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After Biya’s Special Status announcement: Will SDF reverse boycott of Parliament& Polls?
After Biya’s Special Status announcement: Will SDF reverse boycott of Parliament& Polls?
President Paul Biya has set the records straight on the Anglophone crisis, promising to bend over backwards to confer a special status to the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon.
Speaking during a panel debate at the Paris Peace Forum on Tuesday, Biya said the measure would consolidate national unity.
Responding to a question from Mo Ibrahim on the measures taken to solve the crisis in the North West and South West Regions of the country, Paul Biya said: “We have done everything possible to put English and French at the same level but the education and judicial systems are different.”
“This led to the present conflict which we are trying to resolve in order to preserve the special status (of the Anglophone Regions) so that we stay in unity.”
On the special status, Paul Biya said: “We had the possibility of directly integrating the (Anglophones) into the Francophone system which is the majority with 80 percent of the population but I think countries are proud of their identities and we are trying to put in place a special status which recognises the specificity of the Anglophone region while respecting the territorial integrity of the country.”
It was the Head of State’s first official comment on the recommendation taken during the national dialogue in Yaounde last month.
Political commentators still think the declaration of a special status for the Anglophone regions of Cameroon by President Paul Biya is a window dressing, given that the contents of the special status have not been defined.
But optimists say Biya’s announcement of the conferring of the special status at a high-profile conference is already a confidence-building measure. There are hopes that the SDF which started boycotting the November session of parliament over delays in the implementation of the recommendations of the Major National Dialogue (MND) may change its mind. Also, with the wisdom of hindsight, the party may resolve to go in for the 9 February 2020 polls which it resolved in August 2019 to boycott if the Anglophone crisis is not resolved. The much-dreaded Waterloo for the party may at this point in time not be a strong motivation.