Kamto’s Luck: What he should do to serve even more.

It is no longer news that Maurice Kamto has been “pre-defeated” by the Rassemblement Democratic du Peuple Camerounais, RDPC machine. While he has been disqualified from running, he can genuinely feel relieved at not having to be one of the validators once more, given that the “consensual reform” has not come to pass in the last seven years. Ambazonia News explores a range of the options, the silver linings that this dark cloud comes with for both Kamto and the MRC.

A step back to the lucky circumstances that allowed the RDPC to win this round sees its roots, and the RDPC’s mixed blessing in “Movement pour la Renaissance du Cameroun”, MRC deciding to boycott previous “electoral farces”, thereby handing the RDPC this “solution” this time around.

So was MRC right then or now?

The MRC was right to campaign for a fairer electoral system and, even more to applaud, for putting their money where their mouth was in refusing to play validators. It was a very good sign to show a demarcation between MRC and the other comic characters who call themselves the opposition and deliberately validate a biased “electoral system” at every opportunity for a few CFA.

Where the MRC failed was in effectively galvanising the electorate and the gourvenants’ mutuality to bring about the “consensual reform” of the electoral system they [MRC] had rightly invested so much to achieve. Even the pre-defeat of Maurice Kamto should also be to MRC’s credit for risking it to achieve reform. Kamto is now in a good position to publish a white paper on the reforms of the electoral system from a relatively neutral position as he cannot be seen as calling for a system to help him win.

He is also in a similarly advantageous position to coordinate a collaboration among the genuine opposition for the same reason that he can be seen as impartial and actually be impartial, not having to contend with the awkwardness of throwing his hat in the ring as the potential single torch bearer.

His [Kamto’s] disqualification could well not be the coup that the RDPC think if MRC follow up with the courage of their conviction in marshalling the opposition from an inevitably self-less – and therefore “patriotic” position. They could call themselves selfless fighters for the republic in this term.

The electorate of LRC needs to get used to the idea that someone can have the long fight rather than the usual ruses where hundreds turn up with fanfare only to fold to the RDPC in exchange for “their share” even while lamely blaming the obviously biased and flawed system. The electorate need to see the courage in having actually kept sincere rather than place-hold and validate just to have the chance to field their candidate.

For the MRC, this cloud has a silver lining.

If the MRC takes this opportunity they can go further by also seriously thinking about the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle. Without the burden of having to convince the electorate in La République du Cameroun, they can put some real effort into understanding the whole root causes, legal positions and the inevitable need to resort to negotiations to settle the conflict. There is no urgency and therefore it is no longer a politic to promise “to visit” with the implied same-flawed implication of granting an internal solution to a wholly legally separate state. They must be prepared to think the previously unthinkable, including what may have been, unmentionable grey-sky thinking had they been contending for the La République du Cameroun, presidency.

So MRC, if you pursue your brave stances, go and talk to Ambazonians and find out how to resolve the Liberation Struggle in a mutual way. It will help you when you come back to be able to make a substantial contribution to bring a just peace and stability to this Gulf of Guinea.

First hint for a starting point: while La République du Cameroun is called La République du Cameroun, MRC needs to come to terms and bring the understanding to les gourvenants of LRC that that means Ambazonia is outside their legal borders. MRC is also in a relatively better position intellectually to grasp the idea that the name change in 1984 was a one-way irreversible move for les gourvenants, which after its signing and announcement, immediately removed any further ability LRC governments to meddle in Ambazonia’s socio-political development and evolution, thereafter.

MRC needs to use this unexpected opportunity wisely to bring and clarify the mutuality that could see both states co-exist in a more constructive neighbourly mode.

Ambazonia’s Sovereignty Amid Cameroun’s Electoral Chaos

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As we write, La République du Cameroun is in the throes of “election” fever, complete with the tragi-comic events that no fiction writer could deem plausible enough to publish! Be that as it may, they are acting it out. They are “pre-defeating” candidates while setting up processes to ensure that their “international partners” will be able to “pass the elections” as “not too flawed”. Remember that last time the “election observers” who “passed” the 2018 “elections” had as their main qualifications being white! It later emerged they had no expertise or experience, even if one goes past the utter embarrassment of continue to need rely on parading even really reputed observers.

Ambazonian independentists have issued reminders that “election” activities on their territory. It is only right to issue such reminders but is it necessary to ban? Yes and no.

It is right to “ban” to ensure our citizens are not induced to take part, be it by local fifth columnists or La République du Cameroun other agents. The ban falls fairly and squarely within the current Liberation Struggle and should be enforced by applying the appropriate and proportionate sanctions to all those who would seek to undermine our sovereignty even when it those acts are already illegal under international laws and statutes to which La République du Cameroun is signatory. For a reminder, the Ambazonia lies out side the borders of La République du Cameroun, which were frozen at their independence on 1^st January 1960. In view of this fact, La République du Cameroun’s elections, even if they were less controversial, would not be legally welcome on Ambazonian territory. In view of the potential chaos that that exercise looks likely to unleash this time around, it ill-advised for anyone to expose our territory and civilians to such potential harm.

On the other hand, banning pre-supposes there is a plausible or legitimate event to ban – there is not and there need not be an explicit ban. We work towards the day when Ambazonians will know enough to simply ignore and “vote with their feet” so to speak! Until then Ambazonian leaders must keep banning just as La République du Cameroun’s carpet-baggers unfurl their wares to make impossible promises which they cannot fulfil and do not need to fulfil as Ambazonia does not need them.

“Candidate” Kamto is on record as promising to “visit” Ambazonia, though he referred to Ambazonia as “North West and South West regions”. The positive is that he clearly sees Ambazonia as being outside La République du Cameroun though he does not acknowledge it, preferring to let his electors continue to mistake La République du Cameroun as including Ambazonia.

“Candidate” Osih has stated that he would talk to [the leaders of] Ambazonia and that he would release those in prison first. He too did not explicitly acknowledge Ambazonia as a state but did put negotiations in prospect. Even though “his” party has failed to raise a debate on Ambazonia even once in nearly nine years of killings and displacement, while collecting payments from La République du Cameroun parliament, they are still labouring under the misconception that they represent Ambazonia in that foreign parliament. In that regard he and his party’s position is more callous for they have been a literal “front” allowing La République du Cameroun to imply that Ambazonia was represented in their parliament by non-RDPC persons. It is worth noting that they also, similarly, “validated” the so-called great national dialogue where they failed to put their big “electoral” offering, “federation”, on the agenda. While his “offers” may seem plausible for a starting point, no Ambazonia can count on them as he is extremely unlikely to turn out as anything other than a validator, providing the usual “front” when the RDPC “wins”, for them to claim they won in a “contest”. Apart from the virtually impossible chance of winning, it is worth reminding Ambazonians that they are not legal La République du Cameroun citizens, living in a territory outside La République du Cameroun borders, and should not join the SDF in providing the “front” to validate RDPC and other carpet-baggers’ illegal stance on Ambazonia.

Issa Tchiroma proposed the most feasible route even if it still suffers from the mistaken view of Ambazonia as part of La République du Cameroun. He proposed a referendum to let the people express their preferences. Mistaking Ambazonia as a part of La République du Cameroun would negate the efficiency of a referendum to resolve the Liberation Struggle/”anglophone crisis” in much the same way that the so-called referendum of 1972 entrenched La République du Cameroun in a state of illegality, setting a precedent for paradoxical violations of “the” constitution. To make his proposal feasible, it would need to be coupled with the acceptance that Ambazonia is outside La République du Cameroun and then the referendum with be exclusively for Ambazonians to avoid the same “rigging” that the 1972 already-illegal referendum suffered.

Akere Muna is the ultimate front, though he is even less likely to “win”. As a lawyer, he should know the legal position on Ambazonina and therefore, should not be playing validator again. Just like SDF, he has been in comfortable opposition of the RDPC while mute on the plight of Ambazonians. He has been displaying his “bilingualism”, Ambazonia News imagines, in a bid to placate that well-known king-maker country by not being too anglophone. The very last thing Ambazonia needs is to see a stooge validating a non-solution to her demand for justice and sovereignty. Ambazonia News is relaxed about that prospect as it would be an absurdity too far for Muna to “come from nowhere” to win whether he was installed by said kingmaker of defying virtual impossibility to defeat RDPC on their own pitch with their referee, linesmen, match delegate and the very La République du Cameroun backup of homologation committees. If he beats all that, he cannot beat the secession of 1984 when Mr Biya withdrew La République du Cameroun from the mere-de facto “union” of the then “united” Republic, previously “federal” Republic of Cameroon.

Ambazonians and Ambazonia should instead concentrate on planning how to cope in the aftermath of the La République du Cameroun electoral charade before continuing to work towards a settlement which does not defy the legal reality. Defying the legal reality is any purported settlement which ignores the secession and presents Ambazonia as a helpless supplicant being granted a settlement by La République du Cameroun.

La République du Cameroun no longer has anything to offer Ambazonia as they are “forcibly occupying Ambazonia” as per HCB/28/92, the Bamenda High Court ruling in “Republic of Ambazonia vs Republic of Cameroon”.

Imminent from the Consultative Commission…

A quick heads up from Ambazonia News to alert readers of the imminent release of the Consultative Commission’s twin documents: The Final Report and The Framework.

The Report sets out the findings of the Consultation which the Coordination Team carried out to establish the wishes of Ambazonia as well as the methods they were prepared to carry out those wishes to attain their freedom.

The Framework sets out the -well, framework for the Consultative Commission in its aim to progress the Liberation Struggle to a desirable end based on the Ambazonians’ whishes as found from the initial consultation. The various officers, offices and committees are set out in a transparent way.

The expectation is that the Framework will be formalized an imminent meeting of the majority of Ambazonian Independentists groups, many of whom have been working with, and had seconded representative onto the Coordination Team of the Consultative Commission.

Ambazonia News will post both documents for download in the nearest future.

We at Ambazonia News can describe these developments as further proof, if any were needed, that The Most High God is the Watchman of Ambazonia.

Consultative Commission promises important milestones for Ambazonia in 2025

The Consultative Commission lived up to its name and held it first 2025 consultation in a Townhall on Saturday 1st of February.

Among clarifying and dispelling various misconceptions, the CC promised important milestones for the year 2025, the culmination of which would be the All-Ambazonia Conference. Among one of the questions was a keen-eyed contributor’s observation that the acronym was exactly the same AAC as the old AAC of Dr Munzu’s day.

The Commission clarified that the All-Ambazonia Conference is a conference of Ambazonians, by definition, those who implicitly, and more likely, explicitly, believe in Ambazonia’s external self-determination outside of the purview of La République du Cameroun, whereas the AAC of yore was about “anglophones” within the shadow La Republique du Cameroun. Recall that the last contributions from Dr Munzu on the Ambazonia Liberation Struggle was about some forlorn dream of a Federation to be negotiated “within” even though La Republique has been hard at work intimidating their own citizens for merely using the word “federation”. Even if there were a sizeable of “Ambazonians” still hoping for a federation with La République du Cameroun, the irony would be that Ambazonia need not worry about them as La Republique would not countenance any such “solution”.

Among the milestones Ambazonia News can list are Collaboration among Ambazonian Independentists and active upskilling in expertise to be in a better position for when negotiations come at the end of the Liberation Struggle, talking of which, another misconception that the Commission sought to dispel was the idea that the Commission was seeking to unilaterally represent Ambazonia in “imminent negotiations”. The Commission clarified that its work was to upskill, build-ridges between Ambazonians through consultations to ensure that when La Republique reaches the pinch point of a Mutually Harmful Stalemate, Ambazonian side would be “ready”, knowing what and how they wish to get from negotiations. The Commission will not represent Ambazonia without first consulting and getting their consent. In fact the Commission cannot seek to represent Ambazonia as it is not in its Terms of Reference to do any more than its current function of building bridges between, and upskilling with Ambazonian independentist groups.

Away from the Commission per se, other milestones include the Community Mobilization and Ambazonia National Reconciliation, which both show our resilience and growing maturity in first recognizing the need, and then seeking to address it. Ambazonia is here to stay as Ambazonians want it and are in charge of actualizing it.

On Community Mobilization, Ambazonia News would point the organizers toward the key role they can play, should they figure out the mechanics, in achieving the a real milestone in decolonization. Our people on G0 need to start being independent and one of the methods is to promote and implement Community Schools away from and independent of La République du Cameroun’s impositions. Were this to spread, La République du Cameroun would see any remaining vestiges of influence on Ambazonian soil evaporate even quicker than with the expulsion of their “poor-people’s children”

International partners will address Ambazonia directly and independently of La République du Cameroun. This is in the wake of Ambazonia winning the last two encounters in Switzerland and in Canada, by 2-0, where La République du Cameroun’s shambles and “lack of an adult at home” contrasted sharply with Ambazonia’s considered and mature showing at a time when the “international partners” were still inclined towards presenting the Liberation Struggle as a conflict “in Cameroon”.

The Most High God is constantly watching over us and guiding us towards our independence.

The motto is Optimism and Milestones to Reach.

Consultative Commission’s December Town Hall

PRAP deploys charm offensive with emphasis on offence!

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Probably on the back of compliments about his other videos PRAP chairman has made another video – with many contradictions and utterly counter-productive.

The Ambazomian Liberation Struggle is in the phase of “unity and collaboration” where nearly every forum is replete with calls for unity among the diaspora leaders of T Struggle. Several groups are rightly engaged in attempts to achieve levels of unity and collaboration.

Normally a leader seeking to build consensus and create a wide base of support would:

set out their plan and objectives in detail
present the plan and objectives to as wide an audience as possible
gather as much feedback as possible from the audience (and make it clear they appreciate and value the feedback)
answer (or try to) as many questions as possible (and make it clear that they appreciate the questions and feedback as nobody could, even if they tried, think of everything)
refine their plan on the basis of feedback, taking into account all the questions and attempting o address them constructively -if they are seeking to build a broad-based consensus.

Building a broad base and consensus is extremely important, if you are seeking to negotiate and wish to be seen as coming from a position of strength both by the nebulous International Community and the enemy, La République du Cameroun. This is exactly why Ambazonians in their wisdom are calling for collaboration and unity.

LRC has previously dismissed Ambazonia with “who would we talk to?” Hence the importance of building coalitions to not only project unity and strength but actually be unified and strong. This would work for Ambazonia even if La République du Cameroun fail to negotiate as it would lead to a better chance of victory even through actively expelling La République du Cameroun, and would certainly speed up the drive to get to the fabled Mutually Harmful Stalemate that would encourage the International Community to engage and intervene, to attempt a mediation.

Beyond the Liberation Struggle, it is also vital for nation-building, post-struggle, to have gained the experience of consensus building.

We at Ambazonia News hope that future interventions and videos will be in the vein of the afore-outlined scheme and for the afore-outlined reasons.

The video made by PRAP chairman on 4/12/24 was exactly the opposite of attempting to achieve unity and collaboration.

It centres heavily on personal insults towards an Ambazonian leader for daring to inspect and question ICO. Rather than offer any explanations and ideas to expand the tent as a leader would do, the chairman embarked on a tirade of personal insults exactly like a leader who is proposing to build a broad coalition to negotiate would not.
The chairman claimed there were 14 entities in APJ – fact which must be accepted as it is his word. It does raise the question whether all 14 groups approved the chairman’s video message. Ambazonia News would not, purely on the basis of probability, imagine that a consultation of the fourteen would clear the insults and counter-productive approach especially if they hope to convince others to join the process. Ambazonia News cannot assume that the video went out without being cleared, or at least previewed by the fourteen, so it would be reasonable to imagine that the fourteen are not actually equal partners who would offer transparent views to help the APJ’s objectives.
PRAP’s strategy seems to centre around “doing all they can” to “entice” LRC to the table – so much that they are calling on ARF to “give peace a chance” even before the remotest possibility that La République du Cameroun would agree to negotiate – anything. Ambazonia is in this position because LRC started a war against us for making much softer “requests”. Ambazonia News is of the view that PRAP’s approach is naive as it proposes to lay down arms even before La République du Cameroun considers their peace plan, and then to rely on the good judgement of the people who calculated that they had nothing to fix at the first mild protests and requests. They then went further to unleash militias, with a seemingly free hand in the atrocities they could commit in Ambazonia, all while claiming they were there to “protect lives and property”. Those are the people whose good judgement PRAP is relying on, after laying down arms, to grant devolution, which PRAP thinks is more “valuable” than decentralisation [or at least more likely to succeed in placating Ambazonians]. PRAP then expects [hopes, that is, for LRC have so far not heard of PRAP] that La République du Cameroun will be so impressed with downed arms, that they will agree to a referendum in five [5] years time in 2030. Two sticking points: La République du Cameroun is unlikely to agree to any of that and there are no levers the nebulous ICO proposes to pull to compel La République du Cameroun; and secondly PRAP has its work cut out to convince ARF who experience and know La République du Cameroun’s methods only too well to lay down arms on faith – or the offensive charm of PRAP, judging by the chairman’s ability not only to offend, but to post the offence to the whole planet Earth! Talk about NAIVE!

This is painful to write as no logical thought could have gone into creating the video, and certainly not into posting it, especially from a group lead by the chairman who boasts about setting up the units. What has changed so that he [or PRAP] thinks it will work to drop arms and appeal to La République du Cameroun to grant “devolution” and a referendum in five years? What is the secret? Judging by the last video the fourteen [members of APJ] may sanction another batch of personal insults but we hope instead that they will address the questions and try to persuade rather than intimidate.

The contradiction is that while PRAP are going all out to attract La République du Cameroun, they are unwilling to do the minimum to broaden their tent on the Ambazonian side!

Ambazonia will survive as she has all these years under the Watch of the Watchman of our Nation.

Consultative Commission Press Release 23rd November 2024

Press release on the proceedings of a previous CC meeting focused on current events and moves within the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle.

Longue Longue and Sir Elton John’s different experiences : two-tier CW

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The legacy of slavery is vastly underestimated. Almost every behaviour of populations around the planet owes some psychological of engrained idea from the centuries of slavery and colonialism.

Some campaigners think that there should reparations from the beneficiaries to the victims. While there is no denying there are victims, for most of the population of the world are victims even today, it is still a big call to decide who should “accept” any reparations, never mind what would constitute reparations.

In the world where capitalism has won it would be relatively simplistic, actually just plain simplistic, to attempt to place a value on what adequate reparations should be.

Having said, the foregoing, it is worth noting that reparations were agreed way back when slavery was “abolished”. Relatively recently the British Government finished paying “reparations” to the descendants and estates of former slave owners, perversely using tax money which included victims’ descendants’ contributions! The argument about the appropriateness of reparations is spurious and the British establishment is somehow hoping to get by on their “authority and integrity” or the elusive “British sense of fair play”.

This writer is of the opinion that the value of “reparations” for the evil of slavery is infinite for the enduring effects it has had and continues to have. That the final “reparations” paid to slave owners and their descendants were so recent that the source of those payments included taxes from [descendants of] victims of slavery says something about the offenders’ values than the victims. Tragically, they were able to determine financial values for the lives of the people those paragons of British Imperial society held as property. For the victims it is impossible to place a value on the reparations that must be paid, or decide where the reparations show be spent. The worst aspect of it is the idea that reparations could be the end of the story, so maybe it is better to keep learning lessons, but while learning those lessons, the West needs to stop operating proxy colonies to continue to practice latent slavery.

Today the trade which allowed human beings to uproot other human beings from the homes and transport them to “lives” as property and being valued less that beasts of burden persist on a daily basis as psychologically broken populations of the world take perilous journeys on their own effort, attempting to gain self-imposed status as slaves in the lands of the people who first built their economies and empires literally from the blood and toil of their [today’s self-transporting slaves] forebears.

They borrow all they can to fund the perverse new trade where todays slavers trade in boats and the ultimate culprits somehow “don’t” know how to defeat the traders.

Reality is that the boats and commerce can be traced very easily and halted if anyone really wanted to halt it, but today’s declining empires, despite their protestations still need the free labour that immigrants bring. It is more and more obvious that the declaration of human rights so often cited is only for the humans it was for when it was first made with many slaves still in captivity.

The King said “lessons should be learnt”, speaking at a gathering of Commonwealth Heads of Government. The lessons we learn from the Commonwealth do include the obvious one that “good governance and human rights” are only for the white parts of the club. The established pattern is that human rights abuses and corruption are tolerated in many “less white” Commonwealth member countries. This reinforces the idea that those privileges are only for the people the human rights declarations were meant to benefit, for during those declarations and afterwards and onto today, the black populations can be spared to be tortured or abused and the Commonwealth declares those abuses tolerable and measures “progress” towards democracy.

In La République du Cameroun one of the best artists was recently humiliated when the secret service published footage of him being tortured in the same week when the nominal head of government of La République du Cameroun, Joseph Dion Ngute is attending the CHOGM. As LRC is a black country, that does not matter much. So in Britain, Elton John got a knighthood and became Sir Elton John as he should, but in the darker end of the Commonwealth in 2024 his counterparts and frightened for their lives. Longue Longue is that victim.

Nor is the obvious link between such poor governance and the migrant boats so obscure. It is only common sense that better just societies around the world would drastically cut the numbers of people who fee compelled to travel thousands of miles in search of better economic opportunities even when they are elusive in reality. Instead, the King is literally patronising crooks and tyrants while asking for lessons to be learnt, by who we cannot tell.

It has been eight years now since La Republique du Cameroun has been actively killing youths in Southern Cameroons who are suspected of being separatists. Resident slaves from that territory many of who would dearly like to vacate Britain and reduce the migrant crisis, have been to the Commonwealth Secretariat to count on the club’s “values and objectives” and met with no support.

Meanwhile the head of the club has been to pose with dictator Paul Biya and receive gifts. When leaving afterwards, they applaud he progress that La Republic du Cameroun is making towards democracy! A veritable slap in the face for all those people who used to be subjects of the Queen in British Southern Cameroons.

What lessons should they learn?

The club is expanding. The neighbouring dictatorship to La Republique du Cameroon, despite being a French colony, with no colonial link to Britain, is progressing, no pun intended, towards membership of the Commonwealth. Their citizens could be forgiven, if on reading the CW charter, their imagined their lives were about to improve.

Lessons should be learnt!

The King is right about lessons and not attempting reparations. In the current world system any reparations would go in a few pockets and end up in back in European banks.

The lesson to lean is to improve the governance in the south so that more of them stay at home. But where would that leave the NHS and other western health systems? Slavery has not gone yet! It is not time to talk reparations even if an appropriate magnitude could be ventured.

Canada the Sequel: Sequels never better the original!

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.

Denis Atemnkeng (mis)Interprets Ambassador Nagy’s Comment on Ambazonia Liberation Struggle?

Below is the verbatim response from Denis Atemnkeng. judge for yourself and send your own comment.

22-08-2024
REACTION TO TIBOR NAGY COMMENTS ON RES. 1608(XV) 0F APRIL 21 1961

Denis Atemnkeng

I cannot tell what Ambassador Tibor Nagy was reacting to when he made his comments of 20 August 2024 saying that Res. 1608 is a false god. I thought we had long put behind us the idea of relying on Res. 1608. Are there still Ambazonians believing that Ambazonia can be freed through the implementation of Res. 1608? Who will implement it?

I had repeatedly rejected the idea of relying on the implementation of Res. 1608. My reasons were not because Res. 1608 is not important. Tibor Nagy has not also said that it is not important. The non-implementation of Res. 1608(XV) is the clearest proof of annexation, which is an international crime. My reasons are simple: To implement Res. 1608 involves too many issues that the UN cannot handle. For example, will Britain come back as administrator of the Southern Cameroons again? In other words, the Southern Cameroons must first resume its trusteeship status! That is an impossibility now. Ambazonia has no access to the ICJ, the only UN competent court to hear the matter; the UN has no mechanism to correct its own mistakes; the UN is not a body based on justice, but political manipulation and interests; if our matter went to the UN General Assembly, we will not be there to present our case when it is being discussed because we are not part of the UN; the UN is controlled by the Western world which is enjoying our stolen resources from LRC; Britain and France who connived to put us in this mess are UN Security members with all the powers they have to veto our matter, and so on. So as far as I am concerned, taking the matter to the UN is out of the question.

Ambassador Nagy suggested three ways by which we could have self-determination: a real referendum; defeating LRC in the battle field or LRC handing the territory back to Ambazonia. Amongst these three options, only the idea of referendum is sound. Ambazonia cannot currently defeat LRC in the battle field and LRC cannot hand back the territory.

Let us begin by understanding what we are dealing with: armed robbery; annexation, colonialism! LRC is an armed robber in Ambazonia. Nowhere in the world has colonialism voluntarily surrendered. It lives only on force, intimidation, bribery, buying of consciences and theft. That is exactly what LRC is doing.
The ways that are open for the resolution of this conflict as the following: (1) an internationally supervised referendum exclusively for the people of the Southern Cameroons; (2) Arbitration, where the two sides agree on a panel of international judges to hear their conflict, or refer the matter to the Court of Arbitration at the Hague, like Sudan and South Sudan did. These are the reasonable methods of ending this conflict. I have explained them in some detail in other papers.
Let me address the issue of referendum which some Ambazonians are still confused about. Some insist that only LRC should call for a referendum. I reject that idea. The reason is simple: we have a problem which needs a solution and our people are suffering the greater burden. Why should we not be the ones to show the solution that best resolves the conflict? By putting down a clear solution, we allow interested third parties to see the solution and put pressure on LRC to buy into it. We show the people of good faith and influence within LRC that there is a clear and reasonable solution. We show the Western world, which has pretended not to see the solution, that there is a solution they cannot deny. Remember: we must never assume that someone else is thinking about our problem more than ourselves. If we do not do so, we continue to hear stupid ideas such as special status, federation, brute force, all-inclusive dialogue and so on. The more we explain the solution that we believe can resolve the matter, the more adherents we will have to that solution. Who in the Western world will say that the voice of our people should not be heard in the search for a solution? Who will say that they believe in colonialism and illegal occupation of territory? Who will say that they believe in territorial theft? Anyone supporting LRC endorses all these evils, but it is for us to continually show this.

As colonialism is armed robbery which lives only by force, it can only yield to force, not reason. Colonialism never reasons! No colonial master has ever accepted that it will surrender. No colonial master ever began by accepting a referendum. They are only forced to accept it. They are only forced to surrender. Tibor Nagy failed to take this into account when he talks of LRC handing back the territory. Consequently, Ambazonia’s best bet is to focus on self-defense, GZ action. This must be more methodic than it has been. Serious self-defense will also do diplomacy for Ambazonia. Our diplomacy is limited to the Western world, which has double standards in its DNA. The Western world has called for justice, UN resolutions, international law and so on in the Ukraine war. But not once has it mentioned any of these words in the Ambazonian war! They don’t even bother to read our documents, because they are the law in this world.

Ambazonians, this is our liberation effort. No one will think about it better than ourselves, no matter who they may be. People should not take what Ambassador Nagy says as the Bible. We will be free. We should not delay it by misunderstanding. Let’s renew our effort to get to Buea sooner rather than later.