute the criminal agenda and the enforcement of the international crimes committed within and out of the territory of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia against the citizens of Ambazonia. The judicial officers enforcing this system are as culpable as colonial Divisional Officers, Gendarmes, Soldiers, Policemen, infiltrators, collaborators and all those supporting or contributing to the war efforts of the enemy against the people and territory of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. The CPDM has long been classified as a terrorist organization in the territory of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and banned. The Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia banned elections organized by the colonial regime of French Cameroun on the territory of Ambazonia and all citizens of Ambazonia put on notice. The free movement of officials of the colonial government within the territory of Ambazonia should be banned.  Schools within the territory of Ambazonia were closed to protect Ambazonia’s core educational values but also to protect our girls from rape, and abduction for ritual murders by French Cameroons operatives and their masters. Like all responsible governments, the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia expects these sensible orders aimed at protecting its territory and people to be scrupulously observed.  There is a war within the territory of Ambazonia and measures aimed at protecting our people and territory must be respected. The liberation of the entire of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia is the duty of all citizens.

Cameroon Concord News applauds the delivery of food and medical supplies to our refugees in Nigeria by the Interim Government and its continuing efforts to unite all our fighting forces to assure the liberation of our territory and protection of our territory.  The sharing of intelligence, strategy and operational support among our fighting forces is very important for our liberation.  Cameroon Concord News and its sister publications strongly condemns the personification of our liberation struggle. That unprecedented conduct is a recipe for failure and must be condemned.  A defense system and strategy build around an individual aided by visionless bloggers conflating the dissemination of credible information with infantile opinions cannot win this war. The focus must be our fighting forces in ground zero and the operational, intelligence, disciplinary, policy, tactical and strategic structures overseeing the prosecution of the war. That focus is being distracted by individual some over-bloated egos and an exaggerated operational and command capabilities from regions of the world far removed from the theatre of military operations. Cameroon Concord News strongly condemns this personification our war efforts. This conduct paints the struggle in bad light, complicates and jeopardizes field operations in ground zero and endangers the lives of self defense forces.  It must stop.

Cameroon Concord News Group recognizes the right of the citizens of Ambazonia to take up arms to protect our people and territory and strongly supports the efforts of the Interim Government to unite all the defense forces for purposes of co-ordination, logistic supplies and the well-being of our fighting forces.

To this I Put My Name

Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Chairman, Editor-in-Chief

The University of Buea this week withdrew a Bachelor and a Masters degree awarded to the so-called Lord Mayor of the Buea City Council in Southern Cameroons after a committee found he had gained admission into the institution using fake GCE O and A level certificates.

Interestingly, Patrick Ekema Esunge, a chartered member of the ruling CPDM crime syndicate also holds a PhD from an American University. The Buea University senate revoked the degrees and confirmed that after a very intensive and productive investigation, Ekema will face legal action from the Ministry of Higher Education.

A message sent to our London editorial desk stated inter alia that the mayor of Buea “Mr. Patrick Ekema now has a birth certificate, marriage certificate, baptism card, GCE O’ level with 4 E grades, a First School Leaving Certificate, a gun license and a driver’s license.”  The Ekema Buea University affair can best be painted using Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels-from a Brobdingnagian to an academic Lilliput.

The Brobdingnagians were giants: they averaged around 60 feet tall, and their lands and animals were correspondingly huge. Gulliver was incredibly vulnerable in this country, which is why it made sense that the satire turned increasingly towards the fragility (and grotesqueness) of the human body. Gulliver stumbled into cow pats and was nearly drowned by a frog. (Mbella Moki) All of these tales were truly dire to him, but to the Brobdingnagian court, they were a laugh riot.

The Lilliputians inhabited the first island Gulliver visited. They all stood about six inches tall, with proportionally tiny buildings and trees and horses. The Lilliputians were ruled by an Emperor who appointed his high court officials according to their skills with rope dancing rather than their actual abilities. In other words, they’re exactly governed according to rational principles. The court of Lilliput like the CPDM crime syndicate mostly seems to spend its time plotting against one another. Gulliver, unfortunately, formed one of the primary targets of these plots. His enormous size made him both expensive and dangerous for the Emperor to keep, so, even though he made himself useful in Lilliput’s wars against Blefuscu, (Ambazonia) Gulliver eventually had to flee the country to avoid having his eyes put out.

A prominent human rights lawyer, Barrister Tambe Tiku first posted fraud accusations, prompting the Biya regime to ask the university to investigate. A report from the same lawyer looking into the case was handed to the press and that forced the university council to invalidate the degrees.

Mayor Ekema has not commented on the situation and nothing has been said by his entourage on whether he intends to challenge the university’s decision. He is yet to admit to any deliberate wrongdoing or deception. But if he fails to put up a resistance, Mola Ekema will become the first highly profiled Southern Cameroonian in the consortium of CPDM crime syndicates under the direction of President Biya to lose his academic credentials.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

The Southern Cameroons crisis that has been playing out for close to two years has gradually spiralled out of control following the existence of many armed groups in the two English-speaking regions of the country. Over the last two months, many innocent civilians have met their death as the government pursues its policy of collective punishment. Many civilians have seen their homes burnt down by government forces which have opted for a “scorch-earth” policy that is hurting many vulnerable people who have nothing to do with the conflict.

A few weeks ago, villages such as Kembong and Kwakwa in the South West region were visited by a brigade of alcohol-inflamed and sex-starved soldiers whose actions defied all modern law enforcement logic. Houses were burnt down, with the old and vulnerable consumed by the flames in a campaign that will never bring peace to the region. What is more disturbing is that, for more than a month now, the government has not ordered any investigation into these barbaric atrocities. It has not even expressed any remorse for such acts of inhumanity committed by people who are supposed to serve and protect the population.

Of course, what caused the government to adopt the obnoxious “law of Hammurabi” was the killing of army soldiers by some unidentified gun men. This act should never be extolled, but the government’s decision to come down to the level of a ragtag army clearly calls for a global condemnation.

The government is an organized structure with institutions whose capacity to investigate crimes has been built over the years. Its actions in retaliation to acts committed by unknown gunmen serve as  a testament to its failure to rein in the tough Ambazonian fighters who are determined to take the war to the enemy.

The government clearly understands that in seeking out those who commit such odious crimes against government forces, it must partner with the local population. It knows it must use the local population to gather intelligence that will help it in its efforts to restore peace and security in the region. The government’s violent reaction to crimes committed by a few gunmen speaks volumes to its inability to keep the country safe through meaningful dialogue. For long, it has been giving the impression that it cherishes dialogue, but its actions over the last six months have proven that it has been paying lip service to the whole notion of dialogue.

Kwakwa had been considered as a flash in the pan by many government apologists and many people hoped that this unfortunate drama would not repeat itself. But three weeks ago, Mbim, a small village some 20 kilometres from Kumbo, was the target of these alcohol-inflamed soldiers. During the military onslaught, many houses were razed, food was destroyed, and many civilians were wounded, an act that has been condemned by many Southern Cameroonian activists and opinion leaders.

From every indication, this seems to be the government’s modus operandi and it is determined to use it, as long as Southern Cameroonians stick to their guns. The government seems to have sworn that theirs will be the kingdom of tears and homelessness for as long as they continue to challenge its authority. The same destruction has been spreading to other parts of Southern Cameroons.

The government that is supposed to protect civilians has resorted to killing them just because some of them do sympathize with Ambazonian Defense Forces. The civilians have been caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. They have no control over the Ambazonian fighters who consider themselves as freedom fighters and the beleaguered government seems to be at its wit’s end as it faces tough challenges from the determined freedom fighters.

On Tuesday, April 3, 2018, the Cameroonian military attacked and burned several homes in Mungo Ndor, a small village located some 40 km from Nguti in the Koupé-Manengouba Division in the South West region. The senseless arson campaign by government troops has left many people in tears. Ms. Egbe Maria Ndonge, popularly known as “Mami Maria”, was burned to death in her house, while asleep. Many people question the rationale behind such government brutality that will make it hard for both parties to sit and talk.

Speaking to a Cameroon Concord News Group correspondent on the ground, residents of the village confirmed that local churches had been burnt and 6 civilians shot. The sources also added that some civilians had been killed in the senseless government attacks. It should be recalled that killing civilians on purpose and destroying civilian property constitute war crimes. The government has an obligation under international law to investigate all the atrocities being committed by its military. So far, the Yaoundé regime seems to be enjoying as Southern Cameroonians run into the jungle for accommodation.

According to the Cameroon Concord News Group correspondent, the village has been besieged by the army, and the villagers are not allowed to move in or out. Hundreds of residents are currently seeking refuge in the forest. Many rights groups, including the one led by Barrister Felix Nkongho Agbor-Balla, are calling on the government to grant journalists and human rights organizations access to these regions.

Since the conflict in Southern Cameroons started in October 2016, more than 1,000 people have been killed, with army soldiers accounting for more than 300 of the deaths. The civilian population has borne the brunt of the government’s attacks on villages and towns in Southern Cameroons.

The Southern Cameroons crisis has resulted in the fleeing of more than 60,000 Southern Cameroonians from their homeland to Nigeria due to the government’s military violence. Many of these people are innocent civilians who have been caught between government army soldiers and Ambazonian Defense forces who are battling for the control of territory in South Cameroons; a region rich in minerals, especially oil, gold and diamond.

The tension in the region has been flaring following the arrest of Ambazonian leaders in Nigeria in early January and their illegal extradition to Cameroon where they are being held incommunicado at the Gendarmerie headquarters in Yaounde.

Following the arrest of the Ambazonian president and 46 others, violent clashes erupted in several towns in Southern Cameroons. In Batibo, three army soldiers were killed by unknown gunmen, while the Batibo Senior Divisional Officer was taken by the gunmen to an unknown destination. His whereabouts are still unknown. The Batibo Assistant Mayor, Esther Tebo, for her part, escaped capture by the skin of her teeth, after gunmen showed up at her church and opened fire, wounding several people.

Kembong, a town in Manyu Division which was a hotspot during the violent confrontations in December 2017, was back in the spotlight following an attack by heavily armed gunmen on the temporary military barracks in the town. The attack resulted in the killing of three gendarmes, with many other uniformed officers wounded. The wounded were flown to the Mamfe military hospital for treatment, a measure that helped to stabilize them.

The incident, which is a response to the government’s military action in many parts of Southern Cameroons, came less than 24 hours after the country’s president, Paul Biya, said the North West and South West regions were stabilizing during a speech delivered to the country’s youth on Saturday, February 10, 2018, on the occasion of the country’s youth day.

There have been many cases of violence in the English-speaking regions following Mr. Ayuk Tabe’s arrest. Cameroonian authorities themselves have become more concerned about the political and military conflict in the country as it continues to spill out of the control. Rumors making the rounds for some time now hold that young Francophone fighters are swelling the ranks of Southern Cameroonian fighters in Ndian Division.

This is making things a lot more dangerous, as an issue that started with socio-professional demands by lawyers and teachers may end up becoming a major civil war in a region that has had more than its fair share of civil wars and political chaos.

But the most challenging thing is the silence of the international community. Despite the daily killings taking place in many towns in Southern Cameroons, the international community has sunk into a deafening silence that is worrying to many people across the globe.

Some analysts argue that the international community has entered into a pact with the Cameroon government. The international community has been looking the other way while the Cameroon government is mowing down its own people. Despite calls to the global body by rights groups such as the International Crisis Group and Amnesty International for a direct intervention, the UN has continued to display a form of indifference that is more unsettling than reassuring.

Even the illegal arrest and extradition of Southern Cameroonian leaders did not shock the international community. The United Nations, in particular, seems to be playing ball with the Cameroon government and this is causing many people to hold that most of the military violence taking place in the English-speaking regions of the country has received the blessing of a United Nations that is more interested in keeping the country together than in the methods that are being used to keep the country one and indivisible.

So far, the international community has been turning a blind eye to the death and destruction that army soldiers have been spreading in the two English-speaking regions of the country. Is the international community under the influence of France that has been the greatest beneficiary of the Southern Cameroonian wealth or is it just sick and tired of dealing with conflicts on the continent?

From the behavior so far displayed by the international community, it is clear that Southern Cameroonian lives do not really matter. Many Southern Cameroonians have been sent to an early grave as a result of the government’s ill-advised decision to pursue military instead of a political approach to the conflict. Could the Biya regime have been successful in corrupting the entire international community? Why would a people who simply want the world to know that they are hurting become a target of a government that is supposed to protect them?

The international community might have called for inclusive dialogue at different stages of the conflict, but its passivity and lack of interest in the whole situation speaks to the connivance between it and the Biya region to decimate the indigenous people of Southern Cameroons. If the international community does not come out of the “Omerta” it has imposed on itself, Southern Cameroonians will continue to consider it as an accomplice in the genocide that is currently playing out in their country.

It is time for the international community to get tough on a government that is considered by its own citizens as a crime syndicate. Its corruption has robbed its own people of happiness and prosperity.  Today, it is fiercely promoting the principle of political tribalism as a means of sustaining itself in power.  The market-dominant minority that has enriched itself through unorthodox means has brought untold hardship to Cameroonians. It has to go and Cameroonians in general hold that the intervention of the international community will be a welcome relief. Turning a blind eye to the problem will not make it go away. The international community must step in to restore peace in a country that is anything but democratic.

By Kingsley Betek with contributions from the editorial team at the Cameroon Concord News Group Global Headquarters in the UK.

Cameroon Concord News Group has documented and published unimpeachable evidence of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and several international crimes committed against the peace-loving people of the Southern Cameroons by French Cameroun.  These crimes are ongoing for the past fifty-six years. Cameroon Concord News Group has established that the motivation for these crimes are of an economic nature for which France is the primary beneficiary. It is France’s economic interests over the abundant mineral and natural resources in the Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia that has corruptly sustained colonial rule over the Southern Cameroons.  Over the past fifty-six years, French Cameroun unleashed a reign of terror over the Southern Cameroons.  Through collective punishment, systematic rape and humiliation of our girls and women, torching of civilian settlements, pillage and looting of our natural and petroleum resources, massacre of civilians, enforced disappearances, systematic torture, large scale abductions and imprisonment, indignities on women and children and several egregious violations, French Cameroun with impunity put the collective existence of the people of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia in jeopardy.

These crimes escalated from September 22, 2017 to October 1, 2017 when the people of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia reclaimed their independence and sovereignty over their territory. The people and government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia under the leadership of the President His Excellency Sisiku Ayuk Tabe deserved the protection of international law but the international community betrayed the “never again” sacred trust it made to humanity after the holocaust by allowing French Cameroun deploy weapons of mass destruction to kill and maim armless civilians on its watch.  Cameroon Concord News and Cameroon Intelligence Report have consistently denounced the use by French Cameroon of   the stolen wealth and resources of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia to corrupt Senior UN officials and some members of the government of Nigeria to facilitate the commission of crimes against the Federal Republic of Ambazonia among which the abduction of His Excellency the President and members of the Interim Government was.

The decision by the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia to resort to self defence to protect its people and territory has recorded successes so far. The resilience of the people and the successes recorded with so little has alarmed the enemy and its co-conspirators in Nigeria and France. Before his abduction by a joint criminal gang comprising Nigerian intelligence personnel and a French Cameroun special operations death squad, the President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia in an address enjoined the citizens of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia to protect the lives of civilians of all nationalities found in the territory of Ambazonia. Endorsing self defense after the abduction of our leaders, the Acting President Dr Samuel Sako and the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia reiterated this policy which was established by His Excellency the President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. Cameroon Concord News Group fully endorsed the policy.

French Cameroun’s military operations within the territory of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia has as its primary focus the massacre of civilians, the looting, pillaging, and torching of civilian settlements, the rape of our girls and women, and several other crimes. These crimes for which Paul Biya by himself, or through his subordinate criminal agents, like Laurent Esso, Fame Ndongo, Atanga Nji, George Tabetando, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, Owona Nguini, Okalia Bilai, Lele L’Afrique, Joseph Beti Assomo ( minister of armed forces) French Cameroun services commanders deployed to prosecute the genocide, have taken responsibility are well documented.  The sheer magnitude of the crimes and its potential to spill over to the territories of neighbouring countries and the sub-region has forced the international community to begin to pressurize French Cameroun to halt its criminal campaign and to engage in an all-inclusive dialogue with the legitimate representatives of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

To ease this pressure, French Cameroun has developed criminal tactics aimed at de-legitimizing the Federal Republic of Ambazonia’s self-defense efforts, its defense of its sovereignty and its people. This strategy of French Cameroun is developing right before our very eyes. Unfortunately, some gullible Ambazonia leaders in search of power and relevance are falling into these traps. French Cameroun is courting an unstructured group of gullible individuals loosely called Federalists to preposition themselves as persons it can rely on to organize a dialogue aimed at resolving the current crisis. These gullible individuals will be used to validate the one and indivisible Cameroun policy of French Cameroun and then dumped to face the consequences of their treachery of their people’s aspirations. The so-called dialogue will be a French Cameroun internal initiative with some foreign envoys accredited to French Cameroun deployed acting as facilitators. Atanga Nji on behalf of French Cameroun presented the nature of the dialogue that French Cameroun will organize and own as well as the condition it intend to impose for participation. Chris Anu was right and quick to reject the so-called dialogue outright, opting rather for negotiations organized by an external international actor that will provide a facilitator for the occasion. A party to a negotiation cannot impose an agenda, the nature and composition of the representation by another party. The negotiations will surely be on the terms of separation, accountability for the crimes committed within the territory of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and the payment of reparations for the crimes committed.

French Cameroun is conscious that crimes of an international character committed against civilians will never go unpunished.  Not in our time. For this purpose, it is attempting to pin responsibility for its crimes on Southern Cameroons legitimate self-defense fighters.  Unfortunately, some of our leaders are falling into these traps and deliberate policy of criminalization.  Cameroon Concord News Group has seen a video in the social media posted by French Cameroun through its surrogates with child soldiers holding and manipulating arms. French Cameroon did this knowing that the crime of conscription and deployment of children below the age of 15 years as child soldiers is one of the most serious international crimes.  This mischief was easily identified by several Ambazonians who rightly denounced it as an enemy scheme aimed at attempting to blackmail our self-defense efforts. The self-defense forces of Ambazonia do not put their identity out in the social media in order not to invite harm to the families of the fighters and their communities.  This sensible self-defense strategy deprives traitors and spies on the payroll of the enemy the ability to subvert the strategic and tactical operational command decisions taken by Ambazonia fighting forces at ground zero.  Cameroon Concord News deplores in very strong terms the conduct of persons aligned with a social media frenzied Ambazonia for alleging armed adult and child soldiers were members of the ADF. This plays into the ego of a leaders known for taking responsibility for actions helpful or harmful without thinking about the consequences for the entire cause. Endorsing this French Cameroun mounted video posted to social media carefully laying out a case of conscription and use of child soldiers is troubling. 

Cameroon Concord News strongly condemns the execution of civilians who are not taking part in the armed conflict. Cameroon Concord News and the National Telegraph published news reports about the summary execution in cold blood of some seven civilians who were in the custody of French Cameroun forces who were brought to Kendem Upper Banyang by Tabatando to force the people to vote in senatorial elections organized by French Cameroun. These elections were banned by the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.  There exists a deliberate pre-planned criminal military strategy by French Cameroun to summarily execute Ambazonian civilians.  Cameroon Concord News is please that based on the operational orders of the interim government, Ambazonia self-defense forces have so far not targeted civilians. The burning to painful death of old and vulnerable people in civilian settlements, cowardly execution of civilians in Kendem and other locations in Ambazonia are criminal acts which will never be forgotten or forgiven. Ambazonia can never again belong to the same nation with an enemy republic that preys on the blood of its civilians.  The alleged execution of a high French Cameroun government functionary of Ambazonia origin by the ADF on the orders of Dr Cho Ayaba must also be vehemently condemned. Cameroon Concord News holds the opinion that this reckless conduct provides French Cameroun the opportunity to abduct and execute people of Ambazonia origin and place the responsibility on our self-defense fighting forces. There is no greater way of demoralizing and de-legitimizing the cause for which our people have greatly sacrificed than painting and presenting this irresponsible image to the international community. This conduct if not abated may send the wrong signals to our different communities within our territory from which these individuals hail. For this reason, summary executions of civilians must be discouraged and condemned.

Cameroon Concord News Group has published news reports about the existence of an organized elaborate trans-border criminal network operating in French Cameroun and Nigeria which abducts foreign nationals for ransom.  Issa Tchiroma Bakary, Cavaye Djribril, Amadou Ali, Atanga Nji and members of the political Islam crime syndicate associated with Boko Haram within the immediate political circle of Mohammadu Buhari are members.  The announced military operation that allegedly liberated foreign tourists of European origin at a moment when no known tourist could venture into the territory of Ambazonia under French Cameroun’s scourge earth criminal military operations is a hoax. It is a desperate attempt to criminalize the Ambazonia revolutionary war of survival and obtain by fraud a European Union resolution branding our fighting self-defense forces as terrorist organizations.  The Interim Government must come out strongly to deny and denounce this desperate criminal ploy. It must ask for an international investigation into the alleged abduction as well as other crimes committed by French Cameroun in our territory. In the light of this spurious, desperate and shameful fabricated allegation, French Cameroun should allow human rights organizations it had hitherto denied access to conduct investigations on this allegation and that of other crimes perpetrated by French Cameroun soldiers.  Investigators from the countries of origin of the alleged abductees should come to conduct independent investigations as well. The Interim Government should allow access into the territory of Ambazonia for the purpose of these investigations, but such access must be denied to French Cameroun forces whose presence on our territory is and must never ever be condoned.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Chairman, Editor-in-Chief

Cameroon Concord News Group

As Christians the world over commemorate the death of Jesus Christ, on this day that has come to be known ironically as Good Friday, on account of the salvation won for mankind by this otherwise tragic event, the central message that should not be lost on Ambazonia leaders is that sacrifice makes leadership. Jesus Christ spoke truth to power and paid the supreme price. He died a vicarious death to take away the sins of humanity and open the way to eternal life for all who believe in Him and in His message.

The life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are a lesson on the power of humility, service, self-sacrifice and true love. Jesus taught a lot of lessons through his parables and miracles but perhaps the greatest lessons he taught are the practical lessons of his own life. Jesus taught his followers that there is no greater love than for a man to lay down his life for his friends, and that is exactly what he did. He taught his followers that those who seek to be first must make themselves last and servant of all; and that is what he did when he washed the feet of his disciples and accepted a humiliating death in order that they may live. Though as son of God He was rich beyond measure, He made a preferential option for the poor, whose circumstances He graciously shared. His life was consistent with His message. The present generation of Ambazonia leaders can learn a lot from the life and supreme sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

Like the abducted Ambazonia leaders, the conflicts that led to the crucifixion of Christ centered on the social paradigm that Christ preached to the world. Like Sisiku Ayuk Julius Tabe and his co-travelers, the truth Jesus spoke was, of course, too bitter for his opponents to swallow and so they had to silence him. Yet, silenced in detention, like Jesus who was nailed to the cross, the power of their message was already immortal. Ambazonia is a spirit that will never die.

Jesus of Nazareth profoundly and manifestly changed the course of history. His message of love, mercy and compassion, truth, justice, and freedom, has inspired some of the most progressive individuals and movements in human history. Yet His coming was inauspicious. There were no earth-shattering sirens and convoys to welcome Him; life in Bethlehem went on normally as poor Mary and Joseph went around looking for a room in an inn to stay. And finding none, they settled for a lowly manger, and there Christ was born. But from the child born in this manger was to flow the knowledge of the Supreme Creator, the grace of healing and the compelling message of salvation for mankind. This is why Christians see the birth of Christ in the flesh as the miracle of all miracles. Those who believe in His word and abide by His teachings have the assurance of everlasting life after death. But not all who saw Him even in His own time recognized Him and not all who recognized Him believed in Him.

In the course of passionately preaching and living out the truth as he knew it, condemning the injustices of the day, Jesus came in regular conflict with the status quo and those who benefited from it. He was betrayed by his own disciple, Judas Iscariot, denied by his closest associate, Simon Peter; handed over to the Roman authorities by the chief priests of his religion and condemned to death by Pontius Pilate the Governor. He was politically murdered without due process by civil authorities who made the cause of religious bigotry their own. Ambazonians must capitalize on the best ideals of their various faiths to transform their struggle for independence by keeping their eyes on the big picture, instead of fighting each other for positions.

The victory of good over evil, which Jesus represents, questions the widespread corruption, greed and selfishness that define the present power struggles amongst Ambazonia leaders. The instant gratification mentality that pervades the Ambazonia leadership contrasts sharply with the sacrifice and selflessness which Christ’s death and resurrection symbolizes. The propensity for seeking to lead; the disposition towards crass materialism and blind pursuit of pleasure is clearly at variance with the lesson of Good Friday. On the whole, the teachings of Christ, anchored on humility and service in leadership seem to be lost, especially amongst the Ambazonia leadership, where the forces of greed and corruption continue to thrive. Those who aspire to lead the struggle must embrace those higher values of leadership exemplified in Jesus Christ. When Anglophones abandon hypocrisy and live out the higher ideals of self-less service, redemption is possible and victory is all but assured. We know who the enemy is; so whose side are you on?

By Ekinneh Agbaw-Ebai

Yesterday, Cameroon Concord News and the Cameroon Intelligence Report both published a news item in which the Nigeria Information Minister Lai Mohammed admitted that the Government of President Buhari was negotiating a cessation of hostilities and ceasefire with Boko Haram. This admission came in the heels of the report by Cameroon Concord News Group that the Buhari Government had paid colossal amounts of money in ransom to Boko Haram for the release of some Chibok School Girls and very recently that of the Dapchi School Girls. We of this group had in the past alleged that the links between Buhari and Boko Haram are deep rooted in their shared membership of Political Islam and that the former was indeed the god father of the later.

Following from the abduction of the President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, His Excellency Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and members of the Interim Government  on the orders of President Buhari in one of the most scandalous corruption deals in sub-regional history,  Cameroon Concord News Group wondered where the moral compass placed President Buhari in his presumptuous lamentation over the abduction of the Dapchi School Girls which by every indication was arranged to occur by him to fulfill carefully calculated political goals.  Cameroon Concord News alerted its readers that payments to Boko Haram whose leaders President Buhari and his entourage and fellow members of Political Islam knew so well were imminent, relying on the arranged abduction and payment to fulfill a commercial and political objective. The announcement by Information Minister Lai Mohammed about the negotiations between Buhari and Boko Haram has come to confirm the stories published in this media since Buhari came to power establishing a relationship between Mr. Buhari and Boko Haram.  The connections between Political Islam, Boko Haram and the Government of French Cameroun have been widely affirmed by the Speaker of the National Assembly of French Cameroun Cavaye Djibril and by the extensive contact between the criminal organization with Ahmadou Ali the Vice Prime Minister of French Cameroun and Issa Tchiroma the Minister of Communication of the said government.

The abduction  and ransom for the freedom of some 110 Dapchi School Girls North East Nigeria and that of the Chibok School girls before,  shades  more light on the operational dynamics of Political Islam in Nigeria and some countries in the sub-region, particularly French Cameroun. Cameroon Concord News shed the spotlight on this critical international security issue when then presidential candidate Mohammadu Buhari came out in support of Boko Haram and accused then President Good Luck Jonathan of deploying soldiers led by General Iherijiaka an international acclaimed General of Ibo origin in Eastern Nigeria to massacre innocent Northern Youth under the pretext of fighting terrorism. Shortly thereafter the Chibok School Girls were abducted and a political movement routing for candidate Buhari so-called “Bring back our Girls” mobilized nationally and worldwide to pressure and highlight the weaknesses of the Good Luck Jonathan Government in searching and rescuing the girls.

Jonathan was pressured to fire General Iherijiaka who was replaced by a pliable, gullible and malleable Air Force General with an alarming corruption baggage from his tenue as the Chief of Air Force Staff. The security situation degraded and the military advantages obtained under Iherijiaka were reversed.  The United States and European Union countries who disdained the audacity of Good Luck Jonathan’s politics of economic sovereignty that made Nigeria one of the fastest growing economies in the Africa and the world, took concerted action to obstruct the purchase of arms by Nigeria to fight the Boko Haram terrorist organization.  This move aimed at providing tacit support for Mohammadu Buhari whose visionless economic and political platforms were illusory making it possible for these countries to manipulate their way back to controlling Nigeria’s oil and maritime economy.  Buhari hoped to compensate his visionless and unrealistic economic agenda that favoured the rolling back the gains attained under Good luck Jonathan by floating more than one hundred unattainable objectives and declaring a corruption witch hunt aimed and destroying his political opponents. It is ironic that the political campaign of Mohammadu Buhari was bankrolled by some of the most corrupt politicians in Nigeria, among them Asiwaju Tinibu an erstwhile Governor of Lagos State and a politics for profit political godfather. Meanwhile Buhari is the undisputed leader of the Northern political platform founded on a Political Islam agenda. Boko Haram was founded or coopted as a violent extremist militant group to enforce the Political Islam political agenda of Buhari and his cohorts.  Pursuing a complex war with sophisticated weaponry by Boko Haram required a sophisticated network and enormous amount of resources. These elaborate resources were laundered through Political Islam political structures in Northern Nigeria, Northern French Cameroun and some countries of the African Sahel.

Opposition candidate Buhari came to power promising to end the Boko Haram insurgency within his first one hundred days in power. On attaining power, he opted for a negotiated solution to the release of the Chibok girls and indeed allegedly negotiated and paid a ransom for the release of some of the girls. For Buhari to have negotiated and paid a ransom, he must have known in intimate detail the leaders of Boko Haram. Hoping to protect his presidential image, Buhari opted to maintain an ambiguous relationship with Boko Haram. Not only did Buhari not tackle the war against Boko Haram as vigorously as he promised, he has through his silence and non-action encouraged the slaughter of hundreds and even thousands of Nigerians in the Middle Belt and other parts of the country by his cattlemen of his Hausa/Fulani ethnicity.

Since coming to power, President Buhari has not realized a cognizable major development or economic project. Nepotism is the hallmark of his administration. He has surrounded himself with dubious corrupt persons of his ethnicity. These are the people whose mandate appears to include the cutting of clandestine corrupt deals like the abduction of Ambazonia’s leaders in Abuja on January 5 2018.

To embellish his national security credentials, he turned to his Political Islam base to arrange the abduction and release of the Dapchi School girls through an alleged negotiation and the payment of a ransom. Information Minister went further to announce the ongoing negotiations of cessation of hostilities and a ceasefire with Boko Haram.  Cameroon Concord News Group cannot independently confirm if Nigeria briefed or associated the Multilateral Force about its negotiations and deals with Boko Haram whom they are jointly fighting. With the admitted collaboration of French Cameroun with Boko Haram to which it has paid ransom several times on engineering the abduction of foreign nationals, Nigeria, a close ally in this game, needed not formally informed French Cameroun.  Through abductions, key political leaders in Nigeria and French Cameroun make huge amounts of money to manipulate the political institutions within these countries to their political advantage. Let no one be duped, the ongoing negotiations between the Buhari Government with Boko Haram and the collaborative  actions of French Cameroun towards Boko Haram highlights the dilemma facing the international community which is cooperating with Boko Haram sponsors to search for Boko Haram in the wrong places.

To this I put my name

Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Chairman, Editor-in-Chief

Cameroon Concord News Group

Cameroon Concord News has read the press release issued by the Communication Secretary of the Interim Government Chris Anu on the recent self-defense operations by the Ambazonia self-defense forces in Lebialem and Meme Counties of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. Cameroon Concord News Group agrees with key parts of his press release but disagrees with the characterization of the recovery of a meagre part of the stolen wealth of the Southern Cameroons from some recently arrested slave agents and collaborators of the colonial regime of French Cameroun as “ransom”. That characterization must be contextualized and corrected.  The principled position taken by Cameroon Concord News on this matter must not be misconstrued by visionless agitators who have taken upon themselves the license to attack all the laudable efforts that the Interim Government is putting in place to unite our self-defense forces and harmonize our self-defense strategies for operational efficiency and coordinated effectiveness.  Cameroon Concord News disagrees and makes recommendations that aimed at attaining the harmonization of our self-defense operations in ground zero as well as other critical areas of our self-defense efforts.

The arrest of Professor Leke Tambo in Lebialem, the civil/military administrator of Batibo, that of the regional social work administrator and others in Meme and elsewhere where arrests of alien enemy collaborators that occurred within the territory of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.  These individuals were active participants in the war and genocide against the people and territory of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

Professor Leke Tambo for example was never abducted or kidnapped while on a visit to his Bangwa native land. He has undertaken many such trips but was not arrested. He was not arrested because he did not then violate the security laws imposed by our self-defense forces aimed at protecting the people and the Ambazonia territorial integrity.  He was arrested in a combat operation mounted by ground zero self -defense forces in Lebialem County aimed at protecting the population and the territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia from a foreign enemy colonial administration.

The alien enemy colonial government organized an occasion in Menji-Lebialem in the heart of the Bangwa heartland to congratulate Paul Biya who has presided over and supervised the genocide of Southern Cameroonians. That occasion was an act of aggression against the territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.  It was an act of provocation intended to demonstrate that the alien enemy had effective control of Lebialem and that the population of Lebialem was happy with the continuing genocide that has claimed the lives of Ambazonian civilians including persons of Lebialem origin.

One Amin, an engineer graduate from India who was gunned down in cold blood in Kumba came from Lewoh, the home town of Professor Tambo. It will come as no surprise to Cameroon Concord News if he was related to Professor Tambo. The assassination of this armless innocent man based on his citizenship of Ambazonia did not alarm the Professor. He did not publicly condemn it. Maybe it was out of fear for his own life from a regime he served and from which he has benefited. However he had a moral choice, call it agency, not to join in dancing on the grave of this innocent man and that of thousands of Lebialem victims of the genocide in Kombone, Kwakwa, Marumba, Mutengene, Ekona, Munyenge, Ikata and elsewhere in Ambazonia by joining the bandwagon to celebrate and thank Paul Biya for rewarding Paul Tasong, a noted collaborator in Bangwaland with a controlled Ministerial appointment. The Lebialam population boycotted the occasion and the crime syndicate had to ferry in students from the University of Dschang in neighbouring French Cameroun to fake support for the sanguinary despot with the blood of the innocent on his hands. This was unacceptable.

The appointment of Professor Leke Tambo as the Chairman of the embattled GCE Board required that he shreds his uniform and membership of the outlawed CPDM crime syndicate with immediate effect. The burden is on him to demonstrate that he is no longer a member of that criminal gang and that he is truly independent. The occasion and place of his arrest are strong signals that his appointment as chairman of the GCE Board may be intended to solidify the cultural genocide that together with the destruction of the legal system triggered Ambazonia revolution. He was indeed at the wrong place fulfilling a wrong mandate. If that is how his tenure at the GCE Board will be, then he is setting himself up for further surprises. The next time around, either in his native Lebialem or elsewhere, he may not be so lucky.

Professor Leke Tambo knew that the event he was attending was banned by the Ambazonia self-defense forces in Lebialem.  He knew that a violation of the ban was not going to be tolerated. He knew that the banned occasion was to take place within the territory of the legendary Fontem Asonganyi who held the German aggressors at bay in ferocious resistance for nine years.  French Cameroun has acted with caution in Bangwaland since the escalation of the war of aggression. To test the history of Ambazonia, French Cameroun commenced their war of genocide from many locations in Manyu, among them Nsanankang, where the Germans met their defeat.   As a noted historian, Professor Tambo Leke was in a better position to advise his French Cameroun masters that these historical realities are not myths and that the same provocations will produce the same results.  The Professor knows that the Bangwa self-defenders can fight another nine years war to ensure that genocide does not happen in their land and with their peers in other areas of Ambazonia, halt the ongoing genocide and punish the colonial vandals appropriately.

Cameroon Concord News was not opposed to the release of Professor Leke Tambo contrary to the sentiments expressed by some uninformed individuals. Cameroon Concord News and Cameroon Intelligence Report while calling for unity among the self-defense groups, nevertheless calls on deference to local self-defense forces on several decisions which only them have a firsthand opportunity to assess and take. It is only ground zero self-defense forces who can assess the local realities in the prosecution of this war that French Cameroun imposed on us. We of this publication advise all ground zero self-defenses forces to emulate the operational strategy of Lebialem self-defense forces. They did not hit and run but held the territory they occupied. Although five trucks of colonial forces were deployed from Mamfe and three from Bafoussam to attack them, they held their territory and imposed a combat red line which the enemy did not dare to cross. Had they hit and ran, the enemy would have been provided an opportunity to loot, rape, pillage and torch civilian settlements in Lebialem without an opposing self-defense force opposing these acts of criminality.

Cameroon Concord News investigations confirmed that although Professor Leke Tambo flirted with the banned CPDM crime syndicate potential as a survival tactic in the administration of the alien enemy, French Cameroun, Leke Tambo possessed strong positive human qualities that were recognized by those who know him in his native Bangwa. He used his personal resources and human qualities to improve the lives of the very poor in some abandoned communities in his Bangwa Lebialem homeland. He is a humble man with a good heart. The self-defense operation, in which Leke Tambo was arrested, did not indeed target him. He was not a known member of a dangerous group of traitors comprising Paul Tasong, Benard Foju and George Tabetando of Bachuo Ntai along with slave servants of Lebialem origin whom the self-defense forces had unimpeachable evidence of plotting to infiltrate collaborators, bribe some Fons and elite of Lebialem at home and out of Lebialem to invite BIR to commit genocide in Lebialem county.  Cameroon Concord News obtained information from its correspondence in Lebialem that the population widely condemned Leke Tambo’s participation in the criminal organization to thank Paul Biya but had sympathy on him because of his personal services to the poor in his native land without the banned CPDM or colonial government involvement. The non-political nature of his social and humanitarian actions more than an alleged ransom determined his release.

His decision to violate the ban imposed to protect the people and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia was the most offensive action he took in time of war. His release with or without the refund of some of the stolen wealth of Ambazonia must be understood within the context of his personal human qualities. His participation in the banned criminal ceremony threatened to jeopardize years of his selfless contributions to the wellbeing of his own people and his native community.

Cameroon Concord News places the arrests of collaborators of French Cameroun in Kumba, Batibo and elsewhere within the framework of reasonable self-defense. An alien enemy administrator performs administrative as well as services of a military nature. He or she deploys gendarmes and soldiers to torch civilian settlements, kill and maim innocent Ambazonians, abduct and disappear hundreds of thousands Ambazonian civilians. Ambazonia collaborators of the alien enemy are as culpable as the enemy combatants or soldiers. Their detention, interrogation for getting intelligence of a security and war nature is appropriate.  Their detention must comply with the laws of war and the Geneva Conventions although French Cameroun and Nigeria have proved through the abduction of the President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and the members of the Interim Government, the summary executions of armless civilians, the torching of civilian settlements and motorcycles, the looting and pillage of civilian food and means of subsistence, that they do not respect the laws and customs of war and the Geneva Conventions.

 On the question of the alleged payment of alleged ransom, Cameroon Concord News has in the past made detailed publications about the payment of ransom and bribes by French Cameroun as a legitimate arm of war. French Cameroun’s well-known Boko-Haram collaborators/intermediaries Ahmadou, Ali, Cavaye Djribril and Isa Tchiroma Bakary have made enormous wealth organizing the abduction of foreign nations in Northern French Cameroun and obtaining the payment of ransom with the blessing of Paul Biya. Paul Biya benefits from the Boko Haram war economy through the diversion of resources deployed by international organizations and supporting foreign governments.  Atanga Nji, the criminal kingpin of Ambazonia origin and a slave executioner of French Cameroun’s genocide policy in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, was co-opted into this network to facilitate the movement of laundered funds from French Cameroun to criminal sanctuaries in the Africa Sahel, Nigeria, and other classified foreign locations.  This elaborate network links criminal kingpins within the crime syndicate in French Cameroun and their political Islam crime networks within the Buhari administration in Nigeria. Prominent among this criminal network is Mohammed Babagana Mungano, the Buhari national security adviser. Buhari late last year appointed a senior officer of the Nigerian Army involved in serious corruption scams who was serving in the multinational forces fighting Boko Haram as the director of the National Intelligence organization.  This came in the wake of the abduction and disappearance of the President of the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia H.E Sisiku Julius Ayuk Tabe and members of the Interim Government after Buhari received millions of Euros of bribe money from French Cameroun laundered through this network.  The Buhari Administration has also paid ransom of hundreds of millions of dollars to Boko Haram for the release of Chibok School girls whom Buhari’s political Islam network organized to discredit the Good Luck Jonathan administration. The criminal network adjudged that the “bring back our girls” political scam that was created and paid to politicize the abductions to undermine Good luck Jonathan was out of its mandate and decided to indemnify its Boko Haram foot soldiers through the payment of ransom.  Despite the payment of ransom, some of the girls are still being held to ensure the relevance, influence and survival of the armed wing of the political Islam outfit so-called Boko Haram.  

Contrary to the above situation, Ambazonia did not declare war against French Cameroun or Nigeria.  Southern Cameroons/ Ambazonia is an internationally recognized territory under international law.  Southern/ Cameroons Ambazonia is a victim of aggression and genocide by its neighbours.  The crimes committed against the Federal Republic of   Ambazonia for fifty-six years which intensified in the last two years are of an economic, cultural and human nature. The economic war has led to the looting and pillaging of Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia economy, natural resources, land grab, and destruction of the means of sustenance and starving our people to death. The cultural genocide targets our identity and our very existence. The human component targeted our sanity and our lives. Gendarmes, secret police and soldiers are deployed to our communities to rape our girls and women, humiliate our chiefs, desecrate our religious and core spiritual belief system, impose perpetual fear in our lives and render our so-called elites, Fons and Chiefs beggars and subservient collaborators in the annexation, systematic massacre, abduction and disappearance of their own people. Our traditional rulers have been turned into auxiliaries of an alien enemy administration and informants of the brutal colonial secret police in the land which our ancestors passed over to us and posterity. These are the crimes our Ambazonia self defense groups have taken up arms to free all of us from. If they arrest enemy collaborators or request banned enemy economic operators to pay back some of our own money which they stole or facilitated the theft through their conscious collaboration or facilitation, that, cannot be characterized as ransom. Our self-defense forces need to acquire weapons to prosecute the liberation war of self-defense. They need to feed themselves. They need to acquire intelligence from the enemy camp. They need to secure our borders and our communities. They live the daily realities of the brutal acts of genocide and must take self-survival tactics to fight this war which is escalating every day.

Cameroon Concord News Group adopts this strategy with serious caution and precautionary measures to prevent enemies and criminals paid by Atanga Nji and French Cameroun from infiltrating and extorting money inappropriately.  If any individuals or group of individuals without the authority of the Interim Government or the self-defense command in ground zero extort money from Ambazonia civilian population needing protection, or any individual or groups not involved in the self-defense war effort are caught extorting money, that individual or group should be declared alien enemy collaborators or agents and dealt with accordingly.  The recovery of the stolen wealth of Ambazonia most be done in an organized manner and proper records kept for accountability purposes.  The Federal Republic of Ambazonia is engaged in a war of self-defense and the recovery of our sovereignty over our territory and resources must be paramount.

Cameroon Concord News takes this opportunity to underscore once more the need for the Interim Government to ban all celebrations aimed at supporting Paul Biya and the genocidal war in our land. Any ceremony that undermines our sovereignty must be banned.  The circulation of all French Cameroons military, police, administrative and gendarme vehicles must be banned.  A system of passes for circulation of vehicles in targeted security zones must be instituted.  Finally, our self-defense forces must regulate and use secured communication channels to render the technical intelligence network deployed by French Cameroun, France and Nigeria against us ineffective.   Our technical intelligence warfare capability must be re-enforced. This area of operation on our part has routed enemy operations in key battle zones at home and abroad. It is a critical area of operations over which we have great potential of relying on to contribute to our victory over the enemies no matter the size and no matter from which part of the world in which we may find ourselves.  This again requires critical unity, collaboration and coordination.

To this I put my name

Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Chairman, Editor-in-Chief

Cameroon Concord News Group