The French Are Our Real Friends - Chief Endeley

By Ernest Sumelong

The Paramount Chief of the Bakweris, Chief SML Endeley, has said the French are Cameroon's real friends.

Chief Endeley made the statement, Saturday, March 3, while welcoming the French Ambassador to Cameroon, Georges Serre and wife, to the Buea Town residence of former UN Representative to Congo, Dr. Namata Ngongi.

"The Germans, our first colonial master, and the English virtually abandoned us but the French have remained and have become our real friends," Chief Endeley told his guests.
He stressed that this is a statement he had made when he visited Britain with Cameroon's former President Ahmadou Ahidjo. He praised the French for coming so close and staying with Cameroon.

Chief Endeley went forth to declare the Ambassador and entourage as Bakwerians. He conferred the Ambassador and wife with Bakweri names. To the Ambassador, he gave the name Likanye, the name of a notable in the Bakweri tribe, and to his wife, Eposi.
The visit was a friendly one since the Ambassador and Dr. Ngongi, both diplomats, had worked in Congo as Ambassador and UN Representative, respectively.

Dr. Ngongi told The Post that he had met George Serre while in France."We met again in Congo where I welcomed him because I was already UN representative there before he came. It is just a coincidence that he is now Ambassador to Cameroon," Dr. Ngongi said.
Besides the Paramount Chief, Southwest Governor, Louis Eyeya Zanga and the Registrar of the GCE Board, Humphrey Monono, were present to welcome Ambassador Serre. Also, the Bishop of Buea, Mgr. Immanuel Bushu, a schoolmate of Dr. Ngongi was present.

Before coming to visit Dr. Ngongi, the French Ambassador had made a stopover at the University of Buea and Alliance Franco- Camerounaise.

Comments

[Rene Dibi]

Thief Endeley,
You are a man of no conscience. How can you because of money tell your conscience? You are a disgrace. You shall never attain salvation.

[rexon]

Dr Ngongi,

It appears you have left your traditional home in Mutengene to go close to the bootlickers in Buea and continue the fake politics of lies with the CPDM. How comes that when you were UN representative, you were never involved with Cameroonian politics, but now that you are on retirement you are always preaching fake rhetoric in support of the CPDM and all colonialist. I will advise you to think twice, identify and join the right movement rather than playing these politics of lies with La Republique.

I have always told Southern Cameroonians that the worst groups of people to listen to are those who pose as intellectuals working for international organisations like the UN, WB, IMF, IFC etc. History has proven that they are sponsored agents by the CPDM and they always settle for retirement with the politics of lies with La Republique. Think of the Monekosso, the Kingue's, and now the Ngongi's, etc are living examples.

[Ma Mary]

Chief must be suffering from suffering Stockholm Syndrome. Very funny. Frenchman is his friend.

[AngloCameroonian]

Rexon,
I expected you to comment about Endeley. Perhaps its forbiden as he is a traditional ruler.
If it was a NW fon you would have fired your tribalistic rhetorics.
Mr. Endeley, independence is independence. If the Germans or British come in against your interests you will say they are interfering in the affairs of a sovereign nation. Puppets!!

[Ngelo Hilda]

Well i think its know longer strange for this so called chief a man of know intergrity and respect.
He will call or lift anyone up high because of money.
You are a big disgrace to the Bakwer people.
Shame on you Endeley where has all your intellect gone to?

[Neba Fuh]

It is extremely disheartening to know that octogenarians like Chief Endeley whom we expect to bequeath an honest historic sheet to us before bowing out of the stage is still clouded in this mist of intellectual dishonesty.

Saying that 'the French are our real friends' , is not a statement of opinion. It is a verifiable fact. And therefore verifiable facts are either true or false.

I won't have expected the Chief to be arrogant to his guest, but uttering statements like the one above was outright arrogance to his people as well as his countrymen. Let the Chief know when to restraint his mental masturbation-for that is what the French taught black Africa in its simplistic rhetoric of 'assimilation'. When I reminded most of my folks from the South West, in the early nineties that the only tarred road they had was the road taking off from Limbe to Douala, they swallowed their furious venom they had started ignited concerning the NW/SW divide. Today, Buea has a single stretch paved road from Mile 17 to Buea town interspersed with rejected tar spilled into the inlet of Great Soppo and its environs.Less than a decade, the roads are becoming eye sores. How long did it take for this to be done, Chief? The Mutengene stretch of the road is on and I am sure the Chief will brandish this as evidence for re election of the Oligarch's party in his Chiefdom. But Chief, how long did it take? If you were forty years of age, I will sympathise with your judgement or assessment of the French influence on Cameroon, but as an octogenarian, you have been a living witness of the masturbation, Cameroon has suffered from French imperialism, through Mitterand/Chirac's self-proclaimed best student-Biya.

Chief, You have oil, which you don't own. You have land, which you don't own(Bakweri land problem). When will they think one of your sons can control the oil wells, God generously bestowed to you and your kinsmen?
To remind a friend that he just stepped on faeces is the nobliest thing to do, but for him to clean his shoes is his business.

On the other hand, to say the British 'abandoned' Southern Cameroons is historically arguable. If they didnot abandon Southerns Cameroons, they would have committed. They abandon Southerns Cameroon by omitting to commit.

"How can one achieve independence by ´joining´...? You can only choose to join after you are independent and not the other way round

February 11, 1961 was 'Dependence Day' for Southern Cameroonians. They chose to be 'independent' by being dependent. How can they be given the options to join two other independent Republics and claimed at the end that they have achieved independence. They all should bear a part of the brunt of the blame and stop pointing accusing fingers at each other. The ambiguity of the Plebiscite questions was an intentional act by the British to either subject us to continuous tutelage ( by joining Nigeria) or, go to hell (by joining La Republique). The British never wished that Southern Cameroons should achieve independence."
(excerpts-'The Last Cry of the Millennium' By Neba Fuh, published in THE POST, Dec 1999).

To claim that the non-commitment of the British towards Southern Cameroons, makes the French our true friends, is either a miscarriage of historical facts or early symptoms of senility.

NEBA-FUH
snebafuh@yahoo.com

Below is the article: 'The Last Cry of the Millennium'

THE LAST CRY OF THE MILLENIUM

Interdependence is a voluntary venture often sought by an independent individual or a group of individuals, for the good of all the parties concerned. When one is independent, he is self- reliant, that is, dependent on himself. Any interaction between two independent entities for their mutual benefit, is what is known as Interdependence.

Therefore, one cannot claim to be in the state of interdependence without passing through the independent state. Furthermore, when an independent entity decides to be dependent at some point in time, it immediately ceases to be interdependent.

Independence is a state of mind that can only be achieved , not given and when you seek it you must first cut all the 'strings attached' to your wish. There is no such thing as 'dependent' independence. What we call political or economic independence of some western nations , is actually political or economical interdependence. Independence of a people come as a result of 'cyclic transitivity' among the independent minds of each individual of the majority of individuals making up that populace. True independence is achieved in the mind before manifested by the body.It surpasses freedoms and liberties (actually it is a cause to them). It is a stepping stone to interdependence. It is precious! So precious that efforts to achieve it should be revolutionary, not evolutionary. Independence is not a dependent variable, it should depend on itself.

The people of Southern Cameroons have never been independent, not to talk of interdependent with another entity. Their present state is worse than 'dependence'.They are in the doldrums. They have, but don't own. They see, but don't observe. They foresee, but don't prevent. They agitate but don't react.

Brethren, it's not yet late! They erred but they should not relent their efforts to correct the blunders of the past.

When the United nations, under the chairmanship of Sir Sydney Phillipson put the ball in their court in Mamfe on the 10th and 11th of August 1959, they refused to play. Even if the referee was biased, it was their obligation to score the goals and later argue about the the biased nature of the decisions taken, instead of letting their opponents(the imperialists) defeat them mercilessly. The inability of Southern Cameroonians to have come up with a consensus in Mamfe Conference in 1959 was, ipso facto, a glaring proof of their refusal to put off their caps of tribalism, nepotism, and other 'isms' for the interest of all. That is why the so-called plebiscite questions were ambiguous. Some of them foresaw through the able mind of P.N. Kale that the lone option for Southern Cameroons was ' a sovereign independent state', but many, through their egoistic tendencies, thwarted this proposal.

It was a lose/lose option.

a) "Do you wish to achieve independence by joining the Independent Federation of

Nigeria?"

b) "Do you wish to achieve independence by joining the Republic of Cameroon?"

What puzzles us more about these questions are not the words but the authors. In as much as Southern Cameroonians have realized the fact that the British had a hidden agenda for them( joining Nigeria), they should have defeated the shameless act of the British, who, instantaneously coined their language through the able tentacles of the United Nations in a bid to achieve their aim.

They never needed a plebiscite to belong where they were. But if the then Trusteeship Agreement spelt out that Trust Territories were to achieve independence at some point in time , then the British, under the banner of the United Nations Organisation, misled them, by not giving them the option of true independence. Once in time, the 'upright' sold their consciences and behaved like Lilliputians with regards to the Southern Cameroons case. What a shame to them all!

How can one achieve independence by ´joining´...? You can only choose to join after you are independent and not the other way round

February 11, 1961 was 'Dependence Day' for Southern Cameroonians. They chose to be 'independent' by being dependent. How can they be given the options to join two other independent Republics and claimed at the end that they have achieved independence. They all should bear a part of the brunt of the blame and stop pointing accusing fingers at each other. The ambiguity of the Plebiscite questions was an intentional act by the British to either subject us to continuous tutelage ( by joining Nigeria) or, go to hell (by joining La Republique). The British never wished that Southern Cameroons should achieve independence.

Our Present 'symbiosis' with La Republique should not be seen as interdependence. It is like an Oligarchy masterminded by French Imperialists, with the oligarchs tapping their wealth from Southern Cameroons and sharing it with their imperialists. Southern Cameroonians are being exploited materially, psychologically and intellectually.

They have, but don't own.

Southern Cameroons has some independent minds, but as a whole they are not independent. The cause presently with the United Nations is genuine but the United Nations seems to be acting as a gateman who is asleep when old 'reliables' are around. They need to ring the gate bell longer for the gateman to wake up and open the gate.

Therefore, the only panacea to all this hanky panky is hullabaloo. They must cry loud and fight hard. They must react. It is not late yet. The route of revolution is not known until revolution has come to pass. They need to revolutionize their minds before anything else. They must fight the syndrome of marginalization from the cause- tribalism. This was the root cause of the 1961 plebiscite fiasco. They must sacrifice. They should not look at this cause as an anti- government struggle. They should look at it as a Quest For Justice That Was Denied.

I foresee a new millennium where each Southern Cameroonian will act spontaneously and instantaneously, in a bid to achieve independence.

Courage brothers, do not stumble.

By Neba Fuh

[Massa_talk_true]

Chief Endely is just confused, may be its old age. The french are taping our resources every day and night in return give nothing or little, even the little that they gave is to developed Ebolowa, Yaounde and Douala. Chief open ur eye and see like other, stop selling Cameroonian. Just of small token they gave u, u can sell the entire Cameroon shame to u.

[DaDiceman]

Yes, "Chief".......and buried all over African soil are the bodies of African buffoons, just like you,who called the French "our real friends". In Algeria, Cameroun in the 60s, Rwanda, Ivory Coast are buried literally millions of Africans whose death were orchestrated by "our real friends", the French.

This is not history. Rwanda's genocide is a few years old. As Mr. Serres goes around charming the pants off people in Buea, the French are formenting civil wars in the Ivory Coast and the Central African Republic this very minute. The French bombed and destroyed all the planes belonging to the Ivorian air force just a few years ago.

Spare a thought "Chief", while you dine with your French "friends", for the million or so Rwandans whose murder they orchestrated; and also spare a thought for those Africans in Ivory Coast and the Central African Republic whose lives have been destroyed by your French "friends". I guess you wouldn't have the guts to bring up these as you sip champagne with these ruthless, duplicitous, racist, genocidal French murderers you call your "friends".

[Ma Mary]

Chief has been smoking too much of THIS CIGARETTE.

[DaDiceman]

The "Chief" has certainly been smoking something! From his pronouncements, whatever he is smoking isn't doing his brain (if there is one there) any good.

"The English abandoned us", says the "Chief". Eh, but "Chief", I thought it's called gaining independence. Yes, independence! You might have heard that word somewhere. Its something that people who want to run their own affairs without foreigners interfering do.

Talk about a colonial subject's mentality! Maybe a slave's mentality is more appropriate; the fear of being abandoned by the slave master. "Chief" your country is supposed to have been independent for the last 40 odd years. Did that pass you by? Whatever you are smoking, certainly seems you have been smoking it for a while; or maybe it has affected your memory.

This moaning about the "the English abandoned us" by the "Chief", and last week by other contributors to this forum, shows how much European colonialism, and the slave trade, has infantalised Africans. Get over it "Chief", your country has had 40 years to learn to wipe its nose and clean its bottom without feeling abandoned by the British. Obviously the need to have some European big brother look after us takes more than 40 years to get over.

Grow up, "Chief"! However, not much time left, at your age, to grow up. So, you might go to your grave afraid not to be abandoned by Europeans. Don't cry "Chief", the English might have abandoned you but your French "friends" wouldn't.....not while your country still has natural resources to be exploited anyway!

Jesus Christ, when will we ever get over this ignorance!

[Watesih]

Nature knows how to punish people.The Chief`s Cpdm highhandedness ,is more and more countered by the doom he has all a long helped to craft on his people.Not only is he completely helpless about the situation in his chiefdom,he embraces many more infidels who come around to desecrate his throne.Imagine, the French Ambassador has just been around for few months,yet the Chief starts conferring names on him.Hope he should even invite the mans daughters.There are many more titles like Namondo,Manka`a. What did the Ambassador bring? New roads?
This is a man making a mockery of the Germans in a city where all the outstanding landmarks are German.The French did not really abandon him.They threw some low quality tar on a patch of road in his chiefdom,so why should he not give them titles.Back in Yaounde the Ambassador must have laughed out his lungs," Il me donne un tel nom pourquoi faire?".

[AngloCameroonian]

Mr. Neba Fuh,
If everyone has to write such lengthy comments, who will have the time to read through.
Some how you're abusing this space. Lets be moderate and keep it interesting.
I am yet to read comments from those fanatics who point fingers on NWesterners. What have you got to tell Endeley.

[Danny Boy]

Hi Netters,
my brain seems just as addled as the Old man's. Can someone tell me please how many Paramount Chiefs there are in Bakweri land? The reason I ask is because, on 19/02/07, the Post published a story on one Jesco Manga William becoming Paramount Chief of Limbe.
Secondly, what relation is this Chief Endeley to the famous Dr. Endeley who used to do battle with Foncha and co? It could be one and the same person, I honestly do not know.
As for his pronouncements, let us not be harsh with him. The years have taken their toll.

[rexon]

Danny Boy,

This Chief Endeley is the brother of the other Endeley who used to battle with Foncha. The late Dr Herbert Endeley who was the pioneer registrar of UB was the Son of the Endeley that used to Battle with Foncha. He got him with his Nigerian wife. I "Think" the Bakweri's have two renowned paramount chiefs. I dont know if there is a third. Someone help!!!!!

[Ma Mary]

The Late Dr EML Endeley, senior bro of the Chief had a different take on this. See:

http://www.postnewsline.com/2006/10/ten_reasons_why.html

AngloCameroonian, you may want start there to deserve your nickname by picking up some Southern Cameroons history.

[Danny Boy]

Thanks Rexon for that piece of info. As I said, I honestly did not know. As I started writing Ma Mary too has just posted something. Will look at the link she has referred us to. Maybe one will find some more answers there.
Once again thanks Pal.

[Danny Boy]

Ma Mary,
thanks too for the historical reference above. Just as an aside, I shudder when I think of the fate of South cameroonians had they voted to join Nigeria. The Ibos, whose scheming is but legendary, would have used them as cannon fodder during the civil war.

[Ma Mary]

It was a Hobson's choice between LRC and Nigeria. What you have remarked is hindsight, because there was no indication in 1961 that there was going to be a civil war in Nigeria in 5 years, but civil war and genocide were ongoing in la Republique at the time, and refugees were pooring into the Southern Cameroons. Given the available data at the time, Nigeria perhaps was the rational better choice.

Endeley's original intention was Southern Cameroons independence. That is why he led the representatives out of the Eastern House unilaterally and formed an autonomous government in Buea. Unfortunately, the UK knaves nixed the idea of a free Southern Cameroons and presented us with two fake choices. We are now going through a baptism of fire to deserve independence.

[chiefmboe]

JUST THINKING ALOUD

What would you have said in Chief Endeley's place? Your suggestions are very important.

Chief Mboe

[Che Sunday]

Now you know why CDC got stolen from the Bakweri people. Then you have a few fighting to regain what their leaders have sanctioned to be taken over Paul and Co. Who gets the final say? The French of course. Oh! How the world turns!
The french are our real friends!

[Watesih]

Chief Mboe,
I would have said the French are not only our real friends ,but our blood friends.First they have transformed our country into one of the best in the world. Secondly ,when they cut our forest without exaggeration,the trees grow back the next day.When their Trailers ply our roads,the roads all get tarred,and we don`t lose the only intellectuals we have on them.Their agents will never accept that a single student has headache,not talk of being killed few metres from Chief Endeley`s
Palace.

[AngloCameroonian]

Mamary, if not of the nation degenerating our educational standards I can bet that a primary school child can amaze you with oral history of the then british cameroon.
Though these our chiefs and fons are painting a different picture to the world. I pray that they live longer, when we take the stage; they will apologise to the people before they die.

[Francis/Germany]

Sorry for Cameroon!!. Locate your photos here
http://locr.com

[Ma Mary]

AngloCameroonian, thanks to the internet, the peddlers of false fables no longer have exclusive access to the minds of our young. Any curious person will know the truth today. Thetruth will even come and knock on your door. In Ahidjo's time, certain books, works and artists were banned. That is very hard to do today.

[Ma Mary]

To Chief Mboe, the advice would be to be nice to any visitor, but not to say silly things like this. It is even bad diplomacy. What would he have to say when the British, German or Nigerian ambassadors come visiting? Diplomacy is full of lies and non-committing statements. There is good reason for that. The lie that this chief told is not helpful to us.

The culture of motions of support to mediocrity and lies has eaten too deep. Now the people can immediately give feedback to the chiefs. Those who want to learn will learn. Those who want to remain silly asses have only themselves to blame.

[vito]

Chief,shoud have made the ambassador watch this video over the champagne

http://wmedia.cameroon-info.net/mm/cin_watch_video.php?m_uid=60242100245F58B2AD9556

courtesy CIN

[vito]

Or better still ask the abassador to help him translate this and ask why the man was killed.

http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/sankara/video/x17idb_discours-de-thomas-sankara-a-addis

Cheers

[romario911]

THIS ARE THE KIND OF PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT SLAVERY,COLONIAL EXPLOITATION WHITE PEOPLE IN AFRICA.THEY LIKE TO PRAISE WHITE PEOPLE AND WELCOME THEM AS IF THEY ARE MORE THAN GOD.
LOOK AT THE CONDITION OF HOUSES THAT CAMEROONIANS ARE LIVING IN FRANCE.HOW MANY CAMEROONIANS OR BLACK PEOPLE ARE REPATRATED BY FRANCE?HOW MANY FACE RACISM EVERY DAY?
THEY DONT EVEN WELCOME OUR OWN PEOPLE IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES LIKE THAT.BUT EVERY DAY A DIRTY WHITE MAN WILL GO TO CAMEROON AND HE WILL BE WELCOME LIKE A DEMI GOD.MY BROTHERS AND SISTER AND MR ENDELEY PLEASE STOP DISGRACING BLACK PEOPLE TO PORTRAY ANY WESTERN THIEF IN OUR COUNTRY AS GOOD PEOPLE.
THEY CALL US MONKEY,PORTRAY US AS SATAN ,EVERYTHING BLACK IS EVIL FOR THEM.YET OUR PEOPLE STILL PRAISE WHITE MAN,IGNORANT CHIEF,PLEASE THINK BEFORE YOU TALK ABOUT CAMEROON OR SIMPLE TAKE YOUR BLOOD OR EXPLOITATION MONEY.NONSENSE

[chiefmboe]

JUST THINKING ALOUD

Chief Tabe told me that Chief Endeley meant to be ironical. I think so too. Chiefs use different ways to say what they have in mind. But did Chief Endeley actually say the Germans and the English abandoned us?

Chief Mboe

[chiefmboe]

JUST THINKING ALOUD

Watesih,
I think Chief Endeley meant to be ironical. Are you sure he actually said the Germans and the English abandoned us? I don't see the chief saying a thing like that.

Chief Mboe

[DaDiceman]

Ironical? And I thought I had heard all the dumb excuses in the world! This one comes from the same place as the child whose excuse for not doing his homework is: the dog ate my homework.

Chief Endeley, Chief Tabe, Chief Mboe etc etc. Bloody hell! Are there enough subjects for all these "Chiefs"?

[Danny Boy]

Chief Mboe,
if this is an exercise on damage limitations, I am afraid your Paramount Chief, has landed you, his Public Relations mouthpiece into it. Even if he meant to be sacarstic, why should he bestow Bakeri titles on them? I think he meant every word he said, welcoming these guests to his chiefdom.
I am afraid my Chief, you are trying to lock the barn doors after your horse has bolted.Pardon the expression!

[M Nje]

Once upon a time there was a "Commission of Inquiry" set up by the Governor himself Paul Biya to investigate the evens that occur during a student strike at the then University of Yaounde.
But the commission came up with the unforgettable report: “No death, No Injury” (translated from French). Does anyone remember the NAME of the commission? Does anyone remember atleast one member of the commission?

DID ANYONE REALY DIE OR GOT WOUNDED IN THE STRIKE?

This so-call ambassador is in full colonial mode. He is using the classic method that colonial agents used in the pass: get the people to obey through their “traditional rulers.” Unfortunately for this particular colonial agent, that was in the pass. That was when “traditional rulers” commanded the respect and admiration of the people. That was when “traditional rulers” had a House of Chiefs that commanded some authority. The people now can tell the difference between when a “traditional ruler” is fight for his bread and when he is fight for the common good.

Now we have traditional rulers who are grassroots militant for political parties and an extension modern era colonization of their people.

The question that comes in mind is: WHO AND HOW MANY SUBJECTS DO THEY HAVE LEFT?

[Claude Ama]

“The Germans, our first colonial master, and the English virtually abandoned us but the French have remained and have become our real friends.” Chief Endeley told his guests.

According to The Post (March 13, 2007), Chief Endeley made the statement, Saturday March 3, while welcoming French Ambassador to la République du Cameroun Georges Serre and wife, to the Buea Town residence of former UN Representative to Congo, Dr. Namata Ngongi.

In the 1944 Brazzaville Conference where France unveiled her blueprint for the continuous plunder and brutality of their colonized possessions in negation of the global decolonization spirit in a post-Hitler world, part of the declaration read:

“The goal of the task of civilization by France in her colonies rule out any possibility of evolution outside the French block of the empire. The eventual creation even in the distant future of ‘self-government’ for the colonies is to be set aside … In greater colonial France, they are neither people to enfranchise nor racial discrimination to abolish. They are populations which we intend to conduct stage by stage to a political personality and for the more developed to political rights. But this will mean that the only independence they will want will be the independence of France.”

Africa and the Southern Cameroons remains burdened with a certain breed, hopefully on the verge of passing on naturally, which continues to remind us on why the continent remains the last enchanting laboratory for all sorts of human misery. This breed have for centuries been conducted stage by stage to political personalities that enable them to betray the essence of Africa’s collective humanity. Some of our Chiefs and Fons in the Southern Cameroons have fit perfectly into this Gaullist view of Africa.

Africa and the Southern Cameroons remains bedeviled by the likes of Chief Endeley, who undeservedly sits on the remains of a glorious son of the land, Chief Kuva Likenye, who bravely fought off the colonial invasion on the Atlantic coast of the Southern Cameroons in the shadow of the Chariots of Gods, Mount Fako, in order to be a master of himself and not an infant that should one day lament abandonment by the invading and predatory white man. A predator and invader, who did not come because of any love for Africa, but to de-humanize, plunder and steal as much as they could.

That a Chief who should be a leader and inspiration of a people; a great grand father, grand father and father, will in 2007 lament that others “abandoned us” would have been comical if not of the sad situation his people find themselves in: the daylight rape and pillage of the ancentral lands, no industry, no hospitals or adequate healthcare, routine massacre of students and other local inhabitants by French-trained and armed terrorists from across an international established boundary. This well-aged Chief, who is wailing like an infant for being abandoned by the white man, is a picture of a person’s dignity in the comfort of a pit latrine.

Shouldn’t Chief Endeley and others like him be inspiring their people not to depend on others rather than lamenting the abandonment of the Germans that Chief Kuva Likenye resisted; the British who considered him and the rest of Southern Cameroonians as “dispensable?” The British may just have come across one too many of his likes to reach the conclusion that indeed, we of the Southern Cameroons were dispensable. And to fit the Gaullist picture as one of those “more developed” natives who has been “conducted … to political rights” he lays prostrate in front of a reject, a purveyor of cruelty and death in Africa, the representative of a country, France, who in the words of Charles De Gaulle considers Chief Endeley and his people as “a little gift to France from the Queen of England.”

Mr. Chief, in 2007 you freely made a gift of your human dignity and intelligence to this Georges Serre, French Ambassador to la République du Cameroun, expressing not so subtly that you obviously wish to shamelessly spend your remaining days in the “French block of the empire,” where the only independence you will want is the independence of France. Georges “Likanye” Serre and his wife, “Eposi” must have taken leave of you with a smile on their faces and a spring in their steps.

However, Chief, you and your privileged and notable friends who welcomed this messenger of death and honored him must be aware of what the architect of the brutalization of Africa, Charles De Gaulle, thought of his own people when they were under occupation as our land, the Southern Cameroons is today. We paraphrase him:

The Southern Cameroons, betrayed the UN, the British, and her ruling and privileged classes, has embarked on the greatest revolution in all her history. At this very moment Chief, in the secrecy of her suffering, an entirely new Southern Cameroons is rising, and she will be guided by new men and women to a better future for herself, Africa, and the world.

VISIT: WWW.SOUTHERNCAMEROONSIG.ORG

[DaDiceman]

But there's always something fishy about the French!
Whether Prince or Politician
We've a sinister suspicion
That behind their savoir-faire
They share
A common contempt
For every mother's son of us

Noel Coward, 'There's Always Something Fishy about the French', song from Conversation Piece, 1934

[Ndiks]

france24.com
http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/archives/talk/2007/February/20060216-Talk-of-Paris-bongo

[tayong]

WONDERS SHALL NEVER END.EXACTLY WHAT I PREDICTED IN THIS FORUM LAST YEAR,

CPDM PARLIAMENTARIANS WANTS CONSTITUTION CHAMGED FOR BIYA TO RUN IN 2001

Mandat à vie pour Paul Biya
YAOUNDE - 15 MARS 2007
© Alain B. Batongué, Mutations

Un groupe de députés élabore une proposition de modification de la Constitution qui annulerait la limitation des mandats...

L’alinéa 2 de l’article 6 de la Constitution pourrait bien se libeller ainsi qu’il suit : "Le président de la République est élu pour un mandat de cnq ans renouvelable". C’est l’une des propositions accouchées par un groupe de députés du Rassemblement démocratique du peuple camerounais (Rdpc) qui, depuis quelques jours, se concertent pour faire, dans les prochains jours, une proposition de loi modifiant et complétant certaines dispositions de la constitution de janvier 1996. Le fin mot étant de supprimer la partie liée à la limitation du mandat présidentiel à deux fois, et permettre ainsi à Paul Biya de se présenter en 2011 pour une autre reconduction à la magistrature suprême.

Les députés ayant planché sur cette proposition de loi seraient au nombre de dix, représentant chacun l’une des dix provinces du pays et tous appartenant au Rassemblement démocratique du peuple camerounais. Dans leurs motivations, contenues dans un exposé des motifs circulant encore sous le boisseau, ils indiquent que "les députés, surtout ceux du parti au pouvoir, doivent être ceux-là même qui, après une analyse objective de la vie nationale et autour du président de la République, insufflent une critique constructive et assurent au pays une éventuelle transition réussie, traduisant la solidité de nos institutions et la maturité de notre édifice démocratique".

[rexon]

Tayong,

Mr Biya can be president for Life for la republique francaise du cameroun. What is the problem? The problem we have is how to deal with the SDF. Through its coperation with La Republiques corrupt junta (in its mission to derail our political conciousness), it has been preaching what they define as a Unitary doctrine. What unity? I am very glad, our people have refused to register for the elections organised by La Republique. My campaign against this election has proven succesful essp. in my hometown. Less than 5 percent of my people are even aware that any elections is coming up and most (if not all) of them has testified to me that they cannot allow that fake elections to take place.

I call on every Southern Cameroonian to inform his parents, relatives, and friends to avoid listening to politicians flirting with La Republiques corrupt junta. They should not go and vote for anybody, be it SDF or the CPDM.
Cheers.

[Watesih]

Rexon,
People are now tired of this your everlasting flip-flopping.Few days ago you said Southern Cameroons was constitutionally part of La Republique.This implies that they should take part in elections that are constitutionally organised by La Republique. Bycalling on Southern Cameroonians to boycot or disrupt elections implies you want to set them up against the government,and you will not normally help them out of any dangerous
situation that comes withal.By reducing yourself to be disputing about taking part or not in elections shows you just started parroting the SCNC story because you heard others doing so.Your bone of contention should be nothing short of autonomy,not preaching political party politics between the SDF,and the Cpdm.Everybody is now aware that your problem has always been to destabilise the SDF at all course.That is more the reason you see nothing wrong with Biya being President,but your problem is the SDF.Which political consciousness are you talking about? Are you involved in politicking or in an all out assault to be autonomous.You would have realised by now that you are a non event as far as the life of the SDF is concerned.You can only call on people in your Village to boycot elections.
One would have expected you to use the same
vision to ask people in your village to storm the Police station ,and liberate Southern Cameroons leaders for all the two months they were in Prison.They have only been liberated on bail,and we start hearing your voice about the SDF again.You are fast proving to be a very dangerous weapon against Anglophone unity.The SDF is the only hope of the Anglophone people,because this same people cannever count on talking heads like you to present any other alternative.
The very people you are calling on to boycot elections are the very ones that are going to vote for the SDF,even in your Village.It is surprising to people that the SDF which is not in power is more dangerous to you than Biya.Few days ago you said the French are not a problem,but that we should only know how to fool them,today it is Biya that is not the problem,but the SDF.

[AngloCameroonian]

Yeah Watesih,
While all those who are hopeless rush to take crumbs from the cpdm, they later sit on the fence and condemn the sdf.
They have their mistakes and shortcomings but the very fact that they have militants from upper class right down to the lower class shows the people have hope.
Militancy in the cpdm is obligatory for chiefs and compulsory for any government official. It's even a prerequisite to certain schools or jobs.
Let the likes of Rexon spend their time deceiving themselves, writing slogans and commands for autonomy.Everything being equal even for a referandum to separate, they will still call for boycott...They lack a sense of direction. Why not Biya is our best president...!