Why Southern Cameroonian SDF militants must RESIGN and REJECT the SDF Party now.
It is time for southern Cameroonian SDF militants to resign and reject SDF Party from your blood veins from operating within the Southern Cameroons territory hitherto. The more we think about it and them , the more we are hindering our own progress. Cast SDF into the dustbin of history , which is the past and let us forge ahead to liberate ourselves from bondage. I will explain to you why per my own perception and understanding of some pertinent and relevant issues. How Ni John Fru Ndi and SDF NEC helped Paul Biya to kill the Anglophone spirit of unity and strength, great virtues we must recapture now. History will look back and applaud your courage when you do what is right. SDF is a liability in Southern Cameroons now and not an asset because Paul Biya is using it to say that Cameroon is one and indivisible since Fru Ndi claims SDF party is a national party.
Instead of asking SDF MPS to come back home, the SDF militants in Southern Cameroons must close down all SDF cells, offices and dissociate from SDF NEC. They profit from your militancy and support to gain national legitimacy which justifies Paul Biya's national anthem of one and indivisible. So, if you stop your loyalty to SDF Chairman and NEC as your own significant piece of sacrifice for the freedom of Southern Cameroonians from bondage, that will be greatly appreciated. In fact , if you reject SDF , then SDF NEC party will be irrelevant in Southern Cameroons. That is if you really are serious. Now is time to choose between right and wrong, the oppressed and the oppressor.
The making of SDF as a national party was a dark political design to sabotage the anglophone struggle for restoration and independence after its founding in 1990s. When some people continue to say that SDF is a national party, I feel that either they are not informed or are all inside the pockets of Paul Biya and his regime of anglophone annexation and xenophobia.
You see, the idea to make SDF a national party should never have been a cause for celebration because it was Paul Biya's grandiose scheme to disintegrate, divide and tear apart the Anglophone growing force for good that preceded the founding of SDF. Long before SDF was founded, anglophones were united and would achieve so much for themselves within a short space of time with respect to overhauling anglophone national marginalization. The famous anglophone strikes against imposing French , English and Math as compulsory GCE subjects in Anglophone colleges angered anglophones in 1985 or so whose rose to the occasion and stopped the decree. Then came the ANGLPHONE GCE Board and an ENS ANNEX Bambili.
The anglophone activists organized strikes and peaceful demonstrations all over anglophone regions and it was very effective until such a bad policy was withdrawn. Then came the fight to upgrade the Buea School of Translation into a full -Fledge Anglophone University following the marginalization of Anglophones at the lone Yaounde University 1 and 11.
The Anglophone struggle galvanized the people and significant successes were registered. Following a Presidential decree, Buea School of Translation was upgraded and transformed into UB and so , too was the University of Dschang. It was not too long ago in 1997-1999 that Paul Biya attempted to transfer ENS ANNEX Bambili to Yaounde and when Pa Mofor refused to signed the document authorizing the action, he was removed as Director of ENS and replaced with Prof Martin Asanji( RIP).Oncemore, Paul Biya tried again to abolish ENS ANNEX Bambili and transfer it to Yaounde but Prof Asanji did not cooperate. There are anglophones unsung heroes.Pay attention.
This means Anglophones have a history of casting the light of justice onto the dark spots of injustice against Anglophone way of life perpetrated by agents of la republique du Cameroun. If we had continued in that spirit, perhaps the anglophone marginalization would not exist anymore because it was near eradication until SDF came from hell and sabotaged the positive energy of anglophones unity and strength with their so called SDF National Party. Why ?
Because SDF brought in Francophones into the Anglophone problem in the name of national party and the mixing of oranges and mangoes marked the beginning of Anglophone divisions, animosity and disintegration through power struggle at the so called national level and Parliament. As we seek Anglophone reunification be mindful of these historical facts, which are a bit lacking in statistics but truthful because many of my peers can attest to my assertions from either eye -witness account or participation. This is for the benefit of the much younger generation who might not know the road we have traveled and are still traveling together. Too often we are dismissed by the younger generation but it will be helpful to understand somethings especially some victories scored in the past.
It is a journey we are still committed to and will never give up until we are free from the captivity of la republique du Cameroun. Let me explain to you what the idea that SDF is a national party means to the Anglophone struggle. The goal of making SDF a national party was well calculated by the shrewd politician Paul Biya against his subordinate SDF chairman , Ni John Fru Ndi( surbordiante in the sense that he was formerly a member of CNU and a subsection President of CPDM in the North West following the CPDM New Deal Congress in Bamenda in 1985 before being part of the founding of SDF five years after Paul Biya banned CNU and establish his CPDM).
Firstly , Paul Biya made sure that Fru Ndi and his NEC destroyed all the intellectuals within the SDF who posed a serious threat to Paul Biya in terms of critical thinking and political analysis. In fact Paul Biya sensing that anglophones masses loved Fru Ndi tactically targeted anglophone scholars and activists.
- The first target was Dr Tsinga Asanga( RIP). He died mysteriously.
- He began to put a wedge between Barrister Ben Muna and NEC until he resigned and formed his own party after trying several times to unseat Ni John Fru Ndi as national Chairman and Presidential candidate of Sdf. He was often associated with the past sins of his father.
- He offered a ministerial position to Ben Muna's sister Tutu Muna
- He targeted Prof Asonganyi(RIP) until he was dismissed from the party
- He targeted Dr. Elizabeth Tamanjong until she resigned
- He targeted Kah Wallah until she resigned and formed her own party under the banner of First Woman Presidential Candidate but she could not turn the tides against SDF heavily funded by Paul Biya
He assigned the post of PM to Anglophones and appointed Pa Simon Achidi Achu in the NW at the height of political unpheavals in 1992 to upset the SDF support in Bamenda. - He appointed Pa Peter Mafany Musonge in the SW for similar reasons after offering the post of Prime Minister to Anglophones.
The last Francophone PM was Isa Iyatou who presided over the fake tripartite talks in 1994. The last Anglophone Speaker was Honorable Fonka Shang who took over Pa Muna !
DO YOU SEE where the Anglophone lies and why folks like brother , uncle Nji Paul Atanga cannot state unequivocally that there is an Anglophone problem? How can he admit to the truth when it is self-inflicted ?
In the 1990s SDF threatened La Republique with Anglophone secession when SDF was launched as Paul Biya was trying to ban the idea of multipartism . At the Liberty Square as it was called in Bamenda, Fru Ndi and SDF evoked the idea of secession and it was supported by Ben Muna and NEC. At the time he was the Communications Director of SDF. I was in High School and attended all the SDF rallies at Liberty Square once a week on Wednesdays. Remember SDF was launched in Bamenda at the City Chemist roundabout following a big march with the political slogan " Power to the People that culminated into the launching at City Chemist Roundabout via Church Center Mankon.
A peaceful march that turned deadly as usual following a deadly confrontation with the police and military at the commercial avenue where six people were killed( RIP) and many other suffered amputated limbs and arms from tear gas and grenades. The SDF speakers who took turns to speak during subsequent rallies at the Liberty square fired back at Biya that if SDF was banned Anglophone would secede. It was such threats to separate, given the massive support of Anglophones to SDF that forced the regime to embrace Multipartism and pretentiously created the façade of national integration.
To that effect the regime cynically allowed the SDF to become a national party in a bid to sabotage and kill the Anglophone spirit of nationalism and consciousness. Eventhough SDF was founded to solve the Anglophone problem, Biya used Fru Ndi due to his shortsightedness, a former member of CNU and CPDM, to stand in the way of the Anglophone spirit and strength. In order to reenergize and reposition ourselves as it is unfolding, the Southern Cameroons SDF militants must reject SDF in order to rob it of that national character. CAN YOU SDF MILITANTS DO US THIS FAVOUR?
Jonathan Awasom
God bless Southern Cameroonians.
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