Cameroon: Fru Ndi 'wishes Biya sad new year '

The leading opposition figure in Cameroonian politics has expressed his bitterness towards President Biya's  handling of the Anglophone crisis.

Mr Fru Ndi has declared that he would wish him a "sad year" if he had travelled to Yaoundé to attend the new-year-wishes ceremony last week. " I didn't have enough stamina to travel to Yaoundé. Roads are pretty bad in this part [of the country ]. And even if I had come, I would have said 'sad year, Mr President'",

Mr Fru Ndi is quoted by Le Jour as saying. The pioneer and current chairman of SDF has also deplored Biya's show of greater concern for the fight against Boko Haram to the detriment of the sociopolitical crisis in Southern Cameroons. Mr Biya has expressed deep concern on several occasions about the Boko Haram insurgency in the Great North.

His administration has even negotiated the release of several hostages with the terror group. But he has shown open unwillingness to hold talks with the unhappy people of Southern Cameroons. He has demonstrated complete disregard for the thousands of hopeless Southern Cameroonians seeking refuge in neighbouring Nigeria. And this is the same man who is ever quick to express his condolences to disaster-stricken nations.