La République du Cameroun: le renouveau témoigne de son âge

In La République du Cameroun, it is over a month since the RDPC “won” – well, that is, was declared winners of the presidential poll, by Mr Biya;s hand-picked Constitutional Council.

When Mr Biya first came in 1982, his catch phrase was “renouvea”, the French for renewal. Now ailing and decided not “new”, he is fighting the people of La République du Cameroun against “renouveau”. How ironic!

This week, in more “evidence”, for want of a better word, of the RDPC’s fight against renewal in La République du Cameroun, Mr Biya’s government has deployed military units to encircle the home of Prof Maurice Kamto, he who was pre-defeated in the infamous and embarrassing, president poll, to stop his party from … meeting. Meanwhile, propagandists of Mr Biya’s RPDC have published another precious letter of congratulations on social media to show that an important foreign country state has shown implied support for the presidential poll!

At this point, Mr Biya’s RDPC seems so desperate that they have not deemed it necessary to “renew” the inept and corrupt government which had already largely survived Mr Biya’s 2018 poll rig. The question asks itself: what is Mr Biya planning to do other than fight the citizens he promised peace to in the run up to the October 12th 2025 poll rig? No movement to start using the “mandate” to govern yet but he has resorted to calling out the armed forces to stand against “the people”!

Since the poll, some of the validator “candidates” have broken their cover and started “offering to take part in a government of national unity”. In 2018, they had carried out their task by making noises and complaints about the electoral system prior to the poll, and then quickly folding and congratulating Mr Biya after the poll rig. Even back in 2018, it was clear Libii, Osih or even Muna were not contenders but were only in for the cheques. This year, they again fulfilled the same role but, having banked the cheques, they are making overtures and angling to join the gravy train that is Mr Biya’s “government”. Poor La République du Cameroun!

It is such a good time to call oneself Ambazonian! Imagine having to admit to being from La République du Cameroun. It is time for Ambazonians to return to Complimentary Commitment to actualize their freedom. All the Ambazonians out of harms way away from ground zero should do their duty and support the brave Ambazonian Restoration Forces Plus. They can do so by getting back to their choice of Independentist Entity.

Many of the major independentist groups are signatories of the Leadership Pact, working collaboratively under the umbrella of the [Ambazonian] Consultative Commission. Ambazonia News urges Ambazonians to press their chosen groups to work more actively to remove this final humiliation of of being occupied by a lame duck RDPC which is unable even to “enjoy” its stolen election victory in their own place.

Corruption in Cameroon: The Biya Administration Exposed

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Mr Biya “did so swear” again. At Ambazonia News we would gladly swear that all the fingers on his obscured hand were crossed, just as they were the previous times. Legend has it that if one swears intending to dupe or lie, or not meaning it, they avert the curse if they have their fingers crossed. Ergo, Mr Biya’s fingers must have been crossed.

In his previous term, he failed to protect the any aspect of the country’s interests, instead spending vast periods of time wasting the nations resources, he could have deployed to create health facilities for the benefit of the nation, on lavish personal provision, admittedly for his health but hardly for the benefit of the nation. On the subject of health facilities, have failed to cater for the numerous women who fell victim to a corrupt and inefficient decaying health “infrastructure”.

It is common knowledge that many women “lost” their babies delivered in the system, sometimes said to have died during birth, sometimes literally “misplaced”, as in stolen from the institutions. Some were detained after “treatment”, or, more accurately, a “stay” in “hospital”, until they could cough up the fees. He did not try to provide the basic health care, a president should, who has sworn without crossed fingers.

In La République du Cameroun, under Mr Biya’s watch, it has also become normal to openly demand bribes from travelers on numerous check-points. These check points have been constant, including during all the peaceful periods, and are openly acknowledged and understood to be a racket run by the police hierarchy to supplement their pay. That means business is stifled on a daily basis. The hard-working citizens have to factor in these extra random costs which render business completely unpredictable and anything from less rewarding to pointless. When it comes to business in LRC, any operator must first become corrupt and metaphorically willing to swim in a cesspool.

As for the young who are supposed to be beneficiaries, according to Mr Biya’s latest promise, gaining admission into any public educational institution is paid for, for the lucky. The “concours” system is known to be a racket for ministers to collect huge sums to designate the “pass list” for places such as ENAM, which, unsurprisingly, produces corrupt administrators, who borrow colossal amounts to gain access to “training” and then immediately, on graduation, try to recoup their investment. Even secondary schools generally operate on a “Tchoko” system where spaces are sold.

The ENAM graduates all rely on Mr Biya for appointments.

Mr Biya’s fingers must have been crossed in 2018 as he hardly appeared during his expiring term, instead wandering the globe usually oblivious of where he was and what he was there to do and wasting resources he could have deployed to keep some of his promises – except he had crossed fingers.

Even forgetting that he did not formally declare that he was running for the latest poll, it is still odd that he did not turn up to any campaign during the process. He also left the country during the campaign to get medical treatment abroad, highlighting hi own failure and negligence to provide health care he could rely on. This fact would be political death in any other democracy, and was for Mr Biya, except it did not matter because the poll was utterly unfair.

ELECAM, the election commission is his commission of his party members. The aforementioned administrators from ENAM are all appointed by him and they are in charge of the logistics of the poll. If one could ignore the unfairness of ELECAM and the ENAM administrators, one still has to reckon with the Constitutional Council, a group of retired judges, all members of Mr Biya’s party and appointed by him!

The upshot of all these is that Mr Biya, who has failed seven times in providing for his citizens, did not formally enter the race nor campaign AND was running genocidal conflicts in parts of the country, and therefore should not have been able to stand is a very unlikely, and unbelievable “winner”. “Unbelievable” as in “lacking credibility”. There is no credibility in any idea that anyone with the flaws Mr Biya “brought” into the campaign could have won, never mind that he did not even campaign!

Unsurprisingly, the diplomatic missions in La République du Cameroun were loath to be seen at his investiture and nor did they send him any messages of congratulations on the election. The US sent a letter to congratulate Mr Biya on his investiture. The electoral charade may as well never have happened!

Mr Biya is not the only one to blame. On reflection he could be argued to be blame-free of the whole system. Clearly he did not personally “tamper” with the ballots in “North West” or “South West” or anywhere else.

The system in La République du Cameroun is as untenable, not to say intolerable, as the French system around the 1780s. As the best student of the French Mr Biya must have ways of avoiding the fate of the French system all those centuries ago.

Whether the people of of La République du Cameroun “object” or not, Mr Biya will find that time objects more and more as he tries to navigate another term of high instructions.

Ambazonia’s route

Ambazonia had a small hope of a slightly more genuine negotiated exit from the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle thanks to Mr Tchiroma’s manifesto “commitments”, even if they fell well short. As short as they fell, they went much further, and infact, out of sight of any ideas Mr Biya has postulated. It is well known that, regardless of any double-talk, Mr Biya literally offers no solution as he hopes to defeat Ambazonia’s quest for freedom. Equally, it was always virtually certain, from experience and thr RDPC’s “efforts” in the campaign that they would resort to their back-stops in the machinery and so Mr Tchiroma’s offer was only really useful for international partners to be aware that there could be an alternative solution to Mr Biya’s and the RDPC.

The reality now is as it was before the charade was entered in La République du Cameroun; we have to win our freedom. In a way, a clear and unique goal is no bad thing and the charade has blown many entities’ cover as well, further distilling the Ambazonian camp to the truest independentists. The truest independentists with experience and stronger arguments to present to any international partners of good will.

The truest independentists with clear sight of the fifth columnist who defied shame and indignity to operate the RDPC’s fraud machines purportedly from Ambazonian soil. Their day is coming.

Ambazonia’s day is imminent.

The watch words are “Daring Move”, “Action and Accountability”, “Complimentary Commitment” and “Building Bridges”.

The Most High God is the Watchman of Ambazonia

Tchiroma “Wins” but … Biya could still be announced.

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“Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun” is a summary of an electoral process which, in any other corner of the world would not be under discussion, never mind “in the balance”.

But, as “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun”, Tchiroma’s victory, like those of Fru Ndi in 1992 and of Kamto in 2018, is still in “doubt” despite every “indication” and reasonable observation showing it as the inevitable outcome.

Mr Biya did not campaign, anymore than he did in 2018 when he “won” through control of the football, the goal posts, the referee, the match delegate … and a back stop of the “homologation committee”. “What is a homologation committee?”, some might ask. In Cameroun football, there is a committee which can change he results of league games in football, sometimes weeks after the final whistle, no jokes!

The ”doubt” over Mr Tchiroma’s victory is purely down to the “convention” that the “homologation” committee has to announce official results. Sorry we are confused at Ambazonia News! In the case of presidential polls, the equivalent of the homologation committee (of football) is the “Constitutional Council” a backstop in the true sense to ensure that the RDPC, really in this case Mr Biya would be announced as the “winner”. In football, when the homologation committees change results they cite “irregularities” and that is quite rare, but suffice it to note that they really do exist and can be dusted off in “emergencies”. The “Constitutional Council” usually stands in to “reject irregularities” raised by contenders. For instance, they would reject the irregularity that the election process is handled all over La Republique du Cameroun and in the Diaspora, literally, and managed by functionaries whose continued employment relies on patronage and membership of Mr Biya’s RDPC. Even when they cart off ballots to other locations out of sight and regularity, this homologation committee rejects complaints. Nominally the Constitutional Council is a separate arm of La Republique du Cameroun’s system, but in reality, the members are all appointed by Mr Biya and have membership of the RDPC. Hence, even though Mr Biya did not present his candidature or campaign, it is still a real possibility that he could be announced as the “winner”!

In addition to not declaring his candidature or campaigning, he has a record which would, in any other country, have shamed him out of attempting to run again – even by proxy. As “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun” his proxies announced his candidacy for him, issued his campaign on “high instructions”, started a campaign of intimidation for him and generally set about preparing the ground for the ~~homologation committee~~ Constitutional Council to announce for him again. MINAT, for instance has been threatening all and sundry with the comical idea of “the law” even though “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun”!

The bad news for RDPC this time is that Mr Biya is not physically up to it, never mind mentally! He had to be transported to Europe in the middle of the campaign for medical care, which, in any other electoral campaign where it could not be said “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun”, would spell doom for any candidate, even ones who were not responsible for not having ONE medical institution in the country where they could entrust their health care. Mr Biya has been in charge for nearly a half-century and cannot boast of being able to trust any health care institution created on his watch! But “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun”.

His proxies also tried to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear when they tried to portray Mr Biya as the “guarantor of security, women’s and young people’s interests”.

In La Republique du Cameroun, the job of youths and women is to come out and dance when Mr Biya returns from medical treatment in Europe. Clearly not all of them can do that so the rest are unemployed and unable to make ends meet. The irony of being 92, unable to handle a “run” for another seven-year term, having to leave the ~~manipulation~~ run to proxies would appear to be too subtle, given that tag and the knowledge that the top of his “out-going” administration is populated by sickly over-aged individuals, who all benefit from being able to by-pass the lack of medical institutions they can trust in their country.

In Ambazonia, which RPDC and Mr Biya like to claim to be part of La Republique du Cameroun, Mr Biya has had a lot of poor people’s children risking their lives to kill, among others, youth, women and children of Ambazonia – a logical part, were his tag to be credited, of the groups whose interests his proxies are proposing he would guarantee.

“Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun” is why there is even any tension over Mr Tchiroma’s victory when Mr Biya did not declare a candidacy, campaign or have any record to show for his previous tenure, instead only having a record that would, were “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun” not applicable, have spared everyone his name on the ballot!

Ambazonia News will re-post our Consultative Commission and Ambazonian Leadership Pact’s crisis plan. This would appear to be sorely needed to prepare our citizens as the signs are ominous and getting more so with the illogical “Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun” tension still hanging in the air like an over-staying inept, incompetent, corrupt dictator.

The Most High God is the Watchman of Ambazonia

Mr. Tchiroma’s Missteps: Ambazonian Sovereignty Explained

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As La République du Cameroun approaches their impossible conundrum of a poll, contender Tchiroma has been recounting what he “knows” of Ambazonian history – very kind of him. Ambazonians should beware and not be moved by such faint flattery. For one thing the flattery carefully avoids the important facts of Ambazonian history.

While Tchorima did state that La République du Cameroun gain independence before Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), he omitted to point out that La République du Cameroun gain her thence frozen international borders on that fateful 1st of January 1960, meaning that while La République du Cameroun is known as La République du Cameroun, Ambazonian cannot be legally or logically within her borders nor, therefore, fall under La République du Cameroun’s sovereignty. Knowing this, Mr Tchiroma, would not be able to make the promises he made or continue to imply that when/if he became President of La République du Cameroun, that he would grant favours to Ambazonia under any assumption of “internal solution” of a wholly external conflict. As the legal position stands, Ambazonia is a separate country from La République du Cameroun so any negotiations cannot proceed from any idea that La Republique du Cameroun could grant a federation to a separate “state of equal status”.

The second omission by Mr Tchiroma was that the federation, he rightly recounted, was never signed off and, therefore, both states are as if the status was still frozen at the negotiation stages between 1960 and 1961. Had the federation been signed off and respected, the provisions/terms would not have allowed any changes the form of the federal state without the separate majority approvals of both states. That is, West Cameroon and East Cameroon would have needed to separately vote for a change before it could be instituted. Even the idea of holding a referendum would have had to be agreed separately by both separate “states of equal status” in their parliaments before any such referendum could be held. The Federation already suffering from a lack of legitimacy was further abused by a “member” state against rights of the other. Mr Tchiroma left this out from his account, which means he would continue this illegality were he to somehow emerge as the “winner” of La République du Cameroun’s poll.

As if the lack of treaty and the illegal referendum were not enough, Mr Tchiroma also glossed over the 1984 decree which effectively seceded La République du Cameroun from the dubious “United Republic of Cameroon”. Though it is clear that the URC itself was a tenuous entity owing to its origins, having emerged from an incomplete federation, illegally transformed, it had the small merit of not being the La Republique du Cameroun which had borders established in 1960 without Souther Cameroons (Ambazonia). So Mr Biya open a one-way door and dragged La Republique through. The only state with the right and prerogative to choose whether to open that door again from the other side if Ambazonia. La République du Cameroun had has no further sovereignty over Ambazonia and neither Mr Tchiroma nor any other contender in La Republique du Cameroun’s poll will have any legal or logical power to grant any favours to Ambazonia under any idea of a federation, especially that state having established and demonstrated that disadvantages of any association over the last six decades.

Mr Tchiroma will also be aware that HCB 28/92 established that La République du Cameroun were illegal forceful occupiers of Ambazonia, a ruling and conundrum which remains unresolved. If Mr Tchiroma or any other runners in the La République du Cameroun poll are unaware they need to source a copy of Le Messager to peruse the ruling. Ambazonia’s self-determination is external and is non-negotiable, belonging solely to the sovereign people of Ambazonia.

Whatever promises or nods occur or are implied between any parties originating from Ambazonia, Ambazonian sovereignty cannot be traded by any of the fifth column who may want to make-believe that they represent Ambazonia in La République du Cameroun.

What Mr Tchiroma should do is promise to pursue the aborted negotiations started in Canada where Ambazonian Leaders were available to negotiate at an appropriate status external to La Republique. As Mr Tchiroma said the internal so-called “great national dialogue” was inappropriate and had no power as it wrongly sought to cast Ambazonia as internal to a state with separate far-removed borders. Even the presence of some presumptuous fifth columnists did not translate to any king of Ambazonian representation.

There is no such thing as NOSO in La République du Cameroun – your borders do not extend that far.

The Most High God is the Watchman of Ambazonia.

For meaningful peace negotiations start from the legally right premise.

Ambazonia News expects all international partners of good faith to come to the aid of La République du Cameroun’s political classes to get them to the position of accepting the legal reality that they seem to willfully ignore, and turn a blind eye to seemingly hoping “everything will be alright” even if the HCB 28/92 is still pending.

Mr. Biya’s Invisible Rule: Implications for Cameroon’s Future

La République du Cameroun charade to heat up as invisible man still favourite!

As the “official campaigning period” for La République du Cameroun presidential elections begins Mr Biya is still invisible but he has everything had under control as his proxies continue to act in his stead, creating or maintaining the myth that he is above the fray. In reality is he is below the fray! In a normal democracy he and his coterie would have left the scene in disgrace after their abject performance. Everyone knows that. The electorate knows. The contenders know and the international community knows. Apart from his political failure to deliver, when he has in fact “punished” the people, Mr Biya is in no fit state to run a country or any institution. He never was even in 2018 and has spent the last term absent and invisible. So how is “he” still running this time and slated to “win”? Ambazonia does not care. Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun and Ambazonia is not in La République du Cameroun.

In this post Ambazonia News explores the implications of the La République du Cameroun “elections” looking at the possible future long term outcomes that could flow therefrom.

RDPC and Mr Biya

Mr Biya’s La République du Cameroun has failed in negotiations with Ambazonia, resorting to sponsoring proxies to pretend to represent Ambazonia in La République du Cameroun. They allow themselves to be called “elites” and have as their main function to appear on the scene as “anglophones enjoying rights” as part of La République du Cameroun. The reason is that HCB 28/92 still hangs over La République du Cameroun and they need to maintaining a de facto representation to hold the tenuous line that Ambazonia [NOSO, as they prefer to say] is represented and they are trying to “grant” more. This line will never hold as HCP 28/92 established Ambazonia as a separate state from La République du Cameroun. The African Convention also establishes that La République du Cameroun has boundaries and borders established at independence on January 1^st 1960. Clearly Ambazonia is not within those borders. This position was triggered when Mr Biya unilaterally changed the name to the pre-Federation name, thereby, reverting, that is, turning back the clock to move La République du Cameroun back within their real borders. It is important to note that even before then, the United Republic of Cameroon, [URC]and the Federal Republic of Cameroon [FRC], before had both only existed de facto as the two states had not formalized their “joining” for Southern Cameroons independence as intended and expected by the United Nations decolonization process.

In 1984 when La République du Cameroun was reverted in Mr Biya’s decree to “consolidate unity” what he did, in fact, was to secede La République du Cameroun even from the URC, itself already fragile due to the incomplete process.

The present position is that La République du Cameroun has no sovereignty over Ambazonia and cannot grant any favours, be they special status or representation in La République du Cameroun parliament. The Ambazonia Liberation Struggle is legally won. Any negotiation would be to draw up the arrangements and processes for La République du Cameroun to withdraw and to establish a neighbourly way of co-existing. Any further idea of any “close association” would only flow after the established acceptance and demonstration that La République du Cameroun and Ambazonia are separate sovereign states making their own separate and independent decision on any association beyond being neighbours.

This is known to the RPDC and Mr. Biya as they tried in circa 2017 to revert the La République du Cameroun name to URC before, we imagine, realising they had closed a one-way door.

Other Contenders

The SDF has promised to solve the “anglophone crisis” by “leasing all prisoners” and holding reset talks. This is not a good enough promise for Ambazonia as it assumes Ambazonia is part of La République du Cameroun, needing the “grant” of an internal solution. Clearly SDF is mistaken and should take legal advice as their position, even if they could win La République du Cameroun elections and attempt it, would not resolve HCB 28/92. They need to know that any government of La République du Cameroun has not legal standing to do anything in Ambazonia.

Furthermore, in the of SDF is guilty of proving the fig leaf as part of the “representing elite” that allow La République du Cameroun to pretend “anglophones” [meaning Ambazonia] are represented in their institutions. Their recent sind-song in La République du Cameroun parliament, ironically using Ambazonian Liberation songs, only highlights their position as that”front” which has been deployed by RDPC and La République du Cameroun to “show” Ambazonian “representation”. Having failed to raise one debate about Ambazonia over the years the sing-song begs the question of how they could show their faces and claim to have any thoughts on Ambazonia. Even if they are not complicit, their act was all a clever part of the “demonstration” of representation which La République du Cameroun needs. If they are unwitting dupes, they should realise that that charade was only orchestrated to provide more media for the library of “anglophones enjoying rights and freedoms”. Reality, when they reflect on it is that they would have been picked up straight away to nearby SED, and could still be once the “elections” are “formally won” and Mr Biya’s proxies and installed. The SDF are validators as usual and performing the extra function of appearing to represent Ambazonia.

Ambazonians need to avoid this trap. The SDF will not win and their only role is to provide the front to show that “anglophones” took part and were represented. Bes avoided by Ambazonians.

Akere Muna

Barrister Muna has stated that “we will create a federation” to solve the “bad governance”. He too, strangely for an eminent lawyer, is ignoring HCB 28/92 or the fact that La République du Cameroun being La République du Cameroun means Ambazonia is outside their borders. He too is one of those validator “elites” performing the task of “showing anglophones enjoying rights and freedoms”. He has no chance of winning and if he did, his solution of a federation smacks of the same methods as Mr Biya’s RDPC, who impose. Imposition on Ambazonia would be illegal and null and void as it would not resolve the fundamental issue of separate states. De facto does not work.

Issa Tchiroma

Candidate Issa Tchiroma has been suspected in some quarters of being a trojan horse, out to dilute the “opposition” and return to his long-time coalition with RDPC when they win. Ambazonia News is not interested except in his statement that the “Anglophone Crisis” would be solved through a referendum, should he win. If he wins, the modalities of such a referendum could be explored but this is a very remote prospect which should not be taken for granted.

What Mr Tchiroma needs to do is expand the explanation and openly acknowledge that only the “anglophone regions” would have the final say in that referendum. HCB 28/92 needs to be factored in to accept that La République du Cameroun does not include Ambazonia within their borders.

Other Contenders have made vaguer noises probably being realistic about their prospects and not being dry-eye enough to make grand promises even in their roles s validators for the RDPC.

Ambazonians “Anglophones”

Ambazonia is not part of La République du Cameroun as their borders were established in 1960 before Southern Camerouns [ Ambazonia’s] independence. The Federation that was supposed to arise from the “joining” did not come to pass the treaty was not signed. Then the Federation was illegally abandoned without consulting the separate state of “West Cameroon” or “East Cameroon”. As the law stands, a vote by an Ambazonian or anglophone in any La République du Cameroun elections is completely invalid and does not count as Ambazonia is not part of that state. That may explain why Ambazonians get nothing from them. Voting would also give the false impression that you as an Ambazonia [anglophone] accept to be represented in their country. The reality is that you cannot as the legal state does not hold and cannot hold. By not taking part in their election, we Ambazonians will be showing that we are a separate county who wants them to pack up and leave so that we can start running our own country for ourselves. Imagine what we can do without those roadblocks and thieves on our roads collecting our money for no reason!

The International Partners

The international community and partners of good faith have a big role to play in educating the political classes in La République du Cameroun from RDPC to all the others to the implications of HCB 28/92 and the La République du Cameroun secession of 1984. The international partners can play a vital role in setting out the realistic position that the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle will only be resolved in genuine external self-determination negotiations. The time to that process will depend on the critical mass of the La République du Cameroun political class coming to terms with the route to peace being parted from the continued idea of NOSO.

Ambazonian leaders should sound out te international community parters and friends to undertake those contacts while the La République du Cameroun political classes are “thinking”.

Ambazonia has risen to fall no more.

The Most High God is the Watchman of our Nation