The SCNC Southern Cameroons & 10 Others Struggle

The Southern Cameroons Peoples Organization, SCAPO and the Southern Cameroons Struggle. This is what is happening. In 2009, following a more than 200-point Complaint tabled at the African Commission for Human and Peoples Rights, ACHPR, against the Biya regime for reason of the colonization of the Southern Cameroons, the ACHPR ruled, among many things for the Yaoundé regime to engage in Constructive Dialogue with Southern Cameroons. The ACHPR gave the Biya regime 180 days to engage in this Constructive Dialogue. The ACHPR even offered to be the Mediator in the Dialogue. After actually writing to the ACHPR requesting more time to prepare for the dialogue, the Biya regime then reneged on its promise. Mr. Biya then moved his army to Bamenda to celebrate a figment of his imagination called the 50th Anniversary of the Camerounese Army and then he moved more soldiers to Buea to celebrate another figment of his imagination called the Cinquantennaire of the non-existent Re-unification. These acts and deeds of con-colonization were reported to the ACHPR and the

United Nations organization as Acts of War. The ACHPR had recommended that the two Panzer units that led the complaint against the Biya regime - SCAPO and the SCNC - constitute themselves into Southern Cameroons political parties and fight for political power as a stepping stone to political control of Southern Cameroons. In an attempt to prove to the ACHPR and the UN that the Biya regime is not interested in dialogue, SCAPO tabled documents to the Ministry of Territorial Administration in 2012 declaring itself a Southern Cameroons political party. The documents were receipted and so acknowledged by the then Pro-Consul of the so-called North West region, My Abakar Ahmat who forwarded them to Yaoundé. The then Minister of territorial Administration, Mr. Marafa Hamidou Yaya, REJECTED SCAPO's application documents stating that the regime would not authorize political parties that challenge the 'Republican" nature of the Camerounese State and political parties that are out for what he called "secession." SCAPO reported this rejection to both the ACHPR and the UN and moved into further action. Further action is where SCAPO is at right now. - with SCNC Southern Cameroons and 10 others.
By Ntemfac Ofege