CI-NEWS

Special Status: Much Ado…

2019-11-25

No: 457

Special Status: Much Ado…

By Ayah Paul Albine

There is a document in circulation drawn up by some individuals calling themselves SPECIAL STATUS WORK GROUP. Someone has been quick to describe it as striking... Striking or not striking is NOT of essence to us here. Nor do we propose to delve into the document’s semantic and/or grammatical inexactitudes…

In the present dispensation of acute individualism and selfish positioning, many are similar situations we have seen before. Let us hasten to say that it is everyone’s right to air their views in a democratic setting. But everyone else does reserve the right to identify with or differ with such views the moment the views affect their beings, stations or circumstances. Therefore do we avail ourselves of the publication to raise some queries!

Section 62 of the constitution is as old as the constitutional revision of 1996. It is as old as the Sections on decentralization that have remained in near-lethal dormancy for that long. Why this sudden DRAMATIC awakening? Is all the new-found interest altruistic – not propped up by selfish and/or mercenary ulterior motives?

Again, are these persons truly proactive – proceeding from their own pure volition? To put it otherwise, are they not in the veiled employ of the government? That question is all the more pertinent in the face of the claim that the so-called SPECIAL STATUS WORK GROUP is said to have seen the light of day “After due consultations”. Consultation who with? Were the consultations as exclusive as the ill-fated Major National Dialogue? Or was the set-up akin to the notorious national crime syndicate?

Now, if a certain Eric Chinje is said to have been commissioned by the government to mediate between the said government and those that the government calls Anglophones, is it competent of that very Eric Chinje to be drawing up documents about the notorious special status in favour of one of the parties? What about the CONFLICT of interests? And speaking about conflict of interests, is it not saliently clear that the document in question, erroneously arrogantly called BLUE-PRINT, does lean conspicuously in favour of continuing government’s overbearing dominance over local governance (communal decision-making)?

Let us take just two points to illustrate our point! What is the position of the Senior Divisional Officers and divisional Officers if it came to pass that the Governors were elected? Would they operate side by side with the mayors? Would they too be on the executives at their various levels?

In the second place, the whole idea of local governance is that the communities should elect their leaders. If the Governors are elected, and the document is to the effect that someone appointed by Yaounde should be an official of the regional executive, very like the present day Government Delegates, what difference does it make between such arrangement and the elected Prime Minister in the days of West Cameroon in juxtaposition with the Federal Inspector of Administration? Are we moving forward or backwards?

We have the strong feeling that something has been kept from the public. And all such scheming, exclusion and unbridled avidity for prominence do remind us of what befell SCNC. It is now an open secret that the President of the Republic did appoint a minister to start preliminary talks with SCNC, aimed at resolving the then ‘Anglophone Problem’. But four high-ranking Anglophones dissuaded the President from the move on their claim that SCNC was a tiny group of old, disgruntled, retired civil servants at the brink of their graves. They were very categorical that, playing on time just for a while would secure the demise of SCNC…

We see today that, but for the machinations of those four ANGLOPHONE personalities aimed at protecting their selfish interest, that move by the President of the Republic could well have avoided the heavy destruction of human lives and property in Ambazonia today!

Therefore do we hold that the sprouting of numerous groups of self-ordained Anglophone sages today is simply replaying the games of old! And we are greatly helped to that conclusion by the fact that some of those very personalities of old are today ALREADY preaching/hailing the virtues of some FICTION called SPECIAL STATUS! We see some such persons funding such preaching and/or are misleading the people by proxy! We see them indeed buying over the starved paupers with crumbs from their lavished tables!

WE AREN’T FOOLS

LET NOBODY DARE

TREAT US AS SUCH

FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE

Is not it most CURIOUS that, within days of some private volunteer group publishing a BLUE-PRINT on the SPECIAL STATUS, the government, by coincidence, is resuscitating DIMABOLA to preach and hail the said yet-to-be-born SPECIAL STATUS?

How does any reasonable person preach and hail the virtues of a thing before such thing comes into existence: counting the chicks before they are hatched? Who but God ALONE knows what tomorrow shall look like? But who but God ALONE would eulogize the beauty of the unknown tomorrow?

ARH BEG TO REPEAT

WE ARE NOT FOOLS!

Seriously speaking, Ambazonians have already died in their thousands! All that only as the sacrificial lamb for the resurrection of a certain Section 62 of the constitution that has been in hibernation for almost a quarter-century old!

Ambazonians have spilt tons of their precious blood for some hypothetical package in the name of SPECIAL STATUS!

THE PRICE IS IMMEASURABLE!

THE PRICE HAS BEEN TOO HEAVY!

WHICH WE CONTINUE TO PAY DAILY!

We strongly hold that the moment is more than just RIPE (propitious) for the COMPREHENSIVE and DEFINITIVE RESOLUTION of the issue by the tackling of the ROOT CAUSE!!!

NO-ONE, let alone an Ambazonian, OF WHATEVER EMINENCE, has the right to resort to wallpapering in the promotion of sordid interest: to toy with the PEOPLE’S DESTINY!

NO-ONE has the right to gloss over the reality of the situation, thereby sowing the seeds for the RECURRENCE tomorrow of today’s horrors!

NO-ONE

LET US FACE REALITY AND SHAME THE DEVIL

LET US TELL THE TRUTH AND SHAME THE DEVIL

LET US PRINT OUR NAMES IN THE CLEAN SAND OF HISTORY

LET US REMEMBER WE OWE POSTERITY SELF-ABNEGATION

THE DUTY TO BUILD A SOLID FOUNDATION

AMEN

The Beti hegemony

The BETIS have long been enjoying a SPECIAL STATUS in the South West for a very long time now, reason why the most part of dignitaries in three key categories in the South West region are of BETI origin:

Administration, Military and Finance departments.

Biya ensured that strategic posts in the Military, in the Administration and in Finance be given to people from his area of origin. The South West seems to be the captured territory of the BETIS.

Governor of SZ – OKAILA BILAI from Centre South block (CS). Okalia Bilai was SDO for Fako before leaving for Wouri and then returning to SW as Governor.

Of the 6 divisions in the SW, three are headed by people from the Centre South (CS);

MANYU County - OUM II JOSEPH from CS

MEME COUNTY – the arrogant NTOU’OU NDONG CHAMBERLAIN from CS

FAKO County – ENGAMBA LEDOU from CS, replacing the all powerful ZANG III from CS who called himself the President of Fako.

Divisional Officer Ekondo Titi – TIMOTHE ABOLOA from CS

First Military Commander of the SZ- EYENGA SEVERIN from CS

Second Military Commander of the SZ – EYENGUE AMOUGOU WILFRED from the CS

Third Military Commander of the SZ- ATEBA LEONARD from the CS

President of Buea Military Court – NJEYEHA JEREMI from CS. He replaced ENGONO DAVID from CS still.

It was ENGONO DAVID who arrested and deported our Anglophones from the SZ to Yaoundé for them to be tried for terrorism. After a job well done, he was appointed to the Yaoundé Military Court to finish the job he started in the SZ. It is the same ENGONO who is handling the files of the NERA 10; SISIKU AYUK JULIUS and co, including KAMTO and co.

Attorney General of the Buea Military Court (Commissaire du Gouvernement) – ABOU AKA LUCIL from CS

Treasury Paymaster General of SZ- ANGOULA ANANIAS from CS

At the Buea treasury as we are told by some people who went to buy stamps, even the security officers at the gate are from the CS where they speak their [makara na’a?] freely arrogantly because they control the entire SW. A certain Beti military lady at the gate told them that she will never speak English and she will not learn English at her age.

At least 15 staff in Buea Treasury as we are told come from the CS with names like AYISSI, AYO, and ABESSOLO being mentioned there regularly.

First Deputy Treasurer Buea - ZOCK Marcellin from CS

Finance Controller of the SZ- NYATTE ALEXIS from CS

Deputy Treasurer Limbe – ZE FRANCOIS from CS

Former Divisional Treasurer NDIAN ONANINA HIPPOLYTE from CS

Former Divisional Treasurer for MANYU- a certain OVAM from CS

Sub treasurer for NGUTI – NNENGA MANGOUAND – from CS

Chief of Accounts in UB from CS

Chief of expenditure UB from CS

Taxation Kumba - ENGOULOU PASCAL from CS

Taxation Limbe- LIHINACK from CS. In the past, there was ETOA KESSEK, ETOA MENYE and MENYE DIVINE all from CS

Small and Medium Size Tax Centre (CIME) Limbe - a certain EBENE from CS

Taxation Limbe – BIDOUNG MVONDO ZACHARIE from CS

Limbe Nautical Fisheries School Accounting Officer – MICHELLE FOUDA from CS. She embezzled State funds and fled abroad and she got her brother a certain ENGO FABRICE from CS to replace her.

National Employment Fund Limbe – a certain MVONDO from CS

FEICOM Limbe – a certain Mrs. AMOUGOU from CS

Taxation Bangem – OBAM JEAN from CS

Taxation Tiko - a certain MANGA from CS

Land Revenue Collector Buea- FOE BERNADETTE from CS

Judicial Police Buea – ZO’OMBAM JULIEN from CS

Defense Buea – MEYONG ATANGANA, NGONO ZOA JOSEPH, TSOGO JAQUES, BIDZANGA ZACHARIES, and EBOULOU ALAIN all from the CS. In the past, we had ESOGO RAYMOND and EBOTO EBOTO LAURENT as Police Bosses in Fako, both from the CS.

Other personnel in the SZ Military Court include: EMANE FRANCOIS, MEYONG ATANGANA THEO, TSOGO JAQUES ALAIN, BIDZANGA ZACHARIES, EBOULOU ALAIN MARCEL, ONDOUA ONANA LAURENT, ZANG GODEFROY MARIUS, NKOA GEORGES MERLIN, NGUELE MINYA LUCIE, NGO BASONG CAROLINE, MVONDO EVEZO’O GAELLE, MINTANGA NDZANA, MEYONG PETIT SERGE, MENDO ABOU, EYENGA EMILE RICHARD, EMANE ZANGA DANIEL, ELOUNDOU AYISSI, BELINGA HENRI LUDWIG, ENYE MEKA MANUEL, ZE REMY and others, all from the CS block. Yet they will tell you that Kamto is so mean, a terrible tribalist.

Defense Bangem – BEMENE LUCIEN from CS

DEFENSE EYUMUJOCK – NTONGO JOSEPH from CS

Defense Kombo Abedimo – BIYO’O JULES from CS

Defense Mbonge – BIKIE BETOLO ALAIN from CS

Defense Idenau - BIKOUN ROGER from CS

Defense Akwaya – ESSENGUE AMOUGOU from CS

Defense Kumba – ASSANGUENA ANDJONGO, ASSIGA ABOUGOU, AWANA PIERRE all from CS

Defense Meme – OBAMA PAUL, NTONGO JOSEPH, EDZOA LAURENT, ONDOUA JEAN, ESENE FRANCO all from CS

Defense Limbe – MENGUE MIREILLE, ELOUNDOU BENOIT, MEDJA ONDJA JOSUE, ENOGA BONIFACE, AWONO MBEDE, MEKONGO MINKOULOU WILFRED all from CS

Defense Tiko – ZAM GUY, MVOGO TOBIE both from CS

SZ Governors for the last 30 years:

ETAME MASSOMA, OBEN PETER ASHU (SW), EYEYA ZANGA LOUIS, EJAKE MBONDA, ACHAM PETER CHO (Anglophone from NZ), , KOUMPA ISSA, OKALIA BILAI. 02 out of 07 are Anglophones.

What could be the reason behind it, we ask ourselves. Could it be by error, by coincidence or intentional?

Culled from a story by AMBE EMMANUEL

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Special Status: Much Ado…