30th April
2014
Dear Compatriots
Common Law Lawyers,
WE MUST BE OUR OWN REDEEMERS
The Southern Cameroons National Council brings you warm and fraternal
greetings.
It has come to our knowledge that the colonial regime of la Republique
du Cameroun, as it is in the nature of every imperial power, is about to scrap
our legal heritage, the Common Law system, and in its place impose the
Napoleonic Code. Furthermore, we have learnt that some of you went to Yaounde
to protest this planned act.
Though not armed with details of your plan and those of the colonial
occupier of our land, we salute your courage and determination to use all
legitimate means to defend what you cherish and believe in. We equally applaud
your inherent rights to protect and preserve your heritage in order to bequeath
a befitting and proud legacy to our descendants.
However, it distinctly occurs to us that this is a sacred moment for us
all collectively to review our colonial state of existence. As lawyers, you
fully well understand the implications of condoning a trespass, refusing to
challenge the trespass and then challenging individual actions that occur
within the trespass you have condoned.
Some of our people, whether willingly or unwillingly, have refused to
see that the colonial regime has a carefully planned and laid down agenda for
the total annihilation of the British Southern Cameroons. The Napoleonic Code
is simply one among many laws and schemes that have already been passed and
implemented with our silence or that are yet to be passed or executed in spite
of our gesticulations. Their own experts, though belatedly, have come to affirm
with us and said it loud and clear that there is no legal bond between their
country, la Republique du Cameroun, and our country, the British Southern
Cameroons. Yet, out of vain fear, we British Southern Cameroonians are unable
to assert our inherent and unquestionable right over our own country, to our
own system, our own posterity, our own resources and our own way of life.
Why must we be contented with a subservient position and seek to defend
privileges and favours from the coloniser? The permanent solution does not lie
in panel beating our battered image to any acceptable form. It lies in
de-annexation and establishment of effective control and exercise of sovereign
powers and defense of inherent rights in our own country. That is when we will
be respected as free men and women.
The SCNC believes that in defense of group interests – journalists,
teachers, lawyers, students, artists, okada riders, among others – is simply
playing into the coloniser’s policy and game of divide and rule. The more we
form such groups without a common agenda, vision, the more we facilitate the
coloniser’s diabolic game plan of selectivity and dealing with our narrow
agendas. Individually we are weak, very weak and inconsequential and in small
groups we are vulnerable. The mistakes of yesterday must be avoided and now is
the time.
To solve the problem of the Common Law and Lawyers, the teachers or the
so-called Anglophone sub sector of Education, the students’ crying for equal opportunities,
retired civil servants who can’t get their pension as obtained in the good days
of British Southern Cameroons, among others, is to unite and adopt a holistic
approach to the problem, namely, the Restoration of the statehood of British
Southern Cameroons with its government in Buea.
We must stop looking up to Yaounde for a solution to a problem it
deliberately created to make us perpetually subservient for its grandeur and
prestige. The root cause of our problem, namely, the British Southern Cameroons
Distinct Identity Question, is the illegal occupation and colonisation of our
Fatherland, British Southern Cameroons by la Republique du Cameroun. To become
masters of our own destiny, we must as a people in solidarity victoriously, as
did Namibians, Eritreans, challenge the annexation, colonial occupation and
imposition of foreign domination and alien rule in our homeland. Through this
patriotic act, we shall recover what is ours, make the laws on our own land and
restore our core values and our own way of life!
The SCNC would be very glad to sit down with all Common Law Lawyers and
all other interest groups to give a holistic approach to the challenging task
of the moment and review our colonial state of existence and see how we can act
as one and redeemour legitimate and legal status within the comity of free
people and free nations. While lauding the efforts initiated by different
interest groups, as a people in bondage, each group must be focused on the
larger picture and ultimate goal and we must work in synergy. By this and this
alone shall we have a proud and rich legacy tobequeath toour descendants!
May God endow you with the wisdom we most need.
_________________________
NFOR, NGALA NFOR
National Chairman
(SCNC)
(Tele +237 70 38 12
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