CI-NEWS

Can Hon. Ngala Gerard & Mbongyor Naomi stand up strong for the people of Ndu and Nkambe?

2020-07-01

No: 508

Can Hon. Ngala Gerard & Mbongyor Naomi stand up strong for the people of Ndu and Nkambe?

Asia-based civil society activist,Tata Kwawi Mbinglo, has called on the members of parliament for Ndu and Nkambe to stand up strong for their people.

In a letter addressed to the MPs of Ndu and Nkambe, two areas hardest-hit by the Anglophone crisis,Tata Mbinglo decried the continuous indifference by the people elected to represent them in parliament.

The two constituencies are currently represented by Hons. Ngala Gerard and Mbongyor Naomi, all from the ruling CPDM. They replaced Hons. Awudu Mbaya and Ngala Esther from the SDF. Awudu had been MP since 1997.

The letter comes in the heels of another one addressed to the President of Cameroon.

He especially in the letter is saddened by the fact that Ndu has always been historically part of such killings and gross violations of fundamental human rights. “History has it how our men and women were blatantly molested and murdered during the genocide in Ndu. We as people have worked so hard to do away with these hurtful and regrettable memories though the pains still run through the veins of every eye that witnessed the incident and every ear that heard the story”, he wrote.

Saddened by the incident of the past, Mbinglo expressed regret that, government forces sought to add salt to injury when they attacked and massacred dozens of people in Ngarbuh, with pregnant women and children inclusive.

“Little did we know that another dark day was waiting to befall us with the horrific and lamentable experience of the Ngarbuh incident, which is still eating deep into our marrows, with the bitter truth that we have lost hold of everything, including the air we breathe,” he said.

Mbinglo advised the MPs to end their ceremonial attendances of parliamentary sessions that more than often yield no fruit and bring up the case of their suffering populations back at home, seeking for justice. Irrespective of party affiliations, the members of parliament should stand up for humanity and for justice, he said.

Still not settled about the atrocities committed by the military in Ngarbuh, Mbinglo in his letter draws attention to the three dead bodies of youths found at the Ndu Total petrol station in Ngarum, along with two women shot dead by the same military personnel responsible for the death of the three youths, saying killings were becoming the new normal in the Anglophone regions, while the supposed people’s representatives sat and received huge allowances in the Yaounde for doing virtually nothing.

Mbinglo recalled that the silence of the parliamentarians to the prevailing massacres of their people in the North West and South West regions means they support what is happening.

He ends his letter with a call for an immediate action by the parliamentarians to help end the plight of their suffering populations. He asks them to stand up against the constant unjust killings of innocent civilians, and hopes the families of victims will be duly comforted.

Adapted from Mimi Mefo Info.

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Can Hon. Ngala Gerard & Mbongyor Naomi stand up strong for the people of Ndu and Nkambe?