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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What lessons should they learn?

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

Lessons should be learnt!

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

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

Constitutional Vacancy in La République du Cameroun.

Today Friday 18^th October 2024 is day 46 of Mr Biya’s absence from his office in Yaounde.

As he is “not” ill, he has no reasons, not to say excuses, for being away from his “constitutional workplace” for this long without justification. Mr Biya is deemed to have resigned his post by abandoning it…

“In the event of a temporary impediment, the President of the Republic shall instruct the Prime Minister or, if the Prime Minister is unable to attend, another member of the Government, to carry out some of his functions, in the case of an express delegation.”

He is not ill as per the 8^th October Communique from his Chief of Staff, just to be clear so the 45 day limit is applicable – at least to be considered as unreasonable for anyone to be absent from their workplace without justification.

While the same communique may have claimed he was doing his job, article 8(1) defines his work place as the presidency in Yaounde, primarily, or other justifiable locations within La République du Cameroun. He certainly could not do his routine job overseas. Non-routine parts of his job would be diplomatic aspects – and nothing like being cloistered in secret in a Swiss hotel.

Certain minsters have been quick to say that there is no actual time limit at which the vacancy would be triggered but Mr Biya’s habits would have lead him to try to make it back within the disputed limit. That eh did not suggests bigger considerations than any argument about the time limits not being defined.

What should happen now?

The Constitutional Council should notice, having been been made to notice the vacancy [called resignation, if he has abandoned his place of work and his job] by the Speaker of the Lower House, and they should act to address it as by passing the torch to his constitutional heir…

That constitutional heir would be the speaker of the senate Niat Njifenji, who, sadly is in no state to step in as he is off for treatment in Europe. His vice-speaker should step in …

Quickly, it is clear that there are just too many improvisations to be called into play if the CC were to do its job. It is exactly the sort situations where the French have been known to step in to “help” and everyone can guess their “advice”.

As it happens, if the vacancy is not noticed, Barrister Tamfu has petitioned the Speaker of the Assembly to ensure he notices the vacancy and seizes the Constitutional Council.

All of the foregoing has built-in loop holes. For one thing, all the players in the chain are appointees of Mr Biya and are very unlikely to play their parts to discard him. The speaker will wait as long as possible, giving the Constitutional Council all that time to wait, before they wait again as they “deliberate”. The upshot, Ambazonia News surmises is that this law, even in spirit, is only for the poor, like most La République du Cameroun laws.

Mr Biya’s fall will, in the end, not come directly from the law. Had he been in any position to circumvent it he would have tried to get back just in time to avoid the criticism – at least avoid his lackeys having to defend his position in front of the international community. That he has not does not bode well for his basic functional health, rendering the “debate” about 45 days and any semantice and technicalities completely moot given his is very unlikely to be able to evcen contin ue to issue “high instructions” having failed to show himself “capable”. “His” [Mr Biya’s] dubious tenure has seen him burn bridges in the diplomatic arena, for instance with Switzerland and Canada most reccently, both of whom “he” duped into fools’ errands over the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle. To recall, he lead these two partner nations down the garden path of playing at “negotiations” before publicly disowning their statements. In the case of Canada, it was Global Affairs Canada’s head, the Minster of Foreign Affairs for Canada, who was disowned summarily contracdicted, having been misled to publicly announce dealings known as Pre-Talks between La Republique and Ambazonia. If La République du Cameroun had dispatched a functionary to slap her in the face that could not have been more offensive.

In Switzerland’s case, La Republique du Cameroun allowed a peripheral “opposition” minister delegate to issue an op-ed claiming Mr Biya was a genius for dribbling the international community away from sanctions. An admission of the genocidal crimes coupled with offending international partners – quite apart from the establishment of a reputation as unreliable.

These two are only the overt players in the scene and, as is the way of international partners, there will be others whose bridges were torched less publicly in the same, or related episodes.

Ambazonia News brings these examples to show that “dirty launders” of the vacancy could not have come at a worse time – the lowest ebb of “trust”. The secondary losses will fall on France who will have to further break cover when the try to crown their preferred “dauphin”, if their shenanigans in other French colonies is to be engaged again. Their standing in region is already tenuous and with the capital they have deployed in supporting La République du Cameroun’s genocidal war against Ambazonia they will need to have a lot of credit to burn, or a colossal amount to gain, to risk the attempt of a coronation in La République du Cameroun. If they do not line up their ducks, they will come unstuck especially in a theatre already primed and ready for exploitation by any disgruntled frenemies.

As Ambazonia News conjectured on the eve of expiry of the 45-day “understanding”, it does not matter much whether Mr Biya returns or not and there is hardly any credit to be had for dying in service, given that he has never been in service and would likely have died showing his disdain for the country he was claiming to serve – frequenting a foreign health facility for his own failure ro cause the creation of one within “his” country, which fellow citizens could benefit from as part of his legacy. Instead, he would be shown to have chosen to lavish resources on himself and his cronies while leaving abject poverty, incompetence, ineptitude and anarchy as his legacy.

His name would be “mud” so the French would have their work cut out to sustain a dynastic transition.

It will be intriguing to see how it unfolds in the next few days and weeks and months.

Paul Biya: La Republique du Cameroun goes too far again!

As these words are committed Mr Biya is spending his 44th day outside of Yaounde and Cameroun. In order not to fall foul of his constitution, he needs to return by Thursday 17th October 2024. But that is still not the end of it nor should it be. To be clear Ambazonia News couldn’t be less concerned with the functioning of Cameroun in any aspects that do not concern Ambazonia. Their constitution clearly does not concern Ambazonia in whether it is respected or abused. Whatever mechanisms and technicalities are used to help Mr Biya “comply”, will do no more than kick the can beyond the end of the road. It would not be outlandish to see a blinded vehicle driven through Yaounde with the insistence that the contents are Mr Biya’s “resting a recuperating” personification of bravery and service for returning in time to avoid depriving La République du Cameroun of his service. Some idle people would them bite into the futile “debate” of a back-and-forth of whether it is actually him or whether he is alive…

The question for any thinking person would be whether it matters whether Mr Biya returns dead or alive. The answer would be “No”. He is in no state to run a bath, never mind any country. He has not been for a long time – which begs the question why is he hanging on? Is he covering while some forces manipulate in the background or is he actually convinced that he is serving La République du Cameroun, or even that he has ever served? The answers would be a guess as he is notoriously slot-like in avoiding any kind of effort. It is questionable whether he has ever read any paper or had any discussion or thought in the last at least twenty years. Many incredulous Camerounese like to make excuses for him, claiming that the corruption and ineptitude could not be visible to him or he would act against it! Ambazonia News would be of the editorial view that if he were alive and serving La République at any stage he would have noticed even by mistake. Clearly he has been seen alive all these years and that means he has not been serving – certainly cannot claim to have been serving. Instead, he lets others insist he is and that he is serving so well La République du Cameroun would be lost without him! They are strange people. If he has been alive and alert the only conclusion would be that he despises La République du Cameroun, proof being that he avoids any stays there, basing his itinerary on the need to avoid the 45 days out that would require him to have to justify the unjustifiable. That constitutional unjustifiable is actually minor for La République du Cameroun as they would go out of their way to find their own justification for such a great and irreplaceable servant, without whom they would be lost.

The more difficult justification would be the office-sitting he has done so many years when he clearly hates the country! What is the proof that he hates the country? He is about to die out the country getting “rest and recuperation” abroad because there is literally no health facility in La République du Cameroun, either for him to have that “rest and recuperation” or any of his, illogically, grateful acolytes to be treated for the most mundane ailment. That after so many years of “serving” La République du Cameroun. He hates it there and had remain as a block on the futures of youth of La République du Cameroun. Why?

Does La République need him back whether dead or live? Does it matter? In view of his actions and attitudes during his tenuous tenure it is arguable that the former state would be preferable and more beneficial to La République du Cameroun as the block would disappear and Camerounese would finally start looking forward and be forced to replace the irreplaceable. Some common sense and stability in La République du Cameroun and the advent of a leader could lead to a faster acceptance that Ambazonia and La République need to chart their separate paths. Anyone serving the country would not keep dispatching the poor citizens’ children to die trying to kill Ambazonians in a completely futile attempt to prolong and preserve an illegal and forceful occupation of Ambazonia.

He does not have to return. He can remain where he likes to be but the irrationally child-likely helpless Camerounese would have to stand on their own two feet.

So Mr Biya, you have nothing more to prove. Go [stay away] for pity’s sake! Camerounese have never offended or wronged you, have they? Let them fledge! Please!

Advancing the Ambazonian Cause

In 2023 large a segment of the Ambazonian community was subjected to various schemes on how to find a peaceful solution to the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle.

By definition “the” solution to a liberation struggle can only be liberation. And yet many of the afore-mentioned schemes dwelled on the nebulous idea of a negotiated settlement with the opaque notion of “inclusivity” which implied Ambazonians should include the whole spectrum from the ARF+ actively risking their lives to expel La République du Cameroun, to “federalists”. While it was ultimately self-defeating to attempt to build a mass of squabbling parties hardly able to agree among themselves on what to negotiate for, that was not the weakest point of most of those schemes. Some of them sought to be more “inclusive” by including “unionists” in order to prove how much more “reasonable” than La République du Cameroun Ambazonians are! Yes, they tried, in earnest, to sell the idea that unionists, who one would not imagine tolerating a label of “Ambazonian”, should be part of conferences to form Ambazonian “positions” to take to the ” international community ” to take to La République du Cameroun to compel her to “to grant” a referendum to allow “all” Ambazonians to decide. Not only has the international community kept their counsel even in the face of shootings of toddlers on their way to school, for one and various other atrocities, it is also clear that La République du Cameroun has no legal status nor inclination to proceed as the schemers proposed. Why would they give up the simpler and more straightforward opportunity to pacify a relatively small protest, burning diplomatic bridges subsequently and then “grant” more than they would have had to earlier and at lower cost? Granted, it is theoretically possible when a state of “mutually harmful stalemate” is reached but that is, to say the least, remote; and, in fact only undermined by a naïve coalition with the fail-assured feature of trying to get La République’s allies to “help” draw up a “possible” negotiation strategy on behalf of Ambazonia.

Those schemes have accrued what logic dictated they “could” – no progress towards any solution. La République du Cameroun spent the year trying to prove “normalcy”, another of those typically La République du Cameroun words, had returned. “Normalcy” is the unjust, unfair, nepotistic, corrupt system in which Ambazonians were rooted to the base of a proxy colonial hegemony which hardly benefitted any of the “subjects” of La République du Cameroun, but gave them the illusion of being better off than “Les Bamendas”.

They thought if they could convince the nebulous international community that they had a corrupt stable system they could avoid criticism. As absurd as the strategy was it was more logical than the idea of an inclusive Ambazonian coalition for negotiation. After all some experts pointed out that referenda are normally requested by “state parties”, in our case, that meant La République du Cameroun would tremble at the consensus of our coalition and ask the international community to run a referendum for us.

Cynics would suggest the conference fiver season was a time wasting scheme to try to dampen the momentum of the liberation struggle.

It did not work …

How should/could the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle be advanced from here?

Given that La République du Cameroun is not looking like negotiating anytime soon, preferring to rely on out-waiting Ambazonia it is time to move on, and moving on is relatively straightforward in its meaning. Ambazonians need to start actively exercising their independence by running their own affairs.

One domain where this should be propagated is education. Ambazonian Community Institutions need to expand. It was already always the case that schools in Ambazonia were paid for by the community even when “created” by La République du Cameroun’s empirical edict.

There are thousands of Community schools in Ambazonia where the running and management is Ambazonian. They need to go the extra final step and implement the Ambazonian Curriculum and Ambazonian School calendar. Those two steps would notify the international community more than any perfectly crafted negotiating position that any coalition could device if the conferences were to take place. Those acts would also break the “waiting” state that Ambazonian citizens have been in during the Liberation Struggle by assuring all Ambazonian parents of their children’s normal and continued development – the well known ambition of all Ambazonian parents.

The third strand in the education battle would be certification and all Ambazonian Entities vying for independence should don their thinking hearts and device a way to by-pass any La République du Cameroun involvement in assessment and certification. Even before the Liberation Struggle La République du Cameroun’s involvement had diluted and trashed our children’s certificates to the point where even after taking post-sixteen exams in English they still needed to take language assessments before they could be admitted to higher education abroad. That problem would therefore be solved with the knowledge that Ambazonian assessments have the integrity that La République du Cameroun systems singularly lack – quite apart from the desire for independence.

In summary Ambazonia’s future is in Ambazonian hands to do.

The Most High God continues to be our Watchman and will inspire