Bravo: SDF declares Zero 20th May Celebration ( I beg to differ by MsJoe)

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People:

 

The underlining concept of 20th May, the new US ambassador's engagements, and call on Cameroonians to mark the day in spirit of belonging, project Cameroon's nationhood regardless of the cultural, political, religious tenets, variances, and fault lines of her citizens.  The acknowledgment of national days in the archives of nations are not equated with celebrating the stewardship of a sitting president or ruling party, neither has the bad condition of the country been used to skip the national observation.

 

Even in great depressions and rampant corruption, the national day can also pay homage to the courage and bravery of all those who came before us, those who toiled for the greater good, and those who strive to make a nation with little or no resources. It is a moment with hallmarks of altruism. You store the expediencies and rise to that which is ennobling because you belong to the country; not because you are properly served by the country.
 

Ordinary minds may wonder why the Social Democratic Front (SDF) political party, which subscribes to nationhood by contesting to serve the country of Cameroon, would aspire to circumvent activities emblematic of nationhood by reason of any grievance.  I believe this is enlarging the myopic because a country is founded on the basis of perpetuity but political parties could be transient products of persuasions within the territorial borders.

 

The failure to prevail politically, while not minimizing the triple devil of electoral malfeasance, constitutional mischief and judicial maladroit, still does not explain the logic of negating national symbolism.  It is dark humor to rationalize that a country is bad, therefore, it is not worthy to dignify the intrinsic cornerstone of her existence. Throughout the modern world, nations set aside a day that hoists their national bearing.

 

The national day activities are not necessarily tutorials in democracy, civic morals or economic probity; just like someone's birthday remembrance says nothing about very good conducts and exemplary developments. For example, the Mexican Cinco de Mayo (May 5th), which American presidents acknowledge with White House celebrations (Obama just did), does not cheer the superiority of the Mexican army over the French, in a throwback to Mexico's surprising defeat of French forces at the Battle of Pueblo on May 5, 1862, neither does it evaluate the state of Mexico under current Mexican President Felipe Calderón.  The celebrations connote the triumph of sovereignty. African Independent Day celebrations are not assessments of political leaderships after the nominal end of colonialism. National Days are designated to mark nationhood -- as simple as that. It would reflect a poverty of the mind to politicize this day with assorted pandering and meandering for political touchdowns.

 

I can respect the decision of Southern Cameroon National Council and other secessionists with an avowed principle that they do not belong in the Republic of Cameroon. Whether they are caressing romanticism or angling for reality, the narrative is straightforward and boycott makes sense when aligned with their mission.

To note, I believe in the liberty and anybody can define, elementalize and reduce /elevate  to whatever they call themselves with the knowledge that there are no finalities to this process. To define in this case is to differentiate and the separating border on who is from where, and speaks in what language before and after the League of Nations, is never a static sum with a thick line of zero-base. These human manifestations, laden with any number of subjectivism, whether by de jure or de facto means, are enfolding and evolving. Even Humpty Dumpty can know that.

SDF has to make up its mind, with some candor and valor, on its identity. Emerging under the skirts of circumstances to dabble in ambiguities make mockery of the sacrifices of those who gave too much in furtherance of political sanity and maturity. I speak with the knowledge of my own Mom's sacrifices. Others have fled the party. It seems the hemorrhage has turned the once light at the end of the tunnel to a flickering organ with mixed signals.

 

So what does two Cameroons mean in the SDF's boycott preamble? If its position is to revert to the former East and West Cameroon, I am sure there are still big guys and strong gals with spine in the party to articulate this on record. Perhaps, elemenatry respect for the populace would urge SDF to spell out the indicators of country management and progress that would prompt its return to 20th May. Silent prayers are okay as acknowledgments, if pomp and gaiety are too egregious in times of many wants.

 

Not to laugh, but I see a number of people copied. One of them is President Zuma of South Africa's ANC. ANC simply booted out former President Mbeki for reasons unproven as any third party has heard. Last week, both men embraced at Zuma's inaugural fest. That is a political maturity, which teaches us to separate the issues: keep ideological, political and personal differences where they belong. They should not be used at the expense of national continuity and cohesion.

 

MsJoe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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To: nnyamngaisc@ gmail.com
From: nnyamngaisc@ gmail.com
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 22:22:42 +0200
Subject: [nationalgroup] BRAVO: SDF DECLARES ZERO 20TH MAY CELEBRATION [3 Attachments]

[Attachment(s) from NFOR NFOR included below]

Press Release

 

Bravo: SDF declares Zero 20^th May Celebration

 

By a Press Release dated April 26, 2009 the National Executive Committee, (NEC) of the Social Democratic Front (SDF) has resolved that the frontline opposition political party which has been suffocating under President Paul Biya’s democratie avancé will BOYCOTT MAY 20 Celebrations. It declares there is nothing in this country and under this dictatorship to celebrate. It is BOYCOTTING the BOYCOTTABLE to vent its displeasure against the CPDM regime that has held the two Cameroons hostage and caged the people.

 

While the SCNC salutes this reawakening, we regrettably remind the vanguard opposition political party of the colossal error of 2000 in which it called out all SDF militants to come out en mass and celebrate May 20 deceitful national day. The SCNC had a week earlier declared ZERO 20^th May celebration throughout the length and breadth of Southern Cameroons.  20^th May is Southern Cameroons Day of National Mourning.

 

For the first time in the history of the party, its National Chairman, Ni John Fru Ndi went to the Grand Stand in Bamenda. Expectations were very high. But at the Grand Stand the barometer dropped too low to be true. But that was it.

 

The famous London Economist International Journal of July 2000 could not fail to quote from the two Press Releases and stated that the SDF position was in contradiction to the legitimate aspirations of Southern Cameroonian (Anglophone) members of the party who believe that the SCNC was defending their supreme interest. It concluded that the party was going to lose more seats in the next elections (2002). The prediction has been prophetic.

 

Since the CPDM successfully carried out a civilian coup against the will of the people in 1992 it has consistently been refurbishing and strengthening its system. The laws of 2000 were as bad and the system was as corrupt as corruption itself. Nothing has changed and nothing will ever change. The problem is with Ni John Fru Ndi’s failure to read the handwriting on the wall “Nchinda no de chop chair for palace. – A slave or palace guard can never ascend the throne†.

 

Last year after the CPDM carried out another coup through an illegal and fraudulent constitutional amendment to make President Paul Biya life President, Ni John Fru Ndi in another Press Release declared “democracy dead in Cameroon†.

 

The one billion dollar question is; As the touch bearer of multiparty democracy, the struggle for which many Southern Cameroonians have paid the supreme price, the struggle for which Southern Cameroons has suffered worst repressive measures – military siege, states of emergencies, Operation Dorade – with grave consequences such as mass poverty, gross underdevelopment, mass unemployment, high increase in the spread of HIV/AIDS, mass exodus of the youths, rise in crime wave and insecurity  among others; having declared democracy dead, having come to the end of the road, what else is left?

 

What else has Fru Ndi and the SDF got to offer to the widows, orphans, the Takembengs, the amputees of Southern Cameroons who stood by him and sacrificed leisure, time, energy, limb and life for a new dawn that has not come and will never come under “democratie avancé†?  Must they wait until “thy kingdom come†?

 

The SCNC makes this clarion call of destiny. And not being blind to truth and unappreciative of positive action that set in motion the new momentum;

 

We salute the charisma and uncompromising stand of Ni John Fru Ndi against the status quo and one party dictatorship;

We salute the visionary “Prisoner Without a Crime†, Albert W. Mukong for having had a dream and unyielding political will for positive change to lift his people out of the pit of servitude.

 

We salute the stately and principled minds of Justice Nyo Wakai, Dr. Azefor, Dr. Asanga, Prof Carlson Anyangwe, Vincent Feko, among others for in faith and determination teaming up at the risk of their own lives to guarantee the birth of a dream.

 

We salute Southern Cameroonians who starved of a democratic culture under the one party autocratic rule and not minding the military siege of Bamenda on that historic May 26, 1990 had the SDF launched in grand style. The party was nursed at birth with the warm blood of life of Southern Cameroonians that sank deep into the bowels of our Fatherland and must not go in vain

 

It is in this light that standing between the mountain peaks of Fako and Kilum the SCNC makes its clarion call of destiny and draws attention to the original mission of the SDF. Indeed no mother worthy of the duty and honour bestowed on her by the creator forsakes the off springs of her womb to think more of feeding and caring for the stranger who after satisfying his physical needs rapes her and leaves her destitute.

 

The SDF call for Zero 20^th May Celebration and the reasons advanced are good but not enough. Why?  It is singing the same old distasteful and heart aching sung and dancing one step forward and two backwards. This gives Yaounde cause for laughter, wining and dining for having successfully soaked the wings of the SDF that dazed the CPDM between 1990 and 1992 and has now caged it.

 

Enough of deceiving our people that through party politics and the ballot box change can come to our people. Paris in keeping with supreme imperial interest has decreed, “No English man (Anglophone) can rule a French Province†.  And la Republique du Cameroun is a French Province. But British Southern Cameroons is not part of la français Camerounais.  Southern Cameroonians belong here and not there. 

 

This leads me to reaffirm and reiterate the irrevocable stand of the SCNC to restore the statehood and sovereign independence of British Southern Cameroons.

 

To this effect we dutifully advise Yaounde to stop scheming around with envelops, creating factions and staging theatric elite meetings in the hope of deceiving the international community and diverting the attention of the Southern Cameroonian people from the ordained mission of the SCNC.

 

The SCNC, in the supreme interest of the Southern Cameroonian people, has a firm and irrevocable position.  Firmly committed to Nonviolence its conflict with la Republique du Cameroun falls within the ambit of international laws, namely, la Republique du Cameroun’s gross violation of the Anglo-French boundary treaty and imposition of its sovereignty over British Southern Cameroons which it rules with the barrel of the gun.

 

Being an international conflict of illegal territorial acquisition, it can only be solved through international mediation and/or arbitration.

 

While we are committed to dialogue, it must not be one stage-managed by Yaounde to be umpire and judge at the same time.

 

The SCNC has long since established a list of its patriotic sons and daughters from which its accredited representatives for meaningful dialogue, chaired by a mutually accepted third party, shall dutifully be appointed in Council.

 

Therefore, any body, whosoever or group, which ever, pretending to speak for the British Southern Cameroons people or dealing with the enemy of the people outside the agreed and established position which was reaffirmed by the Bamenda Constituent Assembly of May 2000 held in conformity with Arts 6 and 7 of the Bamenda Proclamation of 1994, does so at his or its own risk and shall be treated as traitors the world over are.

 

Yaounde should stop deceiving itself and come to terms with reality: the SCNC is not the physical individuals.  It is the will and spiritual force of the LIVING DEAD, the Living and the Would-be led by an invisible invincible righteous hand from above. This explains why those who have prostituted and dined and wined with Yaounde, like Judas Iscariot, have had themselves betrayed.

 

The liberation train has no reverse gear.  It is driving on with heroes steadily and surely to the Gate of FREEDOM for the renaissance. Remember in a liberation struggle there is no fence for fence sitters. You are for or against, with the people or with the oppressor against the people. But the people will always triumph.

Time has come and that time is now: for the original SDF and the people for whom its mission was predestined to withdraw inward and refocus; to like a stream whose direct forward flow has been blocked to redirect its course.

 

The imperative of the moment and urgency of this clarion call is for positive action for all Southern Cameroonians to jump on the SCNC liberation train and restore the statehood of British Southern Cameroons and end the silent genocide and mass suffering of our people.  You belong to Southern Cameroons and this is your heritage of divine love and wisdom.

 

People do not live on empty promises.  People do not reap from sugar-coated promises.  People live and prosper on concrete acts that transform lives, cement bridges between ethnic communities and disenclave isolated districts, build individual capacities, engineer collective consciousness through sound educational policies for national cohesion and reap bountifully from people-centred policies that create an enabling environment for economic development, healthy investment climate, international cooperation and understanding. Such only takes place in a democratic state.

 

This will be the reality in a sovereign independent British Southern Cameroons.  Remember British Southern Cameroons was a shining example of democracy in colonial Africa.  Independent British Southern Cameroons, thanks to its inherited liberal democratic culture with commitment to the rule of law, separation of powers, sense of good governance and advancement in science and technology will offer more. British Southern Cameroons will be the Hong Kong of Africa.

 

God bless Sovereign Independent Southern Cameroons.

 

Done in Bamenda this May 11, 2009

 

For the SCNC

 

 

              NFOR Ngala Nfor

     National Vice Chairman, and

 Chair, Foreign Affairs Commission.

 

Cc:

-          H.E. Ban Ki Moon – UNSG New York

-          H.E. President Barack Obama, Washington

-          H.E. Rt. Hon Gorden Brown, London

-          H.E. Umaru Mussa Yar’Adua, Abuja, Nigeria

-          H.E. President Paul Biya, la Republique du Cameroun

-          H.E. Jacob Zuma President of South Africa

-          Evans Atta Mills, President of Ghana

-          H.E. Colonel M. Gaddafi, Chairman of AU

-          AU Commission Chairman

-          All Embassies in Yaounde

-          All Member Nations of the UN

-          All Member Nations of the AU

-          H.E. Kamalesh  Sharma, S.G. Commonwealth, London

-          President of the European Union

-          President of the ICJ, The Hague

-          H.E. Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa

-          S.G. of ACHPR, Banjul, the Gambia

-          High Commissioner of UN Human Rights Council, Geneva

-          Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu, South Africa

-          Marino Budaschin, G.S. UNPO, The Hague

-          Special Rapp. on Extra-judicial, Summary or Arbitrary Execution, UNHRC

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