Re: Colonel in Another Clash with Yembe in Bamenda

Courge and stay on the course Martin

On 6/23/12, Dr. Christopher Atang <mbatu4@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thank you Mr. Martin Yembe for standing your grounds against injustices of
> this nature.  This is not the first time that you have demonstrated your
> assertiveness in our struggle.  We have been, and are still being provoked,
> time without number, while we recline and concentrate on irrelevant issues
> related to discussing and/or argueing about "who should be the leader" or
> castigating other actors in the Independence struggle, instead of working to
> advance our legitimate cause.  Why can't we seize one of these
> provocative opportunities to initiate real forward-looking-strategies (you
> know what I mean), to jump-start the restoration struggle?
> Secondly, how far have we gone with implementing Ms. Jane Ikome's
> suggestions that were made public a couple of months ago?  I would not mind
> not receiving any response to my query over this medium (from Ms. Ikome),
> considering the confidential nature of the whole situation.  But I hope and
> pray that something is going on!!!  The Struggle Continues!!!
>
> Christopher Atang, Ph.D.,
> Professor
> 5507 Pipingwood Drive
> Houston, Texas 77084
>  It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
> -      Lena Horne
>
>
>
>
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>>Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 8:17 AM
>>Subject: Colonel in Another Clash with Yembe in Bamenda
>>
>>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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