SCPC Canada – Who pays and is that value for money for the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle?

Ambazonia News is looking at the logic of the unfortunately named Southern Cameroons People’s Conference slated for the first week of October 2023 in Canada.

The first concern is the value of the fares. The website states that there is going to provision for seats at the table for representations from G0, G1 and G2.

One of the first questions raised by Ambazonia News was the source of the funds for fares and costs for the delegates to attend the conference.

Admittedly, the cost is not everything but it has to be clear that the objectives of the conference can be achieved by deploying Ambazonian resources in that way, for at the moment, Ambazonian disposable resources are mainly the financial and material sacrifices that Ambazonians are able to make. So even the delegates paying for themselves are logically deploying those Ambazonian resources.

In that view, it is fair to question whether paying to attend for a week in a conference in Canada will be the best option for the Diaspora’s Complementary Commitment.

There are at least two reasons why it is not.

1. The first is that La République du Cameroun is not compelled to alter her stance whatever the conference decides. Even if the conference “demonstrates a unity of purpose”, a concept which Ambazonia News does not feel needs to be demonstrated, nor can we identify who it should be demonstrated to, it would not induce La République du Cameroun to make any concessions, never mind moving an inch towards the Ambazonian “purpose”. It is counter-intuitive that having gone to the trouble of committing war-crimes, genocide and diplomatic faux pas just to stop anyone mentioning federation, then La République du Cameroun would tremble at the resolutions of the SCPC. The reality is that La République du Cameroun has been trying to out-wait Ambazonians in the hope that the Liberation Struggle would lose momentum and dissipate. In that case, they [La République du Cameroun] would achieve their objectives quite nicely, thank you. They may not, and would not say so, but everything points to this strategy – and they insisted in Canada that they preferred to treat the “negotiation” as an “internal dialogue” before then disowning it publicly. The effect of those actions was that many “peace-seeking Southern Cameroonians” emerged onto the scene with the plausible “too much suffering argument”. At first, they dangled the idea of a referendum, even though it quickly emerged that a referendum would only happen if La République du Cameroun requested it, even if and only if they felt they could not longer tolerate/afford the war! The logic of this was that La République du Cameroun would need to be pushed to the point of not being able to continue the war – ie, deploying Ambazonian resources towards G0, rather than on diaspora conference/meeting expenses. As any reasonable Ambazonian would expect to win a referendum, it was a nifty way to divert resources. The question now for any SCPC participant is to establish for themselves whether their attendance in Canada in October, even if it managed to establish a “unity of purpose” would advance the Liberation Struggle any. Is that the best way of spending their resources, even if they are “sponsored”? Why don’t the sponsors sponsor action instead until La République du Cameroun is unable to tolerate the cost of the war?
2. In one of the Southern Cameroons Stake-holder presentations a certain expert explained that the international community would not intervene with La République du Cameroun until they judged that both La République du Cameroun and Ambazonia had reached a Mutually Harmful Stalemate – that is a state where neither party could tolerate the cost of the struggle, where both would be more likely to negotiate and compromise. This removes the idea that “demonstrating a unity of purpose”, Ambazonia News imagines, to the nebulous “international community” would push said “international community to apply any pressure on La République du Cameroun, even if they can see that La République du Cameroun is not at the Mutually Harmful Stalemate! The logic here points to deploying Ambazonian resources towards reaching the Mutually Harmful Stalemate for La République du Cameroun as a better option.

Ambazonia News thinks that if La République du Cameroun had a choice they would prefer Southern Cameroonians to spend their resources going to a conference to demonstrate their unity of purpose, rather than actively demonstrating their unity of purpose by funding the actual Liberation Struggle on G0.

The saying that “Ambazonia is God-ordained” is not idle. Even if the SCPC holds the conference, Ambazonia News expects our Liberation Struggle to survive and thrive. There is no other choice.

It would be very important and critical to establish after the conference that the solution is to pursue the Liberation Struggle through Action and Accountability on the ground. No matter how disheartening it becomes, we the Ambazonians remember:

• The school girl shot in Buea
• The school girl shot in Bamenda
• The Ngarbuh Massacre
• The Big Babanki massacre
• The hundreds of villages burnt … among so many other cues that we have no choice but to break off from La République du Cameroun and own our destiny and inheritance.

The Most High God continues to be the Watchman of Ambazonia.