SCNC MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF BRITISH SOUTHERN CAMEROONS,
END OF YEAR 2015, BY NFOR NGALA NFOR, NATIONAL CHAIRMAN.
FELLOW SOUTHERN
CAMEROONIANS,
MY DEAR COMPATRIOTS,
On the occasion of the end of
year 2015 and in thankfulness to God Almighty who in His infinite wisdom has
helped us whether the storm so far, I have the honour to address you and salute
you all for being there steadfast, committed and hopeful.
The year 2015 has been a very
challenging and uneasy year. It had its torments but it was not without hope.
As the dark clouds gave us chilling moments, with God on our side, so were
there moments of the rays of sun shine and the morning star. And this is why we
are here for without hope, man, burdened by despair and hopelessness will cease
being who he is created to be, man, created free in the image and likeness of
his creator God to multiply and rule the world.
From 2000, the SCNC determined to
restore the statehood of British Southern Cameroons identified education of the
masses to know who they are and their place in history as the priority of
priorities. A people armed with sound knowledge of who they are and who they
are not are invulnerable to external aggression: they are overcomers and
achievers.
Since 1962 beginning with
President Ahmadou Ahidjo’s speech at the UC Congress of Ebolowa at which he
declared among other things that;
1. No new constitution was
adopted at Foumban.
2. To deceive and mislead the
world they amended their constitution and imposed it on us.
3. No federation was formed in
Foumban.
4. What took place in Foumban was
the absorption of our nation, British Southern Cameroons, into la Republique du
Cameroun which he termed the mother country;
The SCNC saw it a bounding duty
to expose the diabolic nature of the Yaoundé imperial regime, turn search
lights on the truth and remove the scales from our eyes. We salute all
compatriots who have been doing the good job. Armed with the incontrovertible
truth- historical, cultural, legal, and political we become invulnerable and
legitimately assertive.
To disarm us, falsehood,
distortion of historical facts, misinformation and misrepresentation at home
has been the instrument Yaoundé has used to conquer our minds. Once the mind is
conquered subjugation to slave status becomes very easy for the aggressor.
Mental decolonization
therefore becomes a logical means of overcoming our subjugation and servitude.
This no one can do for us but us. We must in self-consciousness be our own
redeemers to attract the necessary support from our friends.
Yaoundé colonial misinformation
and distortion has been taken abroad to sabotage our diplomatic efforts. But
every evil has its dooms day. No one can counter Yaoundé’s peddled falsehood
and propaganda through paid agents and lobbyists in Brussels, Washington, New
York, London, Abuja, Addis Ababa, among others, but patriotic Southern
Cameroonians who with sound knowledge about their country and their inherent
right to a sovereign homeland in conformity with the UN Charter, AU Charter and
international law leave no stone unturned.
It is in this light that we
salute the new awakening, the nationalistic consciousness in the Common Law
Lawyers, the Teachers Union, the Commonwealth Journalists Association and the
Natural Rulers, among others, that is tearing down the masque, dismantling the
Yaoundé imperial propaganda and exposing la Republique du Cameroun annexation
and colonial occupation of a former UN Trust territory in the 21st century.
The General Assembly of the
Common Law Lawyers held in Bamenda mid 2015 at which not even the President of
the Bar Council of Cameroons, - a Francophone – was admitted let alone given a
voice was eloquent defense of the distinct identity of British Southern
Cameroons. British Southern Cameroons by international law is not and can never
become an integral part of la Republique du Cameroun whose boundaries by the
principle of international jurisprudence of uti possedetis juris and critical
date became inviolable and immutable on January 1, 1960. The AU Constitutive
Act, Art. 4(b) upholds and defends this legal instrument. The right to the
existence of nation states in accordance with inherited colonial boundaries is a
matter of law and not political propaganda and sloganeering. President Biya’s
la Republique du Cameroun may pretend to ignore and run away from the
Constructive Dialogue approved by the AU Summit following the African
Commission Ruling but it cannot hide from the verdict of the law.
As we call on the Common Law
Lawyers to stand firm both in word and deed we assure them the Southern
Cameroonian people are solidly behind them for they are not defending self or
clique interest but collective interest of a people and posterity. The Common
Law and the Anglo-Saxon educational system and heritage constitute the soul of
the British Southern Cameroons nation which [a Republique du Cameroun for its
prestige and grandeur cannot put to the torch.
As we laud the dynamic efforts of
the Common Law Lawyers, we call on them to formally reinstate the Southern
Cameroons Bar Council and take necessary steps to affiliate with the
Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) and others. In defending our rights and
identity we must be aggressive, seek the open space where free men meet freely
and help contribute to the building of a better world and greater humanity. The
bottle filled with Beaufort in which Yaoundé has forced and believes it has
corked British Southern Cameroons in must be shattered so that we are heard and
seen in the council of free men of vision and integrity. We are worth far more
than the label and tag put on us by Yaoundé.
Equally laudable is the sun shine
of hope given the Southern Cameroonian people by our fathers, the Natural
Rulers of the South West. Recalling that the existence of the South West as
opposed to the North West is la Republique du Cameroun colonial product of
divide and rule, we are reminded by our history that in the good old days of
British Southern Cameroons all our Natural Rulers, as fathers of the nation,
spoke with one voice in the interest of their people and their God-given
heritage. At the Mamfe Plebiscite Conference of May 1959, for example, when Fon
Achirimbi declared that Nigeria is “Water” and French Cameroun is “FIRE” his
prophetic voice was on behalf of all the Natural Rulers. They were one and
indivisible for a common good.
While saluting the pace set by
our Natural Rulers of the South West we remind all our Natural Rulers of their
laudable contribution in the building of the British Southern Cameroons nation
with the constitutional creation of the Southern Cameroons House of Chiefs
(SCHC) which like the UK House of Lords gave British Southern Cameroons a
bicameral legislature. In view of the fact that in unity and solidarity, more
is done and effectively too, the enslaved people of Southern Cameroons while
pledging their total support appeal to their fathers to jettison la Republique
du Cameroun dividing line and from one conference take a firm stand on the
restoration of the statehood of British Southern Cameroons. They violate no
law, municipal or international by so doing. However it is an established fact
that he who obeys and respects decrees and laws that make him a slave is as
guilty as he who imposes.
It is a fact of history that
Yaoundé at the UN on April 21, 1961 voted against forming a federal union of
two equal states with British Southern Cameroons. By voting against they
rejected forming the federal union with us. It is we who should question their
illegal rule in our country and not them at gun point questioning our right to
restoration of our statehood.
The so-called federation of
October 1. 1961 – May 20 1972 was a phantom: it was a unitary system enveloped
in federation to deceive the world. UNGA Resolution 1608 of April 21, 1961 was
never implemented thus no union in conformity with UN Charter Art. 102 and
international norms was formed between British Southern Cameroons and la
Republique du Cameroun.
As Senator Nfon V.E. Mukete
called on Southern Cameroonians to rise up and speak out in defense of who they
are, in defense of their inherent rights, we call on the Teachers Union to
understand the language and tactics of Yaoundé. Any lamb that goes to dance
with baby lions must know that it will soon be pepper soup for their breakfast.
The destruction of our Anglo Saxon educational system is sending a sharp knife
through the core of our inherent identity. Education deals with the cultural
heritage, core values, vision and principles of life of a people. Assimilation
is the instrument by which all these are destroyed to facilitate and concretise
annexation. With this attained the people are transformed into play things and
footstool of the oppressor. The people simply cease being.
In the face of what is happening
in our colleges and higher institutions of learning, the message is clear – our
children have no future.
Time has come for us not only to
speak out but act in defense of who we are, our rights and who we are not.
Conscious of the fact that the
permanent solution lies in de-annexation and restoration of a sovereign
independent Southern Cameroons nation we call for unity and solidarity. While
we laud the openness, nationalistic conscious awakening from different angles
and interest groups, we call for synergy, a common point of convergence for a
common solution.
This requires that we see
goodness in every genuine effort and support it. In this regard let each and
every one of us, for our individual and collective interest and above all for
the dignity of our children and national integrity of our fatherland let us all
jettison Yaoundé’s imposed NW-SW dichotomy. This does not serve our collective
interest. And the greatness of a people is never measured in their division and
domination but in national unity, national vision and collective defense.
As stated in last year’s message
to the nation, a restored British Southern Cameroons sovereign statehood on a
federal basis in which Counties will have direct revenue allocation from the
federation account for the development of the land and people, this will serve
every Southern Cameroonian far better than the so-called decentralisation or
the so-called ten state federation which some ignoring the legal facts preach.
Decentralisation is euphemism for annexation, assimilation, domination,
uniformity, conformity to annihilate British Southern Cameroons for the prestige
and grandeur of la Republique du Cameroun-one and indivisible.
The concept of federation does
not exist in the mind set of people nurtured in Napoleonic Constitutionalism
and that explains why President Biya has never pronounced the word. But in Buea
he acknowledged Buea as the capital of Southern Cameroons. That is victory for
the SCNC, victory for the Southern Cameroonian people and right to restoration
of their sovereign statehood.
The drive to the restoration of
British Southern Cameroons statehood is unstoppable. It is legitimate. It is
our legal, political, historical and our cultural right. To do otherwise is to
betray who we are, the equals of other free human beings on the African
continent and beyond.
While intensifying education,
mobilisation and organisation of our people for freedom and progress in a
sovereign fatherland the SCNC plans to intensify diplomatic offensive in 2016.
La Republique du Cameroun wall is cracking and the sooner it loosens its grips
on British Southern Cameroons the safer and better for it. Every human product
has its expiration date inherent in its bowels.
We call on all patriotic British
Southern Cameroonians both at home and abroad to fasten their belts, reaffirm
their commitments to the struggle for the coming year promises greater
challenges and more sacrifices. We must double our steps to forestall the
greater kicks of la Republique du Cameroun dying horse. Imperialism has no
place in this modern age and we can tolerate it no longer.
Dear compatriots, our children
need a better future. This Yaoundé has denied them as we their parents were and
have been denied.
To hasten our liberation and
restoration in freedom and dignity I call on you all to bury the blame
syndrome, finger pointing, and the so-called NW/SW dichotomy. What unites us –
territory defined in inherited colonial treaties, history, culture, common law,
language, world view, among others, are far weightier, tangible and noble than
the coloniser’s imposed evil for his prestige and grandeur.
The history of human progress is
determined and measured by man’s consciousness and positive action to subdue
evil that goodness may bloom and blossom not for self but for the common good.
The world is moving forward and not backwards. And the actors are the free men
and women.
Only free men and women progress
for they occupy centre stage in their lives and in the lives of their
respective nations. Occupying centre stage they contribute to human excellence.
Southern Cameroonians do not
suffer from dependency-complex that they must forever be subjects of foreign
domination and alien rule.
From 1916 to 2016 marks one
hundred years since UK recovered the territory she lost to Germany following
the Berlin Conference. On recovering this territory which was given birth to as
an English Baptist Missionary colony named Victoria, Britain administered it
for convenience as part of her colony of Nigeria throughout the League of
Nations Mandate and United Nations Trusteeship periods. This was all against
the manifest wish of the Southern Cameroonian people.
With botched decolonisation,
consequent upon international colonial conspiracy against all principles of
international law and legitimate expressed aspirations of the people in 1961
Southern Cameroons was simply abandoned for the annexation and colonial
occupation of la Republique du Cameroun.
One hundred years of foreign
domination and alien rule of impunities it is high time for us to in unity tell
the world and humanity that our cup of patience and endurance has run over.
Enough is enough!
Happy and Prosperous New Year 2016
Long Live the Right to Self-Determination
Long Live the Determined Will of the People of British Southern
Cameroons to be Masters of their Destiny
Long Live British Southern Cameroons
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
As
the year 2015 draws to an end, I would like to invite you, as each
year, to review how we have fared as a Nation and to project ourselves
into the New Year together, with assurance and determination.
