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Biya edges FruNdi, hurries Jean Kuete on peace mission to Buea

FruNdi to be in Buea this week

CPDM Central Committee Scribe, Jean Kuete will be in Buea on Tuesday, 6 December, and Bamenda on Thursday, 8 December 2016, The Median has been reliably informed.

                Jean Kuete will be at the head of a high-powered CPDM delegation comprising all Anglophone Government Ministers, CPDM Central Committee members, CPDM Parliamentarians, GMs of state-owned companies and all Anglophone elite that sympathize with or are subservient to the Yaounde regime.

                These Yaounde barons would be joined in Buea by the Governor of the SW region, the SDOs of all the Divisions of the SW, DOs, Mayors, representatives of Christian and other denominations among others.

                According to information reaching our newsroom, Jean Kuete is the bearer of a message of peace from President Paul Biya. He is expected to reassure the people of the SW and NW that President Biya though silent has not been indifferent and insensitive to the unfortunate events that have rocked and continue to rock the two Anglophone regions of the country.

                Apart from Jean Kuete, other speakers will also re-echo the peace message of their party boss. We learned that Prime Minister Philemon Yang will also address the crowd on behalf of the government, while former PM, Hon. MafanyMusonge will talk on behalf of the political elite of the SW region.

                Apart from these Yaounde barons, the governor of the SW, the president of CPDM Fako III and maybe the Mayor of Buea will also take their turns to mount the rostrum at the Bongo Square grandstand.

                The thrust of the various messages will be on how President Paul Biya has in 34 years of his reign been an indefatigable crusader and champion for peace and national unity and integration.

                Speakers will also castigate “misguided individuals” who have in the past recent months been advocating civil disobedience and a return to federalism.

                We learned that as a prelude to the two outings in Buea and Bamenda, PM Yang on Friday chaired a meeting of all Anglophone CPDM MPs and Ministers at his office.

                After the Buea trip, Jean Kuete will lead the delegation to Bamenda on Thursday where they will perform the same peace ritual like in Buea.

                It should be mentioned that Jean Kuete’s peace mission to Buea and later Bamenda comes just when unconfirmed sources say the Chairman of leading opposition SDF party, Ni John FruNdi, is also expected in the SW regional capital, Buea, in the days ahead. FruNdi is leading a high-powered SDF delegation that will stage a peaceful protest march against police and gendarme brutality on peaceful demonstrations in the country, we learned.

                The SDF Chairman will be accompanied by all SDF MPs, Senators, and Shadow cabinet members.

                It should be recalled that for close to two months now life has become unusual in the two Anglophone regions due to separate strike actions called by Anglophone Lawyers Associations and Anglophone Teachers’ Trade Unions. While the lawyers have dropped their wigs and gowns and boycotted the courts, the teachers for their part have dropped their chalks and have opted to stay in their homes.

                The lawyers and teachers are protesting against government’s systematic erosion of the Anglo-Saxon legal and educational systems that are practiced in the former Southern Cameroons (now NW and SW regions).

               

Jean Kuete, expected in Buea on Tuesday 6 December

Because of the indefinite strike actions, activities in courts have remained grounded in the SW and NW regions while doors of schools classrooms have since remained closed. Both the lawyers and the teachers have vowed they will not reverse their action except the government listens to them and responds accordingly to their grievances.

                Also worthy of mention is the fact that Jean Kuete is leading the essentially CPDM delegation to Buea at a time when students of the University of Buea were ruthlessly brutalized, maimed and molested by soldiers and gendarmes as they were peacefully protesting on campus.

                The police brutality on armless students has been variously condemned within and out of the country, with the US State Department recently expressing its indignation at the uncivilized manner in which the Cameroon government responds to peaceful protests in the country.