Response to police brutality:

Fru Ndi takes Buea by storm, stuns Biya

By Boris Esono in Buea

SDF Chairman addressing crowd

SDF Chairman, John FruNdi on Monday 5 December 2016, led a delegation comprising SDF members of parliament, Senators and shadow cabinet members to the office of the Governor of the SW region, to re-state the various grievances of Anglophones. After the in camera meeting, the SDF Chieftain told the press Mr. Bernard OkaliaBilai has assured them that those arrested after the UB students’ unrest were safe and that he will channel their requests to Yaounde.

                The meeting with the Governor was a culmination of a popular rally and later, a peaceful procession that FruNdi and his delegation organized with SDF supporters and the wider Buea public.

                Addressing the enthusiastic crowd during the rally, Ni John FruNdi told them he has tabled 3 problems to the government which are namely Federation, Federation and Federation. To him, Federalism is the one thing that the government must grant if she must stem the tides created by the ongoing strike action of Anglophone Teachers, Lawyers, students and the wider Anglophone public.

                The chairman further told his hearers that the brutal, barbaric suppression of peaceful demonstrations only shows how rotten and primitive the Biya has become.

                "How can University students be demonstrating peacefully and armed police and gendarmes are brought in to clampdown on them. They even went to the extent of firing tear gas and live bullets at the students. This is primitive and unacceptable," Chairman FruNdi charged, sounding a grim warning to the administration to release without further delay, all students who are still being held in prisons across the SWR.

                The very popular and hugely attended SDF event took place not before there had been some commotion at the Parliamentarian Flats Hotel where the SDF MPs were lodged. Irate inhabitants of Buea rushed to the precincts of the hotel situated at the Federal Quarters in Buea, when news made the rounds that some thugs, reportedly hired by the Buea Council, had taken the SDF MPs hostage at the hotel, refusing them from going out to the Molyko stadium where the crowd had gathered waiting for them. The situation was however blotted as the MP's were released by the ferocious intervention of the inhabitants of Buea.

                FruNdi used the occasion to also call on the VC of UB, Dr. NalovaLyonga, to see to it that the demands of the students are met.

                FruNdi’s message to the VC was greeted by a massive uproar with the students present among the crowds chanting: "Nalova must go now…….Nalova must go".

                All the speakers further called on the UB administration to look into their various grievances or else, activities will not come back to normal.

                The peaceful march that saw the participation of thousands of people culminated in a visit to the SW Governor by FRU Ndi and his MPs and Senators.