AFTER EVENTFUL 44TH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, THE OCCUPATION FORCES DESCENDED BRUTALLY ON MAMFE SCNC FAITHFULS

Saturday October 22, 2005 will ever be remembered in Besongabang, Mamfe as the day on which the forgotten town came back to life. A historic SCNC Manyu County meeting scheduled to hold in Besongabang was invaded by combined forces of Soldiers, Gendarmes and Police.

To prevent the meeting from starting up at all, the troops arrived as SCNC faithfuls began arriving and surrounded the venue.

Finally, some forty delegates representing all the Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Manyu who were in the Hall were arrested and at gun point transported in military vehicles to Mamfe where they are detained at the Gendarmerie and Police Charge Offices.

Some of those arrested are Agbor Nfor – County Chairman, Ojong Aya, Orock Nyenty Paul, Bawak martin Tabi, Enje Lucas Wantu, Agbor Tabot Hector, Nkongho Victor Oben, Tabot Samuel Eyong, Tanyi Peter Ndip, Takor Ben Ashu, Ayuk Ashu Nso, Enow Ernest Enow, Ebula Tom Mbi, Etandow Conrad Etta, Betok Gustav Betek, Orock Ojong Aya Henry, Mbeng Cyprain Agbor, Oru Samuel Arrah, Ayuketah Thadeus Awu, Tambe Martin, Agbor Mayidi Atem,Orock Emmanuel, among otheres.

It must be pointed out that had the trigger-happy forces not arrived so early to block access for many, not less than one hundred delegates would have been at this Manyu County Assembly.

The purpose of the meeting was two-fold.

Firstly to review the effective celebration of the 44th Independence Anniversary celebration of Southern Cameroons in Manyu, the birth place of Southern Cameroons nationalism in defence of the political and legal international status of Southern Cameroons.

Secondly, to install the Executive of and celebrate the creation of Besongabang Precinct. To add colour to it as usual and raise it from a minor village to national and international concern, the Yaounde occupational forces had to invade, arrest, brutalise and detain these patriots naked as if they were the 15th Century African Slaves bound for the West Indies. While these arrests confirm the fact that the quest for the restoration of the statehood and sovereign independence of Southern Cameroons is the concern of all Southern Cameroonians, it also exposes Mr W.N.O. Effiom and Chief Tabetandoh, President of the South West Chiefs as strangers to their own villages and people. May they read the handwriting on the wall and make amends before it is too late.

The barbarism with which these peace-loving Southern Cameroonians are being detained – incommunicado, stripped naked, denied food, in inhumane detention camps, is cause for great concern. How is it that not even our lawyer is allowed to see them?

We however call on the UN, UNPO, national and international Human Rights Organisations and the civilised world in general to urgently mount pressure on President Paul Biya to release these victims of oppression and gross human rights abuse.

To our compatriots in Mamfe including those languishing in Bamenda, Ndop, Southern Cameroons and Kondengui, La Republique du Cameroun, among others, we salute your patriotism and bravery and assure you that a man’s place in history is not where he stands in time of comfort and complacency but where he stands in times of historical challenge and controversy.

Stand up and defend the TRUTH, and be counted. Southern Cameroons will be FREE.
Long live the right to SELF DETERMINATION

For the Southern Cameroonian people.

Done in Bamenda this 24th Day of October 2005

NFOR, N. NFOR
National Vice Chairman

Source: SCNC