Biya Warns SCNC Against October 1 Demonstrations

By Kini Nsom

President Paul Biya has reportedly warned against any demonstrations by the Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC on October 1. He is quoted to have said during last week's ministerial council meeting that his government will no longer allow the SCNC to toy with the peace that Cameroonians enjoy today.

This revelation, The Post learnt, is the message the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Commerce, Madam Ama Tutu Muna, passed on to Momo elite in Yaounde last Sunday September 11.

A Momo elite, who asked not to be named, said Ama Tutu Muna claimed that President Biya is very angry with the SCNC and urged her Momo kith and kin to disassociate themselves from the October 1 planned demonstrations. The Secretary of State is reported to have said Biya is furious about about the SCNC and has ordered for a crackdown on the organisation

On that same day, the secretary of state in charge of penitentiary Administration in the Ministry of Justice and Keeper of the seals, Emmanuel Ngafeeson Bantar went on anti - SCNC campaign.  Addressing an assembly of Wimbum people at Oyom Abang, the government official urged them to steer clear of SCNC activities, especially the demonstrations planned for October 1, 2005.

Emmanuel Ngafesson was quoted as saying that government is ready to crack down on anybody who would dare perturb the serenity and public peace.  The Southwest Chiefs have equally disassociated themselves from the SCNC demonstration, while sending motions of support to the Head of State for steering the ship of the state in a peaceful manner.

They called on their subjects to scorn the SCNC's call for demonstration's October I, which is considered the day of southern Cameroon's independence.The Northwest Development partnership equally joined the bandwagon of those condemning the SCNC, urging Northwesters to shun the October 1 celebrations of the southern Cameroon's independence.

An observer in Yaounde claimed that, government officials and cohorts the ruling CPDM party usually make political capital out this event at this time of the year.  According to him, the SCNCs celebrations on October 1 will not constitute any security threat to the nation.

He said the government that claims to be very democratic should allow the SCNC to go ahead with the celebrations.Meanwhile, some people of Donga Mantung division who listened to Mr. Ngafeeson, told The Post that the government official was only throwing water on a deck's back.

"The SCNC plan to celebrate on October 1, security men in the south west and the North west provinces were exaggerating the security threats that the organisation poses.  Many forces of law and order are going on mission to the Northwest and Southwest provinces on claims that the SCNC is planning to declare a civil war.

Comments

[Martin]

Madam Ama Tutu Muna needs to go back to her Big Boss and tell him simply “Sir, your dictats and policy of unlawful intimidation are ill-advised”. By Muna’s communication, Mr. Biya is sending covert signals to thugs all over the land, Ahidjo style, to commit gross human rights violations against any peaceful celebration on 1 October, 2005 and in violation of Human Rights Charters.

He is seeking to use security forces to resolve a political problem. Such covert state-orchestrated violations of human rights will not endear Yaoundé to Bretton Woods Institutions vis-à-vis HIPC qualification

Without the SCNC, Achidi Achu, Peter Musonge and Ephraim Inoni would never be Prime Ministers. Remember Paul Biya's first choice as PM was Hayatou to implement a neo-colonialist policy of Frenchification that was dubbed "national integration" and scantily verbalized in his book "communal liberalism". Now Biya's formula is to pick Anglophone PMs to serve as bulwarks against the SCNC's aspiration.

The integrationist machinery quickly gave birth to the SCNC which has severally censored Mr Paul Biya internal excesses over a powerless people at international level. Examples include the admission of Southern Cameroons to UNPO and the ongoing case:- Southern Cameroons versus La Republique du Cameroum at the African Court of Human Rights, Banjul.

Remember that Paul Biya sent troops to destabilize the formation of the SDF in Bamenda, resulting in death and wanton destruction. Remember the persecution of Yondo Black for attempting to form a political party and of Mukong. Even after the SDF launched, the Biya government controlled CRTV denied to report the birth of a multiparty democracy – a grave disservice to country and people.

Paul Biya has never appointed an Anglophone as Ambassador to Great Britain or to the United States - they are and have always been francophones with heavy accents, some very corrupt. His record speaks volumes.

Above all, Paul Biya signed a treasonable decree that effectively withdrew La Republic du Cameroun from the United Republic of Cameroon. This was an ill-advised attempt to legislate progress by revolution instead of evolution with the necessary checks and balances.

Paul Biya is not innocent. He is a demagogic and fallible politician whose intents and purposes outside the parliamentary democratic process must be scrutinized in the remainder of his term in office. Let the CPDM pass a law through Parliament to ban the SCNC! History will finish the rest.

Martin

[James Wenong]

Martin

I hope you mean to say the SCNC is the son of President Biya's misguided policy of national integration aka Frenchification of the NW and SW Provinces to get oil to pay for French champagne imports.

Cracking down on Southern Cameroons nationalists, as suggested, celebrating their day of independence will hurt Yaoundé internationally and at Bretton Woods as suggested. Tyranny is frowned upon. Attacking nationalist forces also galvanizes opposition forces against Yaounde in Bakassi, which taken together builds a momentum towards a human rights disaster.

La Republique and Southern Cameroons gained independence on different dates. The former British Southern Cameroons subjects have a right to celebrate the end of European imperialism on their soil.

Yaoundé will be making a serious miscalculation to attack SCNC Nationalists just before the African Commission on Human Rights issues a ruling on Southern Cameroons versus La Republique du Cameroun. There is no action with impunity anymore in Developing countries.

Rather than return to her boss, Ama Tutu Muna should follow her late father’s 1994 footsteps back to the UN and demand a return to finish the unfinished business – implementation of UN Resolution on British Southern Cameroons.

Wenong.

[Kabuin K. Carl]

I am taken aback to hear that even the preciouse Mothers of The Southern Cameroons have learned the beggar's hymn and are now present at the vampire's table bleeding dry our Fatherland.
Mama Ama Tutu Muna, the thirty pieces of silver won't wipe your tears on that day. even Judas look for where to keep his, no one accepted to use it, those who gave it to him called it "blood money",meet for the purchase of a grave yard.
Remember that those people you are serving day and night without any thought for your children, don't like you and your children if not of your wealth which is richly feeding their economy today. you are better described in General De Gaul's speech," un petit cadeau venant de la Reigne". Do you really know you only a gift, and this time a horse upon which Biya rides triumphantly into our fatherland to kill us all away ?.
Go ahead, throw caution to the winds like our unsuited chiefs and feast in the blood of our martyrs, one thing remains sure that there's not enough water to drown our people, not enough trees to hang them and not enough earth to bury them.
I throw you to your concience beloved Mother, remember who you are now before those dismal days.
know that each time you spend a coin out of the thirty pieces, our fore-fathers sigh and turn their tears-filled eyes away.