Re: Colonel: Anglophones are Bamenda Idiots

My People
You all know what system we are dealing with. I had vowed that I will
never want to have anything to do with institutions that operate East
of the Mungo...talk less of a military court!!! Moreover, I am a
Christian who does NOT believe in court cases!!!
MFY

On 6/24/12, SAF <suhade@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Blaise,
>
> Please explain this.  How can you be Fon-nteh (Shufai) Wo Baforchu,
> Tobin-Kumbo.
> There is no quarter in Nso known as Baforchu or Tobin-Kumbo.  Tobin and
> Kimbo often written as Kumbo are quarters in Nso.  There is no such thing as
> Tobin-kumbo.  Can you please clarify?
>
> SAF
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> From: Blaise S. Berinyuy(Esq) <blaiseberi@yahoo.com>
> To: ambasbay@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 11:47 PM
> Subject: Re: Colonel: Anglophones are Bamenda Idiots
>
> Shey Martin,
> Thanks for your writ up but you people missed an important opportunity to
> prosecute that bigot of a colonel in the military Tribunal in Bafoussam as
> witnesses. Every civilised person uses the courts for remedy notwithstanding
> the fact that the judiciary in Cameroon is sick. Everybody cannot be bad.
>
>
> Blaise Sevidzem Berinyuy Esq.
> Fon-nteh (Shufai) Wo Baforchu, Tobin-Kumbo
> B.A, DIP, LLB Hons, PGD, C.A.P.A
> (Human Rights Advocate, Solicitor and Notary Public)
> Taku Chambers
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> --- On Sat, 6/23/12, Martin Yembe <mfyembe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>From: Martin Yembe <mfyembe@gmail.com>
>>Subject: Re: Colonel: Anglophones are Bamenda Idiots
>>To: ambasbay@googlegroups.com
>>Date: Saturday, June 23, 2012, 8:49 AM
>>
>>
>>Of course, I am also beginning to see sense in what the colonel said,for if
>> these "anglos" are not all fools, what is holding them fromdetaching
>> themselves from a mistle toe called La Republique duCameroun that is
>> surviving thanks to them.I think in thier deepest hearts, they take us for
>> very big idiots.Imagine that it was an idiot from Santa that proposed the
>> extension ofBiya's reign at Etoudi. Today, he is in prison. Imagine it was
>> anidiot from Bakingili who campaigned for Biya to remain in office whenall
>> else had vomitted hi. Today he is in prison. Imagine that it isthese
>> idiots who are feeding the "Sages" of Yaounde, yet, going hungryround the
>> year. Imagine and imagine...Real idiots, I dare say.That is how I
>> concluded when he said you 'anglos' are all idiots!!!!!MF Yembe in
>> BamendaOn 6/23/12, opio okelo <azopok@yahoo.fr> wrote:> If all the people
>> in Bamenda are idiots, what is a clever colonel doing> there? He must be a
>> bigger idiot, without
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> Subject: Colonel: Anglophones are Bamenda Idiots>>> Biya's Colonel Calls
> Anglophones 'Bamenda Idiots'.> By Martin Fon Yembe,> journalist and Vice
> Chairman of Commonwealth Journalists> Association-Cameroon>> Martin Yembe
> Clashes with Another Colonel>  Saturday June 22, 2012 would ave been another
> Black Saturday in Bamenda>  with another
> assault on Martin Fon Yembe, a journalist and Vice> Chairman of
> Commonwealth Journalists Association-Cameroon by a Colonel> at the
> Gendarmerie Legion in Bamenda. The situation escalated as a> result of a
> strive that was going on between the Colonel( in mufti) and> the Newspaper
> vendor  at the Commercial Avenue. The Colonel in question> had come to buy
> the> state-owned Cameroon Tribune and did not find it>  on the stands. He
> started molesting the vendor why he will prefer to> display what he called
> Opposition papers while keeping Cameroon Tribune> behind the stands!>> The
> vendor's numerous explanations could not>  calm down the already irate
> Colonel, who went behind the stands, took> one of the latest editions of
> Cameroon Tribune and was trying to pin it> himself on the stands. ..all that
> while in very aggressive French. At> that juncture Martin Fon Yembe, a
> Publisher himself, who was around> intervened to ask the vendor what the
> problem was all
> about. The Colonel>  exploded, shouting at Martin Yembe who he was to
> intervene when he is> talking. Yembe humbly and calmly told the colonel whom
> he is and why he> was intervenening. The colonel got more furious and was
> poising to> attack Yembe physically, and the crowd that was standing by and
> those> passing stpped between. It was a duel of words between the colonel>
> and the population whom he insulted as " Vous etes tous les idiots ici" (>
> All of you are idiots…in Bamenda). Of course, varied interventions were>
> given to that expression. Many held that he had insulted the> Anglophones
> again as they always do. Yembe told him it was very daring> of him and
> provocative for him to address Bamenda people as " idiots" He>  kept poking
> his finger at some of the responsible gentlemen around,> including Yembe,
> and warning them to stop publishing articles against their> President.>> The
> situation ended with the said colonel realizing that he had
> met> "Men" and so he turned from attacking Yembe to pleading to him to
> calm> the rising crowd. Yembe then took the opportunity to give him free>
> lessons, starting from this mentality francophones have that the English>
> language in their Cameroon is a language of 2nd class citizens; that> his
> calling Southern Cameroonians "idiots" is confirmation of the> allegation
> that La Republique du Cameroun is at war with the people of> this territory;
> that another colonel, a certain Colonel Atangana had> caused trouble almost
> of the same range at this same spot some three> months ago, and it was he
> Yembe who intervened to free the vendor, a> member of the Cameroon Union of
> Journalists. Yembe ended up telling him> that they, Southern Cameroonins
> know they are in prison with LRC for over 50> years, but that this will soon
> be very bad> history.>> Hearing all these lectures, the colonel looked
> confused, beaten but not>  remorseful, and turned off to his
> military jeep standing by. It was> then that many noticed that some police
> superintendants of police, as> well in mufti, were around listening and
> following up. When the colonel> left, they beckoned two elderly Southern
> Cameroonians who were around,> including a retired police commissioner, to
> chat with them. They> congratulated those who told the Commissioner what he
> needed to know, given> that "those fellows are a menace around…" ( other>
> information they gave reserved). It should be recalled that a few months>
> ago, the Commander of the Israeli-trained B.I.R. military squad in> Bamenda,
> a certain Colonel Atangana, attacked a citizen at this very> kiosk for
> speaking in favour of an aggressive article on Biya. The> victim was carried
> to the military base at the Bamenda Airport and> beaten up before being
> thrown in the nearby bushes from where he managed>  and crept to the road.
> The boy's 'master' happened to be the Taxation> Chief in
> Bamenda. He took the case up to the Legion and this wrapped up> the vendor,
> Emmanuel Ngwa who was arrested and incarcerated. It took the>  intervention
> of Martin Yembe as President of Cameroon Union of> Journalists, NW, and
> Coordinator of GLOBINET, to cause the release of> the vendor. The heat went
> on until the colonel had to answer in the> Bafoussam military court. Yembe
> and the vendor refused crossing over>  to Bafoussam as witnesses. This
> incident brings lot of things to focus> at tis time.>>>
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> "…Time has come, I believe, for our leaders to start training the youths to>
> take over the mantle. Effective, efficient and rigorous training does not>
> constitute issuing subservient roles; rather, it involves sitting side by>
> side on the round table for policy and decision making and thorough>
> brainstorming on the normative values that undergird progressive issues.>
> Ayah Paul of
> PAP takes great pleasure in working with the youths. I am proud> to work
> with him..." Akoson A. Raymond.>
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