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SCPC: Security for G0 attendees?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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SCPC – What is the common purpose if not independence?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Find Ambazonia News’ introductory comment on the SCPC here

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

Your comments are welcome.

Ambazonia Focus – another desperate attempt to highlight “division”

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As one collaborator is laid to rest, La République du Cameroun has tried to milk the grief a poor family for all its worth in their vain attempt to steady a sinking ship. They have “honoured” the person who, in life, was subjected to frequent intimidation until he could be brought into their tent, with a post-humus decoration.

Yes someone somewhere must value trinkets from a corrupt incompetent patronage which no right thinking individual with any dignity or self-respect would approach without nose-clamps!

As if by magic, a video has surfaced to “prove” the division between “North West” and “South West”! Apparently there is “shock and consternation” that a certain long-time enabler auxiliary of La République “represented the position of the South West against the North West” in the “Grand Dialogue National” of La République du Cameroun. In the gathering of collaborators and enablers purporting to represent Southern Cameroons there was “disagreement” on Federation! This is such a vacuous idea it is tedious to even contemplate it!

  1. Their patron La République du Cameroun has sacrificed many of their poor citizens in a war which they declared partly to stop any mention of the word “federation”!
  2. Their dreaded paramilitary “judicial” SED is known to have summoned many a person to explain their utterance of the very word!
  3. If anyone has ever listened to their speeches, the single constant has been “the form of state is not up for discussion” – even if the collaborators/enablers had agreed it would have been void!
  4. Since the 1984 secession triggered by Mr Biya’s withdrawal of La République du Cameroun the from the already-dubious “United Republic of Cameroon” it became null and void to discuss anything Southern Cameroons in a context implying that La République du Cameroun had any jurisdiction over Southern Cameroons. HCB 28/92 made it clear that La République has no jurisdiction in Southern Cameroons so the collaborators’ quarrels in Yaounde would never be binding on Southern Cameroons especially as they were all chosen by the “illegal forceful Occupier” and not representatives or believers in Southern Cameroons. The Fifth Column purporting to represent Ambazonia!

Ambazonia News sees no merit in the “shocking video” other than a chance to restate the legal position and point out the aim of the revelation. This video needs to be ignored as the participants were not representing Ambazonia and their debates or arguments would not be binding. Mukete did not have a mandate from anyone in Southern Cameroons to represent the “South West” and should not have carried any voice in merely making a one-person statement. That single-person argument should then not have been assumed as the “voice” of the “South West”, much less Southern Cameroons, to the extent that they then “invented special status”. Never mind that the entire body of the meeting had no mandate in the first place!

This is an opportunity to point out the fake division orchestrated by La République du Cameroun in order to control our country through a patronage system where individuals with personal interests hold rallies and make speeches claiming that people who have lived together and in peace for all time are against each other. Southern Cameroons became West Cameroon and had several changes of government without any idea of North West nor South West! These demarcations were created and played on by La République du Cameroun and do not prevail in the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle.

Here is what to do about the “shocking evidence of the video”: read the evidence behind the “evidence” and then rejoice that our Liberation Struggle is going so well that such a convoluted and vacuous scenario is being dredged up to attempt to revive a non-existent division!

The Most High God is the Watchman of our Nation and is seeing us through.

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Ambazonia Dares…To win

IG President Marianta Njomia is inviting Ambazonia patriots to dare with her to oust La Republique du Cameroun from our territory.

Seven years is enough. Our cause is just and we must have the courage of our convictions to do what it takes to go over the line.  With the recent massacres in Ambazonia there is no argument about La Republique du Cameroun having crossed the Rubicon on numerous occasions.

While the IG is not conceding the force of argument, in true Ambazonian character, there must come a time when the argument of force imposes itself. That time is now.

But Ambazonia has great talent which can optimise our argument of force so that it is truly listened to in a way that the previously valid force of argument wasn’t.

Canadian “Talks”: What is the fuss?

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This is a “draft” post written in October 2022 in the early stages of the talk of talks-about-talks. It reflects the confusion of why Mr. Momo wrote his thesis on the Swiss Process having been a “clever ruse to diffuse the threat of sanctions” on the part of the wise Mr Biya… Little did Ambazonia News imagine the fate of the Canadian efforts! If only we had published it at the time!

After “cleverly playing the international community” it would appear Mr Biya was in a rush to engage in more “talk-washing”! The Swiss Process was a clever “play” to deflect pressure of sanctions from the “gullible” Canadians, Americans, Swiss, EU and many others. So what are the “Canadian Talks”?

La Republique du Cameroun committed a diplomatic fault be letting even the obscure Mr Momo pen his essay about duping the aforementioned international partners! The only fallout from that error was that the Ambazonians would be able to clearly tell those international partners that they could not trust any undertakings from La Republique du Cameroun … and maybe Mr Biya has now promised that if they take him into extra time, this time, “cross my heart and hope to die”, they can trust his word! Or he is being true to his genius gamesmanship and the Canadians are truly gullible!

What is on the agenda in Canada?

Nothing really! Canada, at least for now is not talks … and not even talks about talks! It could, maybe, be talks about talks about talks! The best it could be for Ambazonians is that they start to realise they need to get their act together through their own “in-house” channels of communication away from Canada. Of course the persistent danger for Ambazonians is that some invitees feel “flattered” enough and mistaken enough to assume that they are their to talk, or worse, that they can commit Ambazonia to any undertakings. They cannot and the Canadians should know that, but they [Canadians] are not “taking part” so it will be down to whoever is sitting for La Republique du Cameroun to try and turn up the flattery with the hope of at least causing some friction within the Ambazonian Liberation Movement. Fat chance! That time has passed! Ambazonia New’s view is that the interval between “rejecting” the Swiss Process and engaging the Canadian Process was suspicious in the extreme and may have been preceded by secret “flattery” of some players of the Liberation. Even so, the time when that would have mattered is gone and over!

Who is taking part?

Ambazonia News understands a wide-ish range of Ambazonian groups are taking part but that non of them think or believe they are going into “talks”. Of course, it goes without saying that the range of groups have varying degrees of “influence”. Apparently La Republique’s “people” will have the dubious blessing of the “Prime Minsiter, Head of Government” for what it is worth in La Republique du Cameroun! This understanding leads Ambazonia News to conjecture that “hopeful flattery” could well be the strategy. There once was a time when the PM could “wow” Diasporans… in those days. Any Ambazonia and other rational being, on gathering that the La Republique effort is being master-minded by “the PM” would be seriously dubious about the what game they are playing

At worst, or best, depending on which side, the Ambazonian party would say they are talking about talks and, for want of a better word, dying to know what La Republique du Cameroun is going to offer.

Ambazonia News is fascinated to see what does come out of the meeting.

What should Ambazonians at large do?

Keep calm and continue with their efforts to liberate the homeland. The “Canadian Talks” will not yield any impact on that process. Those of us who are not having to hold our noses to listen to La Republique du Cameroun’s party should count ourselves lucky and be assured and grateful that the days when flattery could turn some heads are truly gone. Certainly any heads turned would not have much leverage over the destiny of Ambazonia from these “not” Talks.

Those at the talks should make it abundantly clear, as if that were needed, that independence is not up for negotiation as there has never been a union, nor any need for one. Our mistakes have been made and we demand to learn from them and move on.

To entertain or to win?

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This is a no-brainer question. So why does it come about?

This is nothing to do with Ambazonia, or is  it?

England went 2-0 down in the current cricketing ashes series. If you don’t know about the ashes, and who doesn’t?, you probably don’t want to know … otherwise please look it up  … somewhere.

In both tests, for that is what a five-day cricket match between nations is called, England “had Australia exactly where they (England) wanted them”, but both times, England then crumble!  Well in cricket it is called “collapsed”, which is when a batting side is bowled out for very few runs. What are runs? What is bowled out?

Since you’re asking, runs are runs, they are the count of how many times the batting side runs between the wickets while they are batting. What are wickets? You probably don’t need the meanings if wicket, for there are two, actually in two ways too! The wickets first are the three wooden pillars behind the batters, who used to be batsmen, until recently when it became more appropriate to call them batters… I was saying there are two lots of these “wickets”. That is one definition. There is also the second meaning which is the idea that the bowling side has “got the wicket” of the batter and the batter is “out”.

Now with this rudimentary grasp let us look at this (un) important question. Or maybe not. The debate is raging among the pundits as to how England should have won both tests and now he 2-0 up rather than down.

For about a year now since England hired a new coach and appointed the supremely talented captain Stokes, they have breezed past all comers including the likes of India and South Africa. In case you did not know, and why should you?, when it comes to cricket neither of India and South Africa are not a push-over. You have to be good to cope with them, never mind beat them. England did. Comfortably. In fact prior to the current ashes series, England boasted something like a 10 wins in the last 11 tests or something similarly impressive so in the run up to the ashes talk was of how badly Australia would be beaten.

When England opened the batting in the first test at Edgbaston in Birmingham and piled on the runs with their refreshing play the pundits seemed to have figured it right. But, baz-ball, the name this new brand of cricket is called, proved to be double-edged as it provided the momentum to accumulate quick runs, but later ensured the “blameless recklessness”, even with Geoffrey Boycott sitting in the executive box, that ultimately snatched an unlikely defeat for the jaws of victory.

To step back a bit baz-ball is attacking “blameless” play where batters will not be blamed, even by Geoffrey Boycott, if they “give their wicket” away playing reckless shots. Stokes also reassured fans and the curious watchers that England would focus on entertaining rather than winning, Ambazonia News would infer, unlike the vulgar Australia who compete to win. So when England found themselves in a spot of bother, or should we call a sticky wicket, they stuck to entertaining. It was certainly entertaining to see wicket after English wicket tumble. And yet they kept the captain’s word!

Now having made nearly 500 runs on the first of 5 days, England decided they would quite like to drive home their dominance by getting Australia in to bat in the final hours of the day. England expected a couple of wickets to make it a perfect day.

That was not a disaster as it turned out. Australia did not collapse and by the end of the first innings there was only a handful of runs in it in England’s favour. What is an innings? Why are you asking Ambazonia News? Ambazonia will eventually get the same chance to trounce England that all teams do, but the Ambazonian Cricket Board does not exist yet … An innings is the batting teams time at the crease, which is the name of the rectangle between the wickets where the batters run to accumulate runs. It is the runs they get before 10 of their wickets fall or, as in the first day story, the captain declares. A declaration is when a captain declares, that is beckons out their batters before their wickets have fallen, usually, again as in this example, because they feel that they have enough runs to bowl out their opponents before they can match or better the runs. Australia were bowled out and the lead of 7 for England, that is since Australia managed only to accumulate 7 runs fewer than England in their innings, hardly vindicating the captain’s decision to declare.

In England’s second innings they went for baz-ball again but this time for several spells, they “gave their wickets” away. They bravely stuck to their methods and attacked the Australian bowling even if a previous more sedate England would have heeded the conditions. Ambazonia News would like to suggest that someone bowls a scrum guide into the England dressing room so that they could assimilate the idea that solving one problem as it arises on its merits would not remove the entertainment. At times the batting was as logical as a boxer attempting to break their opponent’s fist by hitting the fist with their jaw.

This time they made fewer runs and did not declare. Then, true to the entertainment mantra, they set about Australia with more attacking field placements … When side bowls their fielders attempt to catch the batters out. A catch happens if the batter hits the ball in the air and it is caught by the fielders before it touches the ground again. With only 11 fielders a captain has to place then with caution, or abandon, where they think the batter is going to send the ball. The bowler has to be accurate in where they land the ball to force the batter to play shots to get caught out or be bowled out directly. The other ways to be out other than being caught would be if the ball gets past and demolishes the wicket – the wooden pillars or if it hits the batter’s pads without first touching their bat, and they are in front of the wicket at a height where the ball would have gone on to hit the wicket.

As it turned out, England were right about Australia. The Australians batted cautiously, some said negatively, and made their runs much more slowly than England and at times looked destined to lose. Ultimately when the Australia played the shots to make the runs and win. But they were definitely less entertaining than England.

What did the entertaining captain say? That he did not mean that they would not mind losing when he issued the instruction to entertain freely .

What has this to do with Ambazonia? Well, when Ambazonia News promotes collaboration it is always for the greater aim of winning the restoration of our independence. Just like entertainment in the ashes will not be fêted if a test is lost, unity will do nobody any good in Ambazonia unless its effect is to bring the restoration of our independence.

We must not use up our maegre resources trying to engineer “unity” as nice nice as unity would be!

Ambazonia will prevail even if we keep hearing lamentations about a lack of unity. We must be mindful that some of those lamentations are from the enemy’s psychological effort to drain our resolve. Too late!

Ambazonia Endures as African “Leaders” tour Ukraine and Russia

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Their efforts have been described as a primitive attempt at waging or winning an information war. Ambazonia News contends that the minimum requirement for any information battle to qualify as such is that it must not be spotted. And yet the inept sextet, looking like an overaged boy-band pranced for the camera exactly like is not befitting for a commemorative act!

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They are the “leaders” of the continent which, though being agricultural, fell “victim” to the shortages caused by the start of the Russia-Ukraine war. What should have been an opportunity to export more of their products turned out to be an opportunity to push out the begging bowls again and amaze one an all with the astounding idea that they depend on imports of food! No comment!

Meanwhile, it has been seven years since La Republique du Cameroun launched a genocidal war on Ambazonia. Apart from attending Yaounde to receive a statue from dictator Biya, Moussa Faki, AU Commission chair has marshalled decade if silence in disrespect of all the victims of such acts on the African Continent. In Chad, Senegal, Cameroun, Sudan, … the killings have continued. The AU has continued to respect the decade of silence!

There was absolutely no irony in the motley crew, in Western styled suits marched and posed in Ukraine, where they may have expected a better review. The Ukrainians did not fall for it and frankly could have done without the circus as they continued a valiant defence of their land. Ambazonia News hails Ukraine and empathises as our Restoration Forces continue to get better and better at defending our homeland in the face of La Republique du Cameroun aggression.

Strangely, Mr Sall was making the trip in the same week when his “forces of law and order” were killing Senegalese citizens. Of course, the AU, true to form is observing this decade of silence, only breaking it occasionally to push out begging bowls.

Later on, though not too much later, an even wider cast of-shame-and-dignity-free converged on Paris to “demand” a new financial pact from the countries they assume are trying to help their economies, if they could be called such, grow. Yes, the clever African leaders came to demand-please of the Western Powers, who are squealing under a cost-of-living crisis, to bung it into their begging bowls because the Western Powers are nice. They did not come to loot Africa and nor are they doing it now! They are nice! They will find hundreds of billions to channel to Swiss banks via the African leaders’ begging bowls. Irony of ironies it is not theoretical that the bung would end up off the continent, in the case of the French colonies who still do let the nice French, who also kindly provided lavish hotels for the “sommit”, keep “their reserves” and dish out occasional “pocket money”!

To think that Ambazonia was once trapped in such a tragic farce! Dignity is priceless.

Ambazonian Liberation: sacred traditions are of the past.

This past week in Big Babanki has been a sobering and timely, full of lessons for the  Ambazonian Liberation Struggle. There was a demonstration of how collaboration should be improved on the ground. Then there was a question about the tendency to cling to traditions even when they are patently against the objective, not say actively militating against, the objectives of the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle.

In a previous post Ambazonia News outlines different aspects of collaboration, including a brief reference to how it would work on the ground.

Between ARF groups there should be a protocol for intelligence flow which, as a minimum, provides a day by day map of enemy locations on Ambazonian territory. The ideal should aim to be hourly movement with the aim that no ARF should ever be surprised again. This could work if the ARF forward intelligence in a system of trust where the groups know they can rely on each other and should eventually lead to each group backing up it’s neighbours and ensuring that La République du Cameroun militias are in as hostile an environment as can be provided for them. For this flow to work, the civilian arm of our nation must be protected and supported by the ARF, knowing that they each depend on each other unconditionally and implicitly. This need not be elaborated as Ambazonians must look forward to a more dignified life in our nation.

The second lesson of Big Babanki is that Ambazonia cannot keep being timid on the question of who is Ambazonian. Clearly being born in Ambazonia does not make one an Ambazonian and this applies without any need for explanation to those who don the flag of La République du Cameroun and pose as colonial functionaries on our land. The group that we must resolve with great urgency is those chiefs and Fons who still wield  inexplicable power despite demonstrating that they are unworthy of the deference of their sovereign subjects.  Our Fons of the past were great warriors who would be out on the battle front leading in battles to defend their subjects. They were not auxiliaries of foreign countries and, most certainly, never invited foreigners onto their ancestral land, much less ever contemplated sanctioning the deaths of any of their subjects.  If the Fon of Big Babanki had run from the battle field he would be in less disgrace,  not as much as when offering up his people and future generations to secure his 30 pieces of silver as an auxiliary. His ancestors would never welcome him again, nor any living individual who would welcome or acknowledge him on the land where they are buried.  Indeed if he abdicated to escape from a battlefield he would be less cursed and would retain some dignity as a subject. He would only be shunned. As it is he will never be mentioned again. This aberration, for it can be nothing else, will only be resolved when a new more worthy Fon is found. To that extent Big Babanki has just become the first Ambazonian village to shed it’s auxiliary La République du Cameroun colonial stooge. The twenty odd victims have not died in vain.

Other auxiliaries must also know that our Fons are servants who are there due to the consent of the people, despite the deference. It is time for them to become more worthy or “their” subjects will become similarly liberated and absolved as the Big Babanki have. As Ambazonia News understands it the Fons have to be the custodians of tradition and custom or they will be answerable to our ancestors. Their “subjects” are not slaves of tradition, which does not, in any case equate to blind adherence to the whims and feeble thoughts of Fons. So tenuous is this trust-tradition that the “traditional authorities” flip from rulers to personae non-grata, as the stooge of Kedjom Keku has realised, within the blink of an eye.

It is time to move beyond the so-called MHS for La République du Cameroun and her enablers.

Auxiliaries of La République du Cameroun cannot be custodians of tradition while they are bought and paid for and would even lift their hand against the people. Is there a better way to spot an enabler?

The Most High God remains the Watchman of our Nation.

RIP Fru Ndi

Tributes are being paid to SDF founder John Fru Ndi who has died after a period of illness. He was 81.

John Fru Ndi was once the bright hope of the Cameroons, having dared to launch the SDF in a one party state.

He is widely believed to have won LRC presidency in 1992 though the result was announced for the incumBENT REGIME and endorsed by their mentors.

As soon as that happened it was always going to be downhill from there and, sure enough, SDF gradually accepted the shilling to become a facade opposition for the one party state to continue to claim political plurality.

Worse still, when LRC declared war in 2017 and started killing “his constituents” he did not show the same daring he had when founding the SDF. He instead became the pathetic figure who was reduced to the role of an apologist for LRC atrocities on what his party still insisted on calling “anglophones” in a vain and ironic posture of being part of “the elites”.

It would appear he had too much to lose by then.

History may well record JOHN FRU NDI as a victim of FrancAfrique who was thwarted at the one instance when he could have become truly influential in the history of the Cameroons.

RIP JOHN FRU NDI