Category: Ambazonia Leaders

Ambazonia Consultative Commission’s Crisis Plan – Still pending but…

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In a previous post we promised to post the CC’s Crisis plan for Ambazonia [ and La République Citizens] in the [imminent] event a downward spiral in La République du Cameroun.

Since that post, there have been more pointers from La République du Cameroun.

There are now at least two videos of deliberately recorded footage by La République du Cameroun’s “Secret Services” torturing people who are in no way political threats to Mr Biya; and posted on social media. This could be some inept attempt to instil fear in the populace but, if so, it only shows that the regime has nothing to lose. If that is not the aim, it would indicate, rather further confirm the regime’s increasing loss of control over its machinery.

In Mr Biya’s home region, there was open talk of a “federal state” in the Region du Sud where protesters complained about the shenanigans of Mr Biya’s close circle. In a state built on tribalistic actions this can only be an alarming indicator of the descent to chaos that the CC’s feared as they set about drawing up the Crisis Plan.

There is also anecdotal evidence that Mr Biya’s chefs de terre are profiling citizens in their areas since one of them has reportedly requested locals to report any “strangers”. “Allogenes” is actually a term in the lexicon of the so-called “les gouvernants” of La République du Cameroun. This is the word used to distinguish people “not from this tribal area”, used by the same people whose rhetoric includes phrases like “any Camerounian should be at home anywhere in Cameroun”.

Since the start of the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle the vast majority of people who would be quickly tagged as allogenes would be the so-called internally displaced – the people who have escaped the violence in Ambazonia and sought temporary “refuge” in La République du Cameroun.

Ambazonia News hopes the plan never gains any use and that the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle comes to be resolved through negotiation, but our aim is that, should the needs arise, all those caught up in any crisis would have had some forethought and would act in a more measured, considered and inherently safer way to mitigate any risks to their physical safety.

Read the very rough draft here – we will endeavour to post any further refinements of the plan.

Biya’s “triumphant return” fails to sooth Ambazonia Consultative Commission.

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In the last few weeks fevered speculation in La République du Cameroun has outpaced their poor functionaries as they appeared to know so little about their domain.

Mr Biya’s close circle had tried to let it be “understood” that he was maintaining a “presidential silence” but that he was “fighting fit”. Eventually his ministers had to “insist” on being “trusted” that Mr Biya was “not fighting for his life”. That did not work so they upped the ante by issuing a ban on free thought – well expressing free thought anyway. At the risk of experiencing a SED “exploitation”, all expressions of concern for the health of the 91-year old weakling were prohibited.

That helped divert the speculation among ardent RDPC militants. The rest of it was an intimidation too many. A cry-wolf, which fuelled the frenzy as many found ways to explain the things that were banned and talk about the role France could play, drawing from the French record of dynastic transitions in other French colonies in Africa.

Among Ambazonians, the Consultative Commission had time to think about the consequences of the inevitable crisis brewing in La République du Cameroun as pertains to the effects it might have on Ambazonia and Ambazonians.

Ambazonia News understands a draft of the plan is in the offing over the weekend.

We invite all Ambazonians to look out for it as, we are led to believe, it contains many sensible actions and paths to follow in the event of different occurrences when nature finally wins.

With the international community explicitly issuing warnings and the inept officials of La République du Cameroun showing how far out of their depths they are … it is truer than ever that “nobody is at home” in our neighbours’ house. Ambazonia needs pray and hope someone turns up soon so that a durable peace can be negotiated.

Canada the Sequel: Sequels never better the original!

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Ambazonians and the international community know only too well the lengths to which La République du Cameroun will go to avoid the genuine and inevitable solution of the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle. As they contend with “other fish” just now, another supposed Ambazonian saviour conference is in the offing, once again in Canada! The new acronym is PRAP, which might be a witty rhyme with what it represents, on closer inspection! Luckily the Consultative Commission has rejected it as “not meeting the minimum standards”.

Throughout the “crisis”, i.e. the current phase from 2016 onwards, La République du Cameroun has realised how untenable their position actually is.

Despite HCB29/92, La République du Cameroun got away with “ignoring” the grievances and counting on the international community’s inertia to continue to “forcefully and illegally occupy” Ambazonia. It could be argued that they did not take the ruling seriously, mistaking the said inertia for support of their position. They failed to note that the international community sticks to “reality” until there is a compelling reason to switch. The reality that La République du Cameroun was entrenched in Ambazonia did not mean that the entrenchment is legal. On the contrary, it was the case that “fingers remained crossed” so that the crisis would remain legal rather than violent. Unfortunately, La République du Cameroun did not figure this out until they had unleashed the violence that would start the international community’s switch. In around 2017, slowly realising the actual importance of HCB28/92, La République du Cameroun found herself in a bind regarding her legal borders as attached to her name. For background the African charter defines borders as those acquired at independence. As such, LRC’s borders were acquired in 1960 a year before the “reunification” with Ambazonia (then British Southern Cameroons). “Reunification” was an important word as its used would justify aspects of LRC’s behaviour after the “joining”.  La République du Cameroun assumed they were getting territory back but the practicalities and expectations of international law were that it was a union of two equal-status states based on mutually exclusive consent. That is, any constitutional changes would have to have been agreed separately by both states before they could proceed. The Federal Republic should not have been altered without the separate approvals of both states. Still the reality was that La République du Cameroun was entrenched so  they “got away with it” – until 1984 when they continued the “consolidation” too far and were challenged by Gorji Dinka, who won in the HCB 28/92 ruling. Even then, La République du Cameroun still continued to get away with it because the “protest” did not have enough mass and, hence, “the reality” was that La République du Cameroun could dictate.

In 2016 when assimilation was choking, La République du Cameroun miscalculated. The “wrong teachers lawyers” could simply have been withdrawn with minimal impedance to the assimilation but impatience got the better. OK, the phenomenon of “social media” also enabled the propagation of the information about grievances, but a slow down with some semblance of acceptance of the validity of the protests would have maintained some of the “reality”, giving La République du Cameroun “time”. La République du Cameroun tried to row back on the wrong aspects, for instance toying with the idea of undoing the name change. For a time, the name “United Republic of Cameroon” re-emerged, as anyone booking flights may have found, before fading away again, probably as La République realised that La République had not legal standing to include Ambazonia in any name changes, having effectively seceded in 1984.

 La République du Cameroun has been playing for time in a simpler but also less effective way. They hope that the momentum of the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle would subside and they would co-opt enough “elites” to return to “tolerable reality”.  While waiting, they engaged in some distractions which would, they hoped, fracture the Ambazonian Liberation Movement and aid that subsidence of momentum.  They find peripheral figures from the movement or from the “elites” and engage international partners to basically flatter them,  hoping that they will be pacified by the mere stroke of being engaged. In the two previous episodes, it appears the international partners may not have been in the know about La République du Cameroun’s intentions and aims. GAC clearly were acting in good faith believing La République du Cameroun was in earnest, until the unceremonious undiplomatic “communiques”.

La République du Cameroun has now refined their method, somehow and are now repeating the scheme in “Canada, The Sequel”. New “elites” presented and the international “partner” on the end of the dangle is the Vatican, this time, as a remote future fig-leaf.  They will just have far less “important/impressive” international “coordinators” and even La République du Cameroun is more remote. The “elites” actually straight-facedly argue that Ambazonia should create peace plan – not too controversial for La République du Cameroun – and submit it [to La République du Cameroun], who will, hopefully, accept it as a basis for negotiations. They argue that omitting “independence” from the plan would help make it less unpalatable for La République du Cameroun. They also “assure” that “devolution” [how is that different from Special status, or outside La République du Cameroun control] would be a palatable word! Playing for time at its best!

First, they [La République du Cameroun] encouraged Switzerland to host the “Swiss Process” then chickened out at the last minute. “Chicken-out” is wrong, considering the aim was never to negotiate.

Enter “Canadian Facilitation Process” and a host of meetings. GAC published what they assumed was an agreed route out of the “Process”. La République du Cameroun publicly disavowed Canada.

So what did La République du Cameroun want? To play for time. They did not even play along with the flaw in the GAC’s published proposal whereby the “crisis” would have been treated as an internal problem – which could be solved through internal reforms, such as the joke “special status” dangle. Many Ambazonians made it clear they did not accept that implicit assumption and were relieved to be vindicated when La République du Cameroun took the matches to their diplomatic bridges!

Jean de Dieu Mommo, the “opposition” minister at Cameroun’s ministry of justice published a ludicrous “analysis” to say that Mr Biya was a “clever Leader” for dribbling the international community to avoid sanctions. He said nothing of the embarrassment La République du Cameroun had accrued for the international community, notably Canada in that debacle.

This month, October 2024, La République du Cameroun has deployed proxies again in a sequel to Canada!

This time they are dangling the prospect of a “meeting in the Vatican” where a “peace plan” would be discussed. Only, with straight faces, the puppets, some of whom are from the college of bishops of La République du Cameroun and peripheral figures who were once in the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle in various capacities, are contorting to describe the sequel as an opportunity for “devolution”.

Without having embarked on a trip to Damascus, they seem to have come across the “burning bush” somehow! So ignoring previous failures in  La République du Cameroun schemes, the gullible or disingenuous are hoping to sell the lesser idea to a people who have endured many more atrocities. Their clever method is  that Ambazonians should meet on their own and draw up a supplicants’ list of “requests” to submit to La République du Cameroun, who may “grant” a “negotiation”. The “puppets” warn that La République du Cameroun may “reject negotiation” if Ambazonians mention independence! So PRAP is busy crafting semantics to sign up for devolution, in whose name we don’t know! We know much less how they hope to implement their schemes. They recommend avoiding mention of “Independence” for fear that “The President” may reject the “Peace Plan”. La République has summoned and jailed anyone mentioning the word “federation” and now a group claiming to be “Ambazonians” have determined that “devolution” is the keyword likely to be acceptable … to the people they hope to negotiate with!

Actually we do know what is going on and it is the same as was going on from the Swiss Process through the Canadian Facilitation. JDDM did not know but was nearly right, La République du Cameroun had no intention to negotiate then, nor do they now. What they desperately want is to play for time and hope that the Liberation Struggle subsides. The likes of ICO are in this for their “consultancy fees” and can genuinely claim neutrality as they have no preference how the Liberation Struggle concludes.

The “Ambazonia-leaning puppets” want “peace” which La République du Cameroun calls “normalcy”. The bishops want to tend to their gullible flock, collecting offerings and consoling and promising a better life in the next life for the meek. They don’t  mind La République du Cameroun killing a few school children in Ambazonia. They are willing to demand that we must turn the other cheek and beg La République du Cameroun for devolution, careful not to use the word independence! Their accomplices such as DC don’t know what they want, unless the burning bush is on the way to Yaoundé!

The Legal and Moral Position

Having endured these years of atrocities, no Ambazonian will follow any carpet-bagger asking them to water down their aspirations to create a begging list to submit to La République du Cameroun! Yes they actually state that the “plan would be submitted to La République du Cameroun govt!”  It is not a moral position and will die a natural death under it own illogic, amorality and callousness.

La République du Cameroun being called La République du Cameroun means it has separate borders, set at their independence in 1960, to Ambazonia, whose borders were reset when La République du Cameroun revived in 1984,  and cannot grant any requests to Ambazonia! By sending those “requests” Ambazonian would be reversing their own strong position to that of a supplicant. This border protocol is in the African Charter.

La République du Cameroun also lost a case in HCB 28/92, establishing that they are illegal forceful occupiers of Ambazonia. They have nothing to grant to Ambazonia and no Ambazonian is going to submit a peace plan to them. We can discuss the route to peace as part of our formal separation process when La République du Cameroun is bound to cease the illegal forceful occupation.

Ambazonians should concentrate on consolidating their citizenship by running their own institutions no matter how small the process starts. Community schools need to be encouraged to implant the and nurture the dignity of having control separately from La République.  Ambazonian Independentists need to stick this this and communicate it clearly to International Partners as the people wish in their external self-determination.

Though Canada 2, and PRAP, will not succeed, further time-wasting schemes need to cease and that will happen when Ambazonia makes it clear – for instance through the resolutions of the Consultative Commission.

The proponents of PRAP, if they are in earnest, must be sincere and transparent. For their own sakes, they must consider the positions of all the parties they wish to “bring together” to solve the “crisis”. It is a non-starter to usurp the position of representative of one side and then, worse still to attempt to put words in their mouths, so contrary to their grievances for the purpose of draw up a plan, to which the other side has made no commitment. Even if they had, how could PRAP maintain a “neutral” position while deliberately attempting to “bargain away” Ambazonia’s position ahead of any negotiations?

Ambazonia News can only conclude that this is another in the playing-for-time schemes engineered from the opposite camp.

The Daring Move: Ambazonian Liberation Struggle Charged

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Since 2/9/23 when IG President Marianta Njomia signalled the Daring Move Ambazonian decolonisation is getting more and more real as La République du Cameroun’s militias find themselves operating in ever decreasing circles.

Ambazonians are more aware of the significance of La République du Cameroun’s apparently loony activities, such as staging marches to mark “youth day” or “National day”. In trying to prove to the international community that “normalcy” reigns, La République has proved to the international community that they are as corrupt and unjust and brutal as ever and that the normalcy that Ambazonia said no to is no more bearable nor acceptable than when it was said no to!

They have also made Ambazonians more aware of their strength and position of power in the imperceptible and pointless fight to show the international community … whatever. The said international community is not really interested and will not come and impose any terms on either side of the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle. What La République has revealed to Ambazonians is that they [LRC] are in the legal wrong and need to prove that Ambazonians consent to the “forceful and illegal” occupation. In trying so hard they have proved the contrary. Even the international community would not expect of any people to consent to the occupiers who casually kill their children on their way to school, or boast of “neutralising youths suspected of being separatists”.

The Ambazonian citizens realise that it is their actions and comportment that will determine their fate. They need to return their lives to their normal, running their own affairs in the spheres of education, social progression and economic development with no regard for La République du Cameroun, even if La République du Cameroun tries to intimidate and dissuade such practical independence – in fact, especially if they try, for that is a way of “showing the international community” what we have chosen. The international community will have to accept the reality as they are gradually doing with Somaliland.

Now to the Daring Move! The Daring Move has ensured consistent nationwide daring moves to uproot La République du Cameroun assets and structures on our soil. Be they fifth columnists (black legs) or the poor-people’s children La République deploys to try to intimidate us, the message is clear. Daring Move is for the long haul and open-ended until all vestiges of La République are uprooted and gone from our soil. It is consistent and targeted as outlined in the initial PEO of 2nd September 2023. On a weekly basis since the signal went out, La République militias and fifth columnists know impunity has ceased and expect that it is only a matter of time before they stray into the ARF+’s cross-hairs. ARF+ know their targets and are improving as they gain experience and see the effects of their dares.

When the Dares join up with mass citizen choices the outcome will only amplify. It will not help La République du Cameroun that they have their coronation to try and engineer! The supreme irony of these coronations in these increasing isolated colonies is that the country orchestrating them brutally beheaded their own monarch 250 years ago! Anyway even the subjects of La République du Cameroun are not expected to stand for a coronation even if “les gouvernants” proxy colonialists could. In the last fortnight they have managed to entertain anyone who was bothered to look with a rumpus on the crucial subject of … hiring a football coach! Seriously nothing is too minor for La République du Cameroun to show herself up!

Before that they managed to demonstrate to all Ambazonian would-be fifth columnists blacklegs that there is no mileage in that choice. The best and most devoted of them will eventually end up in SED to taste the treatments they previously meted out to innocent Ambazonians just to prove their loyalty to La République “illusoire” du Cameroun! Step forward Moja Moja and thanks for being the metaphor!

Beware would-be fifth columnists! If you escape the ARF+ you will still have to look out for your pals from La République du Cameroun. Think they will leave witnesses behind?

To the sensible and ambitious Ambazonian civilian citizens join your community and start living your dream as a free equal and meritorious citizen. Your efforts and rewards will be yours in out country. Support the ARF+ to support you. Your children will progress according to their effort in education! You will progress according to your effort and investment in your community in our country.

The Most High God and our Ancestors continue to Watch out for us.

Ambazonia is free.

Presidential Executive Order reiterates illegality of LRC occupation, rejects and bans their activities in Ambazonia

IG reaffirms Ambazonian legal “separateness” in formal ban on La République du Cameroun electioneering on Ambazonian soil.

In a new Presidential Order, signed by Interim President Mariana Njomia, the IG has cautioned Ambazonian citizens against becoming unwitting dupes of La République du Cameroun’s illegal activities in the coming months.

With the pressing need for La République du Cameroun’s seven year charade coming in 2025, it is expected that they and their allies and agents will be trying to make-believe that they have   Ambazonian representation in their country’s “gouvernants'” ranks.

The IG reminds La République du Cameroun and all her allies to stay clear of the separate demarcated national territory on Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia)  as  La République du Cameroun borders were established on 1/1/1960 in the AU Charter which La République du Cameroun has signed up to.

La République du Cameroun herself  definitively released Southern Cameroons from the oft-violated and unconfirmed “union” when they reverted  their sphere of sovereignty to their territorial borders at independence on 1/1/1960, by renaming themselves to their birth name. In that act, they irreversibly lost any rights over Southern Cameroons’ politics, economy or resources, whether they could parade any unwitting stooges or not.

As HCB28/92 implies, La République du Cameroun remains an “illegal and forceful occupier”, a status which cannot change unless Ambazonia and La République du Cameroun decide separately whether to have any form of association. In other words, Ambazonia has the sovereign decision with no regard or influence from La République du Cameroun and any intimidation, especially in the counter-productive form of colonial style terror is not moving any of our citizens anywhere but towards independence. Killing toddlers on their way to school, killing pregnant women, abducting Ambazonians, “neutralising” Ambazonian youths  because they are “suspected separatists” need to draw the condemnation and sanctions of the international community and the ICJ.

Daring Move rules of engagement already specifically authorize ARF+ to target “allies and agents” of La République du Cameroun. All those who shall attempt to carry out any activities in preparation for or in direct acts of “electioneering” or claim to represent Ambazonia in the foreign ranks of La République du Cameroun parliament or any of their “gouvernants'” institutions shall automatically join the ranks of the pre-warned legitimate targets of the ARF+.

Ambazonian citizens are well advised to assert their legal right not to be accosted or coerced by any La République du Cameroun agents as LRC has not shown cause to still be in Ambazonia, contrary to the ruling of the Bamenda High Court in HCB28/92.  They cannot hold legal elections in Ambazonia. Period.

Read the PEO here

The Most High God, and our ancestors are the Watchmen of Ambazonia.

Ambazonian Education – the question of decolonisation. “Look West!”

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DESC, the Interim Government’s Department for Education Strategic Collaboration has put forward some answers to questions about the future of Ambazonian Education. The summary is that Ambazonia will “look West” for the immediate term to solve the most pressing issue of La République du Cameroun’s continued interference with our children’s futures.

First the questions. Where is the Ambazonian Curriculum? How are our children going to be assessed and certified so that they can progress in life? How can we help? These are some of the key questions which have been tabled in APP meetings hosted by the IG to open itself to accountability in line with its “Action and Accountability”, AA, doctrine. For memory, AA, along with Building Bridges, BB, and Complementary Commitment, CC, are the pillars on which the IG manages her prosecution of the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle.

Back to DESC on Education and the way forward for Ambazonian Institutions. DESC is encouraged by the proliferation of Community Schools in Ambazonia as they show the people’s vote against La République du Cameroun’s meddling. Until now,  the big question has been the issue of examination and certification with the incongruous situation that Ambazonian Community schools have had to informally seek certification from La République du Cameroun’s appointed boards. DESC expects that the long term terminal goal for Ambazonia is to establish independent and competitive Ambazonian Exam boards to run assessment and certification for secondary education, allowing Ambazonian students to gain access to higher education institutions and universities worldwide. In the short term the most viable solution will be to seek certification, initially as external candidates, from WAEC, the West African Examination Council, and eventually, medium term, to establish Ambazonian membership of WAEC so that WAEC can run local affiliated centres.

Before further questions, Ambazonia does not need to be “recognised” to exercise the right to education and self-governance – look at Somaliland. The step away from La République du Cameroun in this domain is the next and probably most psychologically difficult but is the logical break that will see La République influence even through their fifth columnists, who like to be described as “elites”, dwindle. On this step DESC is appealing to all Ambazonian Independentist movements to collaborate by supporting all the community schools they support to make this break. At the very least they should align their charges towards this separate route from La République du Cameroun.

At primary level, our community schools can expect further orders once DESC has compiled information on the options for assessment.

On the question “how can we help?” all Ambazonians and friends of Ambazonia can contribute their expertise, knowledge and experience to help our children, learn and develop their minds in line with all other children in every other nation on our planet. If you are a specialist in E-learning, or know how to deliver such material Ambazonia needs you. If you know an organisation which is willing to donate such materials to our schools on G0 or in refugee camps in G1, Ambazonia needs you. Think that books are the past? No. Ambazonian children need them on G0 and G1. Our children need to know that we are thinking of them. Nothing is insignificant.

The Most High God is the Watchman of Ambazonia.

Feb 11 2024 – IG warns Ambazonians of Likely LRC schemes.

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La République du Cameroun seems to think that march-passes are “something” to prove normalcy.

It goes without saying that Ambazonians rejected “normalcy” way back in 2017 and embraced their independence and dignity.

Try as La République du Cameroun might, they have not been able to convince even the black legs who are tempted to collect their cash to deliver nothing. Well, apart from a cover for “les gouvernants’ ” embezzlement schemes across the border in their country, even as they have embarked on extracting blood from stones with huge price hikes for their poor.

They will, no doubt try again this year.

Under Daring Move guidelines, ARF+ are authorised to secure the dignity and sovereignty of Ambazonia from the La République du Cameroun’s illegal occupiers at all cost, protected by Ambazonia’s right to external self-determination which has variously been established in Banjul by the African Commission; in Bamenda by the Bamenda High Court in its judgement HCB 28/92, to name but these two.

Black legs and all other allies and cronies of La République du Cameroun are a legitimate targets whose time has come. The IG is warning all Ambazonia to avoid being the scapegoats this weekend.

The Most High God continues to be the Watchman of our Nation.

IG Condemns Mamfe Massacre

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There seems no limit to the depths of La République du Cameroun’s crimes against Ambazonians.

The IG has once more been forced to call the international community’s attention to one more unspeakable and barbaric massacre in Manyu County.

The new entry in La République du Cameroun’s glossary of massacres in Ambazonia is Egbekaw village in Akwaya Local Government Area (LGA) of Manyu County in Ambazonia, where on November, 6th 2023, the latest one took place. This time it was the work of La République du Cameroun’s proxies but the responsibility still belongs with the genocidaires.

May their souls rest in peace.

Read the release here.