REUNIFICATION DEBATE: Azong-Wara Tells Fon Angwafor; End The Blame Game

By Bouddih Adams (Originally published in The Post newspaper)

Former GCE Board Registrar, Andrew Azong-Wara, has challenged Fon Angwafor - member of delegation to the 1961 Reunification Talks - to tell the truth about what happened. In a letter, dated August 9, titled: “Let’s End The Blame Game”, addressed to Fon Angwafor, Azong-Wara states as a preamble: “October 1, 2011, is the date of the anniversary of the unification of the two Cameroons.”

And then ascertains: “You are on record for claiming that the late Rt. Hon Dr. John Ngu Foncha, one of your departed contemporaries, hid important documents at the Foumban conference, which was held to determine the fate of Southern Cameroons in the union with La Republique du Cameroon.”

Azong-Wara challenges the traditional ruler; “As one of the leading members of the delegation of Southern Cameroons to the conference, you must have had, and still should have, inside knowledge of what was in those documents which spelt out the position of Southern Cameroons. This position must have been lofty, otherwise, 50 years later, you would not be seen lamenting that Foncha hid documents.” Azong Wara asserts that he is mandated by a group of concerned Cameroonians, “... to request that you (Fon Angwafor) make public the contents of those documents.”

 
The missive, nevertheless, cajoles the Fon of Mankon, “If the thoughts of Foncha’s ‘deception’ still linger in your mind, the essentials of those documents must still be locked up somewhere in the book of your brain.” The epistle states: “On behalf of the concerned Anglophone people, I hereby humbly request you to end the blame game by letting us know why we got a raw deal in Foumban.”

The former GCE Board Registrar, who led the struggle for the creation of that institution and preservation and protection of the Anglophone educational system laments: “Anglophone Cameroonians have suffered a lot of deprivation and humiliation for 50 years when, in fact, you and many of your contemporary actors at Foumban actually hold the key to the solution.”
Azong Wara further admonished Fon Angwafor: “A people deserve to get the facts about their history straight.

There are people like you who have exceptional qualities to speak words of truth to distortionists and institutional rapists. An attitude of passivity, of mute indifference and even cold complicity is simply not acceptable.” The “Atinjong” title holder maintains: “Our people are hurt and wish to be reconciled with history, but this can only be when the foul crimes committed against them are acknowledged and purged away.”

Azong-Wara further urged the surviving Foumban conference: Your Royal Highness, we urge you to spill the beans. Release the contents of those hidden documents to avoid having the memories of all who betrayed our people at Foumban scourged for eternity.”

Comments

[essays]

Great this is really awesome post!) Really good!)

[Tangie S]

It's unfortunate that one our fathers should sell his conscience, his throne, his people and his children for whatever God alone knows. We regret this.

[Julius Che]

Let Fon Angwafor chooses the epitaph of a hero than that of a forgotten soldier in an unmarked grave

[atabong albert]

Fon Angwafor breaking the silence might give an insight of Southern Cameroon but will have no impact on impact on our struggle.The Southern Cameroonians should be political architects not political archeologists. What will the Fon tells us that we have not experience over the last 50 years. The transformation of southern cameroon from a developing nation state in 1960 into one of the least developed and backward area in the world. Our so called Chiefs have sold us to La Republic for a pot of porridge. Just like the South Africans, Ghanaians, Nigerians, Zambians, Libyans,Tunisians realised that enough was enough, they decided to fight for their destiny. We have complained enough.Complains alone will not address our near slavery status in Cameroon.God created the world in 6 days and on the 7th day there was action. Action speak louder than voice. The time for action is now.It is amazing that, our people don`t listen to the Messengers but will rather vote for Biya who has never campaigned or visited our neighbourhoods to canvass for our votes, The foolish fools from Southern Cameroon are on the field again campaigning even though most of them like Ngolle Ngolle will never get to his village just like Dion Ngute and others due to impossible roads, yet they have been Ministers for over 2 decades,A minister who has no road leading to his village. Only in Southern Cameroon can we see that happen

[FOFUNG]

it is true that some of our great grand fathers are holding our history which they contributed so badly that today we can't take a breath even in our own house. I belief that if we can inturn let them pay for that, then young politicians like ngolle ngolleand a whole lot of them who are moving on the same line would learn from it.they are dozens of these people behind our houses let us look for a way to give them a test so that their followers can learn.Have u move to Nyandong before or tombel in general i tell the road to hell is narrow but not as bad as the one which lead to tombel.LET CAMEROONIANS DO SOMETHING FOR CHANGE TO COME YOU SHOULD NOT ALLOW SOME BODY TO SHARE YOUR CAKE FOR YOU.

[Dr. Peter Wuteh Vakunta]

"Azong Wara asserts that he is mandated by a group of concerned Cameroonians, “... to request that you (Fon Angwafor) make public the contents of those documents.”

I believe Azong Wara has embarked on a laudable collison course that should, all other things being equal,get Southern Cameroonians out of this current unholy, unconsummated matrimony with our egocentric, mypopic and saddistic emasculators east of the Mungo.

If Fon Angwafor is truly in possession of legal documents bequeathed to him during the calamitous Foumban Conference, he should make them public wilfully and soon or his hands will be twisted to make him release those papers. We need these papers as we continue to make our case in front of global legal institutions for secession from la REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN.

Dr. Vakunta
http://www.vakunta.blogspot.com

[J. S. Dinga]

Of what use is "legal documents" in the Cameroon we all know today? As legal as the Constituion that we treat with callous indifference when it suits us? If such a document was unhelpful at the start, why would it become so useful today? Are today's actors any different from those of yesteryears? I wonder......

My concern is more with the imminent presidential election that ought to usher in a new lease of life for out republic. How many of us can stand up and be counted that this will be the case? By now election monitors must be flowing in their numbers into our triangular problematic republic in preparation for making that important declaration on the D-day as they always did in the past. I can almost guess the "free and fair" declaration already.

If these ladies and gentlement from several other countries could just take a deep breath and think of the Cameroon nation as a whole and in particulr its teeming masses of the young and unemployed, especially those US ambassador Harriet Isom aptly described as "Noting to lose" people, they will not make "free and fair" as a mere cliche to be regurgitated complacently at the end of that momentouos event of October 9th.

For indeed lurking in our much trumpeted peace and stability is this subgroup of persons with no prospects at all, persons who invariably rise up and charge when election fraud smells in the air, looting, burning and doing all sorts of smash-and-grab gymnastics in a rare vandalistic orgy of self-enrichment, reducing the centers of our cities and towns into a sort of war zone as they virtually empower themselves to do what the government and those in charge were unwilling or unable to do - redistribute the national wealth to all and sundry as understood by the IMF, World Bank and those other organizations that funnel monies and loans to underwrite national development.

[Fotoh Paul]

SOUTHERN CAMEROONIANS SHOULD SIMPLY FIGHT FOR THEIR FREEDOM NOT TALKING.
NEGOTIATE WITH NIGERIA AND GO AHEAD.
EVERYTHING OF THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONIAN IDENTITY IS WIPED AWAY AND WE ARE HAPPY TO BE EATING WITH THE WOLF AT THE DETRIMENT OF OUR PEOPLE.
WELL A CAMEROONIAN JUST WANT TO EAT AND DRINK AND NOTHING ELSE SO THE QUESTION OF IDENTITY AND RIGHTS IS A SUBJECT TO THE MINORITY SO.....

[George E]

Why woory yourselves? Knowing these old 'Foumban' guys like the Fon, he would not make anything public. Of course he is enjoying it all. Infact i believe it dosn't matter to him-why? He is confortable.You all know what i mean.

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