Ten Reasons Why Southern Cameroons Should Not Join La Republique Du Cameroun

By Dr. E.M.L Endeley's CPNC Party

Reason No.1

If we join Nigeria, we shall be a self-governing Region like the other three Regions in the Federation. We shall be equal to any of the three Regions before the law of the land, and we shall be entitled to send the same number of Senators to Lagos like any of the three Regions of Nigeria. In order words, Southern Cameroons shall maintain its territorial identity within the Federation of Nigeria.

Cameroon Republic does not make the same provision for joining her. There is no Southern Cameroons if we go to Yaounde. There is no Senate there, and in fact, no valid Federal Constitution between Southern Cameroons and Cameroun Republic has been drawn up!

Reason No. 2
If we join Nigeria, our House of Chiefs in the Southern Cameroons WILL NOT be abolished. It will remain and become even stronger than it is now. BUT if you vote for Cameroun Republic, you will endanger the interest of our chiefs, because there is no House of Chiefs in Cameroun Republic, and Mr. Ahidjo has made it clear to Mr. Foncha that he does not intend to create a House of Chiefs.

Reason No. 3
Southern Cameroons at present has the same system of land ownership as in Nigeria where there are no European settlers. In the Cameroun Republic, the law permits Europeans to become SETTLERS and to acquire large areas of land for their plantations, leaving little or nothing for the natives.

If we vote for union with Nigeria, we shall continue to enjoy the excellent land tenure, which protects the natives from becoming tenants on the farms of white settlers. We shall preserve our land for our own farms, and we shall be free to plant our own cocoa, bananas or coffee.

If you vote for Cameroun Republic, your little farmland will be at the mercy of white French men. These Frenchmen are reliably understood to be planning to take over the CDC plantations in Victoria and Kumba Divisions and to stop the native banana trade.

Reason No. 4
Everyone in Southern Cameroons is familiar with the money we spend. It is Nigeria money. It is STEADY and STRONG. But anyone who has been to the Cameroun Republic will agree that their French money is very unsteady. Today you change UI for one thousand dollars; tomorrow UI can fetch you only six hundred dollars and so on.

If we vote for union with Nigeria, we shall continue to enjoy their STRONG and STEADY money in our trade. But if you vote for Cameroun Republic, you shall be inviting their UNSTEADY money and you will at once, notice that your bananas, your cocoa and your coffee will fetch you less than if it was bought with Nigerian money.

Reason No. 5
Nearly everyone in the Southern Cameroons has heard of the word FREEDOM. Our association with Nigeria for nearly half a century has made us realise what it means to move about freely; to speak in public freely; to worship freely, to speak out our minds without fear of molestation.

These freedoms and many more, will continue to be ours if we vote for union with Nigeria. But if you vote for Cameroun Republic, you will invite a new system under which everyone lives in fear of the Police and the Army. You will not be free to move about; you cannot lecture freely or discuss your political views in public; you must carry your tax receipt round your neck like a dog, and you can be arrested and flogged by the police and even imprisoned without a fair trial.

The CPNC believes that all decent people in the Southern Cameroons who have a taste of freedom will be sensible enough to vote for union with Nigeria. Freedom is too sweet to be thrown away to the dogs.

Reason No 6
If we vote for union with Nigeria we shall continue to share the same judicial and legal system. But if you vote for Cameroun Republic, confusion will immediately set in because British and French laws are NOT the same.

If we remain with Nigeria, we have the right to appeal to the Federal Supreme Court in Lagos and from there to the Privy Council in London, which hears appeals from all Commonwealth countries. This system ensures that every case is given a fair trial.
But under the French system, you cannot have fair trial.

Anyone accused of an offence in the Cameroun Republic is manhandled and flogged and is generally treated as a guilty criminal. Even the most junior policeman there seems to have the power of "life and death" over the common people! This is a bad system and must be rejected by the voters.

Reason No. 7
Nigeria is populous and rich country, made so by the joint efforts of Nigerians and Cameroonians working together for nearly half a CENTURY. If our people vote for union with Nigeria, we shall continue to share in the prosperity and strength of the Federation of Nigeria. But a vote for the Cameroun Republic will be the signal for new economic troubles in the Southern Cameroons.

All attempts by Mr. Ahidjo to borrow money from the World Bank have met with failure. Mr. Ahidjo sent two Economic Missions to the World Bank, but he was refused the money he wanted. Nigeria, on the other hand, has received substantial loans from the World Bank because Nigeria is respected abroad and she is credit worthy.

Reason No. 8
If you vote for union with Nigeria, the Southern Cameroons will enjoy true independence because Nigeria is truly independent. If you vote for Cameroun Republic, you will forever fail to secure independence for the Southern Cameroons because Cameroun Republic is still a COLONY of France. French troops are still stationed in Douala and Yaounde.

Mr. Ahidjo cannot drive them out even if he wanted to. These French troops are there for two reasons - to prevent Mr. Ahidjo's Government from being overthrown, and to protect the interest of the many thousands of French men who have settled there!
The CPNC maintains that it is no use for the Southern Cameroons to move from the British COLONY system to the French COLONY system. We must move into true INDEPENDENCE with Nigeria.

Reasons No. 9
The KNDP, which is spearheading the movement of unification with the Cameroun Republic, is not even sincere to its own conscience. This is shown by the behaviour of Mr. Foncha and some leaders of the KNDP who, it has been noticed are shamelessly receiving Mr. Ahidjo's financial assistance whilst at the same time they are bargaining

with the UPC and other opposition men from Douala and Nkongsamba to overthrow Mr. Ahidjo's government so that they can take over.    The result of such double-face policy will be to drag the Southern Cameroons into a whirlpool of intrigues between Mr. Ahidjo's government coalition, and the opposition parties there!

Reason No. 10
The CPNC has complied with the United Nations plebiscite resolution by presenting to the people concrete Constitution proposals under which union with Nigeria will be based. This constitution was prepared in 1953, 1957, 1958 and all shades of political opinion in both Nigeria and the Southern Cameroons took part in the discussions.

The KNDP, on the other hand, has until the moment of printing this pamphlet FAILED to comply with the United Nation's resolution and has therefore left the people completely uninformed of the exact constitutional arrangement for union with the Cameroun Republic.

The effect of the KNDP failure will be that the United Nations will inevitably be constrained to regard all votes cast for the Cameroun Republic at the plebiscite, NULL And VOID. The only votes, which will be counted as VALID, are those cast for the CPNC ideology of union with Nigeria, because the CPNC has fulfilled the TERMS of the United Nations Resolution.

Voters are therefore warned not to waste their votes for the Cameroun Republic.
Who amongst you would like to live in a country where your life and property are constantly in danger? Who amongst you, peaceful citizens of the Southern Cameroons, will like to live in a country where you may be shot at as you move along the street, or your wife killed as she toils on the farms?

Who amongst you would like to live in French Cameroons, a country red with blood of thousands of innocent victims killed by terrorist and the Ahidjo regime?

Who amongst you, good citizens of the Southern Cameroons, will like to live in a land where people's houses and shops are burnt everyday and looted; where you can be arrested without a fair trial?

Who amongst you will like to live in a country, which lacks complete respect for human dignity and where you cannot speak out your mind freely or pursue your business in peace? Surely none of you.

Who amongst you will like your children to grow up in servitude? Surely none of you.
That is what will be our lot if we join French Cameroun. If you wish to save yourself from the aforementioned indignities make sure you vote for the Southern Cameroons to remain as it has been for the past forty years.

Comments

[Ma Mary]

Sweeping History Under the Carpet

We are Southern Cameroonians, NOT Anglophones. Any slacker who can speak English is an anglophone. Southern Cameroons is a territory, a country with people and distinct cultures. Please, do not call us anglophones. It is ahistorical, and gives away power and a people's power should not be given away senselessly. That is the lesson from the 1960s. Foncha and the Muna ceded power too easily. Jua and Endeley were better in that respect. The first thing is to reclaim language and not let the enemy use words to define us that take away our mojo. If you keep calling a child a fool, she will become one. If you keep calling us anglofous, we may come to believe it, if we do not fight back. On the other hand, call her a giant and she becomes one.

Remaining on the subject of mojo, a nation is much like a religion. Visit Egypt, and you will come across the ruined temples of Gods and religions that reigned for thousands of years, a least 3000 years more than Christianity has been in existence. They are in ruins because people no longer believe in them. Ruined temples and symbols are a sign of doom, because like a religion, a country is sustained by faith. If people no longer believe in it, it dies. The symbols, the mojo of the union between Southern Cameroons and la Republique are dead. SEE HERE. Healthy nations do not let their symbols rot.

La Republique has leprosy and AIDS and is promiscuous.

Let us use our energy to run.

[vally England]

In some way Dr Endeley is being proven right by history.The union between two cameroon is complete failure.
vally
England

[Tekum Mbeng]

Dr. E.M.L Endeley was prophetic and had remarkable tunnel vision.

[Ma Mary]

The info was all there, but people ignored it for various reasons. Trained as doctor, the man (Endeley) applied those skills. He looked at the data, made a diagnosis and established the prognosis if Southern Cameroons joined la Republique. There was no way of predicting the Nigerian Civil War then, unless you really had 4 eyes. But, Southern Cameroons could have been the one stabilizing factor to prevent that from happening. No one knows. According to some papers, the third option was possible, but Foncha was so intent to joining up with "his brothers" in French Cameroun. What "brothers" they have turned out to be, just like Endeley said.

[Riccardo]

I keep wondering who are Southern Cameroonians if they deny to be Anglophones now. What a change?
Before, it was kill all the Francophones and long live Anglophones... Now?
Are the Dividers rethinking their strategies of exclusion? Let's hope so...

Riccardo
CAADIM

[Ma Mary]

Riccardo, as incorrigible ass-hat-wearer, the following explanation is not for you, but for the benefit of others others who might actually be confused.

In the Southern Cameroons, citizenship was not a function of being an anglophone, but of being born in the country, Southern Cameroons. Many of our citizens did not speak English or any other European language, but were fluent in pidgin, Mungaka, Bafaw or some other native Southern Cameroonian language. It was not the English speakers of Southern Cameroons alone who approved that Southern Cameroons join with la Republique in a federation of equal states. It was all Southern Cameroonians.

If you are still unable to make that distinction, Riccardo, you are either dumb as a bucket of nails or an extraordinary dissembler. Where is NAN? He warned you that this kind of obliviousness to history only helps and accelerates our work. A cursory examination of the dialogue streams indicates that too many of your Camerounese compatriots are still caught up in the fog of Ahidjo's propaganda. That, more than anything is bringing the most fearful Southern Cameroonians to our side, because they know that you people will not acknowledge the truth and do anything to remedy the issues at hand.

Thanks, Riccardoodle.

[Va Boy]

Dr Endeley's 1961 warning about the dangers of Cameroun are still true, 49 years later.

We cannot celebrate their 50th anniversary of fake independence.

[DR. CHRISTOPHER ATANG]

IT IS NOT LATE FOR FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE FORMER BRITISH TRUST TERRITORY OF THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS TO ASSERT THEIR INDEPENDENCE THAT WAS HIJACKED BY LA REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN IN 1961. IT IS CONSOLING TO NOTE THAT THE AFRICAN UNION (HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE)IS PRESENTLY INVESTIGATING THE WHOLE SITUATION TO EMANCIPATE THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS FROM THE PRESENT SLAVERY BEING EXPERIENCED, BY COMING UP WITH CONCRETE RECOMMENDATIONS TO RESOLVE THE ISSUE ONCE AND FOR ALL.
IT MUST BE CLEARLY STATED THAT SEVEN (7) MILLION SOUTHERN CAMEROONIANS ARE CAPABLE OF RUNNING THE AFFAIRS OF THEIR COUNTRY, AND INDEPENDDENCE IS THE ONLY OPTION.