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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

Nambere lesson for Ambazonians

The following is an old blog written, almost a year ago, when Nambere posted that “regret” video, but not passed for publication. Maybe still worth a look to keep things in perspective. With hindsight …

When Nambere laid down arms and was paraded and feted by LRC it was a difficult period for Ambazonians as many LRC commentators resorted to taunts about the liberation movement. Ambazonia News’ honest reply to such was that some fighters would be expected to grow wary under the pressure and could take a break. Thus his “break” did not spell the end of the Liberation Struggle.

Clearly Nambere believed the flattery of LRC’s agents that got him to turn-coat and promote their course only to subsequently find out that all that glittered was not gold for him.

It is also possible now that not all is as it seems with this video act! Even so there are a few lessons for all those who are subscribed to “unionism” be it federal or “decentralised”.

The long term aim of LRC is still to assimilate rather than adapt to accommodate Southern Cameroons. Otherwise, they would have sought to resolve the crisis in 2016 by, not even negotiating, but making the necessary adjustments. Far from even having to adapt in 2016, the grievances would not have arisen in the first place had there been any instinct other than assimilation. Of course even assimilation could have succeeded had tribalism, corruption, incompetence and the persistent ritual humiliation of the “brothers” not undermined it.

The other “disarmament center” tenants would have been afforded a better deal if LRC had any real desire to cease the war. That some fighters laid down arms is to do with the same optimism that lead the “founding” fathers to keep hoping that “things” would improve with time.

Sadly, or realistically, Nambere should at least have been savvy enough to know whose word he could bank, so to speak, when it comes to LRC officials. He is indicating now that he could not rely on the PM’s promise and that only reflects Nambere’s own naivety and ego being dazzled by the mere fact of being “contacted”. No disrespect but if an Ambazonian bases any decision on the word of the “Prime Minister, Head of Government” of La Republique du Cameroun they need their head examined and are better off as far away from operations as they can be! Maybe all is well that ended well!

Being flattered does not mean being in the tent! But there is still one possibility! Like another notorious “discontented” former turncoat who now engages as a part propagandist part misinformed, Nambere could well be another seedling waiting to be planted. In that case, the colourful threats to the PM, “Head of government” could be the fertilizer.

Suffice it to say no matter how much fertilizer is sprinkled such a plant is unlikely to thrive.

Ambazonia is no longer a niche where a small group could be undermined or intimidated. Too many people have taken up the cause, witness the persistent weekly enjoyment and assertion of dignity.

The Most High God keeps watching over Ambazonia

APP on 10th June 2023…

IG President Marianta Njomia is inviting one and all to the regular APP next weekend.

In line with Accountability and Action, you will be updated on efforts in progress even in this time of talking about talking.

The APP is open to all Ambazonian Independentist stakeholders in line with the IGs Building Bridges protocol. We will succeed together better and faster than individually.

The IG continues to advocate Complementary Commitment to the Diaspora and GZ. The Ambazonian Liberation Struggle will succeed through the joint application of financial, material and time contributions from the diaspora to complement the commitment of the Ambazonian Restoration Forces and GZ civilians to actualize our independence and decolonisation.

Our tiny droplets 💦 will make the ocean to flush La Republique du Cameroun off Ambazonia’s neck.

We trust in the Most High God as the Watchman of our nation.

Ambazonia Team ACT – In-coming chair promises more collaboration

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Patriot Epassamoto was introduced as the new chair of ACT in the group’s weekly meeting on 3/6/23.  He was introduced by the out-going Chair, Dr Taylor who is going to continue as one of the college of three along side Epassamoto and the soon-to-be designated next chair from MORISC.

For background information ACT is a collaboration group of several Ambazonian Liberation independentist entities which has engaged in a huge amount of capacity building and collaboration notably in the run up to the Swiss process and again in the Canadian pre talks process. Recently ACT has deployed some of that experience in navigating the spate of conference initiatives.

The Chair’s Objectives for the 6 month ahead:

Address of current chair of trio chairs of ACT on Saturday 3rd June 2023. 👇🏽

Patriotic Greetings!

We, the Interim Government (IG) of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia (FRA) will want to share the 4 main intentions of our chairmanship with all seating entities of the Ambazonian Coalition Team (ACT) (Team Ambazonia) for your appraisal, scrutiny, suggestions, consolidation and validation as action plan, so that during the subsequent 6 months it becomes our collective engagement as Team Ambazonia to work towards materializing the adopted action plan.

We will:

1) Work in strict collaboration as trio chairmanship to materialize pending projects that had been adopted by ACT (es USIP, ACT Fireside ….) as well as remain open to work with each independentist entity in ACT to present to this ACT Council, their suggestions or proposals of initiatives that will uphold the institutional strength of ACT and fast track the freedom, independence and sovereignty of Ambazonia.

We will,

2) Foster Inter-ACT member entity collaboration through effective Participation and Promotion of initiatives of ACT member entity that are geared towards fighting THE ENEMY, on the believe that the success of any ACT member entity is success for Ambazonia.
ACT member entities might differ in approach in fighting the enemy. This does not mean we are divided as the International Community would want to put it. Our differences in approach in fighting the enemy should rather be considered an indisputable strength in so long as we are UNITED in our Objective or Purpose of a FREE, INDEPENDENT and SOVEREIGN Ambazonia.

We will,

3) Make concerted effort to CATEGORICALLY REJECT THE LONG-LASTING COLONIAL MENTAL MANIPULATION OF AMBAZONIANS by ensuring that the RIGHT MINDSET is preserved and the APPROPRIATE APPELLATIONS are used in our communication within the Ambazonian community as well as, in our communication when addressing the International Community.

We are where we are today, as an invaded and suppressed people, because the western world has persistently inculcated THEIR ideology of a “dependent-freedom in the name of freedom” through a systematic and voluntary verbal inculcation of words that have manipulatively poised the mindset of our people over the years, to the extent that most of our people turn to forgo their right to total freedom and just feel privileged and satisfied for the “dipendent-freedom” or “half-freedom” package that has been fraudulently offered by the international community.

I’ll therefore be respectfully craving your indulgence to the effect that during these 6 months Chairmanship and hopefully thereafter, we all try as much as possible to use and address ourselves and the International Community with a terminology that fully dignifies who we are as a people and that fully expresses what we as leaders of different Ambazonian independentist entities are mandated to represent per the WILL of our people, without fear or favor and without mincing words.

Going forward, we should consider the need to stick firm to specific appellations that will affirm our stance and erase the decades of mental manipulation of our people.

In the prosecution and management of our liberation struggle, we should therefore rationally, strategically, tactically and persistently ADOPT the use of:

i) INDEPENDENTIST (not just stakeholder): The prime stake in our liberation struggle is the total and unconditional independence of Ambazonia. We must therefore persistently and unapologetically state the precise prime stake that we hold in the prosecution of our liberation, without leaving room for any skepticism.

ii) ENTITY(not group, not movements, not organization): An entity is a BEING, defined by her distinct and independent existence. It would be more appropriate in our communication for our different groupings or movements or organizations to be considered as ENTITIES. We should therefore say “Ambazonian Independentist ENTITIES” henceforth.

iii) PATRIOT(not comrade): A comrade is a colleague or a fellow member of an organization. It defines just the belonging. In fact a Comrade can be an accomplice in orchestrating extortion and Kidnapping, or an ally in facilitating the syphoning of community funds or a proxy in patronizing a private business agenda. A Patriot is a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors. So the word Patriot defines both a belonging and specifically defines the commitment to sacrifice temporal, economic and intellectual resources SELFLESSLY for the well-being of a People and a Nation. We are therefore Patriots in a liberation struggle because the quest of our plight is attaining a free, independent and sovereign Ambazonia, not comrades mentally manipulated to fight for internal reforms, hence a revolution in the context of a one Cameroon.

iv) LIBERATION STRUGGLE (not revolution): A Revolution is an uprising or insurgency in the context of a one nation, like One Cameroon, aimed at clamoring for internal reforms with the objective of a forcible overthrow of a government.
Conceptually we no more belong to any one Cameroon agenda nor recognize the governance of LRC.
A Liberation struggle on the other hand is an armed rebellion waged by a people to secure FREEDOM from either colonial rule or minority oppression.
We are fighting against Cameroons invasion, oppression and neocolonialism agenda of Ambazonia, hence ours is a LIBERATION STRUGGLE, not a revolution.

v) THE ENEMY LRC, her Allies, Enablers and Proxies (not just The Enemy): Going forward, we should convincingly and unapologetically use the appellation “THE ENEMY” to mean LRC, her Allies, Enablers and Proxies that we are committed to fight against.

vi) Social, Economic and Political FREEDOM (Not just Freedom)
Our quest for total and unconditional independence covers our legitimate claim as a people for the right to SOCIAL Justice, the right to manage our RESOURCES and the right to free association with other independent sovereign states.
We will therefore use and make explicitly clear to any third party that our quest for freedom entails fighting for Social, Economic and Political FREEDOM, as entailed in the UN chatter on the right to EXTERNAL SELF-DETERMINATION of a people, that denotes the legal right of a people to decide their own destiny in the international order.

We will,

4) Work in strict collaboration as trio chairmanship and upon effective and timely consultation with ACT, in BUILDING CONSENSUS FOR ALL-INCLUSIVENESS OF AMBAZONIAN INDEPENDENTIST ENTITIES.
PREMISES
We will be working in line with the ACT constitutional document and based on the premises that I will cherish to share for a better comprehension of our unflinching efforts towards BUILDING CONSENSUS FOR ALL-INCLUSIVENESS OF AMBAZONIAN INDEPENDENTIST ENTITIES.
We will work on the obligatory premise that:
a) We all represent Independentist entities that are fighting THE ENEMY LRC her Allies, Enablers and Proxies Diplomatically or/and in Self-defence or/and in Advocacy;
On the premise that:
b) Each independentist entity boarded in ACT is honestly and effectively engaging in fighting the enemy as declared to ACT or as prescribed by their constitutional document;
On the premise that
c) We should recognize, appreciate and empower the strength that each entity brings to the coalition, ACT;
On the premise that
d) ACT will remain open to and make continuous efforts to ensure all-inclusiveness of any identified Ambazonian Independentist entity that is fighting the enemy.

In summary, during this tenure of chairmanship of ACT, we would cherish to be seen ACTing (note the acronym of ACT!) as patriots of the Ambazonian liberation struggle that are putting efforts to build consensus for all-inclusiveness of the Ambazonia independentist entities without undermining the strength that any independentist entity brings to the coalition.

The rationale is that once a consensus on all-inclusiveness is attained, we can, at any given time, COLLECTIVELY decide on a REPRESENTATIVE BODY from within the coalition, when need arises, without nursing sentiments of exclusion. This will preemptively guarantee that the outcome of any deliberations sustained by a REPRESENTATIVE BODY OF ACT, that will function in strict consultation with all independentist entities within ACT, will be representative of the will of the Ambazonian people and will be Authentic, Binding and Void of spoilers.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to share these four main objectives of the IG Chairmanship tenure with you.

I am sharing this presentation in the ACT forum and await your feedback, for adoption, before presenting it officially during our upcoming ACT Fireside.

I will be reaching out to the leadership of all the Ambazonian Independentist Entities in ACT not present in this meeting, including Abdul Karim, to align the working intentions during these 6 months tenure of chairmanship.

I’ll end by extending enormous gratitude to the previous seating ACT Chair Patriot Taylor and previous outgoing ACT Chair Patriot Chebs for their efforts to bring us where we are today. I’ll be counting on their expertise and support and the support of every single Patriot in ACT to accomplish the mission statement that will be agreed upon and asigned to the current trio chair leadership.

Together we will exhale for Ambazonia.

God bless the Federal Republic of Ambazonia!

Saturday 3rd June 2023

Patriot Epassamoto
ACT Chairman
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The Banjul ruling (2009): learning points

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For six decades it appears La République du Cameroun has had one idea and scheme where Southern Cameroons is concerned. For a country plagued by corruption, incompetence and lack of commitment to the extent that “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun” has become a proverb it is remarkable how fixed and committed they appear to be on the idea of dominating and colonising Southern Cameroons.

Many episodes have cropped up to remind and dictate “logical adjustments” but every one of them has been batted away even when they could improve the prosperity of La République du Cameroun.

One such episode was the ruling of the African Commission in 2009 in the “Southern Cameroons Vs La République du Cameroun” following Kevin Mgwanga Gumne et al vs. Republic of Cameroon.

The commission went out of its way to make sure La Republique du Cameroun knew that the complainant’s case was sound. They accepted all the accounts of domination, colonisation, marginalisation and discrimination, only citing their [the Commission’s] lack of competence as a reason for not issuing sanctions.

Even so they issued a range of recommendations for La République du Cameroun to implement to solve the established problems.

The African Commission’s [water under the bridge by now] Recommendations to LRC:

  1. Abolish all discriminatory practices against people of Northwest and Southwest Cameroon, including equal usage of the English language in business transactions;
  2. Stop the transfer of accused persons from the Anglophone provinces for trial in the Francophone provinces;
  3. Ensure that every person facing criminal charges be tried under the language he/she understands. In the alternative, the Respondent State must ensure that interpreters are employed in Courts to avoid jeopardising the rights of accused persons;
  4. Locate national projects, equitably throughout the country, including Northwest and Southwest Cameroon, in accordance with economic viability as well as regional balance;
  5. Pay compensation to companies in Northwest and Southwest Cameroon, which suffered as a result of discriminatory treatment by banks;
  6. Enter into constructive dialogue with the Complainants, and in particular, SCNC and SCAPO to resolve the constitutional issues, as well as grievances which could threaten national unity; and
  7. Reform the Higher Judicial Council, by ensuring that it is composed of personalities other than the President of the Republic, the Minister for Justice and other members of the Executive Branch.

It goes without saying that La République du Cameroun not only ignored the recommendations but sought to characterise the ruling as a victory over secession even though the complainants had not intended or expected such an outcome from the case.

As “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun” they ignored the “warning signs” of having moved the complainants enough to undertake to bring the case and continued on their ill-fated course to self-destruction.

In a world where trade is easier in English as “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun”, they decided that English should be expunged so that a small group of incompetents could continue to go to Europe for health care.

Maybe it has just been incompetence all these decades. They couldn’t have actively made any of these choices, could they? They would need a base of some competence.

Given that “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun”, Ambazonia cannot afford to make any decisions that rely on La République du Cameroun’s competent choice, certainly no dependence or reliance on any action in LRC’s sole hands.

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