Elections: RC Civic status data

Shocking Revelations About The Members Of Defucnt Restoration Council

Ambazonia news has gathered details of the civic status, and therefore, their qualification, or not, to vote in the contested poll of 6th September 2022. The following are the quotes from our sources. To believe the data, it would appear only one of the Councillors could have legitimately voted, had the ECA enforced the provisions of the Modalities!

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We just completed verification of compliance to civic responsibility (CID and AR-FEE subscription status) of the 26 RC members (25 of whom voted)

Remember that the eligibility criteria to vote in the flawed electoral modalities of the defunct RC was that voters must be active CID and AR-FEE subscribers.

a) Only 3/26 RC members are active CID subscribers (Number 15 18 & 24). Six of them stopped their subscription months before the flawed elections (number 3, 10, 16, 19, 22 & 23). Seventeen of them have no CID records. ABOMINATION!

b) Only 1/26 RC member is an active AR-FEE subscriber (number 24). Strangely as you can see from the list, the only RC member that is paying both CID and AR-FEE (number 24) was declared not eligible to vote! ABOMINATION!

👉🏽Of the 26 RC members, 19 are from LGAs (less than one third of the 61 LGAs are represented)

👉🏽10 of 13 counties are POORLY represented AND 3 major counties are not represented: Bui (epitome of the liberation war), Fako (capital county) and Ndian (Amba bread basket with 9 LGAs).
Why poor representation? Mezam for example has just 3 of 7 LGAs represented, while Lebialem has 3/3 LGAs represented.

👉🏽Only Lebialem has representation from all the LGAs in the county.

THESE ARE THE 25/26 DISHONORABLE FRAUDSTERS, AMBA SHAME AND BETRAYAL OF JUSTICE WHO ORCHESTRATED THE FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS TO CROWN DEAL PASTOR CHRISTOPHER AS KING OF THEIR CULT AND WANT TO SHAMELESSLY IMPOSE THEIR FRAUD ON 8 MILLION AMBAZONIANS 👇🏽

1) Elvis K****a (Ngoketunjia. County with only 7 members in their county forum)

2) Chris*r A**a (Fontem-Lebialem)

3) Dr E**h A*****y (KMC, The chair of the commission which produced the electoral modalities)

4) A**e N*** (Fungom – Menchum)

5) Pastor Chris*****r N*****o (Santa-Mezam)

6) A***s O**u (Eyumojock – Manyu)

7) Pastor N***i A***d (Njinikom – Boyo)

8) A**m W*****m (SG RC, Lebialem origin)

9) Pastor D***y (Fundong – Boyo)

10) D*****y J****r K****l (Nwa-DMC)

11) F******k N**h (Consortium)

12) S**a T****s (EU rep)

13) L***s E******e (Mbonge – Meme)

14) M** A**h (Tubah – Mezam)

15) M***y ??? (EU rep)

16) N****n ??? (Tombel – KMC)

17) P****l B****t (Balikumbat – Ngoketunjia)

18) J******n T****e (Wabane – Lebialem)

19) B***o A*****t ( Moghamo-Momo)

20) G****n (Menemo – Momo)

21) N******c (Alou – Lebialem)

22) Edward (Wum – Menchum)

23) S******n M*****u (DMW region)

24) J****h Ekortarh (Upper Bayang – Manyu) 💙🤍💙🤍💙THE ONLY RC MEMBER PAYING CID & AR-FEE💙🤍💙🤍💙🤍💙. Yet the only RC member who did not vote!

25) L******e (EU rep)

26) Taa A***g (Bafut – Mezam)

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What to make of it

At face value this data would appear to explain the reluctance of the RC to revisit the Modalities when the Executive requested it. While this is certainly only a narrow window into the various “honorables'” contributions to the Liberation Struggle, as they could, and, indeed must, have other ways they have contributed, it does lend credence to the idea of the RC being defunct! They did not have to pass the Modalities, if indeed they did, with the provisions that would have stopped them voting! If they did pass the Modalities, they must not have read them, which makes them defunct! If they read and passed the Modalities and still voted, knowing they couldn’t, that would call into question their “honorableness” in a particularly serious way, which should have seen many of them voluntarily “request thanks” for their service! Having passed “laws” how could they be the first to break same laws?

Only one possible conclusion could accrue from the data and that is that the RC rigged the election and hoped it would all go unnoticed. They even allowed clauses that have nothing to do with elections to be tagged on and passed! For instance the A-Levels clause, the presidential pay clause and even the sheer number of typographical errors! What of the 200-year family history? Where did they get data to vet the candidates on that one?

The tragedy of the “elections” is that they used a system that would be rejected even in LRC! They must hope that it all turns out alright but nothing based on illegality and connivance ever does! Ambazonia News looks forward to the first cracks forming in the conspiracy! There is no way all that multitude could be actively involved but none of those who simply decided to look the other way, or hold their noses while condoning the flaws, can say they did not know when the edifice starts to crumble in the near future. They all saw the feedback which was public. The shouts of sabotage from the disciples of the King Makers were public. The campaign speeches by the “ECA commissioners” on behalf of certain candidates were public. The ECA also avoided producing the voter list throughout! It can only be hoped that they could not compile one for if they could, and knew that they did not have a viable voter body, it would be a disturbing collusion to encompass an entire commission! If they couldn’t it would be lamentable to ponder the idea that a whole body of commissioners lacked a courageous critical mass to come clean.

What about 90+% voting for a candidate who insisted he wanted to be paid and whose “campaign” opened with him reciting sensitive information to the public and insisting one of his assets was that he could travel on short notice when he also revealed information which should stop anyone expecting him to travel even if he wanted to do? Ambazonians must be desperate to listen to all the reasons why a candidate is unsuitable, from their own voice, to coin a phrase, and still throw in their lot simply on a “hope”! Staging elections just to stage elections is the easiest way to show your immaturity and failure to learn and adapt is a tragic illustration that we still have some way to go.

The Positive?

For once, it is a positive that we are not all collected and locked in this questionable tent. Imagine if the questions about the dealings of the Comrade turned out to be as founded as many think and everyone had allowed themselves to be corralled into his tent! Does not bear contemplating!

Ambazonia will survive and prevail! If we are mistaken about the Comrade, we will be the first to praise his achievements when he moves the Liberation Struggle forward. We promise to not say “We told you so!” and very much hope that we are mistaken.

Thankfully G0 is finally showing some common sense and judgement and quite soon a balance should be struck.

The Most High God be the Watchman of Ambazonia

Rip Queen Elizabeth II

Good save the king

Election Modalities: 1st objection

The first objection is the fact that the modalities were not brought to the people’s assembly, at the Ambazonia Peace Plan Forum ( APP), for the constitutionally required presentation. Then the document was published without the president’s signature and is being applied without that signature!

The solution?

When reminded of this the simple and most straight forward solution was to present it as required, to the APP Forum and then submitted the document to the president to sign it. This would have sufficed regardless of any amendments. A reflective and responsive institution would have accepted feedback and expedited the process with gratitude!

Find the complete Modalities here or go to the critique of section 1

Section 2 – The attributes of Presidential aspirants

In this section there is some scope for discretion from the ECA. Discretion is exactly what allows fraudulent practices to flourish. In an electoral process which seeks to boast of fairness and transparency it is best to minimise these windows.

Critique

Given the history of Ambazonia, there is no way a candidate would be able to provide documentary evidence to meet clause 2.1.1! This means discretion is introduced! Of course Ambazonia News would be pleasantly surprised to be reassured that every candidate managed to provide 200 years of background!

Critique

How was 2.1.2 decided? What excludes a 34 year old or a 71 year old? These limits do have the merit of eliminating the discretion that Ambazonia News objects to!

2.1.4 Professional, Moral and social status could be judged by letters from “reliable referees”. Granted. A reliable source of income could be establish by which criteria? Is the community to be consulted explicitly to complete this bit of vetting?

What about 2.1.6 “May have skills …”. Is that essential? Could a candidate be disqualified for an attribute the only “may” have? More scope for discretion!

2.1.8.2 There is at least one typographical error in this one and the whole concept does not cover the simple idea of visas! What are major restrictions that could impact the vetting outcome?

Look at the complete Modalities

Ambazonia Elections: Constituents Assembly resolutions on irregularities gridlock.

The Ambazonia Elections 2022 has been plagued by failures to address pre-poll challenges contrary even to the current Election Modalities, Ambazonia News understands from sources close to the deliberations.

The incumbent president raised concerns about lack of consultation, the inadequacy of some provisions and the failure initially to properly present the modalities to the Constituents Assembly or get the signature of the president before publication as a law.

Calls for these issues to be addressed were not heeded even with an acknowledgement of receipt. Instead a minority of members of the Restoration Council engaged in a campaign of intimidation labelling the challenges sabotage.

The president duly convened a Constituents General Assembly of the Ambazonia Peace Plan on Saturday 3 September 2022 to address her concerns as time runs out on a consensual resolution ahead of the poll.

After hearing from several speakers, including the key contributor to the framework for the Election Modalities and county Chairs who outlined shortcomings in the operation of the Election Commission of Ambazonia, the assembly passed several resolutions to ask the IG to regularize the document. The expert testimony confirmed that the widespread concerns about the ECA operation were a moot point as the Election Modalities could not be operational without having been signed into law by the executive.

Read the resolutions of the Ambazonia Peace Plan Constituents Assembly here.

Community Schools in Ambazonia: a growing reality, LRC confirms

In a helpful progress check for the citizens of Ambazonia, a LRC functionary has “banned” several Community Schools.

This ban is going to be as effective as the ban on scbc TV a few years ago. Actually much less so. Whatever effect it has in the short term, the long list demonstrates the increasing confidence of Ambazonians to take their dignity in hand and control their own future. In the long term the Ambazonians have decided they need to provide the opportunities their children need to unleash their creativity and join modern society.

Ambazonians can be reassured that their education system will give their children more valuable qualifications than they would get under the LRC colonial system where qualifications do not lead to any kind of social advancement. LRC’s system is riddled with nepotism and corruption so that those who get the jobs sometimes do not need to have gained any qualifications, or sometimes even have studied at all.

Congratulations to the Ambazonians for making the break. An interim curriculum is understood to be in the works and likely to be available in the near future.

Collaboration will consolidate our dignity and freedom.

Our children will shine like the stars above as the most High God is the Watchman of our nation.

Ambazonian Institutions Prove Strong In Election Process

Ambazonians

“The Most High God be the Watchman of This Nation!”, is the prayer our children make every time they sing our beautiful Ambazonian Anthem. It would appear, the Almighty is granting this prayer, for our Liberation is proceeding regardless of the wariness that has crept into many of us. Our people are enjoying and manifesting their dignity more and more openly and with less and less regard for the intimidation and repressive tactics of La Republique Du Cameroun.

Ambazonians shall prevail as a people, together of equal value and status whether they are, individually, enduring the terror of La Republique du Cameroon militias on G0, or enduring the uncertainty of life on G1, or enduring the homesickness of the Diaspora. Ambazonians all need to collaborate and hasten the growth of our collective dignity and freedom. Collaboration is the answer.

The Election Commission of Ambazonia

The Election Commission of Ambazonia, ECA, has acknowledged the weaknesses in the Election Modalities and promised to review same for future elections. This implies the ECA receives the petitions but has deemed the irregularities not to be blocking to the temporary use of the modalities.
This is the very strength that we hoped for in the ECA. The Commission must now make sure they can run the process with as few hitches as possible of their own volition. The first task hence is to duly issue the electoral list of all qualifying voters, regardless of how the ECA has deemed them qualifying.

The Restoration Council

The Restoration Council, RC, which did drop the ball on the production of the Modalities, has similarly, by implication stood up to the Executive by not caving. Unlike the ECA, RC has not yet acknowledged its weaknesses and, therefore has not deemed it necessary to self-reflect and improve. This is a weakness indeed as the RC has tended, in this whole episode to be looking down on the very people they represent and ignoring their concerns. The RC allowed itself to be misrepresented by individuals who went on the defensive to accuse all and sundry of sabotage rather than acknowledging the validity the petitions. At present, this writer would place a question mark over the relevance of the RC as a representative body for a young and vibrant Ambazonia.

The Executive

The Executive, in the person of the President has shown the strength in standing up to and highlighting a dangerous ad-hoc attitude from the RC in serious constitutional matters. In this saga Candidate Marianta Njomia was always at a disadvantage as she is acting simultaneously as the Executive and as a Candidate. It is fair to say she has invested more energy in the former role to the detriment of the latter. That can only be interpreted as a demonstration of the patriotic zeal needed to prosecute our Liberation struggle. This writer commends Candidate Marianta Njomia for making the bold decision to selflessly prioritize the right thing over the interest of her campaign for election. The point has been made and the candidate should now rely on the Ambazonian people to take up the responsibility for balancing the tension between the RC and The Presidency. This writer believes that Candidate Marianta Njomia should resume her place as a Candidate and put her program in front of the electorate.

Statement by Abdul Karim Ali.

This Statement is informed, on the one hand, by the wishes of encouragement flowing from family, friends, well-wishers and sympathizers as well as their desire, on the other hand, to know how I am doing or holding up, in detention.

I was abducted on the afternoon of August 11, 2022, at Ntamulung by the Gendarmerie of La Republique du Cameroun. I was taken to Groupement and then later to Compagnie. I was held in communicado, without permission and space to pray and without food for four days.

The conditions of my abduction are illegal and unjustified. The conditions of detention are unspeakably deplorable. My lawyers have an idea and can indulge you. My focus in this statement is to commune with you.
To my family and well wishers I want you to know that I am firmly planted and standing on your faith, good will towards me and your prayers for me. To everybody else I want you to know that God, in his divine providence, has put me here in Southern Cameroons at this time and place for a specific reason – to serve his people and his purpose.

That purpose is found in his will. His will is to seek truth and justice. Justice in this time and space in Southern Cameroons lies in bringing all parties and stakeholders together, on a dialogue table without pre-conditions, where the root cause of the raging crisis can be identified and sustainable solutions sought for culminating in the peaceful evolution, actualization and realization of the suffering people of Southern Cameroons.
This is my life’s mission and purpose. The advocacy of the inalienable right of every Southern Cameroonian to self-realization. This life mission is divinely ordained. I accept and assume it with all humility. I will live with it. I will live for it. I will suffer for it. I will be in prison for it. I am in jail for it. I will undergo torture for it. I will die for it if need be and if it came to it.

I am now undergoing psychological and physical torture for it. Even so, I do not intend to switch positions with anybody. Every passing second, minute and day I feel the pangs on my flesh and body. Even so, I must tell you that my soul and spirit are strong. The feel the fuel that powers this fortitude coming from all Southern Cameroonians, my well-wishers and the almighty God.
In this faith, and with this faith I will stand strong like the rock of my faith and the inspiration of the forebears of every resistance and struggle.

With this faith, I ask all people of good faith to help me in this journey of truth seeking and peace building. With this faith. I promise to keep up the good fight and to continue putting my family, friends and well-wishers in ‘good trouble’.

This is our appointment with destiny. This is our commitment to posterity. This is the task of the present and the hope of the future.
With this hope, I will keep standing in this contaminated water in my cell or laying down on the bug infested plank of my interrogation cell until the doors of the room open, wherein the round dialogue table stands in the middle, waiting for all stakeholders to come, sit around and seek the truth.

But before you pause to ponder about my inhumane condition, I want you to pause first and ponder the death of all the heroes of Southern Cameroons. I want you to pause and ponder the death of all the young people who are losing their lives everyday in a war that was totally avoidable and still is stoppable, even as I sit in this cell.

I want you to pause and ponder the inhumanity that has been heaped on our brothers and sisters who are languishing in the prisons if LRC simply for articulating an opinion as to their preference of a Homeland where they can self-realize and self-actualize.

When you consider all those who have paid the ultimate prize of freedom, those who are serving undeserved life sentences, those who are sitting in jails like mine uncharged, untried and not knowing what will happen to them on a daily basis, those who are scared stiff of the unpredictability and impunity of the system and those who are on their knees every minute praying for a miracle to end the war in Southern Cameroons, then you can decide for yourself what your own individual sacrifice will be.

To my wife, kids and family I beg that you keep the faith. I know and trust that you will keep trusting in what Allah has in store for us and all our People.
To my compatriots and fellow countrymen, I employ you to hold hands, tighten our ranks, keep our focus on the enemy, never losing focus of the ever tempting, corruptive, disorganizing and disruptive nature of the enemy and remember always and forever that our rendez- vous is at the foot of Mount Fako, in Buea.
To my well-wishers and the international community, I exhort you to bear with us. Please redouble your efforts in holding up the mirror to our friends and relevant stakeholders – a mirror in which the errors of history beginning with colonial greed, through UN Charter miscarriages, to unfulfilled promises and flagrant breaches of constitutional and other international legal instruments, culminating into the acknowledged, albeit failed, attempts to assimilate a people who have lost almost all sense of national and individual worth but who have now risen and now sworn never to be enslaved again in a status quo that denies them their fundamental humanity and dignity. Hold up this mirror so that there is individual national accountability to foster a sense of collective responsibility for the plight of Southern Cameroons whose claim to a UN forgotten prodigal son status cannot be denied, underestimated or ignored any longer.
Hold this mirror of history and let it reflect an international resolve and concrete efforts in pushing the parties – the Government of Cameroun and the diversified tentacles of the Southern Cameroons’ octopus, to the inevitable table of dialogue, mediation and conciliation, reassured by the hope and promise of truth, justice and peace.
I am not asking that you, the international community, do all our heavy lifting for us. The burden and the lifting rests with us. This is our duty. We, Southern Cameroonians, know it, assume it and accept it.
All we ask is that you create an enabling environment for us to stand on, pivot and do the lifting that not only you expect from us but a lifting which history and our posterity requires and expects from us – on ground Zero and everywhere in the Diaspora.

In all I pray and ask for the intercession of the Almighty God who is all knowing, all planning and all merciful. Thank you and stay blessed.

Abdul Karim Ali
Detained at the Gendarmerie Compagnie at Upstation in Bamenda

Ambazonia: Moja Moja?

The character Moja Moja has gained notoriety for his crimes in Fako.
There have been cries against the humiliation and torture he has wrought on random youth, filming the evidence for his future trial. Obviously he is not filming it for his future trial but it will be useful for that too! We attempt to draw some lessons and ironic reassurance from his seeming impunity.

What does Moja Moja achieve?
His biggest achievement is to consolidate the proof, if any were needed, for Ambazonians that they are not citizens of La Republique du Cameroun. That they should line up with the Restoration Forces and take their dignity in their own hands. The civilians of Ambazonia have quietly seized their dignity and been tentatively asserting it through the Country Sunday they observe weekly. Initially this observation could have been explained away [by LRC] as a result of threats but it is clearer and clearer that even while Ambazonia was flooded with LRC militias burning villages and shooting at school children and claiming to be “protecting lives and property” the civilians interpreted the evidence they could see. That evidence only proved their previous suffering under LRC was real and widespread. The hope of a better tomorrow would not materialise as second-class citizens of LRC. It showed that their suffering had not been because of a mistake that would soon be realised and corrected but had been a deliberate campaign to keep them as second-class plebeians with no hope of advancement.
Since the advent of Country Sunday dignity has returned. Though LRC is still extorting on check points and collecting other taxes a few window dressings have been offered and that is more than any Ambazonian ever expected. It has become crystal that Ambazonians can live separately, and must.

Now back to Moja Moja and his scheme to collect evidence for his future trial.
Apart from the evidence collection duty Moja Moja is performing another reinforcement.
He is demonstrating to the Ambazonian civilians that LRC has withdrawn and accepted defeat and that the shadows they cast are empty and would vanish at the earliest provocation. LRC is no longer trying to pretend to the international community that they have law and order in Ambazonia. If they had not set up Moja Moja in business they would, as “the government” in their duty of “protecting lives and property”, have quickly arrested him on the basis of the evidence he is collecting for his future trial.
On the other hand, if they have set him up, they are admitting defeat and Ambazonia’s righteous victory in the Liberation struggle.

We are not asking anyone who is not in the RF’s to tackle Moja Moja but just to stay calm and know that he will soon become irrelevant whether he is arrested on not. Civilians should side-step him and get on with the normal Ambazonian life collaborating with the Restoration Forces to complete our Liberation.

Why is LRC not “interferring”?
They have no legal authority in Ambazonia as explained in the previous blog with Chief Barrister Charles Taku’s responses to a couple of questions about the status of then Southern Cameroons. LRC has had de facto authority in Ambazonia only because the people of Ambazonia “consented by accepting” that “authority” by submitting to it. Now that the people object LRC could only enforce that authority militarily by crushing the uprising. They could not negotiate in the presence of any neutral parties who could examine the profound causes. If that neutral party did, they would “come upon” the absence of a union due to the fact that it was not signed, and then, even the de facto one was “violated”, setting up a track record of why Ambazonia has a reason, if one were needed, to “change” her mind about associating in a Federation with LRC. In any case even if the union had been signed, Ambazonia would still have been entitled to call the union into question and seek to withdraw from it on the basis of the violations, viz transforming to a unitary state, and then renaming it to expunge Southern Cameroons from history. Even if the union had been signed and not violated, Ambazonians individually would still be entitled to express their identity though it would be vastly more difficult.

What of the international community?
Many of the failings lie with the international community in a way. The international processes were bungled leading to the lack of a treaty and the 61 years of de facto rather than legal union. If we think about it, the international community has no interest [economic] to solve other people’s problems! The lack of union and “the violations” are not news to the international community who are rightly, or wrongly, in their interest, content to let sleeping dogs lie as long as the system is stable and they can carry on their economies. In the final analysis, the lack of union treaty need not, and would not have stopped the peoples of Ambazonia and LRC living together, had they experienced a safe and fair state. We don’t need to dwell on the meaning of “safe and fair state”. The problem only arose when injustice and corruption caused discontent , which raised grievances. Maybe the “governing” miscalculated in their idea for “solving the crisis” by crushing it. Maybe they were aware they hadn’t legal leg to stand on in a negotiation! Their chosen method has only managed over the last six years to demonstrate why Ambazonia cannot associate with LRC in any form of state, never mind that the apparent solution seems to imply LRC “granting favours” to Ambazonia! If the international community wants to help they need to make it clear to LRC that the negotiation is between two states of equal status and cannot begin with any notion that LRC “has offered” anything to Ambazonia [Southern Cameroons]. In particular reference to the kind, and ignored, advice of M Macron to Mr Biya of LRC, Ambazonia is not a de jure region of La Republique du Cameroun, which France knows existed well before the then Southern Cameroons gained independence.

In conclusion, the amazement in seeing Moja Moja apparently get away with it is because LRC may finally be aware that they will not “win” and that negotiation will only lead to separation in view of the “lack of treaty and theoretical violations”. They are reduced to out-waiting the Restoration and that is why we, the Ambazonians, must take our dignity in hand and behave free even if other agents rise to attempt to dissuade us.

Of course on our side, our Restoration forces will be working on a solution for Moja Moja’s humiliation of our people. It has to be acknowledged that our “behaving free” will be easier in the absence of such LRC militias, even if they are wrongly regarded as “part of ours”.