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Editorial Comment: National Dialogue: Gate-way to ending the Anglophone Crisis.

By Etoh Anzah George in Bamenda.

Patriotic and peace-loving Cameroonians are looking up to the resolutions of the Major National Dialogue that opens today with a lot of hope. They are confident that the momentous event that will see Cameroonians look each other eyeball to eyeball will culminate in a resolution to the three-year-old Anglophone crisis that has led to the unnecessary spilling of blood and the devastation of the economies of the North West and South West regions. There is consensus that being a Cameroonian problem, the crisis requires home-grown solutions. Those who argue that it would have been better resolved if a neutral mediator were brought on board and the belligerents met on neutral ground may not be very right. The DR Congo, next-door Central Africn Republic where foreign mediators failed to break the ice offer antecedents. Senator Emilia Nkeze of the SDF was quite crossed on CRTV’s Cameroon Calling yesterday that foreign diplomats whose tough declarations on the Anglophone crisis galvanised separatists resorted to ‘diplomacy’ when the Cameroon government remained unbending to their prescriptions. She concluded Cameroonians were better placed to bring the crisis to an end if they were sincere during deliberations at the dialogue where some 66 percent of the delegates are Anglophones from the North West and South West Regions. The process has also been faulted for not including discussion of the form of the state on the agenda. To this Prime Minister Dion Ngute told English-speaking journalists and publishers during pre-dialogue consultations last Tuesday that government was intent on handling pressing issues first. He argued that it was more urgent to “stabilise the bleeding patient” so that normalcy can return to the crisis-hit regions whose economies have been battered and insecurity reached epidemic proportions. It was heart-warming to learn that invitations had been sent to some separatist leaders based in the Diaspora. Mark Bareta was charged with distribution of the invitations. Though the invitations were turned down by them, insisting that third-party negotiations were necessary, peace-loving Cameroonians say the separatists in the diaspora ought to have participated and made their voices heard. Even one of them, Eric Tataw, who preferred to attend the National Dialogue by proxy was quoted as saying: “I would rather endorse Dialogue in Yaounde and demand release of prisoners as precondition than fly for a seminar in Switzerland and behave as though prisoners don’t exist!” It therefore stands to reason that the Major National Dialogue is the gate-way to ending the Anglophone Crisis.