Cameroon government army officials announced on Monday over state radio and television that they have launched an investigation into the abduction of 63 civilians, including women, who were taken away by gunmen in the Lebialem County.

The French Cameroun army spokesperson blamed Ambazonia Restoration Forces for the incident.

Eyewitnesses say the civilians were drinking in a bar on Monday in Mmouck Leteh, when heavily armed men held them at gunpoint and took them away to an unknown destination.

Our correspondent in Lewoh is yet to confirm the correctness of the report but Cameroon Concord News understands those arrested by Ambazonia security agents were Southern Cameroonians who were cooperating with French Cameroun soldiers.

Lebialem County recently witnessed fierce clashes between Cameroon government army and Southern Cameroons Restoration groups.

No Southern Cameroons self defense force in the Lebialem County have claimed responsibility for the abduction.

Fighting between Cameroon government forces and armed Southern Cameroons groups has been going on since 2017 after President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe declared the independence of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

According to the United Nations, more than 700,000 Cameroonians have been displaced internally and externally due to the fighting.

By Chi Prudence Asong with files

Vice President Dabney Yerima will address Southern Cameroonians today on SCBC TV. A spokesman for the exiled leader made the announcement of the Vice President’s impending broadcast in a statement.

“Vice President Dabney Yerima will address the Ambazonia nation Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 7pm Amba time,” he said.

“Television, radio and other electronic media stations are enjoined to hook up to the network service of the Southern Cameroons Broadcasting Cooperation (SCBC) for the live broadcast.”

Cameroon Concord News Group understands the Vice President’s address termed the ‘The Amba 4 Points Agenda’ will focus on the Southern Cameroons struggle that has reached a point of no return.

Mr Yerima is expected to caution some frontline leaders of the Ambazonia struggle against internal disruption and misrepresentation of the leadership in French Cameroun detention centers. Comrade Yerima will drive home the point that “Any leader who says one thing in private and propagates a different narrative to the public is not doing our nation justice.”

Vice President Dabney Yerima, who has persistently called for a United Nations Independent Fact Finding Mission to investigate the atrocities of the French Cameroon military in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, will salute the indefatigability of Southern Cameroons Self-Defense forces and will of course commit to provide them with all the hardware needed to seal victory in the conflict.

By Isong Asu

London Bureau Chief

Nearly a dozen civilians, mostly women and children, have been killed when soldiers loyal to the Biya regime in Yaounde attacked Weh, a locality some few kilometers from Wum, the chief town in Menchum.

The Francophone soldiers reportedly carried out an attack on a neighborhood in Weh after the villagers were lured to return from the bushes by local CPDM leaders in the area.

Cameroon Intelligence Report sources in Wum hinted that the Sunday afternoon attack left ten people dead and two others injured.

Recently, the Cameroon government army conducted night raids in Banya Quarters in Mamfe and arrested scores of innocent civilians including two pregnant women.

By Fon Lawrence

A Southern Cameroons defense official for the Ambazonia Restoration Forces has reiterated Amba fighter’s readiness to end French Cameroun military presence in Ambazonia.

The Ground Zero official who sued for anonymity in his conversation with our Buea City reporter stressed that Biya and his French Cameroun regime must know that President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe’s decision on the withdrawal of French Cameroun army soldiers is irreversible and that no one can circumvent the will of the Southern Cameroons people.

“The war to free the people of Ambazonia must continue with popular, political, security, and media pressure, with full readiness for a long and wide military action until Biya and French Cameroun yield to our people’s will,” he said

“The Biya regime in French Cameroun only understands the language of force … and Ambazonians are ready for that,” he said, adding “We will come out victorious and get to Buea in grand style.”

Anti-Yaounde sentiment has been running high in Southern Cameroons since some hardliners deep within the Biya regime forced the Minister of Communication Rene Sadi to rubbish the secret peace talks that involved the Ambazonia leader President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his top aides in the Kondengui Central prison.

By Chi Prudence Asong

The Southern Cameroons Interim Government has announced plans to boost Ambazonia intelligence services and also to improve cooperation among all self defense groups defending the homeland against French Cameroun aggression and occupation.

“The Interim Government has decided to invest in the newly created Intelligence Department within the framework of strengthening communication among all self defense groups in Ground Zero” the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, Dabney Yerima said on Thursday during a presentation to members of the Ambazonia Southern Cameroons Pillars in the United Kingdom (ASCAP UK).

Yerima informed the Southern Cameroons UK think tank that there was an urgent need for Southern Cameroonians in the diaspora to support the Interim Government’s efforts geared at intelligence gathering and sharing among Ambazonia Restoration Forces in Ground Zero. He also praised ASCAP for their generous donations to Ambazonian refugees and detainees both in Nigeria and in French Cameroun.   

Vice President Yerima pointed out that the creation of an intelligence department by the Interim Government increases the will of Southern Cameroons Restoration Forces to work together in the face of French Cameroun army onslaught.

“The leader of the Ambazonian nation, President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe made it very clear to the French Cameroun government recently that the people of Southern Cameroons do not want French Cameroun soldiers on their soil, and our response as an exiled government is the creation of an intelligence department” Dabney Yerima added.

Yerima also said the intelligence department envisages boosting communication among all Ambazonia Restoration Forces and he furthered that soon and very soon French Cameroun leaders will realize that the solution to Yaounde’s security and economic problems is through negotiation with the people of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, and not through military deployment.

By Isong Asu in London

The Southern Cameroons Interim Government says Ambazonia Restoration Forces in the Manyu County have hinted the Manyu Liberation Council that it is still early to make public the French Cameroun connection behind the killing Mayor Ashu Ojong Prisley of the Mamfe Rural Council. The Interim Government statement also noted that there will be consequences if it is proven that the French Cameroun civil administrator and the commander of the French Cameroun army in Manyu have been involved.

“The Manyu Liberation Council has been working behind the scenes on this matter and it is too early to make any conclusion regarding the assassination of Mayor Ashu” Secretary Tabenyang Brado informed the Ambazonia war cabinet late yesterday.

The Southern Cameroons Secretary of the Economy noted that “If the Manyu Liberation Council concludes that French Cameroun security apparatus have been involved, they will announce it to the people of Southern Cameroons, and there will be of course unimaginable consequences.”

A fortnight ago, Secretary Tabenyang Brado gave all Manyu French Cameroun surrogates including Chief Tabetando and Minister Victor Mengot a deadline to state their case as regards to the Eshobi incident that led to the killing of the mayor of Mamfe.

On Thursday, Southern Cameroons Vice President assured the cabinet that the Manyu Liberation Council will soon complete its work and will determine and announce at an appropriate time, the French Cameroun agents behind the action that killed Mayor Ashu Prisley.

By Chi Prudence Asong

The Vice President of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government Dabney Yerima has told a cream of Ambazonian elites in Germany and Holland that professional scamming and unhealthy politics in the war of liberation in Southern Cameroons has reached extraordinary levels.

“The war in Southern Cameroons has entered a crucial phase! 32,500 Southern Cameroonians killed, 550 Southern Cameroons villages burnt, 125,000 refugees, 1.4million IDPs and 3,000 still detained, yet some so-called front line leaders are feeding Ambazonians with fake draft reports that has reached unprecedented levels, bearing my name and that of Samuel Atem who died four years ago and Mami Epale in Kake-Kumba” Dabney Yerima said in an address to a high-level zoom meeting grouping prominent Southern Cameroonians in Western Europe.

The draft for war sent out by the disgraced former leader who misappropriated funds donated by the people of Southern Cameroons via the scheme My Trip To Buea revealed that Pastor Ikome Sako has now banked the following amount into his IG account:

1. Manyu County                                65,000

2. Bui County                                      45,500

3. Ngoh Kentunjia County                82,975

4. Kupe Muanenguba                         87,195

5. Fako County                                  120,860

6. Mezam County                              420,437

7. Lebialem County                          267,810

8. Momo County                               645,774

9. Donga Mantung County             150,000

10. Ndian County                              114,555

Total                                           $2,000,106

                                           (XAF 1,000,053,000)

Vice President Yerima noted that this shameful and disgusting action is a cheap and primitive design to give Ambazonians the impression that there are two rival seats of power in Southern Cameroons, namely the internationally-recognized Ambazonia Interim Government headed by President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and another group based in Maryland USA known as the Sako-IG.

In the past couple of days, frustrated Southern Cameroonians passing for Sako supporters and  con-men noted for their hunger and poverty in the US and French Cameroun have pushed for the draft for war agenda on social media while ignoring the sufferings of the Ambazonian people.

All attempts to bring about unity among smaller Southern Cameroons groups by the Ambazonia Interim Government have so far failed.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai