Southern Cameroons separation, Independence:

Suspected SCNC Sponsor Wanted
Security operatives in Limbe in the South West region are still desperately searching for Nkemanjong Ngoasong Thomas, a businessman suspected of sponsoring the independence struggle of Cameroon’s minority English speaking regions from the Majority French speaking republic.
By Ticha Melanis in Limbe

Nkemanjong Ngoasong Thomas wanted by the Cameroon gendarmerie

The wife of Mr. Nkemanjong Ngoasong Thomas has told The Median that she can no longer sleep in peace because her safety and that of her five children is now threatened following repeated visits and victimization by security operatives who are urging her to produce her husband, whom the security services have pinpointed as being a major enabler and financer of the Southern Cameroons sindependence struggle that has crippled socio-economic activities in the NW and SW regions, making life unbearable for residents, many of whom have fled and sought refuge in the bushes or in safer areas in French speaking Cameroon.
    According Mrs Laih epse Nkemanjong Claris Tim, wife of Nkemanjong Thomas, she is now confused and not knowing what to do or how to cope with life all because of the unwarranted and underserving threats she is receiving in the hands of gun-toting gendarmes, who visit her home repeatedly, asking her to say the whereabouts of her husband.
    Laih, told this reporter that she truly does not know where her husband disappeared to and that she is barely struggling to eke out a miserable living with their five children.
    Laih says that if her heart bleeds and she cannot catch sleep at nights it is because at times the security operatives would storm her home, molest her in front of her five children before taking her along to their station, abandoning her very young children to themselves.
    She narrates that on one instance she came back from her sojourn with the gendarmes and met her one-year-old baby in critical condition. The innocent child had fallen from a height, and the older children, all of them below 13, could do little to alleviate her pain.

    “I owe it to God Almighty that i met my child alive….. Why should I be made to suffer for something that I know nothing about? I have no idea about my husband’s alleged links with the separatists. He never said anything about that to me…. I am completely lost and confused. But the gendarmes do not want to believe me. They think I must know something,” said Laih in tears.
    She continues: “They have pushed my husband to run away from the house. He has abandoned me all alone with our children… How do I fend for these children? My husband has not even called to let us know whether or not he is fine and safe where he is hiding… where can he be?.. Is he safe?”
    Nkemanjong Thomas who was running a flourishing business in Limbe, suddenly disappeared to the unknown when he got a tip off that security operatives were coming after him because his name was listed among the enablers and sponsors of the separatist conflict that is raging in the NW and SW regions.
    The crisis that started as complaints as strikes by English speaking teachers and lawyers escalated into a full-scale armed conflict, after the government responded to the striking teachers and lawyers with brute force.
    Since three years that the conflict has been raging on, over 3000 persons have lost their lives, hundreds of thousands of residents have fled their homes to the bushes and to safer destinations in and out of the country.
    The UN fears a looming humanitarian crisis, as hundreds of thousands are going without adequate food or shelter. Over 400.000 children have been deprived of school for the fourth year running, as the government continues to defy advice from the international community for a peaceful solution to be sought through dialogue.