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
P.O. Box 144 Buea,SWP - Cameroon Phone: 237 77680743 (Cell) Tel/Fax: 237 33323500 (H)
--- 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 knowing.>>> Editor/Columnist> The Post Newspaper> PO Box 91, Buea> Cameroon> Mobile: +237 75 87 61 92> +237 95 28 94 62>>> ________________________________> From: Akoson Raymond <akosonako@yahoo.com>> To: "cameroon_politics@yahoogroups.com" <cameroon_politics@yahoogroups.com>;> "cameroons_sdf_party@yahoogroups.com" <cameroons_sdf_party@yahoogroups.com>;> "cameroonfinland@yahoogroups.com" <cameroonfinland@yahoogroups.com>;> "ambasbay@googlegroups.com" <ambasbay@googlegroups.com>;> "camnetwork@yahoogroups.com" <camnetwork@yahoogroups.com>> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 8:02 PM> 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.>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------> "…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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