By Wamey Panky
The Senior Divisional Officer, SDO, for Donga-Mantung Division, Godlive Mboke Ntua, withheld the installations of the newly elected Mayors, Deputies and Councillors of the Division prior to preparations by Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, activists to celebrate their independence day on October 1.
The SDO postponed the installations in the wake of persistent calls by SCNC activists to mobilise the population to join in the celebrations in Nkambe.
Another reason the SDO gave for postponing the installations was to give the key actors ample time to prepare for the event. He said some newcomers like the Mayors of Nwa and Misaje, might want it to be quite historic.
But conscious that Donga-Mantung, and Nkambe in particular has always been the bastion of the SCNC, the SDO said programming installations on the week leading to October 1 could give the most expected opportunity to the SCNC activists.
He said the activists could cause chaos or get any of the occasions in camera and later claim it as their own celebration.Mboke Ntua said he was not going to give the group, which he described as disgruntled and frustrated any opportunity to show up.
He vowed to dislodge any such groups in the Division at all costs. He boasted that he had set up his security machinery all over the Division, and woe betides anybody who would be identified militating with the secessionist group.
An insider at the Prefecture, who chose not to be named, said names of some SCNC ringleaders in each Subdivision have been handed to national security.The Post was further tipped that those people would be arrested a few days to October 1 and would only be released shortly after to frustrate the organisation.
An SCNC militant in the Nkambe, Samuel Tabue, described SDO's reactions as intimidation and unnecessary threats.Tabue, who is detained yearly for the SCNC cause said the organisation has reached a point of no return, and any form of intimidation, would not scare them.
According to an official programme signed by the SDO, the installation shall begin in Nkambe on Wednesday, October 10; Nwa, Friday October 12, Ndu, Saturday, October 12, Ako,Tuesday, 16 and Misaje on Wednesday, October 17.
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