Teachers/Lawyers strike:

Anglophone policemen suspected of sympathizing with strikers

By Johnson Batuo

Instead of seeking a lasting solution to the Anglophone problem in Cameroon, created by the intransigence of the francophone-dominated Biya regime, the government has allegedly accused Anglophone security officers, especially the police of encouraging the teachers and lawyers who are today championing the Anglophone course, The Median was reliably informed.

                According to an inside source in the Meme public security, who spoke to The Median on condition of anonymity, the security heirarchy of the South West region, equally dominated by Francophones, has sent grim messages to Anglophone security agents in Kumba accusing them of encouraging or fanning the flames of the teachers and lawyers strike action and warning that severe sanctions await any security official who is discovered to be helping the strikers.

                The source revealed that he eavesdropped a telephone conversation between the southwest regional head and a Meme security chief in which the former bullied, intimidated and threatened the latter. 

                “The SW security boss shouted at my boss as if talking to his wife or child,” our source told us, further noting that francophone security officers have been assigned the task of monitoring the movement and activities of their Anglophone counterparts.

                “That is why you can hardly find any Anglophone men in uniform conversing or interacting with fellow Anglophone civilians in Kumba.

                We were told that this measure is not limited to Kumba; it extends across the two Anglophone regions.

                We recall that over two years ago, the Southwest regional administrative authorities instructed the senior Divisional officers, and Divisional officers to take note that any traditional rulers who boycotts 20th May celebrations in their localities will be seen as a sympathizer of the SCNC