Cabrili Cabrilo, the Anti-Biya Activist who Confronted President Macron on the Crisis in Anglophone Cameroon

He is rarely known yet he took the unmatched courage to interview French president, Macron on the ongoing armed conflict in the Anglophone crisis. His name is Tiam Adoulaye, a frontline anti-Biya activist who continuously maintains a low profile.

               

Tiam Adoulaye alias Cabrili Cabrilo

The video in which he interviewed Macron has become one of the most shared in the past months in Cameroon.

                It shows how the Brigade Anti Sadinard Founder and staunch critic of the Yaounde government, Tiam Abdoulaye, confronted French President, Emmanual Macron in Paris, Saturday 22nd February 20202.

                Tiam Abdoulaye, popularly known as Calibri Calibro is not a social media fanatic. But he took what has today been described as one of the boldest and remarkable steps since a wave of anti-Biya protests gained momentum among Cameroonians in the diaspora.

                In his chat with French President, Emmanuel Macron, the latter broke his silence on the killings in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon. 

                In a viral video, Calibri cries out to the French president asking him to intervene in Cameroon.

                 “Mr Macron, Paul Biya is killing Cameroonians … There is a genocide in Cameroon,” he cried.

                In response to the activist, President Macron noted that he was versed with the happenings in Anglophone Cameroon.

                “I put pressure on Biya so that he first of all handles the issue of the Anglophone regions and his opposition,” he told Calibri.

                Before President Paul Biya could meet him in Lyon, Macron added, he (Biya) had to release Maurice Kamto, an indication of maximum pressure on the Yaounde regime.

                With regards to African States as a whole and young persons risking all to leave the continent through the Mediterranean Sea, Macron noted one of the challenges is leaders that are not democratically elected.

                In Africa like elsewhere, he said he too wants “democratically elected leaders and where they are not democratically elected, I work with their civil society”.

                President Biya, the French leader went on has to “… decentralise, release political opponents and respect human rights”.

                Denying allegations of giving money to African leaders, Macron noted that his country engages in developmental projects only, engaging in follow-up of the projects.  Calibri in the exchange went on to request for the release of political prisoners including a lady arrested for calling for a boycott of the last February twin elections and Mamadou Mota of the MRC party. President Macron’s team, however, demanded a list of the names, promising to take action.

                Though not as active on social media like other activists, Calibri’s exchange with president Macron earlier today is the first of its kind as it had never seen been done by any other African activist.

                Putting his life and reputation on the line for the exchange it should be noted is one of his many selfless actions in his quest for justice. Being the Founding father of the Brigade Anti-Sardinade, BAS, he has played a key role in several diaspora protests against the Biya regime.

The French-speaking Cameroonian months back had addressed the European Parliament on the ongoing Anglophone crisis that has leftover 3000 dead, leaving several members in tears.

                Calibri is also known for being one of the key protesters that turned up at the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva, Switzerland to demand that president Biya returns home after one of his several prolonged stays abroad.

                He was also one of the Cameroonians that confronted Vision 4 TV’s Ernest Obama last week in France.