The Death Of All Anglophone Council And The Rise Of False Leaders

By Ernest Sumelong

In the early 1990s, there existed two pressure groups in Anglophone Cameroon; the Cameroon Anglophone Movement and the All Anglophone Council, ACC, which championed the Anglophone cause and decried the marginalisation of the group.

Ebini, talking tough on the Anglophone cause

But the AAC was more conspicuous and this movement reached its peak when it held the All Anglophone Conference at Mount Mary, Buea, from April 2-3 1993, and later in 1994 when it met again in Bamenda.

Those who championed the course and convened the All Anglophone Conference were Dr. Simon Munzu, Prof. Carlson Anyangwe, Barrister Sam Ekontang Elad and Hon. Benjamin Itoe.
At the historic conference, Ekontang was the Chairman; Francis Wache was the rapporteur, while Rev. Victor Ayuk, former Social and Cultural Adviser at the Southwest Governor's office, led the opening prayer.

The movement, at the time, acted as a pressure group that stood for the identity, dignity and preservation of the Anglophone Cameroon people and institutions. That was then; now it is another story.

One of those who were part of the political process at the time was a certain Christmas Ebini, who left Cameroon in 1994 and for the US as the first international ambassador of the Anglophone cause, according to him.

Besides government harassments and frequent detentions, Ebini, who was then a high school Economics teacher, said he felt betrayed by the idea they had when they were militating for the cause because of lack of commitment, and also because some people had personalised it and made it partisan.

"When we were doing the Anglophone movement, we were non-partisan and we respected the philosophical affiliation of every Anglophone, irrespective of where they came from. Suddenly, people who did not succeed in their political quest in the SDF came into it and became leaders and transferred their partisan politics into the Anglophone struggle.

And so it became more of a struggle between the SDF and the CPDM, which was not our original intention. I did not see what I was doing in such a movement and so I resigned from the Cameroon Anglophone Movement and the AAC," Ebini said.

Ebini's concern over the AAC corroborates what many prominent Anglophone Cameroonians, who either sympathised with the cause or actively took part in it, have said. More or less, the Anglophone struggle has systematically been subsumed into the secessionist Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, where there is a fierce battle as to what faction is the right one and who is the legitimate leader.

Even before the Mount Mary meeting, members of the AAC were invited as Anglophone members of the Constitutional Drafting Committee at the Yaounde Tripartite Meeting in 1991, but its supposed new body, the SCNC, has been tagged as an illegal group and hunted by government. Now, it seems most Anglophone Cameroonians who came to believe in the cause and looked up to the leaders at the time, are now as confused as the movement itself.

Questions surrounding the Anglophone movement are many and are still begging for answers; what has become of the movement, what has become of Rev. Ayuk's prayers and the man himself. Why are Barrister Ekontang, Hon. Itoe and Dr. Munzu silent on the cause?

All Cameroonian Cultural & Development Foundation

Meanwhile, the erstwhile AAC activist, Ebini told The Post during his recent visit to the country that he has created the All Cameroonian Cultural and Development Foundation in the US, which brings Cameroonians together and celebrates an annual cultural festival.

The foundation, he said, has created unity and is taking care of other problems the growing Cameroonian community in the Diaspora is facing. Among their numerous activities, members of the foundation contribute money for the repatriation of corpses of Cameroonians who die in the US.

"The All Cameroonian Foundation promotes culture as it brings together the different ethnic groups in Cameroon. We also carry out projects to support the health system, schools and other community projects back home. Although the foundation is not partisan, members militate in their various parties and show solidarity when things happen back home.

SDF, SCNC Discredited In US

Ebini, however, regretted that devious individuals from nowhere are in the leadership of the SDF party and the SCNC out there and are using it for business."They don't believe in the cause and have no idea of what the Anglophones are looking for, but they do it to issue fake documents.

Some of them even have offices where they do this," Ebini said.
With the foregoing situation, it is now difficult to situate anybody who truly stands for the Anglophone cause.

Comments

[rexon]

Mr Ebini have told the world what he has been doing for the "Anglophone cause". In his self glorifying article after obviously bribing some poor journalists of the post to publish it, he has not told the world what the SCNC did for him. he has not told the world that his trip to America was funded by leaders of the SCNC and he went there and betrayed the organisation after gaining political asylum. He have not told the world about his questionable relationship with La Republiques diplomats in the US most notably the former Ambassador Mr Jerome Mendouga. If the braindead Mr Ebini wants to champion the Anglophone cause as he claim, he should first of all confess his crimes against the Southern Cameroonian people. Betraying a cause and struggling to destroy it with your habitual rhetorical articles after apparently receiving bribes from members of La Republiques regime does not qualify you as a champion of our cause.

[Ma Mary]

Brutus speaks.

[WF]

Sir Ebini:

The AAC II of 1994 in Bamenda, which you did not attend because you had left for the US, actually transformed the AAC to SCNC. Furthermore, the SCNC was technically dissolved in 2000 as it was transformed in April to a Constituent Assembly according to the Bamenda Proclamations.

You have a good point though that, after 2000, technically there should have been no more of SCNC, but a nation. True, this reversal, for whatever reason did not serve the cause well. Today in 2008, that error has been rectified as we have the nation--BRITISH SOUTHERN CAMEROONS, with all the symbols agreed to at the 2000 Constituent Assembly. There is continuity in the struggle. Yes ALL anglophone Council is dead, and rightly so, that is why BRITISH SOUTHERN CAMEROONS is living. Whether this British Southern Cameroons will have another name is the decision of the people after total and unconditional Independence, and sovereignty which is not too far. You will keep guessing for as long as we determine. We make the call.

If you came out as first Ambassador of AAC, a faithful person of the cause should have formed the All Anglophone Cultural Conference, or provided leadership to advance the struggle. Instead you sold out your conscience for pennies and whisky. LRC invited the AAC to Yaounde and sleazily put under the table the Consitutional draft that AAC came with. I tell you, a Higher body will invite LRC and the British Southern Cameroons, not to Yaounde this time around. Just watch and see the dreams of Munzu, Elad, Wache, come to pass. In a relay race, each of the four runners does a lap and waits for victory. This is in the making as the Elads, Munzus, Waches have handed the baton praying for victory. Whether they talk or not is immaterial. you are not even their mouthpiece. Hold your peace. The All Cultural group will soon become All British Southern Cameroons Cultural Extravaganza in the USA. It is coming. Be prepared to eat your words.

LongLive British Southern Cameroons!

William

[mk the southerner]

Is this just one of those people who called themselves bush fallers and want people to be known that he was in the country or is he really a true son of his father.
Some one who have not been brain washed will not see the SCNC as a "secessionist Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC,"
If truly this luxurious gentle man has a conscience he would have been telling us how he is trying to remedy the situations he thinks are not ok. He is asking the were about of the Munzus etc in the struggle but no body seems also to knows his where about. Is he for one Cameroon as stated by his foundation there of promoting Cameroon's culture by bringing all Cameroonians together, I dont no the Cameroon this greedy goat is talking about. If they come together and keeping their traditions and fairing corpses home? it is for their common good. How does that help the common Southern Cameroonian on the street? He talks about it as if people should say that's a good man, to hell.

[UnitedstatesofAfrica]

Rexon,
that was a very insightful write-up. After reading it, I did some research and found in truths in what you said. I must confess that you are much smarter than I thought.

[Paa Ngembus]

UsOfMinnesotta,

My dear little ragamuffin.

Is this the beginning of your conversion my dear Saul the Southern Cameroons persecutor?

So you are now forsaking your dear friend Ebini whose skeletons in the closet you claim to have just discovered.

Ebini is an old assylum racketeer who was caught pants down and he accepted bribes from Mendouga to switch sides. La Republique du Cameroun actually bought a house for Ebini, put Ebini on a monthly stipend and agreed not to expose his assylum racketeering.

In return Ebini swore to destroy the Southern Cameroons movement in the US of which I hear he was the treasurer, Ambassador and fundraiser in chief.

Thanks brother Rexon. You are indeed a Messiah. Continue your good works. You will expose more traitors and get more converts a la Saul, even though those of USOfMinnesotta's ilk can never be trusted.

Ma Mary, Brutus is really an apt depiction of El Diablo Ebini.

MK and WF, I applaud you. Keep up the fight. Our victory is assured.

A+

Paa Ngembus
THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS SHALL BE DECOLONIZED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY

[mk the southerner]

We should stop wasting are time the idiot is of the eleventh Provence not even a Southern Cameroonian. Frog like him.

[casara]

People
Ebini is a nonentity.
Ebini we know you a traitor.Please keep your mouth shut cause you know nothing about what's happening with the struggle.
Thanks, The post for exposing Ebini's stupidity.Thanks,the post for the story, for you give us the chance to tell the world who this betrayal man Ebini is.
''Why don't You just go home, and see your family,drink your mbuh.Or better still talk to the post about your cultural something''
You have always betrayed us.2002 you were part of a meeting to talk about La Republique Du cameroun's student union.
Man stop carrying the wrong message to the people of the Southern Cameroons.

[Shalom]

"Simplice", Mr. Impostor, all the traps you and your accomplices of the LRC Forchive clique set have so far failed. This one is the latest you have developed with your pay masters. Be sure it will fail. You and your accomplice on this forum aka Ebini will be exposed.

WARNING TO ACTIVISTS!!!!
THAT WEBSITE BEING PROPOSED BY THIS SURROGATE OF THE LRC OPPRESSIVE REGIME IS A TRAP. NO SOUTHERN CAMEROONIAN SHOULD SIGN OR EVEN LOOK AT THAT PETITION. THEY HAVE DEVISED THAT TO HOODWINK YOU TO SELL OUT YOUR IDENTITIES!!! BEWARE!!!

[simplice]

Mr Shalom. Such an allegation levelled against me is a stark revelation of some sense of frustration. By denying to sign a petition amied at forwarding the cause of human right activists;you only lay bare you hypocritical trait.
Please join me in examining what I conceive to be your inconsistency:"How can a Freedom Fighter, endorse the voilation of human rights simply because its perpetrators are his colonial masters(La Republique)?." . Shame on you and all those who sympathise with your unworthy comment.

[UnitedstatesofAfrica]

Mr. Shalom,

I thought the same thing when I saw that petition. I understand why Simplice, the simpleton, can be frustrated but at the same time, oppressive regimes have been known to use such tactics to trap the identities of their opposition. Divulging your information on the internet on a random site is never a good thing. Simplice, the simpleton, to counteract Shalom's accusation, we need more information about the petition. Who started it? names? facts? sites? something that can prove it's legitimacy.

[UnitedstatesofAfrica]

Mr. Shalom,

I thought the same thing when I saw that petition. I understand why Simplice, the simpleton, can be frustrated but at the same time, oppressive regimes have been known to use such tactics to trap the identities of their opposition. Divulging your information on the internet on a random site is never a good thing. Simplice, the simpleton, to counteract Shalom's accusation, we need more information about the petition. Who started it? names? facts? sites? something that can prove it's legitimacy.

[simplice]

Common Sense: ON signing a petition, you don't need to disclose any particular of yours if you don't see any wisdom in doing so.Mr USAfrica, I thought you smart; please think again and this time, don't stumbble when you do. Try again.

[UnitedstatesofAfrica]

Can I see the petition again...please?

[simplice]

Dear Friends,

I have just read and signed the online petition:

"Freedom for all political prisoners in Cameroon and Creation of an
International Commission of Inquiry on the mass murder of unarmed
civilians by the Cameroon armed forces in February 2008"

hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition
service, at:

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/280208/

I personally agree with what this petition says, and I think you might
agree, too. If you can spare a moment, please take a look, and
consider
signing yourself.

[rexon]

Simplice,

I am a little bit confused why yourself that have been calling on individuals here not to digress on the topic of the day and cross post information is the first to cross post under an SCNC article. Are you doing this because the article in question concerns an SCNC traitor and readers are united against his unscrupulous action? I am somewhat shocked by the way a student like yourself would hate the freedom of your own people in the Southern Cameroons and is yet claiming to be fighting for the liberty of your neighbours .

If democracy to you means supressing anything from the Southern Cameroons while promoting La Republiques imperialists policies on our teritory, then i would have no other choice other than to describe you and my brother United States of Africa. I have never been against promoting democracy in La Republique, but i cannot want the freedom of the people of La Republique while promoting their imperialist policies on the Southern Cameroons. Think for a moment,have you ever seen any Camerounese intellectual questioning the exploitation of the Southern Cameroons? When Achille Mbembe, Monga Celestin, Mboua Massock, Antay Gassagay, Charly Gabriel Mbock writes, they always promote the imperialist policies of Biya and describe Southern Cameronians as fools. They even always shy away from discussing the modest 1972 foumbam constitutional manipulation. Simpleton Simplice, be careful when u wan to fight against the legitimate concerns of your own people.

Thanks Everso.

[simplice]

Mr Rexon, many thanks for your reflections that go a long way to illuminate my perspective of the issue. As a matter of objectivity, I have never underminded the SC cause.Nor have I in the nick of time, claimed to be a partisan of any political denomination. The first article of my presence on this forum remains, logic and facts; sometimes my pendulum swings Pro-SCNC, sometimes it doesn't. All depends on the topic of debate.
Regarding this petition, I'm only too congnizant of its unwelcoming character.However it is USAfrica's invitation.
Hope I soon graduate from being a Sipleton.

[red flag]

and jesus said, one of you will deny me 3 times before the roster corws, and pete said master even me i will never deny you, we all know what happened.

peter denied knowing jessus, three times, before knowing, soo is SIMPLICE

THE MAN IS BEEN BRIBED JUST AS EVERY AFFILITE OF THE FRANCES COLONY, JUST AS CHRISTMAS EBINI, JUST LAST WEEK SIMPLICE WAS CALLING ON HIS BROTHERS MAGAZINE, ABDOU, ETC TO FIGHT EVERY SCNC ANME MENTIONED IN BELGIUM, AND ON THE FORUM, TODAY HE IS SAYING HE NEVER STOOD AGAINST SCNC, BUT, SCNC DOESNT DEPENDS ON THE SIMPLICE TO FREE US FROM THESE ETERNAL SLAVERY OF 11 MILLION FRENCH NEGROES, THE QUESTION IS DO THEY KNOW THAT THEIR MERE PRESENCE IN OUR LAND IN GENOCIDE TO OUR CULTURE, OUR FREEDOM AND OUR WAY OF LIFE? MANY WOULD SAY THEY DONT, THATS BECAUSE, FREEDOM IS ONLY SWEET FOR THEM, DIGNITY AND INDEPENDENCE IS ONLY GOOD FOR THEM BUT NOT FOR OTHERS, THET NEVER RESPECT OUR ANGLOSAXON CULTURE, IF THEY DID THEY WOULD HAVE NO BUSINESS CONTROLLING OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSYTEM. AS WELL AS ADMINISTERING OUR COUNTRY FOR THEM, THEY WONT HAVE ANY BUSINESS PARTITIONING OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY INTO WHAT FITA THEIR IMAGINATION OF NORTH WEST AND SOUTH WEST, , THEY JUST LIKE TANZANIA, WOULD ONLY LISTEN FOR OUR DESIRE, ON WHAT, WHERE AND HOW WE ARE GOVERNING OUR COUNTRY, JUST LIKE SOUTH AFRICAM NAMIBIA IS FREE WITHOUT TEIR MEDDLING, BECAUSE THESE SET OF BLACK PEOPLE ARE CIVILIZED, THEY ALL ARE BETTER THAN THESE 11M FRENCH NEGROES, WHO DANCES ON THE STREET AFTER KILLING AND RAPING OTHER CULTURES DIFFERENT FROM THEM. SUCH MENTALITY IS THE MOTIVATION OF THE PEOPLE LIKE SMALL SIMPLICE, LIKE INONI, LIKE, NGOLLE NGOLLE. LIKE ACHIHI ACHU, LIKE, LYDIA LIFAKA, LIKE EYAYA LOUIS LIKE THE KING OG THE FRENCH CAMEROUN HIMSELF. SOO MUTE IT BE

[simplice]

Mr Reg Flag. I dismiss your allegation as "inopportune';'hypothetical';'lacking in substance';'wishful thinking' and 'intellectual dishonesty". They all sink into the category of "personal nightmares".

[simplice]

One more thing Mr History Teacher;this is not a club where past events are recycled and their modified versions, presented time and again in innumerable pieces of literature.

[rexon]

Simplice,

I do hope over time, you will come to your senses and understand that you cannot fight against democracy in your backyard and promote democracy and freedom in a foreign country.That would be inconsequential in your own life. Hatred begets hatred. Have you ever seen any SCNCer speaking against democracy in La Republique. We know what it means to be free and that is why we are strongly in support of democracy in their country. On the other hand, we would not want to remain a colony for their country, when we have a legitimate right to live free in our own land. To be honest, there would never be peace in La Republique if its citizen do not come out to fight against the exploitation and colonisation of our land. If you people want true democracy to prevail, you should also expect to respect the wishes and aspirations of the people of the Southern Cameroons who have been subjected to untold slavery by La Republique Francaise Du Cameroun.

[Danny Boy]

Rexon,
why not stop this tom-foolery! When are you going to lob a petrol bomb at the High Comission here as I suggested to you?
Simplice is not your bete noire!! Keep harping on. Blah blah blah....
Join the SDF and have a mandate to lecture on devolution, our best chance for autonomy.
Think about it. I am quite serious.

[simplice]

Mr Rexon, I subscribe without any modicum of reservation to your political philosophy. Some elements of your club have cited time and again, “Hezbollah of Syria” and “Hamas of Palestine” as synonyms of your secessionist identity. But, gentleman, these are movements which have gained political influence and cajoled the masses to them, as a result of their socio-economic philosophies. They’re working the work for the people on the ground.
If the SCNC ever wants to get the attention of the masses, they must start establishing a means to alleviating the stringencies of the masses right now. All this history telling will avail no good. Irrefutable statistics teaches with unmistakable emphasis that; “you cannot win your war without the support of masses, and nobody will join you, where there’s no socio-economic pragmatic element of sacrifice on your part”. If SCNC advocates cannot do this, now, then, none of them will leave their lucrative paid jobs to establish in SC; upon the restoration of its statehood. Mr Rexon, ask your leaders to come up with a socio-economic agenda; else this customary lampoon singing on the present regime and SDF will be of no use. We despise them as devils, however, the SCNC must start working the work to show us, what sort of an angel they are: if not, we shall always prefer the devils , we know…..as the solution to the problem maybe worse than the problem(Could the SCNC revolution not be similar to the Russian revolution?:….. this is my fear).

[simplice]

Danny Boy; we have thesame spectrum of perception regarding this qualm. Thanks for the insightful comment.

[simplice]

To substantiate my cry, many SCNC leaders only became conscious when they were booted out of th gov't. This is the hypocrasy will deplore. In the same vein, we cannot trust them, because they're hypocrites of a frustrating dimension. With the exception of SC patriots like Justice Ebong and a few others who left their lucrative jobs for the SCNC cause, all other leaders are sham opporunists. I have done enough research on this to shout to the top of my voice.

[casara]

Simplice,
You are a sick man.Find help, man.

[simplice]

Mr Casara, I have another thing to say: at which you'll lament.

"The SCNC Asylum-Seeking Machinery" is as corrupt as Biya's gov't. There's little scrutiny in this process. And what is the result of this: it becomes a market where; even Biya's former friends who have been booted out the gov't can now seek refuge and call themselves SCNCists or Freedom Fighters.
I'll give u factual evidence. I have a friend who just sacrificed 200 000 frs for an SCNC ID card and complementary asylum seeking docs. This friend doesn't even have an idea of what this stuff is all about. This is spectre that is hunting the movement. This is plain truth

[rexon]

Simplice,

I am on my way out before reading this one. But just to summarise, i will like to investigate the asylum claim you just posted above. Can you therefore help give me the following information:
1) the name of the friend
2)the person who sold him/her the asylum documents and his position in the SCNC.
3)The country where he has seeked political asylum.

I need this informations asap. I know you might not have information 2 or 3, however, you can easily provide me with the name of the friend and his contact details for us to investigate. Thanks in advance for helping us.

Rexon.

[simplice]

Mr Rexon, let me have ur e-mail address. I shall endeavour to answer questions 2 and 3.As for question 1, I think, as a matter of survival, I don't have to disclose his ID.

[casara]

Simplice
Seek help,man

[UnitedstatesofAfrica]

hahahahhahahahahahah....this is so laughable. This forum has become a spring board where people can group, regroup and launch a string of personal attacks. Oh lawd have mercy!