Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia: Liberation movements to vote for an Interim Prime Minister in May 2017

Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, 9 April 2017 — The struggle for the restoration of the independence of Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia got a major boost Sunday when all the front-line liberation movements committed to a united front and reaffirmed plans to organize the election of an interim prime minster in May 2017.

This is one of several resolutions adopted Sunday at the close of a second, three-day conclave organized in Lagos (Nigeria) within a four-week period by the Southern Cameroon Ambazonia Consortium United Front (SCACUF).
The elected Interim Prime Minister will form a full-fledged Interim Government for the annexed former British Trusteeship Territory of Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia which will follow the holding of a third conclave of leaders, the organization of an independence conference, massive street demonstrations all over the world and major fund-raising campaigns.
Attended by almost all the leaders of liberation movements (Ambazonia, SCNC, SCAPO, Consortium, AGC, SCYL, MoRISC, etc.), the conclave set up a Secretariat for the umbrella organization and elected Wilfred Tassang to the position of Secretary General. The remaining officials of the Secretariat are Ntumfoyn Boh Herbert in the role of Spokesperson; Barrister Nalowa Bih in the role of Administrative Secretary; Barrister Eyambe Elias as Southern Cameroons First Ambassador to the African Union; Barrister Ayuk Alexander Ashu in the role of Financial Secretary a. Mrs. Caleche Bongo in the role
of Support and Relief Secretary.
The conclave all elected a Leadership Council to serve as the supervisory authority of the SCACUF Secretariat. Members of the Leadership Council include HRH Barrister Fon Fongum Gorji Dinka (Ambazonia); Mola Njoh Litumbe; Nfor Ngala Nfor (SCNC); Agustine Ndangarn (SCAPO); Elvis Kometa (MoRISC); Dr. Lucas Cho Ayaba (AGC); Dr. Ebenezar Akwanga (SCYL); Mr. Frederick Ndeh Nifang (Consortium); Prof. Carlson Anyangwe (Advisor); Mr. Elias Fangbeng (Honorary Member), and Mr. Milan Atem (Honorary Member);
Southern Cameroonian leaders reiterated their commitment to pursue the restoration of the independence of Southern Cameroon through all legal and non-violent means, noting that the basic rights of a state most frequently stressed in International Law are those of independence and equality of states; of territorial jurisdiction; and of self-defense or self-preservation. The United Front, however, reminded the international community, notably the African Union and the United Nations of the crimes against humanity and acts of genocide being perpetrated against Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia citizens by La Republique du Cameroun and called on these organizations to join them in insisting for the immediate and unconditional release of all Southern Cameroonians/Ambazonians abducted, deported to Yaounde and facing trial on trumped up charges before kangaroo courts of the colonizer.
The leaders reminded the African Union and the United Nations of their unanswered pleas to these institutions:
To uphold the independence of Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia by ensuring the full implementation of United Nations Resolution 1608 of 21 April 1961;

To reaffirm the right of Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia to put an end to any union La Republique du Cameroun claims has existed between their two countries in keeping with Principles VII and VIII of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1541 of 15 December 1960;

To deploy United Nations Peacekeepers in Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia to end crimes against humanity and acts bordering on the type that were perpetrated during the Rwanda genocide; .

 To fully implement Article 20(3) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights which calls on all African countries, signatories to the Charter, to lend every assistance to colonized peoples;

 To order the colonial government of La Republique du Cameroun to withdraw its colonial administrators and army of occupation deployed across Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia in violation of Article 4(b) of the African Union Constitutive Act and against UN resolutions against colonization and external domination of other people;

To ensure that colonial La Republique du Cameroun honors its international treaty commitments to withdraw its troops to its boundaries as obtained at independence; To order the colonial regime of La Republique du Cameroun to end its ongoing reign of fear and blind repression against the sovereign people of Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia, including ending the unjustified Internet blackout slammed against them for soon nearly three months;

To decry the political persecution of Southern Cameroonians/Ambazonians, including notably the political witch hunt targeting the outspoken Member of Parliament, Honorable Joseph Wirba.

Acknowledging, with deep gratitude, the critical role of women and youth in our liberation struggle and committed to expanding and streamlining youth and women in leadership of the struggle, the Conclave announced the organization in May 2017 of a Worldwide Convention of Southern Cameroonian/Ambazonian Youth and Women to elect their leaders and representatives who will complete the Leadership Council.

The United Front reiterated, for the attention of Southern Cameroonians/Ambazonians in the homeland, that the ongoing ghost town campaigns (held every Monday); the ongoing strikes by lawyers and teachers; as well as the ongoing closure of courts and schools will continue until independence. The closure of courts and schools and the observance of ghost town campaigns all across Southern Cameroons will not be lifted until the independence of Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia is restored. To this effect, Southern Cameroonians/Ambazonians are invited to ignore all attempts by the colonial regime of Yaounde to offer bribes and make false promises in an attempt to stop the civil disobedience or to force them to take the bait of providing the consent it needs to continue perpetrating the crime of recolonization of our homeland.
 
The conclave reaffirmed the proscription of the CPDM all across Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia and reminded the international community that the ruling party of La Republique du Cameroun is a terrorist, human trafficking and money laundering organization.

In addition, and following the revision and adoption of the Roadmap to Independence first published last December by MoRISC (Movement for the Restoration of the Independence of Southern Cameroons), the Lagos Conclave invited Southern Cameroonians/Ambazonians living in the United States of America to massively attend the protest rallies convened before the offices of the African Union Commission in Washington, DC, on 21 April 2017; as well as the protest marches to be held outside the head offices of the World Bank and the IMF as well as in front of the White House on 22 April 2017.