Independence Struggle:

‘Ambazonians’ Stun White House with Historic Meeting

Ambazonian activists marching on to the White House in Washington, USA

The struggle for the restoration of the independence of the former Southern Cameroons took a new turn last week with the holding of a mega conference and demonstration in front of the White House in Washington, USA, and the reconciliation and merger of all sheds of opinions and factions of the struggle.

            Leaders of major factions of the struggle met for the first time to stage what could be described as a massive protest in front of the United State’s Presidential Palace, the White House, last Sunday, 19 August 2018.

            The massive demonstration came a day after an earlier conference in Washington that witnessed the participation of some prominent Anglophone activists and leaders including notably Christian Cardinal Tumi, erstwhile Consortium president Nkongho Felix Agbor Balla, Federalist Dr. Simon Munzu, ADF Commander-in-chief Cho Ayaba, journalists Boh Herbert, John Mbah Akuroh and Mbonguh Leslie Fogham, the emblematic Southern Cameroons enthusiast and advocate, octogenarian Mola Njoh Litumbe.

            During the massive White House demonstration, the placard-carrying Anglophone separatists urged President Donald Trump to intervene in the crisis rocking the English speaking regions of Cameroon.

            In a joint resolution issued after the Washington meeting, the separatist leaders wrote: “Leaders of the front-line liberation movements of Ambazonia; AGC, IG, MoRISC, RoA, SCYL, SCNC and The Consortium, meeting in Washington, DC, on Friday 17th and Saturday 18 August 2018 after several hours of heated deliberations, resolved as follows: To unite forces, build synergies and engage in collaboration at several levels to defend and uphold the independence of Ambazonia…. The leaders agreed to explore avenues of cooperation around the areas of self-defense, diplomacy, communications, joint fund-raising (Finance), and assistance to women, children, refugees and internally displaced persons.”

            “They also agreed to consult on a permanent basis in order to build trust and confidence among themselves. Even the most intractable differences between the leaders, paled in the face of their common and supreme desire to bring freedom and independence to Ambazonia,” the communiqué noted, before announcing that “…accordingly, the leaders adopted an Action Plan in view of La Republique du Cameroun’s electoral charade billed for the 7th of October 2018. They called on all Ambazonians to mount hundreds of roadblocks to cut-off access to Ambazonia for the occupation forces; to mobilize for massive public demonstrations and a generalized uprising against the occupiers, taking full control of the streets, towns and villages from midnight on the 30th of September 2018”.

            They stated that “weary of the ongoing genocidal violence that the Biya colonial regime has unleashed and is expected to ramp up in lead-up to, during and after the rigging operation meant to maintain him in power come October 7, the leaders resolved that schools will not resume in Ambazonia this school year.

            “Leaders declared their solidarity with parents, teachers and students who are justifiably determined to arrest the mental violence perpetrated on Ambazonian children who are put through an education system that forces them to accept second class citizenship. Ambazonian liberation movements expect schools to resume no earlier than September 2019, by which time Ambazonians expect to have secured their Homeland. Ghost towns will remain in force every Monday.”

            “The leaders reminded international companies and corporations that all contracts signed with La Republique du Cameroun on Ambazonian resources will never be binding and will be considered acts of theft. They frowned at the decision by the Confederation of African football to proceed with the organization of the 2019 championship in the Cameroons; and warned that Ambazonian citizens and frontline movements cannot guarantee the security of teams and fans attending or playing games in Ambazonia,” the joint communiqué also said.

            It should be recalled that unable to contain the diabolic activities instigated and sponsored by Anglophone activists in the Diaspora, the government has announced plans to track down and arrest all foreign-based instigators and sponsors of terrorism in the country.

            “They will be arrested and brought home to answer for their crimes in the same way as Sesekou Ayuk Tabe and 46 others were arrested in Nigeria and flown to Cameroon,” boasted the Cameroon Minister of Interior, Paul Atanga Nji.

            Needless to say that many of those who took part in the White House Demonstration have been listed for arrest by the Cameroon government and international warrants of arrests have already been issued against them. The likes of Cho Ayaba, Boh Herbert, Chris Anu, Eric Tataw Teno, Mbonguh Leslie Fogham, John Mbah Akuroh, Ebenezer Akwanga, Milan Atam, Mark Bareta, Tapang Ivo etc are in the government’s blacklist.

            Unconfirmed reports said that one of those booked for arrest, Eric Tataw Teno, was recently called up for questioning by the FBI. Others would be interrogated sooner than later, the reports said.

            It should be mentioned that many Anglophones have fled the country to seek safe heavens elsewhere, ever since the government launched a crackdown on “separatist terrorists” following the unset in October 2016 of what is now referred to as the Anglophone crisis.