The text of the Presidential Executive Order for ARF+

As promised the text of the PEO is now available to download for reference.

For a long time the IG has applied the Building-Bridges Protocol to support all restoration forces in G0 without requiring any acknowledgement from any of them. The only requirement had been, in the obvious case of ground forces, that they have proven and provable records of fighting the enemy.

The current PEO formalizes and recognizes this process by designating qualified forces as ARF+. They will not need to announce or show any outward signs than their integrity and professionalism in discharging their noble tasks with reliance on the blessings of our ancestors.

They, ARF+, shall rely on our people in their own Building-Bridges attitudes, humbly protecting our people with the same humility and selfless daring that will ensure dignity and self-esteem for our nation.

They, ARF+, shall instil pride and be the pride of our nation by holding the line on integrity, dignity and self-respect that will allow our people to finalize the decolonisation. They shall not intimidate or disrespect our people in any way reminiscent of the colonial functionaries and occupiers. Instead through their actions and comportment they shall inspire our people, their ultimate only reward being the satisfaction of seeing the smiles on the faces of our people as ARF+ shall only be daring and discrete.

They, ARF+, shall not tolerate any indignities inflicted on our people from any authors. They shall be rewarded ultimately with seeing our children be like the stars above.

ARF+ shall prevail as Ambazonia shall prevail. The Most High God is the Watchman of Ambazonia.

The PEO text is available here, as it is on the government repository.

Presidential Executive Order details Building-Bridges mindset for ARF

President Marianta Njomia has issued orders to ensure that ARF can collaborate with other self-defence and restoration forces on the ground, G0. ARF+ shall henceforth denote the combination of ARF and other forces meeting the Building-Bridges criteria.

Stand by for the document of the Presidential Executive Order…

Ambazonia shall prevail as The Most High God remains the Watchman of our nation.

SCPC – What will come of the scpc?

The scpc is said to be an opportunity for all Southern Cameroonians to demonstrate a unity of purpose in an inclusive gathering.

Ambazonia News has already questioned the meaning of the unity of purpose given than scpc seems to be going out of its way to make concessions even before the conference itself, never mind the remote possibility of LRC coming to the table.

Whatever the outcome of the SCPC Ambazonia will prevail as we all know Ambazonia has risen to fall no more. However Ambazonia News invites members of the organising committee to imagine what will happen on the morrow of the conference.

Assuming the best happens and the delegates somehow demonstrate a unity of purpose what is going to compel LRC to come to the table. Are there any indications that LRC is poised to engage in negotiations if only Ambazonians would demonstrate a unity of purpose?

The answer is no. Ambazonia News can safely conclude no by observing the activities of the fifth column in Ambazonia. On 11th August 2023 the “PM, Head of Gov’t” of LRC was in our capital city “to review the implementations of the recommendations” of the do-called GND.

During the same week another fifth columnist reached for the imaginary division between the people from the north of Ambazonia and their fellow countrymen from the south of Ambazonia. He lamented the take over of the bushes as well as “the order from abroad”, all without any hint of irony in a county which has handed over a while commercial city to the foreigners from LRC along with the power of life and death to foreigners who tauntingly call themselves “chefs de terre”. He did not consider the multitude of orders from abroad which have resulted in burnt homes, murdered school children in morning school-run traffic, murder pregnant women and children, murdered Ambazonian youths merely suspected of being “separatists” even when those murders are proudly announced as “neutralisations”.

As is common with all fifth columnists all the words could be repeated to describe the actions of their foreign patrons. Their time is looming. It is only getting clearer who the collaborating enablers are in Ambazonia.

These activities belie any idea that the conclusion of the SCPC, even if it manages to “demonstrate a unity of purpose”, would bring “justice and peace” in any form. It certainly couldn’t bring Ambazonian Independence, which to be fair is not an apparent aim of the SCPC.

What then is the purpose of the SCPC and do all the participants really subscribe to that purpose? Is their jaunt to Canada a value for money action to advance the righteous Ambazonian cause?

Ambazonia News implores the stakeholders to reflect on their actions. Posterity will and we must all hope that the assessment will be positive.

The Most High God is our Watchman in Ambazonia.

SCPC: Security for G0 attendees?

Ambazonia News continues the sequence on the Southern Cameroons People’s Conference by looking at the issue of security for G0 attendees. Earlier during the build up in the era of the Southern Cameroons Stakeholder Platform several venues were considered with an eye on security and in view of the fate of the Nera 10, the core of the IG who were abducted and illegally rendered from Nigeria. At the time Ghana was suggested as a safer location.

There seemed to be a focus on the immediate danger of being abducted then, and now, moving the venue to Canada would appear to be on a similar narrow basis. What Ambazonia News would like the organising committee to consider is what happens when any G0 participants return to occupied Ambazonia. Can they attend and return to Ambazonia without consequences, quite apart from the costs?

Mention must be made of Abdul Karim Ali who is now in arbitrary detention merely for being part of Ambazonian Collaboration Team. He is entering his second year and there has not been an outcry from the international community, whose approval is presumably being sought through the demonstration of “unity of purpose”, towards which, the SCPC is geared. Just to be clear, the danger for any credible independentist participants from ground zero would not be abduction but that they could be rounded up at LRC’s convenience hence it would be somewhat callous, if not reckless, of Conference to simply assume

SCPC also promises a seat for representatives of Ambazonian prisoners. Ambazonia News would be wary of exposing them to reprisals especially while they are captives of LRC.

Ambazonia will prevail. Whatever comes from the SCPC, should not significantly affect the fact of Ambazonian Independence.

The Most High God is our Watchman and our faith will see us through .

Look up the here for the:

The Introduction to the sequence on the SCPC
Who pays and what is the cost effectiveness of SCPC?
SCPC Updates on the apparently signed stakeholders
What is the common purpose of the SCPC?

SCPC – updates; some signatories unaware and not content.

When Ambazonia News reported the plan for the SCPC in Canada from 5th October to 8th October 2023, several aspects were/are unclear and unresolved in our minds. We raised those questions and invited participating members of the SCPC Organising Committee to comment to clarify. We also proposed to issue our own op-ed on each of the questions, the main aim being to provoke the participants to reflect properly and confidently on all aspects of the SCPC.

Ambazonia News can now report that at least two of the signatories of the document about the All Ambazonia Conference 2023 which, presumably evolved to the SCPC, have expressed reservations about the use of their signatures on the SCPC web site. As a minimum, they were unaware, having changed their views about some of the evolution and the parties involved in the SCPC setup. Of paramount importance among the reservations was the realisation that some of the key players in SCPC were opaque, that is not listed as participants, and non-independentists, that is having chosen “neutral” as their posture on the question of Ambazonian Independence from La Republique du Cameroun.

Ambazonia News has mentioned a self-declared “neutral” NGO which is deeply involved. The big question would be whether any Ambazonian entity could reasonably declare itself neutral even to an Ambazonian audience and still be entrusted with aspects of developing a unity of purpose.

As separate statements are expected from the aggrieved parties Ambazonia News is reserving the responses until they can be published unredacted.

We are still open to views and opinions from all the participating entities. All that Ambazonia News would expect is that they declare whether they are independentist and whether they are content for the SCPC to exclude that word from all of its publicity.

Ambazonia has risen and never to fall.

Read the initial questions here

Read analysis on who pays and value economic opportunities of the conference here

Read on the purpose of the conference here

SCPC – What is the common purpose if not independence?

Since Ambazonia News reported the SCPC raised the five initial questions for the groups on the list of participants, two of the signatories of the AAC2023 letter have made it clear they are not in with the current SCPC’s use of that document in the present context. They particularly object and are uneasy about the role of the NGO which is believed to be behind the organisation of the SCPC but seems to keep their name out, and have previously claimed to be neutral, in the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle, at the same time as letting it be said that they are Ambazonian!

In this post Ambazonia News explores the second question which is about the absence of the word “independence” from the SCPC publicity materials on the website. Coincidentally that raises questions about the “neutral” posture mentioned in the last paragraph. In any case Ambazonia News believes the tone and content of the SCPC should belong to the entire organising committee and therefore it is up to them to ensure the publicity material and information all meet their needs.

Common sense would have it that any entities embarking on “creating and demonstrating unity of purpose” in the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle could safely assume that every entity would be for independence. Indeed it would not be an assumption as that was the main established stance in Canada. It, therefore, seems odd that the SCPC is making a concession on Ambazonian aspirations well before La République du Cameroun even enters the scene. Of course it cannot be excluded that this is just an oversight but that would be a big one. Ambazonia News expects that most participating movements or entities would pick up on such details as they tend to build up and before they realise it they have signed up to a watered down project even before La République du Cameroun turns up, if they do!

It goes without saying that what they line up to, be it the publicity of the conference or any resolutions defines their positions for posterity so the organising committee must consider their integrity and ensure that if the conference holds, that it is value for Ambazonia. It would be tragic for any members to cobble together a compromise agenda even before the conference, never mind that the conference itself is several years from any possible negotiations with La République du Cameroun.

Ambazonians need to be confident in the righteousness of their cause and proud to display it openly. The international community does not own our rights and cannot “award” us what we are not confident enough to fund, fight and free our homeland to attain.

The Most High God remains the Watchman of our nation and will guide those taking part with clarity of thought and integrity.

Find Ambazonia News’ introductory comment on the SCPC here

Or Ambazonia News’ look at the opportunity cost of the conference here.

Your comments are welcome.

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.

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?
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.

SCPC Announces Conference in Canada; questions remain

The SCPC is the “Southern Cameroons People’s Conference”. This first paragraph was meant to read ” …. has announced the Southern Cameroons People’s Conference…”. On reflection there is no “Entity” to fit into that first word/phrase. That does not negate the plausibility of the conference for there is a huge list of groups listed as the Organising Committee. The uncertainty is the origin before those groups joined the Committee. What/who was there?

Ambazonia News is inviting members of the Organising Committee to answer these questions, preferably by commenting on here or by updating their website. If they do choose the latter, please clearly indicate the section, for example by labelling it “updates” so that all can follow it.

The following in the initial set of questions that need to be addressed. Ambazonia news is going to provide some analysis of these questions including ideas from other groups, some of which are cited on the SCPC web-site as having been consulted.

Who is sponsoring the fares and costs for delegates from G0, G1 and G2(?) to travel to Canada?
Why is there no mention of “Independence” anywhere on the website and statements?
Why is **** not on the list?
How will the security of the G0 delegates be assured?
What difference will the conference make? How will conference implement its resolutions?

Ambazonia Focus – another desperate attempt to highlight “division”

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!

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”!
Their dreaded paramilitary “judicial” SED is known to have summoned many a person to explain their utterance of the very word!
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!
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.

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.

Author: Diahr Dotem