Re: [cameroon_politics] English Language banned in NW Courts - Lawyers to make submissions in French only

I recall as a CHILD that when FRANCOPHONES were thinking that GCE A-Levels was

easier than their BAC, the Minister of Education Adamou Ndam Njoya, tried to convince

them otherwise. He could not. To prove his point, I was made to understand that he decided

to "translate" the GCE A-Levels of a certain year, 1978??? into French and gave the Francophones

to write as their BAC of that year. To this day, Francophones talk about "LE BAC NDAM".

If Patriotic Aboriginal Anglophones of West Cameroon Extraction - PAAWCEs - are being forced

into making submissions in "The Occupied Territories of Southern Cameroons (TOSC)" in the

French language, the prudent thing to do would be to have "Patriotic Aboriginal FRANCOphones

of East Cameroon Extraction - PAAFECEs" do their submission in the English Language.

Let us take the stupidity and patent absurdity to a much higher level.

Blessed Be Cameroon
Pa Fru Ndeh

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Subject: [cameroon_politics] Re: [Cameroonpatriots] English Language banned in NW Courts - Lawyers to make submissions in French only

Dear Nfor Ngala Nfor,

Thanks for the write-up.

Please, allow me to take advantage of your availability online to ask a few questions to the leaders of organizations like SCNC set up to return self-rule to our people and restore statehood to Southern Cameroons.

What concrete or practical action are you calling for to achieve that mission? Can that goal be achieved with a movement in fractious factions? What compromise or give-and-take are leaders willing to make to unite their efforts in pursuit of that goal? Can the people trust that the outcome will be more freedoms, rule of law and the promotion of the democratic ideals they cherish when almost everyone of their leaders is a political "come no go"? How can the people be sustainably mobilize and the pressure kept up on the colonizer and its foreign supporters and accomplices beginning with the United Nations when it is only once in a blue moon like now that any form of communication happens? If you were not a leader of one faction, if you were an ordinary citizen of Southern Cameroons could you tell us why you would believe in what current leadership of the movement has to say about the fight?

I don't want to be misunderstood. I certainly appreciate the sacrifice of every leader, beginning with yours. I have had a chance to see you at work, including traveling abroad to picket the African Union summit in Togo in early 2000 along with our good friend Paddy Mbawa.

The question I have for you, is the same as I have for Ni John Fru Ndi, for President Paul Biya, for UNDP leader Bello Bouba Maigari or CDU leader Adamu Ndam Njoya... and the question is: "when will you admit that there is such a thing in power as diminishing returns that only multiply the longer one hangs on to power or refuses to pass on the baton"? When shall anyone else except the "same old, same old" get any chance to show us what they've got in leadership?

Barrister Harmony Bobga offered yesterday to produce what may become a roadmap to self-rule for our people and the restoration of statehood for Southern Cameroons. Does the SCNC already have a roadmap so no further time is wasted or energies spent? If yes, can you share it with the people?

You end your submission with the words "the time is now"!

Why do I think I have heard that before? In fact, was the time not yesterday? If, indeed, "the time is now", can the SCNC publish a plan for what we, Southern Cameroonians, must do tomorrow, the day after, next week, next month, next year... to advance our cause and defeat the colonialists?

Boh Herbert

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On Mar 5, 2015, at 6:03 AM, "Bri Soucam nnyamngaisc@gmail.com [Cameroonpatriots]" <Cameroonpatriots@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

English Language banned in NW Courts - Lawyers to make submissions in
French only

In my contribution to the current debate on "English Language banned
in NW Courts - Lawyers to make submissions in French only" which comes
in reaction to interview Bar. Robert Nso Fon granted SylvanusEzieh as
published in The Cameroon Journal of Feb. 27, 2015, I regret to state
that in spite of the anger this ill-treatment has generated, the
problem is still being treated in an isolated manner. SylvanusEzieh
opens his publication with a loud cry "The Common Law Practice has
again suffered a major setback." Most regrettably with all the facts
before us we continue to compartmentalise a major problem well
masterminded and deliberately executed to erase a country from the map
of Africa, assimilate a people with a distinct identity, history,
culture, heritage, a political entity in international law, indeed a
nation state. By this escapist attitude we make it a trivial issue.
SylvanusEzieh briefly refers to last year's problem on appointment of
notaries. On this matter I addressed an Open Letter to the Common Law
Lawyers, captioned "WE MUST BE OUR OWN REDEEMERS!" For its relevance
in this matter, it is here attached for your comprehensive
exploitation.
Bar. Nso Fon in this interview said "We are obliged to make our
submissions in French, so why would they oblige us to make our
submissions in French again in our own courts?" May I ask "We" who?
And which "our own courts?" These two questions, "we" who? And which
"our own courts?" constitute the basis of my contribution. What is
implicit here is that Bar. Robert Fon is painting a picture of
distinction but in my humble opinion at the same time failing to
project and rigorously hold unto by playing the game of accommodation
via submission as if not sure of his self-worth and distinct identity
of his people and NATION on whose behalf he speaks.
The question is if Robert Nso Fon, his Anglophone Lawyers and Judges
and the people they stand for have their own courts, should
Francophonesie foreigners, be appointed to lord it over them? If they
have their own courts, should those responsible for decision-making
and appointment not also be their own people with the same shared
ideals and values?
When such a complex problem of international dimension is reduced to
an issue of fighting for the rights of a "minority", we miss the
issue, indeed the big picture. When it is reduced to Francophone
vsAnglophone, we trivialise it into conflict between two tribes in one
politico-legal entity or nation state whereas it is not.
The Common Law and Civil Law Conflict in which the former is
suffocating under the crushing weight of the latter is the direct
consequence of the annexation, colonial occupation which goes with
assimilation of British Southern Cameroons, which inherited the Common
Law System, by la Republique du Cameroun that inherited the Civil Law
System. The point is that the two are incompatible; they are like
light and darkness and with la Republique du Cameroun controlling all
the statepowers, the Civil Law has become the stronger force and
dictating with the mission of annihilating the Common Law system. This
explains why Francophone judges now have to lord it in Southern
Cameroons courts or Common Law jurisdiction courts.
What Fon and his colleagues should know is that the occupied and
annexed have no voice and rights and no independent institutions of
their own to be respected and preserved by the occupier and
annexationist. That is why I raise the question "we",who?and "which
our own courts?" Until we call the thing by its right name and
confront it head on, our efforts will ever remain futile and subjected
to compartmentalisation. Annexation like colonialism is a monster that
can never be panel-beaten and given a human face. It must be fought
against and destroyed or it destroys you!
The more we continue to talk of harmonisation of the educational
system, the GCE problems, admission of unqualified Francophone into
our professional schools at the detriment of our own qualified
students, the posting of Francophone to teach our children in
Fran-Anglais, harmonisation of the legal system, appointment of
notaries, discriminatory payment of Traditional Rulers, appointment of
Francophone judges to lord it in Anglophone courts, among others, we
miss the central issue. The pertinent question is why is it always the
other way round? Just to use your terminologies: if Anglophone lawyers
are obliged to make presentation in Francophone courts in French why
Francophone judges should not similarly be obliged to make submissions
in Anglophone courts in English? Because British Southern Cameroons
has become the footstool of la Republique du Cameroun and its citizens
exist at the pleasure of the powers that be, their captors. Is there
any Francophone region in which all judges of the Appeal court are
Anglophones? Will any among us be thinking rightly to conclude that
the posting of FrancophoneJudges to the Court of Appeal in Bamenda is
in error?
Southern Cameroonians, journalists, including lawyers and retired
judges have been kidnapped and taken to la Republique du Cameroun and
tried under the Napoleonic Code by Francophone Judges after having
been set free by Anglophone Judges in Anglophone Courts. On evidence
judgements delivered by Anglophone Courts have been set aside and
accused Southern Cameroonians retried under the Civil law in la
Republique territory and convicted, etc. Can you name one; I say just
one instance where one trial of whoever Francophone suspect was
transferred from the Civil Court and retried under the Common Law by
Anglophone Judges and judgement passed?
North West Fons have gone to Yaoundé and protested against one thing
or the other and come back. The Fako Chiefs have taken their turn and
gesticulated and returned. In Manyu the Chiefs gesticulated against
the timber companies who have taken over the rich forest and are
destroying the environment offering no compensations and providing not
even roads. Under the pretext of listening to their cries they were
assembled with their notables, arrested, tortured and detained. The
logs destined for export at the Douala seaport are stamped,
Sangmalima. As royalty for petrol is paid to Douala City Council, so
is royalty for timber paid to Sangmalima City Council, in la
Republique du Cameroun. British Southern Cameroons is la Republique du
Cameroun's colony and every colony is a farm for the metropolis.
Last year the lawyers took their turn and marched in their flamboyant
robes and returned. While discussing with Bar. Fon, President of
NOWELA, I told him the Yaoundé regime has a diabolic scheme to which
dialogue and listening to the cries and will of British Southern
Cameroons is anathema or an unnecessary luxury. I told him the
solution they expect from their protests and so-called audiences with
the big guns in Yaoundé is calm before the storm through the window, I
must admit, I was beaten down flat even in my prediction for as Bar.
Fon has admitted himself and we are all witnesses, the storm came
through the wide door and swept the Barrister and his peers off their
feet
A holistic perception and approach is the only way out. That is why
Samuel Laikenjoh and Albert Zama make their firm recommendations
calling for boycott of all court sessions by all Southern Cameroons
(not Anglophone) lawyers and judges as a starting point.
If there was any union at all, the entities involved were not
Anglophone and Francophone. There were British Southern Cameroons and
la Republique du Cameroun, political entities of equal standing with
full rights of national self-existence in international law. This must
be respected and defended for union of any kind does not mean
absorption or annexation of the one by the other.
Taking 1961 as the take-off point when these two distinct entities
came together, this is what the Montevideo Convention of 1933 on the
Rights and Duties of States in its Art. 1 has for our inspiration and
take home message that should reinforce our legitimate resolve for the
change we urgently need;
"The state as a person of international law should possess the
following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined
territory; (c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations
with the other states."
The fundamental question is was British Southern Cameroons a state in
1961? The answer is a resounding YES! Art. 3 of this very Convention
which is respected and like other similar international instruments
govern relations between nation states state that the right to
self-existence is a function of its internal system including the
courts. But where is British Southern Cameroons today?
And the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) in its
Ruling on Communication 266/2003 in 2009 confirmed and upheld the
distinctiveness of British Southern Cameroonians from la Republique du
Cameroun citizens when in Art. 179 it declares;
"...The Commission finds that 'the people of Southern Cameroon" qualify
to be referred to as a "people" because they manifest numerous
characteristics and affinities which include a common history,
linguistic tradition, territorial connection, and political outlook.
More importantly they identify themselves as a people with a separate
and distinct identity. Identity is an innate characteristic within a
people. It is up to other external people to recognise such existence,
but not to deny it."
From these you now understand what I mean by the big picture we miss
when we compartmentalise the problem or play into the annexationist's
diabolic policy of divide, weaken and rule forever.
We must not be deceived and carried away by the smiles of someone with
a hidden agenda and armed with guns against our distinct identity,
inherent political and legal rights and aspirations.
We must stop listening to empty promises when the hard fact of
annexation, colonial occupation, economic plunder, subjugation, is
what we live every day.
We must as a people, those in the diaspora included, in solidarity say
"No" to personal favours and temporary solutions for what affects one,
concerns us all and posterity.
We must say "YES to permanent solution! YES to people centred
solution, and in solidarity rise in defence of collective identity.
This will permanently place us on the map of free peoples and free
nations, the status we lost in 1961 as a people and nation state under
international supervision. We must be our own redeemer for the will of
the people and right to self -determination is a permanent right of
any given people and becomes a matter of urgency for a people under
annexation. Like Namibians, South Africans, Estonians, who suffered
same, we deserve no less! NOW IS THE TIME!

_________________________
NFOR, NGALA NFOR
National Chairman (SCNC)
(Tele +237 70 38 12 62)