Barrister Mbeseha, Thanks for your wise counsel. Discussing Susingi's confessed ignorance on this matter is pure waste of time. There exist a plethora of scholarly legal and historical material on the subject including correspondences with the UN office of legal counsel, the ultimate authority on the matter. A number of thesis have lately been defended on the subject. La Republique du Cameroun's Scholars have written copiously on this subject. Indeed, this was one of the subjects taught in the Univesity of Yaounde while we were there. Emile Mbarga taught " Institutions du Cameroun". while Joseph Owona taught " Droit consitutionelle". Professor Ayangwe has listed a number of English and French experts who studied and published works on the so-called Cameroon Federation. None of these came to the pitiable inferences that Nfor Susungi is drawing from reading a few documents out of context. A researcher usually will make his conclusions based on a number of credible sources. Even an elementary school child will not pick one or two documents, read them outm of a holistic context and draw laughable conclusions. I find it laughable and a frivolous attempt to ascribe legal meaning to just any document without indeed, without the fear of being absurd. The material Susungi is pointing to and concluding that a union treaty existed between La Republique du Cameroun and the Southern Cameroons existed have been there for long. They have been subject of critical legal analysis and commentary by legal experts and scholars. How does Susungi explain the fact that the so-called Foumban Constitution was but a revised edition of the Constitution of La Republique du Cameroon as Professors Fabien Nkot, Lekene Donfack and lately Kamto have pointed out and that the illegality of the said constitution flows from the fact that it became operational in September 19961 prior to October 1, 1961? How could that Constitution validly create a union under such legal circumstances? Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude, that the illegality of 1972, so-called "peaceful revolution" was intended to correct these acts of illegality but as Fon Dinka, has pointed out, in 1984, Paul Biya finding out that the 1972 contraption had still not produced a union treaty to enable compliance with articles 102 and 103 of the UN Charter, simply put an end to this legal anormaly by reverting to his country at independence; for this legal absurdity and/or adventure endangered even La Republique's hard faught independence and territorial integrity in international law. Hence, its symbols of state deposited at the UN at independence have never changed. Even if they did, there still is no treaty of union filed at the UN as required by the UN Charter. Susungi therefore has to look for some better subject to contribute to in his attempt to join a sinking ship. May be he can revive and refine his NASPROC and sell the ideas therein to La Republique. That way, he can safely get a comfortable place in the sinking ship, enough to get a piece of cake from a failed regime in plain implosion and at the very evening of its life. Chief C.Taku --- On Wed, 7/4/12, Timothy Mbeseha <mbeseha@yahoo.com> wrote:
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