Hi GB, may I beg to differ with you on the appelation of the inhabitants of the Bakassi peninsular as Nigerians. This is the very reason for which the fight for the liberation of the peoples and territories of the UN Trust under the British. We were collectively treated as 'Biafrans' until the launching of the SDF and even then we were still described invariably as " les ennemis dans la maison' or 'ceux qui ne sont pas content avec l'union national n'ont qu'a aller ailleurs.' These epiteths have till date been the bane of all Southern Cameroonians. For those of you who have not had time to go through the Anglo - Germano Treaty of 1913, you may read there in one of the paragraphs that 6 months after the signing of this treaty any one living east or west of the agreed border shall become citizen of Kamerun or Nigeria as the case may be. By so saying if your uncle elected to settle west of the border he became a Nigerian and you the nephew a Cameroonian and so has it been since then. This obtains in all countries that share boundaries. The case of the Cameroons is very peculiar. There are Effics who have been living and carrying out their activities since time immemorial in Manoca and Ukpwe Islands which are just accross the Douala estuary. They have never been to Nigeria but have some affinity with the effics of Nigeria would you describe those as Nigerians. What about the fang who span the territory of La rep. du cameroun, congo, gabon and equatorial guinea? Don't forget it is rumoured here that Biya is an equato-guineen just like Inoni was said to be an Ibibio. If we subscribe to those thesis then of course the Ejagams of Mamfe should be described as Nigerians. Do you see how far this can take us. We have the Mbembe's and the Mfumte's in the North West who equally span the Southern Cameroons territory and overlap to Nigeria. The akus in wum come neither from Nigeria nor Cameroon. My brother lets not lend credence to those who want to Balkanize our country to further weaken our resolve to be a free democratic loving people of the UN state yet to be given a name by the Nigerian/ la Rep. du Cameroun predators who are only interested in the lands and their contents and not the people. Thanks for comprehending. Visha Fai
--- On Thu, 18/10/12, Gerard Best <gebesst@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Gerard Best <gebesst@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [camnetwork] Fw: [defsec] Bakassi Natives Plan Secession With S/Cameroon
To: ambasbay@googlegroups.com
Date: Thursday, 18 October, 2012, 23:47
| My take is that Bakassi (Land Mass) is already part of the Southern Cameroons and should be a state or county or whatever within an independent Southern Cameroons. Therefore Bakassi does not need to be looking for its own independence separately. Take note that these Bakassi residents are Nigerians, and so doing what you are proposing here is tantamount to taking Nigerian people to be citizens of the Southern Cameroons. That would not be acceptable to the international community.They could become Southern Cameroonians by naturalization. The Southern Cameroons would be independent very soon and the status of Nigerian people livig in Bakassi would be negotiated. From what I know, the territory is Southern Cameroons'. Nigeria is supposed to re-settle these people somewhere. Let us not complicate our quest for independence by adding another element that would put us 52 years again behind schedule. If the people and planning their thing, let them go ahead. If the Nigerians who are resident in Bakassi want to be part of the Southern Cameroons because they are living on Southern Cameroons territory, that is a different story. This can always be negotiated after Southern Cameroons independence. We should be very careful with our proposals here. GB International Affairs Expert
--- On Thu, 10/18/12, ftroit <ftroit@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: ftroit <ftroit@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [camnetwork] Fw: [defsec] Bakassi Natives Plan Secession With S/Cameroon
To: ambasbay@googlegroups.com
Cc: "camnetwork@yahoogroups.com" <camnetwork@yahoogroups.com>, "Njoh Litumbe" <njohlitumbe@ymail.com>, "nsusungi@yahoo.com DR. NFORSUSUNGI" <nsusungi@yahoo.com>, "Feko Nkwutio" <nkwut@yahoo.com>, "Henry Fossung" <hfossung@gmail.com>, "Dr.Christopher Atang" <mbatu4@yahoo.com>, "atangajohn15@yahoo.com" <atangajohn15@yahoo.com>, "Mr. Ayuk Mathias" <ayukm@yahoo.com>, "Martin Yembe" <mfyembe@gmail.com>, "NFORNFOR" <nnyamngaisc@gmail.com>, "Chief Charles Taku" <charto_us@yahoo.com>, "Chief Ayamba Otun" <chiefayambaeo@yahoo.com>, "Angela Morfaw" <alegnamore@yahoo.com>, "mariam4ray@yahoo.com" <mariam4ray@yahoo.com>, "David Banyong" <davidbanyong@yahoo.com>, "David Tambi" <tambitt2002@yahoo.co.uk>, "Manyu Net" <MANYUNET@aufoundation.org>, "Taku A. A. Moses" <gospelcoord@yahoo.com>, gospelcoord@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2012, 1:59 PM
That said, why can't leaders of the various Southern Cameroons/Bakassi movements open a line of communication with leaders of the Bakassi movement. The Bakassi folks seem to have something that the Southern Cameroons does not have: "fire", in addition to the other kind of fire that they have that has caused the demise of a number of LRC functionaries. A suggestion is that you, Mr. Litumbe, along with Prof. Anyangwe and another younger person such as Jude of SCNC North America meet (in person) with Bakassi leaders (not just chiefs) and draft up paperwork and convince them to seek their independence as part of Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia, rather than seeking to go at it by themselves. We all know that their going at it by themselves is a battle that the international community will not let them win as they have to history to back it up. A number of accords will need to be drawn for the Bakassi folks to work with Southern Cameroons. Just a suggestion. On Friday, October 12, 2012 6:12:18 PM UTC-4, Taku A. A. Moses wrote: My beloved Senior Citizen, Many thanks for this piece of information that has wisdom attached to it and clare interpretation worthy of praise. It is written with Wisdom and Revelational knowledge from an Elder indeed. Since we have been writing in this forum about our illegal union with LRDC, it has never been explained or narrated as you have done today. You have employed both Wisdom, Legality and Spirituality to support your/our case of oppression and or illegal occupation of our land by LRDC. With this clear naratives insight, I am left with no alternative but to hand this revelation of yours to the High Court in Heaven for redress. The Court in Heaven works only with the info rendered from us to it for action. That which is forwarded from here on earth, must carry the elements of Truth as that Court does not take sides in any matter. It is not like the courts in Yaounde where the hands of the chief judges are tight and he can not render sincere justice. My Elder, this piece of information has completely defeated the so called discoveries of documents by our brother Dr. Nfor Susungi, who has in time passed claimed to have seen the documents that only he could be correct in analysing on what he discovered to be Truth of the union. In most of my write-ups as far back as AD 2000, I had insinuated in my writings that our union was like a marriage without a marriage certificate authenticating the union. Today you have increased my marriage counselling vocabulary with this additional terminology-"Social Concubinage" a marriage or union that has no dowry paid or marriage certificate established to concritize the union. To that effect, it is come we stay and can be parted at anytime without interferrence for reconcilliation. The Lord by His Spirit told me that He caused the meeting in Foumban to legalise the union to fail and was never called again till date. He stopped that meeting because He was not in accordance with our joining LRDC or Nigeria because He was the one that caused our 13 members to exit from the NCNC in Enugu and be a nation for Him. He had planed to bless us as He has done to Israel. He told me that-Southern Cameroons is to Africa as Israel is to the world. Shall interpret that statement during our Restoration day in BUEA in the nearest
date to come. I have stoodin this matter without waivering because of what I have received from Heaven concerning our matter as Daniel to the Tribe of Judah I will be the last person to surrender in this matter as I know I heard clearly from God as He told me that,the union has been abrogated with a physical sign of damaging the Mungo Bridge some years back to confirm it to me. That is why I say what I say with no fear or waivering as I know what He told me. I am fully anointed to fight our war in the realm of the spirit as I did to the Bakassi war in AD 1994 by going right to the war front to effect the Prophetic declarations, which caused the war not to escalate or take place. To God be the Glory. I am hereby informing all the blacklegs to be careful, as I have just released a Prophetic Prayer to Heaven concerning them-especially the Fons/Chiefs of the S.Cs who have decided to be what they are not. I have 2 chiefs who are related to me as such, but the God's bullet has no distinction to persons as far as your name is in the list of Blaclegs. Isaiah 5:20-25. Woes to them that--------- Mola Njoh, I am letting you know that I am forwarding your write-up to Heaven and also to the SG of the U.N and to UK for their awereness. I am asking Heaven to continue keeping you strong as you have now stook steadfast for the Salvation of your people in captivity. They that have been advocating for Federalism should also be careful-eg John Fru Ndi and his NW/SW Fons/Chiefs. Yours freedom fighter-not with human weapons of MK47 but with Spiritual Missiles that no man can stop on the way. Rev.(Papa) Taku-Ayuk Moses-alias Daniel to his nation of S.Cs, Bakassi is shown in all colonial maps as having formed part of the the UN trust territory of Southern Cameroons. All the evidence in the ICJ case of 2002 attest to this. Reference to Southern Cameroons therefore is with the Bakassi Peninsula comprised in it. The People of the United Nations trust territory of Southern Cameroons expressed an intention to join the People of Cameroun Republic as from 1 Oct 1961, but the legal "matrimonial" rites, prescribed by the United Nations Charter, Art. 102, were not performed. To use a simple illustration, if two suitors (Nigeria and Cameroun Republic) desire to marry a particular girl (Southern Cameroons), the girl's parents (the United Nations) would ask the girl to choose one of the suitors. The UN did just that in the plebiscite of 11 Feb. 1961, and the plebiscite result was the expression of the intention of Southern Cameroonians as to which suitor the girl chose to marry. Up to this point, there is, of course, no marriage. The declaration by the girl to the parents as to her choice, does not constitute a marriage, for the preferred suitor has then to move to the next stage and perform native and/or legal rites to create a marriage. If the parties decide to live together without performing the established matrimonial rites, they would not be regarded to be a married couple. Social concubinage is not new to mankind. For a legal union to be established with a member state of the UN, the UN Charter prescribes a written Agreement signed by both parties, and duly deposited at the UN Secretariat in New York. Happily or sadly, there is no such evidence, so the People of Southern Cameroons are perfectly entitled to assert their independence, and in doing so, it cannot be described as "secession," any more than a couple that never performed matrimonial rites but after living together for some time, decide to go their separate ways. It would be wrong to describe such separation as a "divorce" for the simple reason that the two persons never performed matrimonial rites prescribed by Law to establish a marriage. Therefore, the People of Southern Cameroons (and this includes all the inhabitants of Bakassi) can decide to declare their independence from Cameroun Republic, and this would be a simple separation of two friends, but not secession. In this way the Republic of Cameroun would keep its territorial boundaries inherited at independence, without the loss of a single inch of its territory. Southern Cameroonians have been declared as a PEOPLE by the African Union in Communication 266/2003. The Federal Republic of Nigeria as well as the Republic of Cameroun are both members of the African Union and have to observe the African Charter on Human & Peoples' Rights. This provides in Art 20 as follows: "(1) All Peoples shall have the right to existence. They shall have the unquestionable and inalienable right to self-determination. They shall freely determine their political status and shall pursue their economic and social development according to the policy they have freely chosen. (2) Colonized or oppressed Peoples shall have the right to free themselves from the bonds of domination by resorting to any means recognized by the international community; (3) All Peoples shall have the right to the assistance of States parties to present Charter in their liberation struggle against foreign domination, be it political, economic or cultural." Therefore, Because the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Republic of Cameroun are both UN member states which also belong to the African Union; Because Southern Cameroonians have been declared to be a People by the African Union; Because their defined territory did not form a part of either the Federal Republic of Nigeria or the Republic of Cameroun at those countries' respective dates of independence, and there has been no subsequent Treaty of Union with either state as required by Art 102 of the UN Charter; Because by the Universal Declaration of Independence to all colonial countries and Peoples per UN General Assembly Res. 1514 of 14 Dec. 1960, when Southern Cameroons was still a British administered UN trust territory, and therefore entitled to Unconditional indpendence in its own right; The People of Southern Cameroons hereby call on both the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Republic of Cameroun, as members of the United Nations as well as of the African Union, to respect the unquestionable and inalienable right of the PEOPLE of Southern Cameroons to freely determine their political status, and to lend them support, as stipulated in the African Charter Art. 20(3), to peacefully attain their objective. Mola NJOH LITUMBE Senior Citizen, Politician & Opinion Leader Southern Cameroons.
People, FYI. CUE Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:03:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [defsec] Bakassi Natives Plan Secession With S/Cameroon
LEADERSHIP Bakassi Natives Plan Secession With S/Cameroon Thu, 11/10/2012 - 4:45am | EDEM EDEM A new twist has emerged in the Bakassi struggle as Efik Kingdom is said to be making plans to join forces with Southern Cameroon to form an independent nation. The move is coming even as the federal government foreclosed the review of the International Court of Justice ruling at The Hague. October 10 was deadline upon which the ICJ ruling of 2002 could be reviewed. Thousands of Bakassi natives assembled at the Cultural Centre Ground, Calabar, from where they led a street protest to the Millennium Park wearing black arm bands and joined by other sons and daughters of Efikland to seek the way forward for the Bakassi struggle. Their placards read: 'Return Bakassi to Nigeria', 'Shame on Those who Sold Bakassi', 'Donald Duke Betrayed Bakassi', 'Our Leaders, Do Not Cede Our Heritage to a Foreign Land', 'Abacha, Our Hero', among others. The Obong of Calabar and Grand Patriarch of Efik Kingdom, Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi Otu (VI), in whose territory Bakassi is situated, said Bakassi belonged to Efik Kingdom and that the Efik people would not relent until they reclaim the area. Represented by the Chairman, Etubom Traditional Council, Etubom Bassey Oko Bassey Duke, Obong Otu said the treaty for the ownership of Bakassi as an Efik entity was signed by the Obong of Calabar in 1890s. He said the Efiks have all agreed to come together in the struggle to reclaim the land from foreigners and added that they had also acknowledged a proposal from Southern Cameroon to join forces with the Bakassi people to form an independent nation, expressing optimism that the struggle would certainly yield good results. On his part, the Chairman of Bakassi Local Government Area, Dr. Ekpo Ekpo Bassey declared that the Bakassi struggle had just begun with the move by the Efik Kingdom to reclaim their land. ------------------ __._,_.___ Camnetwork is the premier Cameroon/Cameroun forum since 1997. . ![]() __,_._,___
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