Some of us from West of the Mungo and Metazem Rivers speak with so much
pride of the advent of AAC I, its evolution, to SCNC, and eventually its metamorphosis into the
Ambazonia project that gained prominence from an "epakay" of the struggle for "The New
Cameroon"(in Anglophone Cameroon) that civic-nationalists had judiciously
nurtured for almost two decades, and that Teachers and lawyers launched in 2016.
And curiously enough, you and your group do not recognize the fact that you
ended up as spoilers, unconscious agents of the system, since your divisive,
one-side outlook and approach weakened Anglophone Cameroon and Anglophone
Cameroonians, and inadvertently gave a life line to the suffocating system that
was heaving out its last breaths (with most pundits convinced at the time that it
could not survive beyond 2018).
The Biya regime, the French-imposed
system that it is cocooned in, got a new lease of life in 1994 and 2016 by wrapping
itself around the flag as the establishment trying to keep Cameroon together (
a usurpation of the roles of the civic-nationalist or advanced patriots from
the times of the historic UPC to the historic SDF of 1990-1997 that had just
been bolstered by the migrants from the historic UPC) from your group that was
pursuing its goals clueless about history causality, chronology, and analogy,
as if Southern Cameroon’s case was unique. How could you guys expect that CPDM
people in the government serving as custodians of the system (Ebong Ngolle, etc.) would work in AACI and SCNC against the
establishment; how could you expect that the early AAC and SCNC, whose ranks were swollen by “Obvious enemies
of the people”, could be for “Southern
Cameroon’s ‘Reality-defying independence
'”
I understood the perilous
nature of the path you guys were pushing Anglophone Cameroonians toward,
knowing that you were undermining civic-nationalism or advanced patriotism of
Cameroonians at a time when it was at its strongest, was panicking FrancAfrique,
had disarrayed the global mafia, and was championed by the SDF dominated by civic-nationalists at whose head
was an Anglophone. It was after your ill-fated move in 1994 that the SDF
started disintegrating, leading to the ascendancy of the pro-Anglophone and collaborationist
or union-government factions that eventually turned the once historic SDF into
the moribund party that it is today. The scientifically revolutionary and all-embracing
civic-nationalists, in their advanced patriotism in Anglophone Cameroon, were regrouping
again and taking the lead when your group (Ambazonia), came in again with
impossible dreams and untruths or ignorant beliefs, thus polarising the
population west of the Metazem and Mungo Rivers---ostracising more than 30% of
the population and making more than 60% of the population blacklegs for failing
to support you blindly. By saying you, I don’t mean you alone,
but the group you identify with.
It is 2026, ten years after. It
is time to make honest assessments, put away self-delusions, and embrace
universal truths; and it is time to think revolutionarily in the classic sense
of the word. Divisive actions by narrow-minded people and groups West of the
Mungo during the past three decades have robbed us of our moral high ground,
made self-destruction the norm, and made our region the most fertile ground for
election-rigging and the bastion of the anachronistic French-imposed system (along with southern Centre Province and
South Province). We may have been the biggest contributors to the survival of
the system, without knowing it, and you and your Ambozonian pals acted as
unconscious agents in that regard.
It is 2026:
· We Anglophone Cameroonians need to close our ranks,
reconcile, and chart a clear path to the future devoid of illusions or
delusions.
· We Anglophone Cameroonian, irrespective of beliefs,
political affiliation, political ideologies, or personal or group goals, need to denounce anti-school policies,
directives, or actions as counter-revolutionary, anti-revolutionary,
anti-humanitarian, anti-religious and irrational; we need to forcefully,
unequivocally and bluntly denounce the
targeting of civilians, the kidnapping, ransoming, and other forms of
harassment (some call it group or individual terrorism) as actions detrimental
to the welling our of people West of the Mungo and as being anti-revolutionary,
unethical and anti-Africa because it places the Cameroonian perpetrators alongside
forces like the Plot Pot’s Khmer Rouge, Shining Path, FARC, Lord’s Resistance
Army etc.; we Anglophone Cameroonians need our own “Truth and Reconciliation” Commission
to get ourselves out of the victimhood mindset and acknowledge the fact that we
(our leaders, politicians, elders, and elites) contributed and are contributing
to the sustenance of this dehumanizing French-imposed system; and we need to
realizing that self-redemption this year because we are running out of time in
our and Cameroon’s social engineering.
· We Anglophone Cameroonians need to rebuild the NW and
SW (infrastructure and lives of the people), and it starts with you guys rendering
a mea culpa and extending a hand of cooperation to all the committed forces for
our part of Cameroon.
· And it starts with you guys finding a common ground, not
for the project of “Independence” but for reaching out to other Anglophone
Cameroonians and other Cameroonians who hold no malice towards us.
The list of what we need to
do is exhaustive, since we are a potpourri of fervent intentions and beliefs (not
all of which are justified).
What we should be intelligent
enough to understand is that those who oppose or claim to oppose the system, yet
engage in terrorising acts against the people, are helping to fuel the establishment/system/Biya-regime’s
state terrorism.
In a nutshell, it would be
foolhardy to lie to ourselves ten years after we began the compassless journey
to nowhere. We all need to be critical
and self-critical, accept the errors of our ways while never relenting in
opposing, condemning and rejecting ths values of the French-imposed system, the
Biya-regime, its custodians and collaborators (some of who come from our
midsts); we need to get to that emancipated self to redeem our society and
external a hand of coopeation to other Cameroonians inorder to realize that
solid, united, and powerful bloc that would diamantle the anachronistic system
in Cameroon an found the “New Cameroon”
that has been the battle cry of patriotic, civic-nationalist, and noble
Cameroonians during the past seven decades.
