Ever since the Swiss Process, The Canadian Pre-Talks and other initiatives, it has been clear that the Ambazonian Liberation Movement saw the end of the Liberation war in negotiations.

Throughout that time, it has also been clear that the La République du Cameroun side was ambiguous on how to proceed. That is a neat paradox! /at first Ambazonia News deduced that they [La République du Cameroun] must be trying to outlast the Ambazonian Liberation Movement. This idea flowed from the many opportunities when it seemed logical and straight forward to proceed to meaningful negotiations, especially when some of those opportunities involved actors from the La République du Cameroun camp. There seemed to be no other plausible explanation for suddenly freezing in each of those situations.

At some of those stages, Ambazonia News put forward the idea of drift in La République du Cameroun – namely that there was nobody actually in charge and so nothing could be done, hence the phrase “no adult at home”.

This now seems like a firm theory considering the last few months when:

They had a charade of elections but then everything froze in the same state as ten to fifteen years ago, with the same ministers in the same ministries, doing what they always did -namely nothing for the poor citizens, while finding all opportunities to attribute the most minute routine to high instructions from “the Head of State”.

They have also gone to the trouble of getting out-of-mandate MPs to pass a law allowing a hereditary succession at Mr Biya’s discretion, but then everything has frozen after that. The dauphin has not been named and all the same persons are in the same posts doing the same thing they have done since they were appointed.

There is no adult at home in La République du Cameroun.

What should Ambazonia do?

It was never the case that Ambazonia’s fate depended in any way on La République du Cameroun, other than the parties needed to formalize the Restoration of Ambazonia in a peaceful neighbourly way. This was never going to happen voluntarily on the La République du Cameroun side. To that extent nothing is surprising. However, the point of Mutually Harmful Stalemate has had several dawns and is in high season even now. La République du Cameroun can no longer sustain her occupation of Ambazonia. If there was an adult at home they would have accepted and this truth and sued for peaceful negotiation to end the stalemate and proceed to separate social development plans.

Failing that negotiation, Ambazonia needs to renew and intensify her signals to those well-wishers of La République du Cameroun who can wake the adults up o the reality and dire state of their situation. The usual ways should apply. They should not even dream of the idea of outlasting the Ambazonian Liberation Movement.

Signals should also go clearly to La République du Cameroun Occupier functionaries in Ambazonia as well as to any fifth columnist that Ambazonia is for ever and that they are not welcome.

The most important signal to Ambazonian Citizens should be the ways and means to pursue their own socio-economic development with no regard or deference to La République du Cameroun. Clearly La République du Cameroun is unable to even complete their own schemes on their land. They have no control in their land. They are drifting and there is no adult at home. Ambazonia can throw throw them out now.