Re: [camnetwork] RE: South West Region, Stupid. There is No Anglophone Cause.

Dear Victor,
You guys are too young to understand THE FACES BEHIND THE MASK supremacist politics of the average North Westerner. Martin Tumasang has outlined the antecedents of "North West husbandry" in his write-up on the origin of "South West laziness". His write up was well-couched in the North Westerner's "hard work", "seriousness of purpose" "discipline" "ambition" "parsimony" etc etc.

The North Westerner will never accept that South Westerners got the short end of the stick in the political dispensations ushered in by Reunification, West Cameroon, and The Republic of Cameroon, thanks to their numerical strength and the leaderships positions of Foncha, Jua and Muna.

I am glad that astute South Westerners are seeing through the charade. SCNC politics is another subterfuge for North Westerners to use their ever increasing numerical strength, contriving nature and winner-takes-all mentality to ride rough shod over South Westerners.

Look at former Cameroon journalists working at the World Bank. How many South Westerners have broken into the old boy network?

Their triumphalism stinks in every Tom and Dick's write-up.

Mukefor
Gubernatorial Aspirant
South West Region.

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Subject: RE: South West Region, Stupid. There is No Anglophone Cause.
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 12:30:41 -0500

Dr. Tumasang,

I am not at all pleased at your reply to the incoherent obloquy and full-scale onslaught on South-Westerners by a moronic bigot. Yours is one of the reasonable voices in this forum yet, all you had for a reply to this bigot is "Wow. This is something"? Why have you suddenly lost your balanced approach when it is the South-westerners that are being disparaged and harangued? Do you want me to believe that what Mukefor has been harping on in this forum is true? I expected you to give a forceful rebuttal to that disjointed nonsense, instead you expressed amazement and then praise. The idiot who is fulminating in his piece below has a right to criticize the government and the management of projects in the South-West Region but to attribute that corruption to the lack of manhood of the South-westerner and the "senility" of Manyu people defies commonsense and reason. It is even worse when he compares the reunification project management in Buea to the astute management and lack of corruption in the Presidential visit in Bamenda. That bigoted diatribe should be offensive to you and everyone who is seeking anglophone solidarity and should draw total condemnation not some kind of tepid praise. That piece is the work of a schemer who uses derogatory epithets such as "South-West puppets" to undermine the work of those who are building reasonable solidarity between the two regions.

Tabong Kima

Boston, USA

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Subject: South West Region, Stupid. There is No Anglophone Cause.
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:48:26 +0000

WOW. This is something

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Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 01:28:21 -0800
Subject: [cameroon_politics] Re: [camnetwork] South West Region, Stupid. There is No Anglophone Cause.

REUNIFICATION SCANDAL AND THE SOUTH WEST PUPPET

A can of worms!

A sequel from GRAFFI POLITICS AND THE SOUTH WEST PUPPET

The entire nation-state was once again held spell-bound as the South West region continued to show its ugly side. all major newspaper headlines cover-paged the story for over a week after Tchiroma made the declaration in a press conference. If H.E. BIYA is anything to go bye, then OKALIA BILAI, MAFANY MUSONGE, AGBOR TABI, MENGOT VICTOR, MBELLA MOKI, NFON MUKETE, AMA TUTU MUNA, ROBERT NKILLI, BIDOUNG MKPATT and all those who were involved directly or indirectly in the reunification preparation and feast should be tried for HIGH TREASON against the Cameroonian people.

It's such a shame that the South west region should be the last in everything, even in alphabetical order; the South West is last in appellation of all the regions. The height of this provocation is the announcement of the Minister of communication on the amount of money that the government has disbursed for the reunification project, a colossal 35 billion francs CFA, the highest of all financial scandals that Cameroon has ever known. This appellation usually misleads Cameroonians. We are talking of 35 thousand million FCFA, (35,000,000,000). This amount of money is what the government disbursed apart from what Mafany musonge with his swollen jaws and his cohorts went round the region almost extorting money from all business men, all elite, all companies, all councils and the like under the guise of the organizing committee of the reunification that held at CNPS Buea, Kumba, Limbe and all around the place. SONARA, PAMOL, HYSACAM and even companies that are not found in the region contributed money for the feast.

" It may interest the reader to know that the total annual Public Investment Budget of the South West has never crossed 31 Billion FCFA. It reached its height in 2008 under INONI's influence as prime minister".

This includes all administrative constructions, schools, hospitals, offices, creation of new roads, rehabilitation of existing roads, construction of bridges and all the like for the entire region, then you talk about a mammoth 35 billion FCFA destined for Buea only yet there is nothing to show for. The relics are loose gravel and engine oils spilled on an open grave called the Tole-Limbe road, the Mile 16-Small Soppo stretch, the death trap from Soppo market to Buea town. The Tole road that is not even used and has not been received has been rehabilitated more than 3 times. Yes, that is Biya's Cameroon. A few existing official buildings were like the amphis in the University of Buea were simply painted. The existing Mountain Hotel structures were only rehabilitated at a colossal 4 billion FCFA. What a shame!

The South Westerner is a cursed man, a man with no direction. FRU NDI even called the South westerner an eternal PUPPET. From a historical narrative, the entire Fako CDC land was sold to the British for a ridiculous 28 pounds. (Ref: George Ngwane's paper on Kuva Likinye). When NJOH LITUMBE formed the Bakweri Lands Claims Committee (BLCC) that sued the CDC in the Gambia, he met a lot of resistance from his kith n kin who tagged him for a secessionist, yet when BLCC won the case and the CDC was urged to return the land to the indigenes, every monkey from Bakweri fence sought to be chief so as to have access to the sale of land, to buy old German cars and build houses here and there. When FON FOSI YAKUMTO was governor of South West he diverted an ultra-modern telephone system that was destined for Kumba to Kumbo to the utter dismay of the South West Puppet. When ANGU was station manager of CRTV, there was no single South West vernacular language over CRTV Buea until a certain PAUL AYAH took up the case with the government and South West languages were put in place. It suffices to ask if there is any South West vernacular language over radio Bamenda. OBEN PETER ASHU had his fair share of the blame, the illiterate governor siphoned hundreds of millions that were destined for the construction of the grand stand in Bongo square to receive the Head of state. The pillars of the structure were so tiny that they gave way in just two weeks. Bate Johnson, Oben Peter's right hand man did the dirty job. The Ecoles des Champions in limbe was another can of worms of the South west region. After several failed attempts to inaugurate the structure, CHANTAL BIYA took the South west governor EYEYA ZANGA by storm when she announced the visit at short notice. The governor went harassing SONARA. PAMOL and other structures and personalities to work day and night to realize the obnoxious structure that was worth hundreds of millions. The ever jovial CHANTAL BIYA did not hide her indignation at what she saw in Limbe and she frowned from start to end of occasion. Simply put, she was scandalized at the quality of the project, a typical white wash job akin to the South west puppet. It is worth noting that this same structure was granted to Bafoussam and Douala that realized remarkable edifices worthy of the amount granted for the project. Once again a non indigene did the mess and got away with it without any elite raising even his little finger. And now OKALIA BILAI and his gang of bandits siphon a colossal 35 Billion that was destined to realize projects in Buea for his personal profit. In less than no time he built a three star hotel in Limbe that was earmarked to host the Yaounde dignitaries at cut throat prices and no one in the name of elite has dared to raise a single finger. One can't help wondering if there are any elite in this region.

YANG PHILEMON and co masterminded the Bamenda celebration and made the necessary preparation at such short notice in record time. The graffi man has always been a force to reckon with, a no nonsense man. It it has to do with the SDF the amumba is a die-hard, it is for the CPDM the amumba is a die-hard, even for the SCNC the amumba is a die hard, a serious and committed and devoted man. YANG submitted a detailed balance sheet of the total expenses that were incurred in Bamenda and refunded the balance to the State treasury. In Buea, even three and a half years were not enough to prepare to receive Mr BIYA. In spite of the fact that Buea had more than double what Bamenda had, most of the money got finished even before effective work began, reason why ARAB contractors abandoned the project, Genie militaire also abandoned, Chariot group abandoned and later on all for unpaid dues and local contractors were sought as a last resort to do the ugly white wash job. Surprisingly enough not a single elite raised an eye brow at such a national disgrace that can only come from the South west Puppet. The peak of such disgrace was heightened at the Tiko farm land in something that looked like a banana plantation in the name of a rehabilitated airport. Sure the hidden agenda was to cause Biya's plane to crash so that Biya would die. Yet the epileptic ROBERT NKILLI could go on air and talk about the rehabilitation of the Tiko airport as one of the reunification projects. BIYA could not hide his disgust and openly frowned at what he saw. The Canal 2 journalist mentioned that the expression on Biya's face was that of dissatisfaction, reason why Biya went straight into his car while Chantal stayed behind to greet the crowd. For the first time, Biya never greeted the crowd, the journalist remarked. It may interest the reader to know that Biya made two surprise visits to Buea to see for himself what problem it was that was preventing the reunification project. On the other hand it was worthwhile for Biya to be treated as such. In the 1980's when corruption and the looting of the entire state resources was rife, Biya asked, "… ou sont les preuves…". Voice les preuves!

While in Bamenda, Biya promised them a reference hospital, the effective taking off of the ring road, and the Bamenda University that has already gone operational. Yet in Buea, Biya frowned from the time he got to Tiko through the next day at the grand stand. The only time Biya smiled a bit was when the school pupils marched past the stand. Even the stand was problematic because it was placed on the other side of the road and it necessitated the march past to occur downstream instead of otherwise, something that is unheard of in the history of march pasts. This could only have happened in Buea. Thank God foreign dignitaries like GOODLUCK, ALI BONGO and OBIANG NGEUMA did not make it to Cameroon. Things could have moved from legendary hospitality to legendary disgrace. So Cameroonians expected the above to come and see the shambles at the Tiko farm land in the name of an air strip? God saved us from the shame. A few months back Obiang inaugurated a plaza that only compares to Tiananmen Square in china. This is a country that fed from the crumbs that fell off from the Cameroonian table a few years back. Today Equatorial Guinea is a force to reckon with and she is poised to be the first sub Saharan country to reach emergence. 60 years after independence major cities in Cameroon cannot afford potable water or electricity. Even with Biya in Buea, there were still water outages in town. What does it matter anyway? Mutation newspaper mentioned that the presidential guard went without water for 6 months until the above were ready to take up arms before Biya hit his fist on the table and gave the company a 24hour ultimatum to restore water in the presidential quarters.

Biya made not a single promise to the South West people regardless of the fact that the South West happens to be the bread basket of the Country. Petroleum royalties and the customs department are the principal finance sectors of the budget. The South West happens to be the most enclaved regions in the country in spite of all the petroleum. Worse of all, Ndian division that harbors all the petroleum does not have a single inch of tarred road. The government spends billions of francs yearly to excavated sand and other sedimentary deposits on the Douala port. Many Cameroonians do not know that what is called the Douala port is not the sea but the Wouri estuary (the entrance of a big river into the sea). The government has simply created an artificial dock yard that costs billions of francs yearly to excavate. Yet we have an over 50km open coastline in Limbe that will cost little or nothing to maintain, as opposed to the artificial Douala port. We even have the Tiko wharf that served as a major exchange point in the days of West Cameroon. Yet some Anglophones will tell you that there is no Anglophone problem. Three people traced the path down memory lane in the days when the Anglophone press took off, VICTOR NGOH in his "walk down memory lane", SANUSI BERNARD (CAMEROON LIFE) and PAUL AYAH (CAMEROON SUMMIT). I seem to take a lot of interest in the PAUL AYAH persona. In 1991 AYAH traced the roots from the reunification to the Anglophone marginalization. While VICTOR NGOH stressed the events that lead to the reunification from a historical backdrop, AYAH identified all the abandoned projects that made the Anglophones to feel marginalized till date. He mentioned that major actors of reunification like the charismatic MOTOMBY WOLETA were sidelined from the reunification story. He ensued that all the investments that were of value to the West part of Cameroon and were an intrinsic part of their identity and pride were deliberately defunct by the francophones; the TIKO wharf, the TIKO airport, EKONA Research, the Limbe sea port, POWERCAM, the Tiko rail road, that linked with the East, the Muyuka-Mbanga-Loum roads that linked us with the EAST to name a few. In his own words, AYAH described the Tiko airport as "a moor for frogs". It is the same airport today that aroused BIYA's anger to the fullest. Akwaya happened to be the only South west subdivision that could only be accessed through Nigeria. Thanks to the persistent pressure from one man, the Akwaya man today feels a bit Cameroonian. AYAH stood alone, abandoned by kinsmen, by friends and by family to challenge the government to action. Yet the highest opposition came from within. This is consistent with Bible prophecy "…a prophet is only despised in his home town…" To preserve their posts, Manyu bigwigs mounted the rostrum and distanced themselves from AYAH saying that the latter acted in his personal name and not in the name of the Manyu people. These people believed that the Akwaya man did not have a right to benefit from the taxes he has paid to the state since 1963 when the said sub division was created. No doubt! It has always been about sacrificing the development of the South West in exchange for selfish, self-seeking personal ambition. Unfortunately one of the above ended up dying in a hotel in Limbe between the legs of his 21 year daughter with tablets of Viagra in his hands. Thanks to inner manipulations, AYAH was kicked out of the political game. With BATE BESSON dead, NJOH LITUMBE too old and AYAH out of the political scene, the South West remains a no man's land for any dog, any Jack and Jill to come and dictate his own kind of law in the land and get away with it. Of all the plethora of intellectuals and dynamic politicians in Manyu, the popular choice fell on ENOW TANJONG, retired governor who is too senile to pronounce even his own name. The opening session of the national assembly during the last legislature was a free for all national laughter party, putting Manyu and the S W region in the limelight of National disgrace as ENOH TANJONG openly ridiculed himself in a live radio and TV broadcast while trying to pronounce the names of the parliamentarians-elect. Some imagined he was attempting to translate the names into his inconsistent Banyangi language-a national scandal for the Manyus and for the SW region.

It suffices to ask if the South West has any political leader(s) at all. The North West can call ACHIDI ACHU, FRU NDI or ATANGA NJI as those who can rally support of the masses. Who can the South West call? Even the infamous SWELA is nothing to go bye. GEORGE NGWANE described SWELA as a forum where brain storming and think tanking were the order of the day. SWELA today is a shadow of itself and is now a platform for settling political scores and as a tool to bargain for political posts as opposed to an agency that defends the interest of the said region. Nearby Tombel and Bangem can only be accessed through the Littoral, to the West regions before meandering back into the South West. The principal access to Mamfe now is through Bamenda. One has to leave Buea and pass through two other regions before arriving at his destination within the same region. Even the existing Akwaya road that was fought for tooth and nail by AYAH passes through the Bamenda. To get to Akwaya, one must pass through three regions before attempting re entry into the South West. I will like to ask if our so called political leaders from Manyu and from the South West are proud of this. Mamfe which is one of the historic German towns and which heavily influenced the reunification process goes for two weeks in electricity blackout and water outages sixty years later, to the pride of AGBOR TABI. The much talked about TRANS AFRICAN HIGHWAY from EKOK-KUMBA to MUTENGENE has died a natural death and no one seems to raise a finger about it. Instead, the road was diverted to Bamenda. The much talked about Limbe THERMAL plant for over 10 years now is left to be seen. The EKONDO TITI wharf died in 1994 by the infamous operation DORADE that was masterminded by some demons from Yaoundé. All these put in place yet someone will rise up and swear that there is no Anglophone problem? This author stands corrected if it exists and where it is located. History has a very ugly way of repeated itself. The auctioning of Fako land to the colonial masters for 28 pounds has been translated to the 21st century with the HERAKLES farms that leased thousands of hectares of SW land for a ridiculous 200 million francs for 99 years. Only the timber that was exploited from this land for 2 months was far more than what HERAKLES farms paid for leasing the land. What a scandal. The rare magistrate who passed a judgment against HERAKLES farms was transferred from Ekondo Titi to Nkambe as a punitive measure, because Louis Paul Motaze had an interest in the case. Magistrate MUKETE.

I will like to know what legacy MAFANY MUSONGE, AGBOR TABI, TABE TANDO, MBELLA MOKI, LIFAKA EMILIA, LIFANDA SAMUEL, ANDREW MOTANGA, NFON MUKETE, BENJAMIN ITOE, EBONG NGOLE, VICTOR MENGOT and all those who clamor to be South West elite will leave for their children when they will be long gone. Posterity will judge! Who of the above can rally massive support in the South West region? Inoni was even more push-full and he left a legacy. Thanks to Inoni the Limbe idenau road was realized, thanks to Inoni the Idenau wharf of operational, though timidly. Inoni gave jobs to many South westerners in the government and in Standard Chattered. Though guilty of corruption himself, Inoni came up with operation antelope that is used till date to reduce fictitious salaries under the government pay roll. Mafany Musonge is even most unfortunate. Longest serving prime minister, Grand chancellor of National Orders, senator, CPDM parliamentary group leader and Chairman of the reunification committee yet even the road to his mother's house in Bwiteva-Buea is not tarred, regardless of the fact that the said road had to be one of the diversion roads to accommodate local traffic, while the main Buea axis was reserved for Yaounde and Foreign dignitaries. Those who do not believe can drive up to the new Soppo market and see for themselves. The potholes that were there 10 years ago are still distinct. Musonge is simply telling his Bakweri brothers that even with all the titles and positions he occupies, he cannot do anything for them. Little wonder that none of his children could enter ENAM even as Prime Minister for 9 years. Cynics may invoke meritocracy. Wow! Awesome! What about the road? Do his kinsmen not deserve a tarred road? If Musonge cannot do it for his people then who can/who will? YANG? (Dr KAI SCHMIDT of The Post Newspaper thoroughly dissected this personality in year 2000). It's such a shame to the South West people that non indigenes can come and dominate them in their land on all fronts. At the University, 80% of the lecturers and students are non indigenes; at the Molyko or Bomaka neighbourhood where the action is 90% of the land lords are non indigenes because the lazy SW puppet is highly gifted at selling land. At the CDC, the lazy but very broke SW puppet is too clean/proud to do the dirty job. In SONARA, the SW puppet is only good enough to be a security guard. To present date, SONARA pays the most part of its royalties to Douala instead of Limbe and the SW Puppet finds it very normal. When will a SW puppet ever become GM of SONARA? Even the mountain race has been dominated for the past years by non indigenes. Sarah Etonge the last hope has been caught up by age and is due retirement, paving the way for Ngwang Catherine, Yvonne Ngalim and the rest.

Even during BIYA's visit to Buea, the North West delegation of chiefs was the first to present a gift to BIYA and they went further to grant CHANTAL BIYA a traditional title. Did the South West have such an opportunity in Bamenda? The SW chiefs conference that was inaugurated at Mile 18 over % years ago is now a haven for poisonous snakes and perhaps all of the 18,000 blocks that were moulded have been left to the mercy of men of the underworld.

The government seems to understand the psyche of the SW puppet so well that it exploits it to its advantage. Why is it that every governor appointed to Buea is either due retirement or on his way to retirement: OBEN PETER, EYEYA ZANGA, ACHAM PETER CHO and now OKALIA BILAI who has been due retirement since 3 years? These people desecrate the land with unspeakable abominations and get away with it to the audience of the SW puppets? Thank God for young but Fire brand and fearless Mayor EKEMA PATRICK who is following the foot-steps of AYAH has gone beyond party politics by challenging the status quo and ensuring that things happen in this region. Young EKEMA (my student) was bold enough to challenge OKALIA BILAI in the face over several aspects of the reunification. The former even went ahead to present a true picture of the reunification to the Yaounde authorities which necessitated the visit of a high level delegation by martin BELINGA to Buea and the emergency visit of BIYA to see for themselves what was happening in this region. KUDOS! EKEMA PATRICK, carry on. God save the SW puppet.

The debate is open!

On Friday, February 21, 2014 10:04 AM, Dennis Tambe <dbtmamfe@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dear Martin,

You and your SCNC ilk are taking South Westerners for granted. It is a shame that you cannot spell the name of a prominent South West politician who has been in the limelight for so long - "AGBOR TAMBI"! . You have persistently mispelled DR AGBOR-TABI's , perhaps in contempt.

Please take note that my vociferous agitation for the autonomy of the South West Region and its people is not transient or for political largesse as you glibly state. This is an existential campaign intended to secure the future of South Westerners whom North Westerners and culturally allied peoples derisively refer to as lazy. Educated and resourceful South Westerners who welcomed peoples from blighted hinterlands are suddenly on the defensive in their own lands, with some of them become apologists for contrived and dastardly SCNC/ and North West hegemony politics.

Ebullient men will fight thanklessly to protect their primordial lands and resources from geometrically procreating and marauding hordes. Ebullient leaders must emerge to lead their people to generational survival - the future of their children.

The benevolent host should never become a laughing stock victim. The benevolent host must self-defend against scheming and contriving guests. When you are pushed to the wall you must fight back to survive. Those who have ears should hear.

Chief Charles Taku, Mr. Agendia Aloys, Professor Tochoa Asonganyi, Mr. Ntemfac Ofege, please join us in defending the territorial integrity and sovereignty of our South West Region. This is not a parochial agenda. It is existential battle for our own good. There is no Anglophone cause; there is regional fight for survival. North Westerners have always understood this. South Westerners have still to understand this.

Mukefor
Gubernatorial Aspirant
South West Region.

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From: tumasangm@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:53:50 +0000
Subject: [cameroon_politics] DenisTambe Desperate to Catch Agbor Tambi's Attention for a Government Post: An insight into the NW/SW distrust: SCNC CASTIGATED.

Hi Tambe,
stop being a coward. Say what you have to say and stop hanging behind my mails and giving it a different spin in order to catch the attention of Agbor Tambi and get an appointment. Your desperation is becoming alarming. Must you get this appointment through Agbor Tambi at all cost?. You have been shamelessly trying unsuccessfully to ride on the back of the SCNC to have a government post. You have no government administrative experience and even with the usual Cameroun favouritism, even Agbor Tambi will be reluctant to recommend you for any senior government job.

Please leave the SCNC alone and stay in Cameroon to continue feasting on your insurance payment or largesse. I thought that should be enough to keep you going at least for sometime.

Regards

Tumasang

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From: dbtmamfe@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:33:19 +0000
Subject: [cameroon_politics] An insight into the NW/SW distrust: SCNC CASTIGATED.

On the futility of the SCNC effort and how their errant leaders take cover when the push comes to the shove. An activist Dr Martin Tumasang castigates SCNC:

"Dear Mr. Nfor,
Biya comes to Southern Cameroons to celebrate his purported re-unification. No protest from the SCNC, no official statement and all we get from you is a thank you to Mola Njoh?. How are the mighty fallen. Why fight for these positions/jobs and then fail to perform the work required. It might be sickness, age etc. but your performance these days is not acceptable.

Only once have I ever criticised you and it was again when Biya came to Bamenda and you were silent.

There is a time to talk, and there is a time to stay silent but not now. When a big red bear was digging in America's backyard in Cuba, Kennedy did not stay silent, he woke up, shouted loud and clear and the big red bear with its tail between its legs retreated to Siberia where it rightfully belong.

In similar manner, when a big red crap (njanga) comes and is digging in the backyard of Southern Cameroons in Bamenda or Buea, the SCNC as the rightful and mandated voice of the people of Southern Cameroons should wake up and shout loud and clear so that the big red crap can retreat to Vokmeka in the neighbouring state of La Republique du Cameroun where it rightfully belong.

Regards

Dr Tumasang"

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From: benawaah@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:22:26 -0600
Subject: RE: [cameroon_politics] An insight into the NW/SW distrust (Excerpt from TRIPLE AGENT DOUBLE CROSS, the 1992 historical/political thriller on Cameroon)

Mr. Tchucham:
Golden opportunities do not come many times. AACs I & II gave the Cameroun government two golden opportunies to work with Southern Cameroonians to forge a workable and working governmental system. That government paid no attention. A third such opportunity came when the African Commission on Human and People's Right directed that government to dialogue with the leaders of Southern Cameroons. That government violated the six months period when the parties were supposed to report back to the Commission and asked for an extension. It was granted. Nothing has happened since. Southern Cameroonians are wising up every passing minute. They know that in a polictical arrangement where they would remain a political minority, they would never have a fair shake. Why would they accept such arrangement with 50+ years of a terrible experience? Sir, let's keep things in perspective.
Awaah

"Permit Yourself to Learn to Forgive to be Forgiven"

B.U. Awaah

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From: tchucham@yahoo.fr
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 18:57:38 +0000
Subject: Re: [cameroon_politics] An insight into the NW/SW distrust (Excerpt from TRIPLE AGENT DOUBLE CROSS, the 1992 historical/political thriller on Cameroon)

Many thanks to Prof. Asonganyi Tazoacha for laying the emphasis on that which UNITES People facing the same troubles than on that which DEVIDES them.

His write up sheds more light in the debate that took place in these Chambers a week or more ago about the "anglophone" issue, the "colonization" through La Republique, the community or divergence of interests and the future faced by the Peoples of Cameroon on the both sides of the River Mungo. As it appears from the analysis of Prof Asonganyi, these People have more in common than one could imagine, and they have a great interest in uniting their efforts against the same tyrants. Dividing is equally dangerous for each part.

I do believe that Ni Boh Herbert will agree on this?

Fraternally,

Bonaventure Tchucham

Les deux clefs principales de la Science:

"Il n'y a qu'une seule Loi, et Celui qui travaille est Un.

Rien n'est petit, rien n'est grand dans l'économie divine."

"Les hommes sont des dieux mortels
Et les dieux sont des hommes immortels."

De : Tchouteu Janvier <j_kamerun@yahoo.com>
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Envoyé le : Jeudi 20 février 2014 18h06
Objet : Re: [cameroon_politics] An insight into the NW/SW distrust (Excerpt from TRIPLE AGENT DOUBLE CROSS, the 1992 historical/political thriller on Cameroon)

Dear Prof,

Thanks for the reply. It is very contributive and insightful. I take to heart your view of situations where what a person perceives to be betrayal could actually be a case of cowardice. Often times, it is better for the leader who is accused of letting down those he is leading to be honest about his stance, that's all.

There was no intention on my part, and there has never been one before, to fan the flames of distrust between individuals or peoples. A famous writer whose name I do not remember once wrote that the job of an artist is not to be right, but to tell the truth. In the 1991-1992 book "Triple Agent Double Cross", I merely stated the views of differing groups and individuals. And the ultimate intention, as concluded in that chapter, was to unite and galvanize, pointing out that Bamenda had just picked up the baton to lead the country to freedom, democracy and liberalism.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to clearly state my position, and hope the outcome of our debates help us to forge ahead in the task to found "THE NEW CAMERRON".

All the best,

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

On Thursday, February 20, 2014 10:41 AM, Chief Charles A.Taku <Charto_us@yahoo.com> wrote:

Thanks Prof for this very insightful contribution.

I just listened to another version of the so-called "re-unification" story that was more about Paul Biya than any of the historic leaders, people and events whom he ( Paul Biya in his speech) lacked the courage to acknowledge by name.

Along shot in his speech came when at long last, he unlike many of his supporters in this forum and elsewhere publicly acknowledged Southern Cameroons and October 1, 1961 for what that acknowledgement may be worth.

By innuendo, he uncharacteristically acknowledged the influence and capability of the Southern Cameroons, the SCNC and all the progressive forces active in the territory agitating for an end to colonial rule even though he did so in a belligerent tone. He also acknowledged that opposition followed the so-called " re-unification" ( colonial rule), which is a critical element of interest in our case. Flexing military might in intimidating terms as he did in his speech makes him the aggressor that he is. On the whole, for the purposes of the Southern Cameroons case, that speech like several publications prior to circus are of high probative value.

He addressed an international community which apart for a some diplomats accredited to Yaoundé, he for 3 years finally failed to bring to Buea to provide the legitimacy he badly sought to use this circus to give to this historic contentious colonial imposition.

Probably in tacit reference to this rebuff, he stated his resolve and deference to rely on the UN to resolve conflicts without specifying which.

The fall out from this circus will be analyzed as it unfolds.

Meanwhile the citizens of Buea who have been restricted in their homes this while will have a sigh of relief that the circus is over so they get back to their delay activities.

Once the rented crowd and security operatives that took the town and its environs hostage will hopefully leave, the people who were neither participants nor spectators will indeed pray that this uneventful invasion should be the very last.

Chief Charles A.Taku

On Thursday, February 20, 2014 8:02 AM, Asonganyi Tazoacha <asontaz@yahoo.com> wrote:

[Attachment(s) from Asonganyi Tazoacha included below]

There is an effort to perpetrate the hoary myth of the NW/SW divide – the posting of Javier Chouteu-Chando here is in that realm - as if peoples that live together should have a homogenous nature and character. Friction is one of the incalculables of history. Human life is rarely simple, and the value of history lies in its ability to tease out the complexities and the constraints confronting human relationships that shape the course of history.

Since the neocolonial regime in Cameroon was born some fifty years and more ago, there are people of fifty and more who have managed more or less successfully to brave the vagaries of the regime and carved out lives within an order perceived as bad but accepted nonetheless in complicity and compromise; in essence, some felt that they were betraying no one by expressing an element of human nature - cowardice.

This is why our Javier Chouteu-Chanto can say things like "Democratic and liberal-minded Cameroonians watched with horror the birth of a monolithic state" and "English-speaking Cameroonians, like their counterparts in Francophone East woke up to find that they too had become marginalized…" Somehow, he is saying that the people were being led like sheep, and they even went to sleep, hoping for somebody from the moon to come and save them!

Then the lies: "Anglophone students rioted in the NWP." No! All Anglophone students rose like one man to send Minister Ngango packing…I "watched" it live with my friend Ngwasiri from his office in DGRST, for those who know the story well from my past writings, especially related to Ngwasiri/Mukong.

Whatever the case, NW/SW "divide" if it exists, is no argument against the two entities living together in a nation of their own; if such an argument existed, it would be even a stronger argument against "Unification" and "integration."

In any case, this is a write-up that was published by "The Star Magazine" to mark the famous "50^th Anniversary."

Paying the price of reunification in the coins of Northwest/Southwest Divide

Following the injustices of slavery and colonialism suffered by Africa, and the European wars of greed and territorial conquests, Africa ended up being divided as war booty to various European countries. Kamerun that was under German colonialism was shared between the French and English, with what is today "Cameroon" being the large chunk, while little other chunks ended up in Nigeria, Gabon, and so on. This is how "Southern Cameroons" ended up as a United Nations Trust Territory of the English, while the "Republic of Cameroun" ended up as a UN Trust Territory of the French.

These "territories" were supposed to undergo tutelage under these "mother" countries. Tutelage meant that the territories had to be "brought up," so to say, so that they could gain self-government either as "independent" countries or as overseas territories of the "mother" countries – England or France, in either case. England and France had different political cultures and histories that shaped the attitudes and beliefs of the territories under their tutelage. The two cultures were shaped by two different concepts of natural law.

The Anglo-Saxon school of natural law that influenced English political culture is usually said to be optimistic. According to it, that which is natural is good; this good – natural society – can be deformed or corrupted by external intervention. Society enjoys a natural freedom; the task of politics and political action is to maintain society in its natural freedom; a freedom that allows the unfolding of society according to its natural motion – a freedom that society alone is capable of administering.

It is such concepts that led to the emergence of The Magna Carta as early as 1215 being the first effort to limit the powers of the English Monarchy by law and protect the privileges of the subjects. This was followed by the radicalization of society about "rights," culminating in the Petition of Rights of 1628, the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679, the (Glorious) Revolution of 1688 which overthrew King James II to institute English parliamentary democracy and introduce the Bill of Rights of 1689 that established a constitutional monarchy. England thus gave itself a form of republican state balanced on the basis of corporative relations of social estates in a socially mixed government composed of a House of Commons, a House of Lords, and the Monarchy.

The Southern Cameroons they provided tutelage to, quickly put in place the same structures – a House of Commons (Parliament in Buea), a House of Lords (The House of Chiefs in Buea), and the Monarchy (the Colonial Officers that represented the Queen of England – the Monarch). This set-up provided a "democratic" structure that saw democratic elections right back in 1959 which led to the opposition KNDP of Foncha winning power from the CPNC ruling party of Endeley, and the ruling CPNC of Endeley willingly and peacefully handing over power!

On the other hand, Continental natural law which influenced French society is said to view society as corrupted, with the task of the state (government) being to influence society in a positive corrective manner. Continental natural law is rationalist; it does not hesitate to construct a state capable of imposing itself upon the disorganized movement of society. This is what motivated the French Revolution, which, in essence, was the rational transformation of society by the state. Indeed, the French Revolution which lasted from1789 to1799 was a period of radical social and political upheavals in France. France under the absolute rule of King Louis XVI was governed by three "estates": the clergy, the nobility, and the rest of France. The French Revolution was marked by events like the proclamation of the Tennis Court Oath by members of the Third Estate (the rest of France), the assault on the Bastille, the passage of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, and the march on Versailles, all of which culminated in the proclamation of a republic and the execution of King Louis XVI. The French revolution instituted constitutional republicanism.

The Republic of Cameroun that France provided tutelage to, quickly became a highly centralized Jacobin-type "republic" with an oppressive state charged with transforming society with the force of arms or the force of law. This set-up saw politicians with divergent views arrested and imprisoned as early as 1962 following reunification in October 1961.

In any case, whether in England or France, the aspiration that prompted human action was called democracy – Freedom. Democracy can be defined as free, unimpeded social activity; the "republic" is the political form – the structure - that preserves the public space where this free, unimpeded social activity is carried out. That space is called society. The political structure of society is the state

Whether in England or France, "Government" is an agent of the state; it embodies a constitution which, invariably, defines the institutions of the state and their specific functions. Because of the influence of the socially mixed government in England made up of three centres of power, and the three "estates" of the French, modern government is based on three centres of power: the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary – each operating as a machinery of government to ensure the welfare of the polity; each is organized to ensure the proper management of the res publica – the republic - the public thing. Indeed, this design is said to have been hammered out by the Americans, following the "sudden" disappearance of two centres of power – the Monarch and the Lords - after their war of independence. Left with society alone, and guided by the principle of three governing centres they brought along from England, they crafted the three new centres of power that checked and balanced each other.

The struggles in England, like in France were to democratize society. In principle, for society to be democratized, its political structure – the state - must also be democratized. It is in these complicated frameworks of English and French societies and cultures that Southern Cameroons and Republic of Cameroun were brooding over independence following their tutelage, and the possible reunification of the two countries.

Indeed, it is in this context that the two Cameroons – Southern Cameroons and the Republic of Cameroun, brought up in two distinct systems of democracy and politics were dealt the hand of reunification. In the melee, Southern Cameroons suffered the fate that Guinea Conakry suffered in the hands of France following its famous "No" vote. Since Southern Cameroons voted "No" to joining Nigeria, which was the wish of the British, they were abandoned to their own designs, like the French abandoned Guinea!

As for the Republic of Cameroun, it became "independent" by 1960, but suffered the fate that most African nations suffered after gaining "independence." Their leadership was torn between two habits of thought, emotions, and mental approaches to life, which, invariably determined what the leaders did, and their vision of the world. On the one hand the injustices suffered by Africa left an internal bitterness and hatred of the colonizers and the colonizing nations; on the other hand, the leaders somehow believed internally what the colonizers told Africans about Africans – that they are inferior beings! Since the leaders of the newly "independent" nations admired and respected the standard of management of society by the colonizers and aspired to meet the same standards, they looked forward to replacing the colonizer figuratively and in essence.

Indeed, they looked up to the "mother" country - France - to show them the way. In the process, Francophone Cameroonians felt closer to France than they felt to Southern Cameroonians that reunited with them. Their bond to France was maintained by the imperialism of the French language and French culture, which, in Europe, was in a do or die struggle with the English language and culture that Southern Cameroons represented here in Cameroon. This bond led to the transfer of the cultural struggle to the reunited Cameroon, with the French forcing some version of the French constitution and other French texts on us; and signing different pacts that gave the French undue advantage in different domains in the reunited country!

This is how the agenda of the reunited Cameroon became a desperate attempt to please the French at the detriment of the brotherhood and solidarity that brought us together in the first place. Pleasing the French meant using "expert" upon "expert" from France; opening a boulevard for borrowed ideas from France.

This, of course left the leaders of Southern Cameroons jittery, since they had seen reunification as an effort to "marry the best that was inherited from Britain and France;" they had seen reunification as an effort to "raise the level of Cameroonian nationalism and enable the people to eventually extricate themselves from the umbilical cord of Britain and France … and enjoy genuine independence." Indeed, they saw reunification as an effort to "promote common values, common understanding and common aspirations, without which the idea of national unity would remain mere rhetoric." There is no doubt that the reunification idea has remained rhetoric in the reunited Cameroon!

To keep the jittery lot of Southern Cameroonians in check, Ahidjo, and then Biya used corruption as a trump card: they manipulated the self-interested, easily beguiled, and irresponsible among Southern Cameroonians to do their bidding in exchange for material reward or social honours. They activated the politics of divide-and-rule!

First, they divided "West Cameroon" into South (West Cameroon) and North (West Cameroon), but left "East Cameroon" essentially as it was before the advent of "East Cameroon." Then they made the southwest and northwest to understand that although they were now two entities, they would still be considered in essence as an entity called "West Cameroon" when it would come to sharing the cake. So South (West Cameroon) and North (West Cameroon) had to fight over the same posts since the post that one occupied was always the post that the other would have occupied – President of the National Assembly, Prime Minister, Assistant SG at the Presidency, etc. And so they started to fight, to compete, to tear each other apart – all to please he who threw the corn to the chicken.

This is why a journalist today can write the following: "…You know the southwest man has no interest in northwest. He would instead want to see things crumble in NW so that SW remains favourable to Popoul. Can you imagine that he instigated NW journalists to castigate CPDM in NW? … Luckily your town crier was not part of it. I hear that some hungry journalists fought over the amount, while others rejected it…"

It is also why the 1961 plebiscite has suddenly become a source of ridicule and blackmail – to please the conqueror, and court favours! I have always maintained that I do not think that the Southern Cameroonians that voted to join the Republic of Cameroun are more Cameroonian or more patriotic than those who voted to join Nigeria. Either way, the opinions expressed at that time, represented the free expression of democratic convictions on a national issue. So I was surprised to read in a newspaper front-page headline the following: "Tumi Speaks Out! ... SW voted against reunification…."

In the body of the interview, the following question was put to the Cardinal: "What striking memory do you have of reunification?" He responded: "I remember the campaign by Foncha…It was the North West that voted largely for reunification. The South West did not want us to leave Nigeria. Dr. Endeley spearheaded it…"

Even in a fictional parliamentary debate titled 'Parliamentary Immunuity for Palmwine Drunkards' in The Oracle (March/April 2011) we read: A South West MP said timidly, "That leaves the battle ground for Biya only in the South West. The reason is that they would want to declare that the South West is against Biya. They want to be the good boys/girls and declare us the bad guys....The North West and South West are brothers only when the North West wants to win advantages...The fake doctrine of North West is that we are one. We know that is untrue...If the UN were to come back and have another plebiscite, the results would be obvious. North Westerners in the North West would vote "Cameroon" while they would vote "out Cameroon" in the SW region. And if every person has to go and vote in his/her place of origin, it will be for Cameroon in both regions. The indgenes of the South West would vote "Cameroon" anytime, anywhere..."

From the results of the plebiscite summarized in the table below, these statements are historically, scientifically, and logically untenable. There were populations (constituencies) in both the "northwest" and "southwest" that voted against reunification with the Republic of Cameroun. Once more, it is important to stress that, that was their democratic right, and I do not think that they have any apology to offer to anybody for that.

Result of 1961 Plebiscite in Southern Cameroons (From EA Aka, 2002, p.278)

Plebiscite district	Nigeria	Cameroun	Total	% for Cameroun
Victoria
· Southwest	2552	3756	6308	59.5
· Southeast	1329	4870	6199	78.6
· Northwest	4744	4205	8949	47
· Northeast	3291	9251	12542	73.8
Kumba
· Northeast	9466	11991	21457	55.9
· Northwest	14738	555	15293	3.6
· Southeast	6105	12827	18932	67.8
· Southwest	2424	2227	4651	47.9
Mamfe
· West	2039	8505	10544	80.7
· North	5432	6412	11844	54.1
· South	685	8175	8860	92.2
· East	1894	10177	12071	84.3
Total (SW)	54699	82951	137650	60.3
Bamenda · North	8073	18835	26908	70.0
· East	1822	17858	19680	90.7
· Central west	1230	18027	19257	93.6
· Central east	529	18193	18722	97.2
· West	467	16142	16609	97.2
· South	220	19426	19646	98.9
Wum
· North	1485	7322	8807	83.1
· Central	3644	3211	6855	46.8
· East	1518	13155	14673	89.7
· West	2137	3449	5586	61.7
Nkambe
· North	5962	1917	7879	24.3
· East	3845	5896	9741	60.5
· Central	5059	4288	9347	45.9
· South	7051	2921	9972	29.3
Total (NW)	43042	150640	193682	77.8
Total (Southern Cameroons	97741	233591	331332	70.5

For fifty years and more, we have condemned ourselves to behaving like a "French" country, while we are not. We have thus chosen sterility and decay to the vitality and vibrancy we would have generated by allowing the two territories that reunited to interact and fertilise each other. No one will believe that fifty yeas after reunification, Southern Cameroonians have regressed from the free and fair elections of 1959 to the masquerade that passes today for elections. Indeed, the present electoral masquerades symbolize the sterility and decay that has been the lot of reunification!

I have already said that it is following the defeat of the English in the USA, that the tripartite (Commons, Lords and Monarchy) governing system of English parliamentary democracy influenced the American thought system, and generated a tripartite system of checks and balances between three branches of government of the United States, since Lords and Monarchy no longer existed in the independent USA.

Unlike the Americans that had the time to think over a new governing system, the Southern Cameroons had no time to think over the type of governance they would have settled down with, following the departure of the Monarch, while the Republic of Cameroun that Southern Cameroons reunited with, has been trying its best to please the French by being like the French.

With the advent of the so-called 50^th Anniversary of reunification, it is time to sit down and think about the future prospects of the reunited country, and establish institutions for the exercise of power that best define our own state, republic, society, and democracy. Promoting the southwest, northwest divide can only complicate this, not help it at all.

Tazoacha Asonganyi

Yaounde.

On Wednesday, 19 February 2014, 18:18, Tchouteu Janvier <j_kamerun@yahoo.com> wrote:

Chapter 11

The Northwest Province gained a reputation for itself as the most agitated administrative entity in Cameroon in the 1980s. The history of the geographic and political entity made the rules—rules that are not based on permanence. They say the people do not have faith in the future unless it is clearly revealed by the palimpsest, and that they prefer to make do with living for today. Some outsiders claim that the land and its people are plagued by far too many logic-defying inner contradictions. Even some clear-eyed insiders buttress the stereotype with further claims that by nature, the peoples of the Northwest Province are open and calculating, stubborn and docile, proud and humble, loyal and treacherous, honest and knavish, respectful and rebellious. Some would go as far as pointing out that the Germans acknowledged the pervasive inner contradictions among some of the peoples of the region during their four-decade colonial rule, adding that the calculative approach of the British administration met with a lot of resistance when they tried to be too assertive in that part of British Southern Cameroons.

But it wasn't until British Southern Cameroons' reunited with the newly independent former French Cameroun in 1961 that other Cameroonians felt deeply impacted by the enigmatic nature of the people whose input was the most decisive in realizing reunification. Cameroonians could not understand why the peoples of the area failed to support the related Bamileké people against the French-backed Ahidjo regime. The political leadership from the area intrigued the majority of Cameroonians even further by merging their parties with Ahidjo's Union of Cameroonians (UC) in 1966 to form the grand unified party—Cameroon National Union (CNU).

An unusual feeling of distrust gripped the Anglophone Bantus of the Southwest Province in 1972, when the Northwestern-led Anglophone leadership succumbed to Ahidjo's drive to do away with the federal structure of the country that comprised English-speaking West Cameroon and French-speaking East Cameroon. Democratic and liberal minded Cameroonians watched with horror the birth of the monolithic state known as the United Republic of Cameroon, viewing the whole process as capitulation by the political leadership from the Northwest Province. English speaking Cameroonians, like their compatriots in the Francophone East, woke up to find that they too had become marginalized with no say in the affairs of the country. Two decades after, the two Anglophone provinces had little to show from the integration, despite their newly disproportionate contribution to the nation's economy.

The demise of Ahidjo and the rise to prominence of Pablo-Nero Essomba brought up fresh hopes to Cameroonians, especially the Anglophones of the Northwest Province who dreamed of change in the horizon. The anticipatory spirit transformed into a festive one following Pablo-Nero's much-publicized visit to the Northwest Province, whereby the notables there venerated him with the province's highest traditional title of Fon of Fons or King of Kings. After all, any Cameroonian leader who could disavow Ahidjo had to be a nationalist and savoir, many of the elites in the province reasoned.

It did not take long for the people to find out that they had made a grave mistake. Pablo-Nero Essomba had nothing to offer. This time around, the people of the Southwest Province accused their Northwestern counterparts of having sold Anglophone Cameroonians cheap again by using their numerical superiority. It is one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time—politicians from the Southwest Province grumbled against their counterparts from the Northwest Province.

It came as no surprise to those versed with the history of the land when Cameroon experienced an upsurge of demands for the redress of past betrayals of the Cameroonian dream, of which the Northwest Province was the latest victim. Soon, cries for a new and democratic Cameroon rose to resonant pitches.

When Anglophone students rioted in the Northwest Province against the government's drive to make a pass in the French language a prerequisite for admission into higher institutions of learning, without giving the same status to the English language for francophone students, they drew nationwide support for their cause. It was a preposterous attempt at assimilation that Cameroonian nationalists of all shades rejected. The Pablo-Nero regime budged and dropped the policy, thereby leaving Bamenda to emerge as the rebellious capital to the oppressive system. Bamenda became the birthplace of the people's power, otherwise called by the people as 'The power of the once powerless'.

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Janvier Chouteu-Chando

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