Month: July 2023

Ambazonia Focus – another desperate attempt to highlight “division”

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As one collaborator is laid to rest, La République du Cameroun has tried to milk the grief a poor family for all its worth in their vain attempt to steady a sinking ship. They have “honoured” the person who, in life, was subjected to frequent intimidation until he could be brought into their tent, with a post-humus decoration.

Yes someone somewhere must value trinkets from a corrupt incompetent patronage which no right thinking individual with any dignity or self-respect would approach without nose-clamps!

As if by magic, a video has surfaced to “prove” the division between “North West” and “South West”! Apparently there is “shock and consternation” that a certain long-time enabler auxiliary of La République “represented the position of the South West against the North West” in the “Grand Dialogue National” of La République du Cameroun. In the gathering of collaborators and enablers purporting to represent Southern Cameroons there was “disagreement” on Federation! This is such a vacuous idea it is tedious to even contemplate it!

  1. Their patron La République du Cameroun has sacrificed many of their poor citizens in a war which they declared partly to stop any mention of the word “federation”!
  2. Their dreaded paramilitary “judicial” SED is known to have summoned many a person to explain their utterance of the very word!
  3. If anyone has ever listened to their speeches, the single constant has been “the form of state is not up for discussion” – even if the collaborators/enablers had agreed it would have been void!
  4. Since the 1984 secession triggered by Mr Biya’s withdrawal of La République du Cameroun the from the already-dubious “United Republic of Cameroon” it became null and void to discuss anything Southern Cameroons in a context implying that La République du Cameroun had any jurisdiction over Southern Cameroons. HCB 28/92 made it clear that La République has no jurisdiction in Southern Cameroons so the collaborators’ quarrels in Yaounde would never be binding on Southern Cameroons especially as they were all chosen by the “illegal forceful Occupier” and not representatives or believers in Southern Cameroons. The Fifth Column purporting to represent Ambazonia!

Ambazonia News sees no merit in the “shocking video” other than a chance to restate the legal position and point out the aim of the revelation. This video needs to be ignored as the participants were not representing Ambazonia and their debates or arguments would not be binding. Mukete did not have a mandate from anyone in Southern Cameroons to represent the “South West” and should not have carried any voice in merely making a one-person statement. That single-person argument should then not have been assumed as the “voice” of the “South West”, much less Southern Cameroons, to the extent that they then “invented special status”. Never mind that the entire body of the meeting had no mandate in the first place!

This is an opportunity to point out the fake division orchestrated by La République du Cameroun in order to control our country through a patronage system where individuals with personal interests hold rallies and make speeches claiming that people who have lived together and in peace for all time are against each other. Southern Cameroons became West Cameroon and had several changes of government without any idea of North West nor South West! These demarcations were created and played on by La République du Cameroun and do not prevail in the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle.

Here is what to do about the “shocking evidence of the video”: read the evidence behind the “evidence” and then rejoice that our Liberation Struggle is going so well that such a convoluted and vacuous scenario is being dredged up to attempt to revive a non-existent division!

The Most High God is the Watchman of our Nation and is seeing us through.

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Ambazonia Dares…To win

IG President Marianta Njomia is inviting Ambazonia patriots to dare with her to oust La Republique du Cameroun from our territory.

Seven years is enough. Our cause is just and we must have the courage of our convictions to do what it takes to go over the line.  With the recent massacres in Ambazonia there is no argument about La Republique du Cameroun having crossed the Rubicon on numerous occasions.

While the IG is not conceding the force of argument, in true Ambazonian character, there must come a time when the argument of force imposes itself. That time is now.

But Ambazonia has great talent which can optimise our argument of force so that it is truly listened to in a way that the previously valid force of argument wasn’t.

Canadian “Talks”: What is the fuss?

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This is a “draft” post written in October 2022 in the early stages of the talk of talks-about-talks. It reflects the confusion of why Mr. Momo wrote his thesis on the Swiss Process having been a “clever ruse to diffuse the threat of sanctions” on the part of the wise Mr Biya… Little did Ambazonia News imagine the fate of the Canadian efforts! If only we had published it at the time!

After “cleverly playing the international community” it would appear Mr Biya was in a rush to engage in more “talk-washing”! The Swiss Process was a clever “play” to deflect pressure of sanctions from the “gullible” Canadians, Americans, Swiss, EU and many others. So what are the “Canadian Talks”?

La Republique du Cameroun committed a diplomatic fault be letting even the obscure Mr Momo pen his essay about duping the aforementioned international partners! The only fallout from that error was that the Ambazonians would be able to clearly tell those international partners that they could not trust any undertakings from La Republique du Cameroun … and maybe Mr Biya has now promised that if they take him into extra time, this time, “cross my heart and hope to die”, they can trust his word! Or he is being true to his genius gamesmanship and the Canadians are truly gullible!

What is on the agenda in Canada?

Nothing really! Canada, at least for now is not talks … and not even talks about talks! It could, maybe, be talks about talks about talks! The best it could be for Ambazonians is that they start to realise they need to get their act together through their own “in-house” channels of communication away from Canada. Of course the persistent danger for Ambazonians is that some invitees feel “flattered” enough and mistaken enough to assume that they are their to talk, or worse, that they can commit Ambazonia to any undertakings. They cannot and the Canadians should know that, but they [Canadians] are not “taking part” so it will be down to whoever is sitting for La Republique du Cameroun to try and turn up the flattery with the hope of at least causing some friction within the Ambazonian Liberation Movement. Fat chance! That time has passed! Ambazonia New’s view is that the interval between “rejecting” the Swiss Process and engaging the Canadian Process was suspicious in the extreme and may have been preceded by secret “flattery” of some players of the Liberation. Even so, the time when that would have mattered is gone and over!

Who is taking part?

Ambazonia News understands a wide-ish range of Ambazonian groups are taking part but that non of them think or believe they are going into “talks”. Of course, it goes without saying that the range of groups have varying degrees of “influence”. Apparently La Republique’s “people” will have the dubious blessing of the “Prime Minsiter, Head of Government” for what it is worth in La Republique du Cameroun! This understanding leads Ambazonia News to conjecture that “hopeful flattery” could well be the strategy. There once was a time when the PM could “wow” Diasporans… in those days. Any Ambazonia and other rational being, on gathering that the La Republique effort is being master-minded by “the PM” would be seriously dubious about the what game they are playing

At worst, or best, depending on which side, the Ambazonian party would say they are talking about talks and, for want of a better word, dying to know what La Republique du Cameroun is going to offer.

Ambazonia News is fascinated to see what does come out of the meeting.

What should Ambazonians at large do?

Keep calm and continue with their efforts to liberate the homeland. The “Canadian Talks” will not yield any impact on that process. Those of us who are not having to hold our noses to listen to La Republique du Cameroun’s party should count ourselves lucky and be assured and grateful that the days when flattery could turn some heads are truly gone. Certainly any heads turned would not have much leverage over the destiny of Ambazonia from these “not” Talks.

Those at the talks should make it abundantly clear, as if that were needed, that independence is not up for negotiation as there has never been a union, nor any need for one. Our mistakes have been made and we demand to learn from them and move on.

To entertain or to win?

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This is a no-brainer question. So why does it come about?

This is nothing to do with Ambazonia, or is  it?

England went 2-0 down in the current cricketing ashes series. If you don’t know about the ashes, and who doesn’t?, you probably don’t want to know … otherwise please look it up  … somewhere.

In both tests, for that is what a five-day cricket match between nations is called, England “had Australia exactly where they (England) wanted them”, but both times, England then crumble!  Well in cricket it is called “collapsed”, which is when a batting side is bowled out for very few runs. What are runs? What is bowled out?

Since you’re asking, runs are runs, they are the count of how many times the batting side runs between the wickets while they are batting. What are wickets? You probably don’t need the meanings if wicket, for there are two, actually in two ways too! The wickets first are the three wooden pillars behind the batters, who used to be batsmen, until recently when it became more appropriate to call them batters… I was saying there are two lots of these “wickets”. That is one definition. There is also the second meaning which is the idea that the bowling side has “got the wicket” of the batter and the batter is “out”.

Now with this rudimentary grasp let us look at this (un) important question. Or maybe not. The debate is raging among the pundits as to how England should have won both tests and now he 2-0 up rather than down.

For about a year now since England hired a new coach and appointed the supremely talented captain Stokes, they have breezed past all comers including the likes of India and South Africa. In case you did not know, and why should you?, when it comes to cricket neither of India and South Africa are not a push-over. You have to be good to cope with them, never mind beat them. England did. Comfortably. In fact prior to the current ashes series, England boasted something like a 10 wins in the last 11 tests or something similarly impressive so in the run up to the ashes talk was of how badly Australia would be beaten.

When England opened the batting in the first test at Edgbaston in Birmingham and piled on the runs with their refreshing play the pundits seemed to have figured it right. But, baz-ball, the name this new brand of cricket is called, proved to be double-edged as it provided the momentum to accumulate quick runs, but later ensured the “blameless recklessness”, even with Geoffrey Boycott sitting in the executive box, that ultimately snatched an unlikely defeat for the jaws of victory.

To step back a bit baz-ball is attacking “blameless” play where batters will not be blamed, even by Geoffrey Boycott, if they “give their wicket” away playing reckless shots. Stokes also reassured fans and the curious watchers that England would focus on entertaining rather than winning, Ambazonia News would infer, unlike the vulgar Australia who compete to win. So when England found themselves in a spot of bother, or should we call a sticky wicket, they stuck to entertaining. It was certainly entertaining to see wicket after English wicket tumble. And yet they kept the captain’s word!

Now having made nearly 500 runs on the first of 5 days, England decided they would quite like to drive home their dominance by getting Australia in to bat in the final hours of the day. England expected a couple of wickets to make it a perfect day.

That was not a disaster as it turned out. Australia did not collapse and by the end of the first innings there was only a handful of runs in it in England’s favour. What is an innings? Why are you asking Ambazonia News? Ambazonia will eventually get the same chance to trounce England that all teams do, but the Ambazonian Cricket Board does not exist yet … An innings is the batting teams time at the crease, which is the name of the rectangle between the wickets where the batters run to accumulate runs. It is the runs they get before 10 of their wickets fall or, as in the first day story, the captain declares. A declaration is when a captain declares, that is beckons out their batters before their wickets have fallen, usually, again as in this example, because they feel that they have enough runs to bowl out their opponents before they can match or better the runs. Australia were bowled out and the lead of 7 for England, that is since Australia managed only to accumulate 7 runs fewer than England in their innings, hardly vindicating the captain’s decision to declare.

In England’s second innings they went for baz-ball again but this time for several spells, they “gave their wickets” away. They bravely stuck to their methods and attacked the Australian bowling even if a previous more sedate England would have heeded the conditions. Ambazonia News would like to suggest that someone bowls a scrum guide into the England dressing room so that they could assimilate the idea that solving one problem as it arises on its merits would not remove the entertainment. At times the batting was as logical as a boxer attempting to break their opponent’s fist by hitting the fist with their jaw.

This time they made fewer runs and did not declare. Then, true to the entertainment mantra, they set about Australia with more attacking field placements … When side bowls their fielders attempt to catch the batters out. A catch happens if the batter hits the ball in the air and it is caught by the fielders before it touches the ground again. With only 11 fielders a captain has to place then with caution, or abandon, where they think the batter is going to send the ball. The bowler has to be accurate in where they land the ball to force the batter to play shots to get caught out or be bowled out directly. The other ways to be out other than being caught would be if the ball gets past and demolishes the wicket – the wooden pillars or if it hits the batter’s pads without first touching their bat, and they are in front of the wicket at a height where the ball would have gone on to hit the wicket.

As it turned out, England were right about Australia. The Australians batted cautiously, some said negatively, and made their runs much more slowly than England and at times looked destined to lose. Ultimately when the Australia played the shots to make the runs and win. But they were definitely less entertaining than England.

What did the entertaining captain say? That he did not mean that they would not mind losing when he issued the instruction to entertain freely .

What has this to do with Ambazonia? Well, when Ambazonia News promotes collaboration it is always for the greater aim of winning the restoration of our independence. Just like entertainment in the ashes will not be fêted if a test is lost, unity will do nobody any good in Ambazonia unless its effect is to bring the restoration of our independence.

We must not use up our maegre resources trying to engineer “unity” as nice nice as unity would be!

Ambazonia will prevail even if we keep hearing lamentations about a lack of unity. We must be mindful that some of those lamentations are from the enemy’s psychological effort to drain our resolve. Too late!