Re: Colonel in Another Clash with Yembe in Bamenda

Jackie.
Let me tell you that 90% of these commissioners join the SCNC openly
shortly after retirement, entailing that they were just protecting
their jobs. It is a general phenomenon

On 6/24/12, Nyangkwe Agien Aaron <nyangkweagien@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>________________________________
>>> From: Martin Yembe <mfyembe@gmail.com>
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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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