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Sen. Otte Mofa has sounded the alarm about a brewing civil war

CPDM Diehard Warns of Brewing Civil War

Senator Otte Andrew Mofa has predicted that the ongoing crisis in the Northwest and South West Regions of the country could degenerate to a civil war if the situation is not properly handled.

            Otte Andrew expressed his fear in Kumba, on Monday, 12 January 2018, during a chat with Media practitioners.

            “When we start losing loved ones, enmity, frustration and anger grows and from this so many things can happen; like vengeance, hatred, destructions and even the outbreak of civil war,” Otte warned.

            The Senator called for an end to violence and for peace to return to the once peaceful and vibrant Mbonge Sub-Division in Meme Division in other to prevent the outbreak of a civil war.

            “I am praying that the peace loving people of Mbonge should come back to their senses. Violence should stop and farming should start again,” Otte said, adding: “We are approaching the farming season and most of the lands have not been prepared.             Those who are working on the roads have suddenly stopped working; most of the transporters are not functioning. Very soon, people will die of hunger in this division.”

            He continued: “It is very sad for a hardworking people who don’t depend on government for anything, people who struggle to send their children to school from farming, people who all throughout their lives have depended on farming, to suddenly abandon their source of livelihood. I want them to go back to their villages, the chiefs should return peacefully to their villages, control their villages so that life can return to normalcy,” Senator Otte added.

            According to the Senator, the hard working, welcoming and loving people he used to know in Mbonge Sub-Division have disappeared because of the ongoing crisis.

            ‘In fact, we had fantastic, hard working, loving, welcoming people who try to build up the economy of this country through cash crop production like cocoa, coffee and other crops but coming back today, I am meeting a very sorrowful situation, the bread basket of this country will soon disappear because of the unfortunate situation of insecurity in my division”, he furthered.

            Senator Otte noted that if this situation persists, there might be famine in this part of the country since people no longer go to their farms.

            “As a Senator of the area, I am appealing that things should return to normalcy, we want the return to peace, we want people to go back to their villages, we want people to go back to farms so that people from the bread basket of this country should not die of hunger”, Senator Otte noted.