South Cameroons: SCNC Forms Common Front in America for Celebrating Independence Date
While creating a unifying front for South Cameroon, its independence celebration is controversially overlapped by the Cameroon government's proposed celebration of reunification on the same day.
Below is an article published by The Star:
Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) activists at home and in Diaspora have been converging in U.S.A since June 10, 2011, to form a common front ahead of the celebration of the October 1 50th Anniversary of Southern Cameroons Independence in Buea.
The SCNC meeting which was convened by SCNC front of Oslo, Norway, The Star was told, is intended to cause SCNC factions like Southern Cameroons People Organization (SCAPO), Southern Cameroons Youth Leaque (SCYL), Ambazonia, Chief Ayamba and Nwachan Thomas’ SCNCs to dissolve their differences and form one united front, with one leader, to push their struggle ahead with one great force.
After the U.S.A meeting, the SCNC front will engaged in the preparations to celebrate Southern Cameroons Independence day in Buea come October 1 this year, the same date the Cameroon government is expected to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Cameroons Re-unification in the South West capital of Buea.
In an open letter to President Paul Biya, dated June 1, 2011, a copy of which was forwarded to The Star, the SCNC extended its sincere congratulations to Paul Biya, for finally recognizing October 1, the Independence date of Southern Cameroons “and your pledge to commemorate its 2011 golden Jubilee in a big way in Buea”. The letter highlight the controversial term, “Re-unification” claiming it is a source of constant confusion to the extent of causing the dismal failure of what would have been an enviable continental example of bi-cultural federalism.
Congratulating Biya for the peaceful settlement of the Bakassi dispute which earned him credit from the entire world, SCNC enjoined him to in the like manner to add the solution to the self determination question of Southern Cameroons so as to reaffirm his ability and commitment to the pacific resolution of conflicts. “We have taken much pain to analyze these facts as an encouragement for you to use the up-coming occasion of 1st October 2011 to disengage the Southern Cameroons once and for all”. They opined that in the light of the turmoil ranging across the African Continent and beyond, the political climate is not predictable in theoretical democracies anywhere. “The militancy of citizens in certain countries and the consequent fall of some hitherto almighty regimes calls for introspection and prudence particularly in tiding up internal situations timely. Where there’s prolonged abuse, nobody is invincible anymore from potential popular uprising”.
