Month: November 2024

PRAP? More like NAIVE

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NAIVE could be the “National Ambazonian Illogical Vague Endeavours”. Thankfully nobody has named any group or platform such. PRAP may not be NAIVE by name by they are definite, by nature.

On Sunday 24th November they issued a second video insisting that the visit of the Isreaeli-Palestinian delegation, including former Israel PM, Ehud Olmert and former Palestinian foreign Minister Nasser Al-Kidwa was an ICO delegation which went to present PRAP’s PPP to the pope. Anyone who has landed from another planet and knows nothing about the year-long war raging between Israel and Palestine could, with a very unsophisticated search on any browser for “vatican news Ehud Olmert”, find the report of the Pope being presented with a peace plan for the Holy Land.

Ambazonia News first posted the URL to this story when PRAP posted their initial video with the said image claiming to have had partners visit the Vatican.

An exaggerated claim about an image is one thing, but the truly naive action is to call on self-defense forces in Ambazonia to lower their weapons as a way to “entice LRC” to the negotiation table” to “request devolution”. PRAP’s whizz is to “lure” La Republique du Cameroun to the table and request devolution, because “otherwise La Republique du Cameroun would refuse to negotiate”. So La Republique du Cameroun declared war when the lawyers and teachers only sent letters and requests for fairer conditions, far less demanding than decentralization. Also, La Republique du Cameroun has sent many poor-people’s children to perish in Ambazonia while killing many Ambazonian civilians, including toddlers on their way to and from school and after eight years, PRAP is “leading” with the idea that Ambazonia should discard the only leverage we have, remove all the pressure on La Republique du Cameroun and that would “lure” them to grant “devolution” – which is different from “special status” in what way? PRAP claim to be working on a long term plan – to start with the request for devolution to “secretly and cleverly” lure La Republique du Cameroun to the table after forwarding the peace plan to Etoudi for [hopeful] approval.

Luckily Ambazonia has survived all such lunatic ideas, probably through the fabled watch of our ancestors, but far more likely, the intelligence and courage of our valiant self-defense forces on the ground. Ambazonia News would go as far as let PRAP keep selling their idea if they wish, in the firm belief that PRAP will soon exit stage left spent from its own illogic, without any intervention from any diasporan leader. Ambazonians on the ground should be credited for their fortitude and commitment in withstanding La Republique du Cameroun for so long and the discernment to bin CRAP’s lunacy.

Mr Biya Does it again – Or rather doesn’t again!

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On the 5th of November 2024 there was a landslide in Dschang in La Republique du Cameroun’s border province known as La Region de L’Ouest, for being the western-most province of that country bordering onto Ambazonia in the North.

Ambazonia News extends the prayers of neighbouring Ambazonia to the victims, many of whom have, for generations freely come and gone into Ambazonia, intermingling with Ambazonians.

Five days after the disaster, La Republique du Cameroun’s “Prime Minister, Head of Government” posted on X to blame nature and offer prayers and condolences to the victims. He referred to the voice of Mr Biya, whose own social media post is still to come. Mr Biya clearly think his other clever invention – the “presidential silence” is appropriate for this massive loss of life.

There has been no visit by any La Republique du Cameroun minister to assess the situation, probably because there was a similar landslide in the same area in 2021, killing more than 50.

As “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun”, Ambazonia News is not questioning what was done to mitigate future occurrences if/when the 2021 episode was assessed.

Even for LRC, it is striking that the “government” has been so mute – even to the lack of the usual communique which would credit Mr Biya with releasing many billion of XFA to console the victims.

While there was nobody at home for the disaster, the government was busy projecting a documentary of Mr Biya’s achievements in his 42 years in office and organising celebrations and orations to mark ascension to the the Presidency. Don’t blame Ambazonia News! That is the language they use in their circles.

There is no shortage of ministers in La Republique du Cameroun but it seems they were all too busy – even JDDM who is meant to be from the neighbourhood of the disaster!

There is a possible explanation. The RDPC, Mr Biya’s “governing” party may well have been pre-occupied with celebrations on the 6th of November, but at least one of them could have commented or shown an interest. None of them did maybe for the callous reason that they did not want to be seen to be taking the lead. Yes that is a bad thing as Mr Biya is ailing and has a habit of culling the tall poppies. It wouldn’t do to project one’s self in the fevered atmosphere of Mr Biya’s imminent departure. So nobody did!

So they celebrate the 42 years of someone who succeeded a much younger person in office – the much younger person having decided to step down when they were a much better “leader” than Mr Biya subsequently proved to be!

The RDPC tabloid “Cameroun Tribune” ran an earnest editorial repeating Mr Biya’s 42 year old “mantra” of New Deal, plagiarized from the US of course, but claimed and celebrated as Mr Biya’s idea. No irony that under the new deal the regime not only could not carry out his other slogan of “Rigour and Moralization”, which were meant to fight nepotism, tribalism, corruption…

It is not an exaggeration to say that Mr Biya institutionalized those vices in his 42 years – to the extent that his regime is now in grid-lock too ashamed to repeat itself when “nature” provides the ill-timed [more like timely] evidence, if it were needed, that “Rigour and Moralisation” have become “Laissez-faire and Immorality” much like the descent of Rome into anarchy on the eve of the fall of the Roman empire. Speaking of Rome, this, if there were any doubts, is the nth crossing of the Rubicon! Even the normally fearful Camerounese are voicing discontent about the silence and disdain regarding this latest Dschang Disaster.

it is time for Mr Biya to formally bow out. It is no secret that he has not been “in” for at least a decade!

As Ambazonia News has postulated in the past, there is no one at home in La Republique du Cameroun!

Ambazonia needs to go ahead with running our country. It was never a protest or plea to gain special status of devolution or federation or any other supplicant status in a country which is so inept and unable to manage its own affairs.