Southern Cameroons

Southern Cameroonians residing in Germany are gearing up for a big demonstration against the brute regime of Dictator Paul Biya and the liberation of Southern Cameroonians from the occupational forces of La republique Du Cameroun.The demonstration is scheduled to take place on  Friday the 27.01.2017 in Berlin Germany.demonstrators will be pouring in to Berlin from all regions of Germany and elsewhere in Europe.Cameroon Concord had the chance to speak with one of the demonstrators from the SOUTHERN CAMEROONS NATIONAL COUNCIL (SCNC), Mr Gwan Philip Ngassa, who had this to say:

My friends, to fight for our people is a matter of conscience and obedience to God's commandment!

We cannot afford to regard as normal the burning alive of our grand parents and burning down of our villages; We cannot regard as normal the reckless gunning down of our youth and systematic raping of our daughters.

Below is a press statement released by Dr Elad on his Facebook wall:

Dear lovely people of West Cameroon living in Germany and around the world, I am Dr. Lawyer Kizito Logan Elad, one of the coordinator of the upcoming demonstration in Berlin on Friday the 27.01.2017. I am writing to confirm the worries of many people who have called to verify if the demonstration is genuine. YES, it is.
All the police paper work was ready before the first announcement was sent out.
Let me use this opportunity to thank all our West Cameroon citizens for being fully determine to carry this our common struggle right to the end.
Fellow West Cameroonians, I am asking you all to please honour this call and come out in your numbers so that, we can put a final "full Stop" on the existence of la Republique in our territory 'West Cameroon, a land of hope ". Remember that, "it is during our darkest moment that we must focus to see the light", Aristotle Onassis. Thanks, yours, Dr . Elad.
For any information you can reach me on: +491799154188  

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Rita Akana

23.Jan.2017

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West Cameroon (21 Jan 2017 ) -- A recent release warning some media organs in Cameroon and threatening them with either suspension or outright bans was read Thursday on the state broadcaster, CRTV. The National Communication Council accuses the media outlets in the release of publishing and broadcasting seditious articles that glorify Federalism and or Secession ideologies, thus threatening peace and national unity. Trusted sources et the Ministry of Communication (MINCOM ) and the National Communication Council (NCC) revealed to the Consortium that the release had been prepared by two state politicians ; the Minister in Charge of Special Duties et the Presidency of the Republic , Atanga Paul Nji, and a Senior Official at the Ministry of Communication, Felix Zogo.
The dubious release was taken to the NCC to be rubber stamped.

The NCC boss, Peter Essoka, was threatened to sign it, our sources hinted. The NCC boss reportedly resisted signing the document, "citing procedural violations and the need for a session to be held to examine the issues raised to no avail."
Cameroun imposed control on key internet providers MTN and Orange, through its state-run internet service provider, CAMTEL, citing dubious "security concerns." A recorded phone conversation with MTN South Africa Bureau confirmed that the 34-year regime ordered MTN to stop the supply of its internet services to millions of citizens in West Cameroon. A highly Confidential Mail NO. 006/DG issued by the CAMTEL Boss, David Nkotto Emane, on the 18th of January, 2017 to the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications and leaked out to the Consortium by a reliable source at Minister Libom Likeng Minette's cabinet, explains that MTN and Orange were coerced to deprive the West Cameroon from its access to internet services in a bid to inflict untold sufferings to the citizens.

The Consortium has also been reliably informed that the regime would block WhatsApp nationwide next week because citizens from West Cameroon cross over to neighbouring Bafoussam and Douala which are border towns closest to Bamenda and Tiko respectively, to upload pictures on World Wide Web that report gross violations of human rights, all forms of torture and the use of brute force on civilians, mostly women and children.

Journalists are reporting that the Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bak, had previously, personally called a few of them working with the private press by telephone and threatened them to stop the coverage of the Anglophone problem or he would ask their bosses to them. A few days later, two audience-pulling TV journalists working for LTM, a Douala-based TV Channel, were sacked without prior notice.

Call for Condemnation

The United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression ; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers".
Several international instruments including the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, ratified by Cameroon forbid such repressive acts against the free speech. It is unacceptable that while other countries in Africa have leaped from autocracies to democracies, Cameroon is left behind despite its millions of citizens who are willing to push forth universal rights and freedoms through dialogue, understanding, and integration of all parties.

Violating basic rights is condemnable and punishable. Citizens must not keep living in fear and tyranny in the 21st cent,. President Paul Biya must stop the ever-increasing violations of the rights of the own people of Cameroon. We .11 on the international community of goodwill to immediately puncture a brewing genocide nursed by President Paul Biya and his supporters of bad faith. The people need dialogue and not deadlock. We remain convinced that current affront on the credible press in Cameroon falls within the realms of what one-time US President Thomas Jefferson said: "No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first objective should, therefore, be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions."

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Rita Akana

21.Jan.2017

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On Friday 20th January 2016, the interim leaders of the consortium warned any groupings having meeting with the government to call off the strike. As announced over CRTV, some remnants of the teachers union leaders had a meeting in Bamenda.

However, senior journalist Franklin Sone Bayen said the Union leaders who attended the meeting said they cannot resume school while their colleagues are arrested.

They also supposedly refused 100 million bribed to call off the strike and some reportedly offered themselves to be arrested.

“WE CAN’T CALL OFF STRIKE WHILE GOV’T IS HUNTING DOWN OUR COLLEAGUES “, TEACHER UNIONISTS TELL GOV’T IN BAMENDA TODAY

Apparently taking advantage of the absence of hardline teachers’ union leaders (CATTU’s Wilfred Tassang and SYNES-UB’s Dr James Abangma both in hiding) and Barrister Agbor Balla Nkongho and Dr Neba Fontem both in detention, the government tried to persuade and armtwist remnants of the resistant block to sign a statement calling for schools resumption next Monday, thinking they were dealing with a diminished group.

Word had circulated in Bamenda that the remaining leaders had received a total sum of 100 million francs as bribe to append their signatures. True or false, the leaders refused to sign. they said a school boycott decision signed by six union leaders cannot be called off by four of them still walking free.

The teachers’ union leaders who thus defied the government today are those of TAC, Catholic, Baptist and Presbyterian teachers.
By Frankline Sone Bayern

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21.Jan.2017

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The Executive Secretary General of the Cameroon Teachers' Trade Unions, CATTU- Tassang Wilfred who also holds the position of aDirector of Programs at the Anglophone Consortium has released a statement contrary to government claims that the strike action has been called off.Read below the statement as he puts it in his own words:

"My dear people of West Cameroon, there is a rumour being sponsored by government to the effect that I have escaped because I had already signed to call off the strike; that is not true- the strike must continue relentlessly because victory is close. I am fasting and praying for you all, we must fight right to the logical end! God is with us!"

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Rita Akana

20.Jan.2017

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