The furore is yet to settle over the exploits of this poor devil, one John Egyawan, a minister of the gospel (whatever that means) who thrives on human misery by shipping off Cameroonian girls (Southern Cameroonians in the main) for modern slave trade in Kuwait.
Who knows what these children go through.
Permit me re-post this still cut of the fright-some price Southern British Cameroonians continue to pay because of francophone colonization.
Northern British Cameroonians are also paying the same price in Nigeria.
In fact the Boko Haram Insurgency has its root cause from acute deprivation and genocide of this northernmost tip of the Northern British Cameroons (Bornu State) at the hands of successive regimes in Nigeria.
Chacun a son Bamenda[1]
Economic cleansing and other genocidal practices by successive francophone regimes as they use power politics against the Southern Cameroons have a terrifying socio-economic toll. The dearth of industries to add value to local produce and direct government investments in job creation the former West Cameroon as a whole and the North West region especially since 1961 can be quantified. Although the exact statistics are not available it is obvious that:
Ø the majority of "Bush-fallers" – Cameroonian economic migrants worldwide (especially in the United States and Canada) are from the former Southern Cameroons – the Southern Cameroons in the main;
Ø The bulk of economic migrants to other regions (especially the seemingly favourable economic capital Douala) are also from the former Southern Cameroons – the Southern Cameroons in the main. However the number of Anglophone Cameroonians in high paying jobs in Douala's industries can be counted. The majority are engaged in car and computer repairs. In fact, Douala Computer-repair Street or Rue Foch is dominated by academic dropouts from the Anglophone provinces;
Ø In their home provinces and beyond, children (the boys in the main) today excel in various high turnover internet scams notably the selling of "dogs, cats, parrots, monkeys or other exotic animals – that they do not have – on the Internet.
In 2009, the US Embassy in Yaounde published the following advisory about scams in Cameroon titled "Common Frauds Originating from Cameroon" identifying the patterns of these scams.
Some of the most popular scams in-volve the adoption of children or animals over the internet. The perpetrators of child adoption fraud often claim to be indigent parents unable to care for a child or members of the clergy working at a Cameroonian orphanage seeking a good home for a child. Other versions of this fraud involve wildlife, including birds (often parrots), dogs (Yorkshire terriers and bulldog puppies are frequently offered), and monkeys. The scammers will begin a relationship with the victim by offering the fictitious child or animal for free, asking the victim to pay only a small amount to cover the cost of shipping. Whereas there are strict legal regulations surrounding endangered species and the importation of any wildlife into the United States. Any attempt to purchase wildlife through the internet should be avoided.
This will be followed by a never-ending string of additional requests, this time for more money due to 'unforeseen expenses', such as court costs, airport fees, customs duties, and medical costs. The scammers will claim that the fictitious baby or animal will be abandoned at the airport unless they are unable to pay a non-existent fee, and the victim will be threatened with the loss of thousands of USD.
A new twist in the conventional e-mail adoption scam has ap-peared recently, and this one occurs after the victim discovers that he or she has been fooled by a scam. Once the victim suspects fraud and breaks off communications with the scammers, a new e-mail message will arrive claiming to be from the Cameroonian FBI or some such police agency. These fictitious policemen will offer to recover the victim's lost money. The scammers will then ask for a "refundable" fee to open the investigation or court files. No such police agency exists in Cameroon.
North West region parents and children who have dropped out of school would identify with these scams, which, by the way are not exclusive to the North West region and by NorthWesterners.
While the boy child thrives in internet scams the girl child is either (1) involved in horrendous prostitution in the Bonaberi or Akwa common parts wherein she trades off her body for as little as 100FCFA (25cents) a trick or maximax 500FCFA (one dollar) just enough to buy some fish and rice for the next day meal.
Child-traficking or contemporary slave trade with Southern Cameroon children at the wrong end has reached alarming proportions. "Chacun a son Bamenda" is a common expression in Douala, Yaounde and almost all the main towns in Francophone Cameroun to qualify the presence of Anglophone children in almost all households in these towns wherein they serve as maid-slaves for a pittance. Often even this pittance (as little as 10.000FCFA) a month is never paid as, after riding them like horses, the lords (especially the ladies) of the manor look for all sorts of fantastic excuses and tricks to deny these poor souls their dues. Again, the treatment of the 'Bamenda' in such households is often horrendous – these are modern slaves to be worked like camels.
On June 3, 2010, the French Service of the BBC broadcast a report based in the Southern Cameroons of Cameroon pointing out a circuit in Foumban wherein North West region teenagers are sex workers serving a Bamoun "Madame." The BBC report indicated clearly that the North West region girl traded off to Francophones homes, with the full acquiscence of the parents, is very likely to be sexually abused.
Cases have been reported wherein these modern slaveowners have used "Bamenda" children for rituals. Standard practise is to trade-off the children to the common famla or nyongo cults. [2]
An extreme case was reported in Bamenda some in 2000 wherein a Bamenda lawyer is said to have sold a child born out of wedlock to a European conduit for spare parts. The child transitted through a Foumban conduit specialised in such trade.
Despite a new stiff law against Chid traficking, middlemen and childtrackers like the now known "Afrique-Nouvel" circuit in Bamenda are yet to be brought to book for decades of child traffic.
Journalist-writer, Hilary Fokum Kebila, was about the first to decry the fact that despite the surfeit of Southern Cameroonians in organised structures like churches, the Fons Union, the political organisations, etc these groups are yet to officially denounce and stamp out child traficking, child pornorgraphy and this modern slave trade with children of the former Southern Cameroons at the wrong end. The reason for the silence complicity and duplicity is understandable. Most members of the above organizations are guilty of child labour for they have at least one child from the Southern Cameroons serving under them. Chacun a son Bamenda, indeed. [3]
'Tu me prends pour ton Bamenda?" is also popular Francophonespeak to describe one who refuses to be snookered or taken for an idiot, a village bumpkin or yokel in any business transaction.
From the Manuscript of 'Power Politics and the Subjugation of the Southern Cameroons' 4/3/2011. Ntemfac Aloysius Nkong Ofege
[1] Beyond derogatory names like 'Anglofool, Anglofou, Anglo,' to characterize the English-speaking Cameroonians, Francophones in Cameroon do not make any difference between the two Anglophone regions. Anyone who speaks English is a Bamenda.
[2] Although scientific proofs of the activities of the nyongo or famla are hard to come by, it is generally believed that those initiated into the nyongo die physically but their shades live on to carry out tasks in a netherworld for the masters, tasks for which the masters are paid humonguous sums.
[3] Kebila Fokum, "Royal Beggars: The Northwest Fons and the Decadence of Tradition." (Douala: A Messenger Publication, 2008)
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