A proposal to harmonise the fact-finding
reports of the CPDM elite of the North West and South West Regions, who were
sent back to their respective regions on the instruction of their National
Chairman, Paul Biya, to assuage their striking populations, has plunged the
party’s bigwigs in disarray.
The Yaounde based CPDM barons of
Anglophone extraction were dispatched to the North West and South West Regions
as peace emissaries after the September 22 and October 1, 2017, peaceful
demonstrations that left many people dead in the two English-speaking Regions
of the country. The fact-finding mission to the North West Region was led by
Prime Minister, Philemon Yang, while that of the South West Region was led by
erstwhile Prime Minister and current President of
the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism,
Peter Mafany Musonge.
After
a week in the two Anglophone Regions, the PM, during an evaluation meeting in
Bamenda on October 22, suggested that the North West delegation should meet
with that of the South West Region in Yaounde to harmonise the reports of their
findings and come out with a single coherent report.
To
him, after harmonisation, a final report on their mission in the two Anglophone
Regions as prescribed by Government will then be forwarded to the CPDM National
President, Paul Biya. However, when the two delegations met on Tuesday, October
31 to harmonise the reports, the harmonisation move flopped, as the Southwest
delegation, led by Peter Mafany Musonge, vehemently refused to harmonise their
report with that of the Northwest Region.
The
Southwest delegation insisted that the two reports should be forwarded to
hierarchy separately.
According
to sources, who attended the meeting and who spoke to Journal du Cameroun on
condition of anonymity, the South West CPDM elite were scared to merge their
reports with that of the North West elite, which they suspected will contain
certain aspects that contradict their Chairman’s vision for Cameroon.
They
thus decided to present their findings which they thought was in line with
President Biya’s crusade of one, indivisible and bilingual Cameroon.
It
would be recalled that after the fact-finding mission to the South West Region,
Musonge told the press that a majority of Southwest people want effective
decentralisation and not secession or a return to a two-State Federation. A
move, which President Biya, approves.
President
Biya had in his December 31, 2016, end of year address to the nation said
Cameroon’s form of State is non-negotiable.
Meanwhile,
the inability of the Anglophone elite to harmonise their findings and come out
with single report led to the submission of two different reports at the CPDM
Headquarters in Yaounde for onward transmission to their National Chairman.
Many
Anglophones are already expressing misgivings that the two reports may contain
contradictory findings that may further water down the Anglophone Problem and
delay a lasting solution to be sought.
Source: Cameroon Journal
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