The big
winners and losers
By Augustine
EnowAgbor, a proud citizen of the Republic of Cameroon
The
fly-by-night terrorist gangs, calling themselves the Secessionist and
Irredentist Movement of Ambazonia (SIMA) have lost their moral bearings, and
are finding it difficult to move beyond sentiments and rhetoric. We are a bunch
of lazy critical thinkers with under-developed emotional intelligence in
following these little-known quacks in believing that the Anglophones are
closer to self-determination, let alone secede from the Republic of Cameroon.
The three best known secessionist movements in Sub-Saharan Africa can be a yard
stick to measure the stillbirth and infantile banter (to quote Prophetic
Apostle Hamilton Ayuk) of such callous and lazy thinkers who are promoting the
secession garbage.
Before I proceed, it is important
to announce the winnings and losers in the release of activist Anglophone
lawyers and teachers who had the legitimate right to fight for Anglophone
self-determination within the State of Cameroon. These individuals were falsely
linked to stillbirth secessionist groups, and the government arrested them as a
strategy to ensure that the secessionist and irredentist rebellion stays where
it belongs – out of the borders of our beautiful country and banish it to the
internet only.
To this effect, the first winners
here are family members and friends, who have their loved ones back home. The
second group of winners is the detainees themselves who have now been given
heroic status thanks to the stupid decision of the government in arresting them
in the first place. The third winner is the government of Cameroon, in
realizing that we are in the 21st century and governments can no longer arrest
free citizens, exercising their democratic rights without any cause. The
biggest losers here are the Secessionists & Irredentist Ambazonia Movement.
Their rallying point has been around the detainees, and now that they are free
and not even talking to the separatist, the still-birth SIMA is buried.
Only fools get into a battle
without assessing who or what they are fighting against. Secessionism has not
been easy anywhere in the world, and in Sub-Saharan Africa to be specific. If
you are taking the stupidity of these separatists for reality, look at the
secessionism elsewhere in Africa such as South Sudan, Biafra, and Eritrea. The
Biafra movement lasted just over two years with devastating loss of lives and
properties. The secessionist struggle (war) in South Sudan lasted over forty
(40) years, and that in Eritrea it lasted about thirty (30) years. So, when
people lean on school boycott as their major secessionist weapon, one wonders
how long will that weapon be of good use.
