Aaron,
I agree with your considered opinion. There are other compelling reasons why this charade could not be considered as a valid expression of popular franchise. First it was conducted under a state of emergency that was extended to the Southern Cameroon progressively from 1963 to 1966. Ahidjo took advantage of the abduction and assassination of Ernest Ouandie and others from 1971 to suspend civil liberties and intensify emergency rule. He assumed absolute power and ruled by decree and ordinances. There was only one Southern Cameroonian in the purported referendum Commission, Chief H N Elangwe. There was no valid Southern Cameroons representation in the charade. Finally, the people were denied a right to freely participate or boycott the charade. To enforce participation, citizens were constrained to present their voting cards to security operatives deployed over the territory. Roadblocks were erected and Cale Cales were organised in particular in the Southern Cameroons to collectively subdue,humiliate and dehumanise the citizenry.People could only travel by passes so-called laisser-passer. A purported referendum organised under these circumstances must be a nullity and of no legal effect whatsoever.
Chief C.Taku
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ANI will like some one on this forum or elsewhere to tell me when any of the parties or say the KNDP held an a conress to desolve the party.I once overhead a certain Professeur Agrégé Abwa hollering over CRTV that "in 1972 all Political parties even tose of anglophone extraction had desolved to merge into the CNU". That is a puported historian who failed to look at certain histocal facts before making some conclusions. Take for example the KNDP party in which my late Dad militated. Article 48 of its status states that "disolution of the party can onlt be decided at an extra-ordinary congress. The decision to desolve the party will be by simple majority vote of congress members"It was Ahidjo's scheme to begin the recolonisatiion process of Southern Cameroon. That is what " the 1972 plebiscite" iis all aboutTimThe whole charade was about YES and OUI. It was not about people given an opportunity to make a choice.On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Joseph Arrey <jarrey82@gmail.com> wrote:Mr mbeseha I remember vividly that day. Mr nguasong Martin may his soul Rest in peace was one of those who protested vehemently for those black paper ballots.
On May 6, 2016 1:28 PM, "Timothy Mbeseha" <mbesehatim@hotmail.com> wrote:I think the whole story of the 1972 plebiscite ballot papers has not been told. As a matter of fact, there were two ballot papers. There was the white ballot paper with the word YES and black ballot paper with the word NO. Generally the black ballot papers were not readily available. Any one who insisted on getting the black ballot paper was threatened with jail time for daring to say NO to Ahidjo. That is a fact. At the time of the plebiscite, we were students in TTC Bonjongo. We asked and continued to insist on getting both the white and black ballot papers. It took the intervention of the Principal (Rev. James Toba) for the election officials to go back to Limbe to look for a few black ballot papers for those of us who were considered dissidents.
Mbeseha
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 16:28:09 +0100
Subject: Re: [cameroon_politics] Re: CHEI MA MAMMIE EH, BAMENDA PEEPOO HAVE SUFFERED 4 DIS GRUNG
From: nyangkweagien@gmail.com
To: ambasbay@googlegroups.com"What is the hidden significance on this ballot paper?"Southern Cameroonians were wryly made to understand that if you were against Ahidjo's project, you just had to strike OUI not knowing that one was in that position signing his/her dead warrant.To say it more clearly, we were ambushed by the francophones led by Ahidjo with technical assistance from the FrenchBestANOn Fri, May 6, 2016 at 8:18 AM, 'Divine Rhyme' via ambasbay <ambasbay@googlegroups.com> wrote:Hello Julius,I think I am missing something here. What is the hidden significance on this ballot paper that is eluding me so far and what impact does it have with the union with East Cameroon?FEN
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