Fw: IN REACTION TO THE MUNZU vs TASSANG EXCHANGES

Maitre "Ajong"

Feel free to forward the article to anyone you want. I actually don't deserve to take any credit myself. The credit (if any) goes to all of us including you who are all honest thinkers who want and expect nothing but the truth to prevail.

Thanks for reading and have  blessed Sunday. Yaoundé is broken and needs a complete overhaul. The President is tired and confused. The French are perplexed on what to do next. Should they orchestrate a "Coup d'Etat"? Which Officer will they groom for that purpose? How will the Coup plotters handle the delicate "Anglophone Problem"> What about having an "Anglophone Officer" as the face of the Coup d'etat? Would that silence the "SC agitation for State Restoration? France finds itself in front of what Bamilekes called "Situation Insortirable".

NB: Maitre, I knew your name only from that hot Makossa piece where the Musician is singing your praise while I am dancing my "Balle a Terre".

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From: 'Ajong Stanislaus' via ambasbay <ambasbay@googlegroups.com>
To: "ambasbay@googlegroups.com" <ambasbay@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: IN REACTION TO THE MUNZU vs TASSANG EXCHANGES

My warmest regards to the person of Mr Mishe Fon.

Please, can I forward this message of yours to some fora where you don't belong?

I shall do well to acknowledge the authorship. 

Thanks in advance for your response. 

Ajong Stanislaus 

Barrister  & Solicitor 

Tiko.

Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 10:58 AM, 'Mishe Fon' via ambasbay

<ambasbay@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Where I come from, we are cultured by personal rules of decorum that prohibit the usage of scurrilous and peremptory language in public discourse. I am giving my opinion as a simple freethinker and a Southern Cameroonian in very good standing.

For the sake of full disclosure; I was invited to a meeting at Sister "Peh's" beautiful house in Largo, MD by Mr Ebini to welcome Dr Munzu sometime last year where he presented the project he is embarking on right now. That was way before the present crisis evolved to where it is right now in SC ( I will come back to this meeting later).

Suffice to say, his presentation was well articulated and delivered in the soft tone that he is known for...until Mr Larry Eyong (who attended with a SCNC delegation) asked to speak. His disruptive condescending tone and incivility which could rightly be equated to that of an angry, very violently truculent character almost brought the erstwhile interesting exchanges to an abrupt halt. He and his delegation were politely asked to leave as that was a private residence and his anger was totally misdirected.

Now back to the Munzu Vs Tasang exchange. Personally I don't understand Cameroon government rationale for detaining individuals they were having a "Dialogue" with. It makes no sense. Not only that, these gentlemen are tried in a Military Court where for lack of "Factual Evidence of any wrong doing", they go from one adjournment after another "cooking up" excuses as they go along. If they sincerely want to reduce tension in the country, let them do the right thing and release all those detained albeit unjustly. If their intention all along was sincere in finding a lasting solution to the "Anglophone Problem" they should not have arrested anyone in the first place.` I have done a little historical research to find out if there is any remote equivalence to sitting side by side with a partner to negotiate then you turn around the very next day to arrest the same negotiators tagging them with the all too frightening mantra of "Terrorism". This is crazy. There is no precedent in history. Only in Cameroon.

I honestly think Mr Tassang owes Dr Munzu an apology  for his tangential unprovoked attack. Angry vituperation is not a panacea for conflict resolution. You will never insult your way to victory. None of us Southern Cameroonians can claim legitimacy emanating from people sovereignty. YES none of us has been ELECTED by Southern Cameroonians to represent them. We have able citizens who have stepped up to assume leadership roles (which is quite commendable) but they cannot arrogate to themselves any form of legitimacy. WhatsApp, Facebook and other Social Media while very helpful in this "Fight" will never be used as a yardstick to establish who is or who is not legitimate.

Again I agree with Dr Munzu that since no known referendum or public polling has been conducted in Southern Cameroons, those who have voluntarily occupied Leadership positions cannot dictate what they think "We the people" want. Yesterday at a barbecue the topic of "Schools Resumption or Not" in SC took center stage of all discussions. There were about fifteen "highly intellectual" guys and a few ladies participating in the informal exchange...until I brought up the question: Why can the Doctors and Nurses in the NW and SW, out of solidarity with Teachers and Lawyers (who have been doing the heavy lifting thus far) not threaten Government with a complete Shut Down of all Hospitals for TWO DAYS ONLY until Biya comes to his senses and solve this problem once and for all?

Now hear their answer: "Chai Mishe! That cannot happen. It is too radical. People go Die."

So I laughed and said "So wuna don see wuna ownAli Mungumu  Ngombe dem wey na chichas and Loya dems eh as the sacrificial lambs 4 did fight? All other fonctionnaires dem dey go work, receive  their salaries. No be so? Listen to me, If the population of Southern Cameroonians is five million, as we speak about 40% of that population are in Yaoundé, Douala, Bafoussam, Kribi, Garoua...in short some are deeply entrenched with landed property all over Cameroon. What do these "SC Anglophones in La Republique territory" do when their relatives (Lawyers and Teachers) in Buea and Bamenda are "Fighting the War" against La Republique?...THEY GO TO WORK. Their "Anglophone children go to school. Anglophone Teachers Teach. Anglophone Lawyers go to work. Do you get my drift? Now what about the children in SC who are obliged to stay at home. What do they do to keep them busy and out of trouble? There are no public libraries with free Internet access. There are no industries. There are no public playgrounds;  No Parks and recreation centers. Any wonder why teen pregnancy has risen almost 70% this year alone? WHY? Paul Biya could care less whether "Anglophone schools open or not. So long as SONARA is pumping the "HOYA" on a daily basis and bunkering is taking place unabated in the high seas. The Contract for the Pipeline Limbe Douala Kribi has been signed and will go operational very soon. What inputs were requested from any of us? We are shouting about schools must and will not start. What has resumption of schools got to do with the guy's bottom line. For how long shall we be chasing the shadow instead of the object"

And my listeners simply said "Mishe, dat one na food for thought. You don dey confuse us about this whole thing but wetin you tok over make sense.

So I concluded with THANK WUNA TOO. We have to be strategic and think smart instead of blanket accusations on innocent decent people in our community. No one has monopoly of knowledge.

I will revisit the Munzu proposal but I honestly think he is a good man and his character should not be smeared by angry tin god despots. Let people express themselves as they see fit. Spilling hatred and propaganda will never take us to the Promised Land. It is tyrannical to impose your magnum opus on others. I am free to decide whether I want Subjugation, Federation or Independence. It is equally my rights to express an opinion contrary to yours and vice versa. All this obstreperous outbursts are unnecessary, uncalled for and dictatorial in nature. Anger is not a strategy. Nobody elected me to write this piece and I speak for myself. Those who are quick to tag people with contrarian ideologies as "Sell Outs" or "Soya Choppers" can go ahead and have a field day. The truth is the truth and I will strive as much as is humanly possible to abide by that doctrine, 

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