La République du Cameroun charade to heat up as invisible man still favourite!
As the “official campaigning period” for La République du Cameroun presidential elections begins Mr Biya is still invisible but he has everything had under control as his proxies continue to act in his stead, creating or maintaining the myth that he is above the fray. In reality is he is below the fray! In a normal democracy he and his coterie would have left the scene in disgrace after their abject performance. Everyone knows that. The electorate knows. The contenders know and the international community knows. Apart from his political failure to deliver, when he has in fact “punished” the people, Mr Biya is in no fit state to run a country or any institution. He never was even in 2018 and has spent the last term absent and invisible. So how is “he” still running this time and slated to “win”? Ambazonia does not care. Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun and Ambazonia is not in La République du Cameroun.
In this post Ambazonia News explores the implications of the La République du Cameroun “elections” looking at the possible future long term outcomes that could flow therefrom.
RDPC and Mr Biya
Mr Biya’s La République du Cameroun has failed in negotiations with Ambazonia, resorting to sponsoring proxies to pretend to represent Ambazonia in La République du Cameroun. They allow themselves to be called “elites” and have as their main function to appear on the scene as “anglophones enjoying rights” as part of La République du Cameroun. The reason is that HCB 28/92 still hangs over La République du Cameroun and they need to maintaining a de facto representation to hold the tenuous line that Ambazonia [NOSO, as they prefer to say] is represented and they are trying to “grant” more. This line will never hold as HCP 28/92 established Ambazonia as a separate state from La République du Cameroun. The African Convention also establishes that La République du Cameroun has boundaries and borders established at independence on January 1st 1960. Clearly Ambazonia is not within those borders. This position was triggered when Mr Biya unilaterally changed the name to the pre-Federation name, thereby, reverting, that is, turning back the clock to move La République du Cameroun back within their real borders. It is important to note that even before then, the United Republic of Cameroon, [URC]and the Federal Republic of Cameroon [FRC], before had both only existed de facto as the two states had not formalized their “joining” for Southern Cameroons independence as intended and expected by the United Nations decolonization process.
In 1984 when La République du Cameroun was reverted in Mr Biya’s decree to “consolidate unity” what he did, in fact, was to secede La République du Cameroun even from the URC, itself already fragile due to the incomplete process.
The present position is that La République du Cameroun has no sovereignty over Ambazonia and cannot grant any favours, be they special status or representation in La République du Cameroun parliament. The Ambazonia Liberation Struggle is legally won. Any negotiation would be to draw up the arrangements and processes for La République du Cameroun to withdraw and to establish a neighbourly way of co-existing. Any further idea of any “close association” would only flow after the established acceptance and demonstration that La République du Cameroun and Ambazonia are separate sovereign states making their own separate and independent decision on any association beyond being neighbours.
This is known to the RPDC and Mr. Biya as they tried in circa 2017 to revert the La République du Cameroun name to URC before, we imagine, realising they had closed a one-way door.
Other Contenders
The SDF has promised to solve the “anglophone crisis” by “leasing all prisoners” and holding reset talks. This is not a good enough promise for Ambazonia as it assumes Ambazonia is part of La République du Cameroun, needing the “grant” of an internal solution. Clearly SDF is mistaken and should take legal advice as their position, even if they could win La République du Cameroun elections and attempt it, would not resolve HCB 28/92. They need to know that any government of La République du Cameroun has not legal standing to do anything in Ambazonia.
Furthermore, in the of SDF is guilty of proving the fig leaf as part of the “representing elite” that allow La République du Cameroun to pretend “anglophones” [meaning Ambazonia] are represented in their institutions. Their recent sind-song in La République du Cameroun parliament, ironically using Ambazonian Liberation songs, only highlights their position as that”front” which has been deployed by RDPC and La République du Cameroun to “show” Ambazonian “representation”. Having failed to raise one debate about Ambazonia over the years the sing-song begs the question of how they could show their faces and claim to have any thoughts on Ambazonia. Even if they are not complicit, their act was all a clever part of the “demonstration” of representation which La République du Cameroun needs. If they are unwitting dupes, they should realise that that charade was only orchestrated to provide more media for the library of “anglophones enjoying rights and freedoms”. Reality, when they reflect on it is that they would have been picked up straight away to nearby SED, and could still be once the “elections” are “formally won” and Mr Biya’s proxies and installed. The SDF are validators as usual and performing the extra function of appearing to represent Ambazonia.
Ambazonians need to avoid this trap. The SDF will not win and their only role is to provide the front to show that “anglophones” took part and were represented. Bes avoided by Ambazonians.
Akere Muna
Barrister Muna has stated that “we will create a federation” to solve the “bad governance”. He too, strangely for an eminent lawyer, is ignoring HCB 28/92 or the fact that La République du Cameroun being La République du Cameroun means Ambazonia is outside their borders. He too is one of those validator “elites” performing the task of “showing anglophones enjoying rights and freedoms”. He has no chance of winning and if he did, his solution of a federation smacks of the same methods as Mr Biya’s RDPC, who impose. Imposition on Ambazonia would be illegal and null and void as it would not resolve the fundamental issue of separate states. De facto does not work.
Issa Tchiroma
Candidate Issa Tchiroma has been suspected in some quarters of being a trojan horse, out to dilute the “opposition” and return to his long-time coalition with RDPC when they win. Ambazonia News is not interested except in his statement that the “Anglophone Crisis” would be solved through a referendum, should he win. If he wins, the modalities of such a referendum could be explored but this is a very remote prospect which should not be taken for granted.
What Mr Tchiroma needs to do is expand the explanation and openly acknowledge that only the “anglophone regions” would have the final say in that referendum. HCB 28/92 needs to be factored in to accept that La République du Cameroun does not include Ambazonia within their borders.
Other Contenders have made vaguer noises probably being realistic about their prospects and not being dry-eye enough to make grand promises even in their roles s validators for the RDPC.
Ambazonians “Anglophones”
Ambazonia is not part of La République du Cameroun as their borders were established in 1960 before Southern Camerouns [ Ambazonia’s] independence. The Federation that was supposed to arise from the “joining” did not come to pass the treaty was not signed. Then the Federation was illegally abandoned without consulting the separate state of “West Cameroon” or “East Cameroon”. As the law stands, a vote by an Ambazonian or anglophone in any La République du Cameroun elections is completely invalid and does not count as Ambazonia is not part of that state. That may explain why Ambazonians get nothing from them. Voting would also give the false impression that you as an Ambazonia [anglophone] accept to be represented in their country. The reality is that you cannot as the legal state does not hold and cannot hold. By not taking part in their election, we Ambazonians will be showing that we are a separate county who wants them to pack up and leave so that we can start running our own country for ourselves. Imagine what we can do without those roadblocks and thieves on our roads collecting our money for no reason!
The International Partners
The international community and partners of good faith have a big role to play in educating the political classes in La République du Cameroun from RDPC to all the others to the implications of HCB 28/92 and the La République du Cameroun secession of 1984. The international partners can play a vital role in setting out the realistic position that the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle will only be resolved in genuine external self-determination negotiations. The time to that process will depend on the critical mass of the La République du Cameroun political class coming to terms with the route to peace being parted from the continued idea of NOSO.
Ambazonian leaders should sound out te international community parters and friends to undertake those contacts while the La République du Cameroun political classes are “thinking”.
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