Law Without Boundaries:Marginalisation Of Anglophones As Human Right Violation

The fact that Anglophone Cameroonians are constantly marginalised by the power that be is not a novelty to many Cameroonians and the international community. They are not only being treated as second-class citizens but the French have decided systematically and with impunity to destroy all the good economic potentials in the Anglophone community.

The preamble of the defective constitution of 18th January 1996   states as follows;
The State shall ensure the protection of minorities and shall preserve the rights of the indigenous population in accordance with the law.

To my mind the minority referred to in the preamble is the Southern Cameroons. The critical question that pricks my mind is whether Anglophones are protected and the rights of the indigenous Anglophone population preserved by the state.

What happened to Bali, Bafut, Besong-Abang, Akwaya and Tiko airports? What happened to Power-Cam, Police Dogs, Marketing Board, CAM Bank etc.? Our good and prestigious Tole Tea is gone under the guise of privatisation and the Anglophone workers thrown out in misery.

Oil and its related products are more expensive in Limbe than in Douala, yet the refinery is located in Limbe. The roads in Southwest Province are a disgrace, yet the waste product from the refinery is located just on the nose of the Province.

The natural deep sea port is located in Limbe yet the government spends billions yearly to artificially create and maintain one in Douala. Very soon the palm sector of the CDC will go.

The French are milking us dry and no sooner or later all of our cultural values and economic potential will be eroded. Who says we are not in two Cameroons. Unfortunately, because of greed, and other personal benefits some of our brothers stand up and declare that there is no Anglophone problem.  This is shameful and unacceptable.

Who is fooling who?

The possibility of having and Anglophone President in this country is the dream of an ant. The appointment of an Anglophone Minister of Finance, Defense and Public Service will be considered as sacrilege. An Anglophone is appointed Prime Minister, yet they create the post of Vice Prime Minister.

The UN Declaration on the right to development in its article I and 2 states;
-"The right to development is an inalienable human right by virtue of every human person and all people are entitled to participate in, contribute to, and enjoy economic, social, cultural and political development in which all human rights and fundamental freedoms can be fully realised."

-"The human right to development also implies the full realisation of the right of people to self determination, which includes, subject to the relevant provisions of both international covenants on human rights, the exercise of their inalienable rights to full sovereignty over all their natural wealth and resources."

The Southwest Province especially contributes over 50 percent of the total wealth of Cameroon, yet they have no sovereignty over their wealth and resources. NO ROADS, NO AIR PORT, NO REFERNCE HOSPITAL. WHY?

Probably our politician committed a grave error by opting to join French Cameroon. It was really a dark day, a sad day, an evil day for Anglophones. The same treatment given to Cameroon by the French is similar to what the Francophones are doing to Anglophone Cameroonians.

Faced with these gross violations, Anglophones should get up from sleep,  open their eyes and start rethinking.

Joseph Mbi Tanyi Esq
Director of legal Aid /literacy
(CHRDA)
www.chrda.org or tanyi_mbi@yahoo.com or 7550182.

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[Ndiks]

AMBAZONIA

~UNITED NATIONS TRUST TERRITORY OF THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS UNDER UNITED KINGDOM (UK) ADMINISTRATION, 1946-1961;

~LEAGUE OF NATIONS MANDATED TERRITORY UNDER UK ADMINISTRATION, 1922-1945;

~BRITISH CAPTURED TERRITORY AFTER THE DEFEAT OF GERMANY IN WORLD WAR I, 1916-1922;

~AMBAS BAY COLONY, FOUNDED BY REVEREND ALFRED SAKAR WITH CAPITAL AS VICTORIA, FIRST WESPHALIA STATE IN THE GULF OF GUINEA, 1831-1884.

LAW ENFORCEMENT MOBILIZATION OF THE POPULATION ORDINANCE (LEMPO)

REPUBLIC OF AMBAZONIA

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 06/04

I, Fongum Gorji-Dinka, Head of State, in exercise of the powers vested in me by the Ambazonian Constitution, do hereby, issue the following ordinance:
CITATION: This ordinance may be cited as Law Enforcement Mobilization of the Population Ordinance (LEMPO)
ARTICLE 1: NOTICE TO QUIT
All Republic of Cameroon (French Cameroon) public servants in Ambazonia are violating the Restoration Law 84/01 and the Restoration Judgment HCB/28/92. They constitute themselves as Law breakers and must quit Ambazonia at once.
ARTICLE 2:
In this context all law breakers found in Ambazonia after mid-night of 19th May, 2006 have themselves to blame for the repercussions they attract to themselves and their family members.
ARTICLE 3:
The powers to arrest and prevent the commission of an offence which are vested in every Ambazonian by our criminal procedure code are hereby invoked to cover any action taken by any Ambazonian, alone or in concert with others for enforcing this quit notice.
ARTICLE 4:
To this end, the entire territory of Ambazonia is placed under the state of extreme emergency and the Ambazonian people are accordingly placed in a state of total mobilization.
ARTICLE 5:
Twentieth (20th) May being the day Yaoundé buried the nation of Ambazonia (then called West Cameroon) is hereby declared a Day of National Mourning and shall henceforth be so observed.
ARTICLE 6:
The Republic of Cameroon (French Cameroon) celebrations of that day, if done in Ambazonia, constitute an act of National Insult to, and Provocation of the Ambazonian people.

Issued under my hand and signet this 2nd day of May, 2006.

Signed: Fongum Gorji-Dinka

[Tayong(Copenhagen)]

Mr David Tanyi Mbi Jacob

Well said but still which way forward? A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.Good.

Until we all realise the down road we are taking and ready to talk and talk well only then shall we someone hear the songs and hear well.

Until the Bakweri Chiefs(or did someone say Bakweri theives the other day?) put aside greed and money morgering to speak out ,CDC will still be sold, SONARA will still pay taxes to Douala Urban council,Tole tea will remain for Nordist ,Tiko Airport will remain a garage for outdated 1920 german cars etc.

Until the Ndian chief Dumb dubious politicians and stand as one man to refuse wanton exploitation of mineral resources without the development of the Ndian at heart, until the people of Obang village stand firm as one man to decry the illegal exploitation of the forest resources with out a single patch of tar( apart from the carterpiilars Abgor Tabi brought to tar the road that disappeared immediately he got his 100% vote hahahah) etc.......

Anglophones must defer all odds and greed ,stand up as one man,challenge the powers that be(dont get me wrong as a war advocate) , Remember a cobra will still stink you whether u call it cobra or Mr Cobra, Biya said it all;if u want peace prepare for war(his own war anyway not mine)

Nothing ventured nothing gained. Its time to say which way forward. So guys we wanna hear from you. Which way forward?

Tayong

[rexon]

I think we are not a marginalised people but people who have been colonised by la republique du cameroun in a conspiracy involving france (supported by some members of this forum like Agbormbai, Che Sunday, Frank Muma etc).

As long as we, the current generation of southern cameroonians stand to the challenge, and fight the occupiers, we will have a better future. As long as we avoid listening to unscrupulous individuals living on borrowed robs like agbormbai, frank, che sunday (Who have been involved in business dealings with la republique and are thus protecting their business interest rather than saying the blantant truth), we shall guarantee ourselves a future.

Intellectuals, sold us to the regime. Agbor Tabi was sponsored to place caterpillars in mamfe to manyu people to vote for the CPDM, Musonge was used to rig elections in the south west and to sell our industries in a scam called privatisation, abety was used to hire thugs to thrash our parents in the north west, etc. We should understand that we have enemies even in the southern cameroons. But we should still rise to the challenge and send the terrorist out of our land.

[Christopher Ngosong]

Hi,
The article is no strange news to anybody who knows Cameroon and the South West Province in particular. However, what matters now is how to go from here! This leaves me in tears because it seems dark cloud is all ever us because the elders whom we could have relied on as our "wise ones" are the people saying that there is actually no problem. God bless the angolphone cameroonians, in Jesus' name we pray, Amen !

[samleyin]

someday, we shall peacefully oust the bully and their cronies. they have hijacked our precious heritage and are using it as a pulpit for their odious intentions. I wonder if they know that the wrong direcion they are pushing us into is already the edge of the space and our bounty has already been cosummated. They don't know that their complacnecy is a premonitions for violence.

We cannot adapt in this self satisfied superiority these fellas have attained while we languish in continuos tribulations. We clamour to get through the door of survival while they just turn around to get the last aspect in the hierarchy of need. I don't and will never support this injustice. I is time it comes to a stop. Cameroonians open your eyes. Your brothers and sisters are fleeing because home is 'rotten'. What type of signs do we need again.

[Rexon]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4766797.stm
Africa in pictures: 6-12 May

On the same day, a customs officer stands guard over $1.03m worth of elephant tusks smuggled into Hong Kong on a shipping container from Cameroon.
Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4766797.stm

Shame on Cameroun authorities! What have those in power in Cameroun for the last 500 Hundred years not done?

1. They sold our brothers and sister into slavery for cheap whiskey, so inferior even the locally brewed Aforfor or Ogogoro tastes far better!;

2. They turned around and recolonized us and made us slave of the black man, slaves to our own brothers and sisters in our own homes after international law had secured the exit of the white man from Europe!;

3. Turned us into slaves and pitiful people in our own homes!;

4. They destroyed every corporation, every financial institution, sanitation and health facilities, schools and even traditional institutions!;

5. They ruined the coffee and cocoa plantations while emptying the reserves at home and abroad in the tune of hundred of billions--all gone into thin air!;

6. Even worse, they mortgaged our petrol, crude/oil to make cheap funds for their private bank accounts for $ 13.00 a barrel for twenty plus years while current oil prices continue to rise well above $72.00 a barrel!;

7. Now they have turned to the elephant tusks! When elephants no longer have tusks what shall they do?

Guess:
Soon Cameroun authorities would have our fingers and toes on the international market for sale!

The rape of Ambazonia (Southern Cameroons) continues as D-Day nears! When people see us wearing sulky faces and wishing for the worse, they hardly know why. When D-Day comes and is gone, we shall junk legalism as a means of asking Cameroun authorities to leave our country; we shall show them how we used to play 'ndamba' when time runs out and someone cries "five minutes cover eye"!

After D-Day, brace yourselves for the worse: not even the mightiest and most powerful army of humans on this earth shall deter us from sending a message to our oppressors--that we are not cowards! We have tolerated too much nonsense from Cameroun authorities for too long: Enough is Enough! Time has come to let them know we are not carrying babies in our arms! Time to terminate the presence of that devilish regime in our country is now!
Justice M. Mbuh