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The Hall of
SHAME!
Edition No:6
November 2005
Hall of Shame Mission Statement
This site is dedicated to expose those shameful
people who think they can lie, cheat, steal and violate the principles of
basic humanity and remain anonymous. As you are aware, my involvement
 with
Cameroon began through the glazed eyes of a tourist. After a sham marriage
and the loss of my life savings to the corrupt judiciary, I now see the
plight of Cameroonians through much clearer eyes. It is through fiercely
protected anonymity, by those involved, that corruption heads down its
unbending path. These are the same people sitting in the pew next to you
in church on Sundays, who are stealing the food from your mouth and your
children’s education on Mondays. I say, lets take a look at these people
and let them enjoy the sleepless nights that they inflict upon others.
Exposure of these peoples' acts of shame is the strongest tool to drive
others away from these evil practices.
Is Cameroon so far down the toilet bowl of
corruption that it is beyond help? I think not, but the fact that many
wear their crimes as medals to their cleverness, and worse, that others
aspire in the same way to achieve like goals is a mentality worthy of
standing against.
Glenn
Hall of Shame - Monthly newsletter
The next edition will be published on
the 1st of December 2005
and shall continue to arrive on the 1st of the month
thereafter. If you wish to subscribe you can reply to
Camerooninjustice@hotmail.com and write SUBSCRIBE in the
subject box. Each month once the newsletter is loaded onto the site you
shall receive in your email inbox, a link to take you to the newsletter.
Submissions
Please feel free to send your own corruption or
injustice stories. Each month contributions highlighting the difficulties
of those that may not have found the means to voice their issues will be
considered. Of course I would need to check story validity depending on
its contents, but we won’t be shying away from what needs to be said.
Consider this your newsletter and within reason there shall be no
censorship. Photos can be published also, if they enhance your tale. Its
early days and may take a couple of editions to get into the flow of
things, but no target is too big. My philosophy is fairly simple “A thief
is a thief”. I don’t discriminate on age, colour, race or sex. I do
request that you use this forum for the purpose it is intended. Thanks.
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Dear Fellow Corruption Haters,
Thanks to the many readers, we’ve had another
huge month. It’s all been smooth sailing from this end and the
information has flowed with no hiccups from cyberspace. I did hear
that the ride has been getting a bit bumpy for some of those we
love to hate. (Maybe my Christmas present is coming early this
year?) Anyway, we’ll just be getting on with the job till it’s
finished.My thanks to the two readers who wrote expressing
concern for my welfare. They felt I might not have been prepared
for the severity of a response from either Paul Biya or the likes
of Société Generale (French Bank) if I continued to paint them in
a poor light. I replied that I can only tell the truth and the
continued response from those crooks has been to pull their head
even further into their shells. Are they pretending to be turtles?
If they want to send someone to visit me, they should let me know
in advance, so I can collect them from the airport.
As for Mr Biya, I explained, he can’t speak English and
certainly can’t read it! He probably doesn’t even know of this
newsletter, and if he did, he can only look at all the pretty
pictures.
Later I thought about the replies I’d given and realized
that it’s not fair of me to exploit Mr Biya’s lack of bi-lingualism.
I thought, how could I get my message to Mr Biya and bridge our
communication difficulties? Then it came to me, “find an image
that expresses what I’m trying to say and send it to Mr Biya!”
Please click on the letter Mr Biya; I hope this results in us
having a clearer understanding of each other.
Lets
keep on hammering away and shaming those thieves who steal from us.
Have a great month everybody and all the best. Glenn
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Praise File #4
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Paul Mapouth Eugene
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1949 - 2004
Sadly, while this
months recipient is no longer with us in body, his spirit stands
beside me as it has from the first time we met. This is no lament
over a friend lost, but a homage to a character who’s attributes
embodied all that is positive. As such “Uncle Paul’s” position
alongside the likes of Prince & PA Hamilton Ayuk, Cardinal Tumi & Ni
John Fru Ndi is not out of place as a fine Cameroonian and a
splendid citizen of humanity.
Mr.
Paul Mapouth Eugene was born in 1949 in Victoria to Pa Labep Eugene
and Mama Emma Labep Eugene, both of blessed memory. He attended the
Native Authority (NA) school Victoria. From there he gained
admission into Sacred Heart College Mankon, Bamenda in 1964,
obtaining his London G.C.E ‘O’ level in 1969. He then worked briefly
for CDC, Tiko, as a junior field assistant. In July 1971 he left for
CIAT Ngaoundere and came out as a marine officer in the Navy. After
a truncated service in the navy he left for Nigeria. There he taught
in Enuda High School, Imo State (now Abia State). In the course of
time he went into business spanning the territories of Nigeria and
Cameroon.
“Uncle Paul” the
appellation affiliated to him till his demise was friendly,
agreeable, humourous and singular in any crowd. He was a staunch
supporter of Victoria United FC (OPOPO).
Luckily I’m
writing the story of the 2 years “Uncle” and I spent together under
extreme and stressful circumstances. To me he was a friend, mentor,
educator & protector, who’s praises I sing to all who’ll listen.
When I’m often asked about the type of people Cameroonians are,
Uncle Paul is the person who comes to mind. He did his all to see
that I returned safely to my family and that my experience in his
country was balanced with positive aspects.
Tumi's Service To Humanity Rewarded.
His
Eminence Cardinal Christian Tumi was on a six-day visit to Los
Angeles, USA, recently, during which he was awarded an emblem in
recognition of his services to humanity.
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Money Vs Morals
There’s been a lot in the news lately about Africans
from various nations crossing the
Sahara to Morocco in the hope of reaching the Spanish mainland,
only to be arrested and repatriated if they survive the ordeal.
Cross the Sahara from a West African country? I thought, “You’ve
got to be kidding!” What makes someone take such risks to reach
a foreign country? Invariably any of these persons would prefer
to live in their country with their family and amongst their
culture, but with starvation, brutality, oppression and
dictatorships being the reality of that life, I can understand
how family members leave on these unfortunate missions in the
hope that they can improve the lot of remaining family members.
I doubt that few westerners could even begin to comprehend the
predicament that most Africans find themselves in.
I then switch my computer on to see an image of a
starving African child as an advertisement to solicit funds,
(It was only after closely staring at the image, I realized it
was a human child). I wondered if the organisations that peddle
this type of emotional manipulation, took more responsibility
for these starving children than to give them a meal while
patting themselves on the back as good Samaritans? This type of
blackmail is used to exploit kind hearted persons all over the
world, but I wonder if the Aid business isn’t just corporate
business seeking its own survival.
If it were a business, there would be a few less than
savoury moral dilemmas to consider. How could a successful
business work on the premise that it continually uses a bandaid
approach when it involves human life? (Now where have I heard
that expression? Something like a concert?). Not the type of
company policy that I’d get excited about. I always ask myself
“Why do they feed and keep someone alive today while not
offering an improvement in that persons future”. What is it to
rescue the person today, while leaving them to the same scourges
tomorrow or next year? That would sound more like an abuser than
a saviour!
What would we do if when diagnosed with
cancer, the doctor prescribed ointment? We would accept nothing
less than the tumour to be cut from our body or destroyed by
chemotherapy.
I guess the reality is that while western countries
seek the natural resources in Africa, they’ll gladly participate
or at least look the other way in human rights abuses. Africans
are starved, beaten, killed, cheated and dehumanised every day
through the likes of dictators & regimes impossible to remove,
due to the support of rich 1st world countries who
have no interest in the responsibility of human rights outside
their own borders. My question to them would be, “What on earth
could posses a person to cross the Sahara with just the clothes
on his back?”
To the European banks crammed with fake accounts
containing
Africa’s
stolen life blood and the governments that support those
dictatorships who’s only God is money, when your day of
reckoning comes no matter how many Sundays you sat in church,
your place is reserved in Hell.
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"The two
scourges (of corruption and poverty) feed off each other,
locking their populations into a cycle of misery
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Peter Eigen, Transparency International
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Crossing The Sahara Desert:Cameroonian Illegal Immigrant
Recounts Ordeal.
Olivier Bea Yaus,
24, managed to elude attempts by authorities on half a continent
to prevent a journey on foot which has taken him from his
homeland, Cameroon, all the way to Madrid."Without God I would
now be lying buried in the Sahara," says Olivier who has stared
death in the eye on his long trip.
All the best, Glenn Wilson
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Shame File No:6
Name:
Justice A.K. Nana
Residence: Buea
Aliases:
Na wichi man
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Without
doubt, the
Fako Appeal Court
is one of Cameroon’s most corrupt institutions. It’s not necessary to go
any further than to use its own documentation to prove that point.
Appeal Court Affidavits
Justice
Nana was one of three Judges who determined the removal of a High Court
President, based on an imaginary witness. These Judge’s actions were
displayed before the 12 Barristers & Lawyers who regularly attended the
hearing.
Appeal Court Chronology
These
Judges should be immediately removed for their corrupt and unlawful
conduct, but it seems that most have been promoted in some way.
Foreigners and Cameroonians alike should be well advised to steer clear
of this den of thieves and the Cameroon judiciary in general. The
behaviours I saw in the courts was often no better than the thuggery of
unintelligent and uneducated buffoons who were more concerned with juju
and their own stomachs than anything that appeared to come from a
civilised court.
So that
the matter is very clear, I accuse the three Appeal Court Judges who
signed the ruling of being corrupt.
I also accuse Magistrate Ketuanze Jacob of corrupting the Appeal Court
Judges.
Appeal Court Ruling
I make
these documents available for all to see the corruption and thievery
that these judges participated in. Note that these same activities are
promoted and rewarded by the countries ruling party, the CPDM and the
President, Paul Biya.
Fako Appeal Court , Buea
Is This The World's
Most Corrupt and Shameless Judiciary?
This
song has a bikutsi rhythm.
Man wey no sabi callam Justice oh
But Nana no bi justice Ohhh
Iyoho, Nana no bi justice ohh, my brothers
Iyoho, Nana no bi justice ohh, my sisters
Chorus
Appeal Court Buea no get justice yehe (High)
Appeal Court Buea no get justice yehe (Low)
Na soso wichi people, tif people hey (Low)
Na soso wichi people, tif people hey (Low)
Nana na wichi man oh oh
Massa for mami wata yeye
Nana go kill all man oh
Nana fat Belle for shit yeye
Chorus
I beg wuna hear me yeh
I beg wuna hear me oh
Nana na wichi man eh yeh
Nana na wichi man eh yeh
Chorus
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Shame File No:5
Name:
Justice Morfaw Chibili
Residence:
Molyko
Aliases:
High Court Priestess
Chibili Mami Juju
Chibili Mami Wata Messenger
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My experience with
Justice Chibili in the Fako High Court is well documented through chronologies.
Though instructed to supply an accelerated hearing, Justice Chibili played her
delaying games with Barrister Eno Charles.
Chronology # 2
During a six month adjournment I
returned to Australia. When I returned to Cameroon I learnt that Chibili and
Barrister Eno connived to sell the property I purchased to 3 whites. On
the 6th of May 2003 in Chibili’s
chambers I accused her of corruption. Chibili chose to stand down from
the matter in court, rather than defend herself against the allegations.
Chronology # 3
I often wonder what
hope there is for Cameroonians when people like Justice Chibili sit in
judgement of them. What country can allow a woman whose husband is a
criminal to judge others? The husband embezzled money from the bank he
was working in and fled to Nigeria when caught. It was through Chibili
and her husbands
Olumba Olumba connections that a bribe was paid to the appropriate
authority and the husband returned to Cameroon with no further action
taken. Justice Chibili still lives in her mansion built from monies
embezzled from Cameroonians. Justice Chibili should just stay quiet and
stay at home with her husband the thief.
"Justice Chibili, I look
forward to the day I supply my evidence against you. Cameroon courts
will continue to be sick while it employs useless people like you."
If anyone would like to
view the thiefs mansion, you can visit. Head down the hill from Buea to
Molyko. Turn left at Bonavanda road ( towards Bokova - Musonge's
village). After 30 metres, turn right at the road that runs behind the
shops. Follow this road for 500 metres until you reach a cluster of 5
houses. The mansion in the middle was built with the money the husband
stole. Then phone Justice Chibili on her mobile: 9972741 and ask her to
come out and greet you. Don’t forget to give her my greetings from Australia, when you see her.
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Chibili chop my money
run
Chibili eh eh eh
Chibili weti I do you
Chibili eh eh eh
Chibili one day na one day
Chibili eh eh eh
Chibili Olumba Olumba
Chibili eh eh eh
Chibili drink people their blood
Chibili eh eh eh
Chibili which kana religion be that
Chibili eh eh eh
Chibili I say take your time
Oh take you time
Chibili carry church for head
Chibili carry people for heart
Chibili eh eh eh
Na weti be man ney na weti be this world eh?
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Shame File No:4
Name:
Ketuanze
Jacob
Residence:
Limbe / Mamfe
Aliases:
Fey Magistrate,
Mamfe Mafia,
Jigger
Foot.
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Is it true that
Ketuanze Jacob is now the President of the Court in Mamfe? God
help Manyu!
Finally I get my chance to speak openly to the person who
tried to have me jailed and deported while I was still sick from
being poisoned, so as to steal my savings. You involved yourself
with soldiers accosting me with rifles at SGBC bank for a second
attempted theft and then had your bail & bond boy illegaly released
from jail, for organizing this shameful and dangerous incident. Then
miraculously all the documents disappear from your office. You then
interfered in the matter before the Fako Appeals Court that ended
with the removal of the Court President (Justice Mokwe) on false
allegations of corruption by fictitious witnesses, etc, etc, etc.
I hope you are proud of yourself!
I heard that you threatened to jail me if I returned to Cameroon,
because I posted your picture on the web. Let me tell you
thief Ketuanze, its people like you who scare away investors and
cause great hardships to Cameroonians. I will post photos of you on
the net anytime I choose. I shall also print the stories of other
Cameroonians who have suffered from your thievery. Just like
Barrister Eno, your true justice is coming in the detailed
descriptions of your crimes in my book on corruption in Cameroon.
In any country other than Cameroon, I hold enough evidence to see
you jailed for a long time, but what does the Cameroon Government
do? Promote you of course!
Your actions clearly show why any foreign investor should
stay clear of Cameroon, with a Government that nurtures thieves and
criminals like you in its judicial system. How is your small bagman
from Limbe? (Robert Agbor Toko). Many of those victims to whom you
sent
Agbor Toko to collect your ill-gotten monies, have sent me their
stories. How is your criminal dealing with SGBC Bank going?
Maybe you have brought too much shame this time and the Government
will give you your justice; Cameroon style! If not, I
shall keep reminding them that there is a thief in their midst.
Further Info on Ketuanze Jacob.
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Ketuanze you are the osu I have been
waiting for
Ketuanze you are the osu
Ketuanze you are the osu
Ketuanze, you are the osu I have been waiting for
You are the badluck magistrate.
Ketuanze you are the mfigong I have been waiting for
Ketuanze you are the mfigong
Ketuanze you are the mfigong
Ketuanze, you are the mfigong I have been waiting for
You are the fey magistrate.
Ketuanze you are the mbutucku I have been waiting for Ketuanze
you are the mbutucku
Ketuanze you are the mbutucku
Ketuanze, you are the mbutucku I have been waiting for
You are the langa magistrate.
Na weti be man ney na weti be this world eh?
Shame shame shame oh, shame shame shame oh.
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Photographs Wanted ($100 US each)
 I
am seeking good quality photographs for future editions of the shame
file. If you can send me a photograph of any of those people listed
below, and it is published on the shame file, a payment of $100 US shall
be made to the sender. The personal details of any senders shall remain
completely confidential and shall be known only by myself. Photos can be
forwarded to
Camerooninjustice@hotmail.com.
Maybe even one or two of those listed has caused you or your family some
grievance? Why not get some cash and at the same time let me expose them
for their corrupt ways?
Like I said, “This is your site too”.
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WANTED
SGBC, Limbe. Manager -
Ndoumbe Lottin.
SGBC, Limbe. Assistant Manager
- Francois Ngouania.
Justice J. F. Fonkwe -
Fako Appeals Court Judge. Buea
Justice A.
K. Nana
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received with thanks.
Justice
Lebong Morfaw Chibili
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received with thanks.
Magistrate Ketuanze Jacob –
received with thanks.
Barrister
Eno Charles Agbor
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received with thanks.
Barrister
Tanyi Mbianyor –
received with thanks.
Barrister Mbi – Solomon
Chambers, Kumba.
Chief of Territorial
Surveillance, Buea. (Governors Office - large Bayangi man)
Robert Agbor Toko
- Limbe. ( Investigations - Robert Toko)
Eugene Kankou-
New Town, Limbe. (Investigations - Eugene Kankou)
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NEWS -
November 2005
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Inoni's Latest 419 Prey.
P.M
Inoni's latest 419 prey is the American's Parker Transnational
Industries, LLC stalked by Government trickery to run the Urban
Transport System in Cameroon providing 13.5 billion out of the 20
with Chinese buses as well as to open an assembly plant and create
jobs. A blasted dream indeed.
Pro-government media outlets gave Don McMillian, Board of Director's
Chairman and Joseph W Parker, Chief Executive Officer prominent
coverage singing how investment friendly Cameroon is and free of
corruption. Yet a corrupt judicial system, trickery and no laws to
defend foreign investors remain the standard.
In the current annual survey on Corruption Perception by the Berlin
-based Transparency International, Cameroon scored 2.2% on 10.
The US-based transportation company is certainly leaping into a
thick marauding wolf-infested African dark forest in broad daylight.
Infrastructurally, the bumpy roads are steadily potholing in leaps
and bounds. Before Cameroon Sharks and Wolves have fed fat on
American hard earned dollars, the Chinese buses will shudder to
breakages as SOTUC went in the 1980s.
Curiously doomable and gloomable, the pre-incorporation agreement
was signed with Dakole Daissala as Cameroon Transport Minister, who
is excellent in stealing urban transport monies.
Buea University pooh-pooh Commonwealth's Democratic lessons
Don MacKinnon,
Commonwealth Sec Gen has been pooh-poohed by UB Student Union and
some Lecturers. This dismissal followed
 MacKinnon's call for the
Cameroon Government to implement basic democratic processes like
accountability, good governance, independence of the judiciary,
decentralisation, Human Rights, free election management etc whose
praxis and practicabilities are over 88% a farce.
Dr Bate Besong, Lecturer at UB said
democracy is not something that can simply be lectured to the masses
as Don MacKinnon came doing in Buea. MacKinnon was in Cameroon to
receive Cameroon Gov't tele-awarded Doctorate Causa Degree in
Political Science, which was conferred by UB.
While Higher
Education Elites and Education Minister, Jacque Fame Ndongo pounded
Commonwealth Scribe with praises, both Student Union and some
lecturers wondered the benefit of Commonwealth Scholarship and where
the Commonwealth human Rights axe went to when armed police killed
two students in UB.
Concluded one Senior lecturer: ''MacKinnon's visit was just a
formality because the Commonwealth goes against Heads of States and
Governments only when the interest of the UK is at stake''. Cameroon
admissibility into the Commonwealth has since remained a ridicule
and injurious to most Anglophone Cameroonians, looked upon as
second-class citizens.
Catholic Priest
Summoned for SCNC Sermons
A Catholic priest in
Kumbo Diocese has been issued verbal and written queries by the Bui
Administrative Authorities accusing the man of God of sermonizing in
favour of the SCNC in his church.
Rev. Father Peter Foleng said: ''If I were standing accused of
faulting the GOVERNMENT on issues of social justice, then I stood
guilty because that is my daily bread'' The Parish Priest added that
when the Gospel prompts one to talk on social issues and the
injustices, the Government of Cameroon calls it politics.
The Bui Administration copied North West Governor for immediate
action. Many priests and Rev Sisters have been found dead in
Cameroon, murdered under suspicious or mysterious circumstances.
Bill
Shiyntum
Letter To Commonwealth Secretary General.
“There were protests by this English-speaking people that are the
very ingredients, which make a country palatable for admission. But
the Francophone regime, whose interest, such an admission was to
serve rather than that of these people (Southern Cameroonians),
spiced the bait so much that the mouth of your predecessor watered
and he closed his eyes and swallowed the hook, line and sinker“.
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Human
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UN petitioned for Paul Biya to
be tried for crimes against humanity!
SCNC-
Belgium Branch celebrated October 1st by formulating and
dispatching 2 petitions. The King of Belgium was petitioned regarding
Belgium’s input into the building of the bridge over the Mungo river. The
petition argues that the bridge is a highway by which LRC removes the
resources of Southern Cameroons and exploits the citizens as though they
are a conquered people.
The 2nd
petition, addressed to the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, supplies an
extensive list of human rights abuses and requests the setting up of a
tribunal for the trial of Paul Biya for crimes against humanity. The
petition also requests assistance for the peaceful restoration of the
Statehood of the Southern Cameroons.
Click on the
petition page to view the full content and downloadable version
Petition to
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Southern Cameroons: Occupation Forces Descended Brutally on Mamfe SCNC
Faithfuls.
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.
The Terror and Barbarism of La Republique du Cameroun on Southern
Cameroons Continues Unabated.
We are
therefore urgently appealing to the UNPO to make the necessary
 contacts
with the UNO General Assembly and the Security Council to restrain
President Biya from further arrests, torture, detentions and genocide
perpetrated on Southern Cameroonians.
SCNC National Chairman Chief Ayamba Ette Otun Arrested.
Developments in Southern Cameroons are of an alarming nature, and the
situation is becoming tenser following the recent 44th SCNC Independence
Anniversary Celebrations. We are witnessing a rise in the number of
arbitrary arrests and human rights violations, and are deeply
concerned," UNPO General Secretary Mr. Marino Busdachin maintains,
expressing the support of UNPO to Chief Ayamba and his preoccupation for
the people of
Southern Cameroons.
Chief Ayamba Ette Otun Arrested
Amnesty International - Cameroon Document archive.
October 1 Fever.
As
Southern Cameroons’ activists prepare to commemorate what they consider
to be Independence Day this weekend, the Yaounde regime has cranked up
its propaganda machinery in a clumsy attempt to downplay the event, and
demonise the Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, which is
spearheading the argument for the restoration of the territory's
sovereignty.
Southern Cameroonians in USA Celebrate October 1.
Southern Cameroonians throughout the United States, converged at the
United Nations Plaza, in New York, on the 1st of October 2005, for the
celebration of the 44th Independence Anniversary of their country.
US, Nigeria Voted For S. Cameroons Independence - Justice Ebong.
One of
the proponents for the Independence of Southern Cameroons, Justice
Frederick Alobwede Ebong, has disclosed that the USA and Nigeria voted
in favour of independence for the then UN's Trust territory, Southern
Cameroons, during the 1152nd UN General Assembly meeting that held on
April 19, 1961.
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SONG for Our Country
Verse 1
Stand up! Be counted!
For the time is now
There’s work to be done
And so little time
With all our might
We can make this land
The center of our universe
Verse 2
All hands on deck
giving all our best
Let justice, truth and freedom reign
For, all the ancestors
And the Most High are watching
Should we stumble and fall
Chorus
Let us rise! Let us shine!
To blaze the way for the children
They’re the future
Come make this place
A happy home
For them and all who care.
Willie Nji (RIP)
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SCNC delegation visits the E.U. (including L to R; Rene
Morfaw, Chief Ayamba, Nfor Ngala Nfor & Secretary of State for the
Southern Cameroons interim Government, Lawrence Ayamba)
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UPDATES
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Weriwo Murder:I Will Die If Transferred To Kumba, Accused Pleads.
Police Inspector, Stephen Ngu, standing trial for causing the death
of one Weriwo Afuh in Kumba last year, told the Meme High Court on
Monday, September 26, that he would die if transferred to await
trial in the Kumba Principal Prison.
Weriwo Murder: Prosecutor Prays Court To Slam Policeman.
The
lead prosecutor in the Bernard Afuh Weriwo murder trial, Irene Njoya,
has urged Justice Godwill Okia Mukete of the Meme High Court, to
mete out severe sanction against Police Inspector, Stephen Ngu,
accused of setting the deceased ablaze for allegedly stealing a
bicycle last year.
According to the prosecutor, an exemplary sentence will serve as a
deterrent to authorities who kill innocent citizens. The prosecutor
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Reactions To Police Inspector To Serve Five Year Jail Term.
It is
incredible that an inspector of police, after roasting an innocent boy to
death, is given five years imprisonment. I was expecting above 25 years.
Something must have passed behind the doors. Look at the way the accused
was jubilating after the judgment. What type of justice are we talking of
in Cameroon?
Justice is for sale and only the wealthy can afford it.
Cameroon's Economic Growth Slows Down.
Economic
observers say that the economic growth in Cameroon is the kind that does
not trickle down to the masses. That is why human development in the
country is still at a very low ebb.
PHOTOGRAPH CAPTION
Where was
this photo snapped?
a)
In the
cargo hold of Paul Biya's new plane, enroute to his chalet in France?
b)
Humanitarian donations to feed the starving being held at the Finance
Ministry in Yaounde, prior
to distribution to Ministers Swiss Bank
accounts?
c)
Paul Biya's safety deposit box in unnamed French Bank?
d)
Hitmen
accounts for stubborn wives?
e) How
for chop broke pot?
f) Fake bank notes in a Singapore warehouse?
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'Monkey
di work, Baboon di chop'
Dear Glenn,
You know how we love our football, but never have Cameroonians been
so disappointed and frustrated by an event like the elimination of
their national football team 'The Indomitable Lions' from the race
to the fifa World cup scheduled for Germany next year. Cameroonians
have generally prided themselves with the prowess of their football
team, but the one man who has earned most of the credit for the
success of the team is undoubtedly President Paul
Biya and his regime. Paradoxically, the actions of the president and
those of his men through out his 23 years reign has shown
unequivocally that he is the greatest obstacle to the development of
football in particular and sports in general in Cameroon.
Cameroonian football has done very well despite the poor state of
its infrastructure. Since the early 1970s when the late president
Ahmadou Ahidjo (now buried in a moslem cemetery in Dakar-Senegal)
built the Yaounde and Douala stadia to host the 8th edition of the
African nations cup, everything has been let to rot.
During the last crucial match between Cameroon and Egypt, a game
Cameroon had to win before qualifying for the world cup, the poor
state of the pitch played against the home side as they failed to
develop their exciting playstyle for which they have come to be
respected for. Commentators from "Eurosport" one of the many foreign
TV networks that covered the match live kept remarking that the
greatest adversary to the Lions most of who play on some of the best pitches in the world was
the playground.
During the rainy season like now, the Yaounde and Douala pitches are
transformed into pig-fences as mud and standing water becomes the
order of the day, while during the dry season the turf becomes
unlevel, making playing difficult. Consequently, FIFA the gendarme
of the game has suspended the stadium in Yaounde on a number of
occasions. Today, on like smaller football countries like Mali and
Burkina Faso who recently hosted the prestigious African Nations
Cup, Cameroon cannot host a single international tournament even
though the country has earned so much money by winning the African
Nations cup four times: 1984,1988,2000 and 2002. Cameroon has
equally participated in five world cups Vis 1982,1990,1994,1998 and
2002. They were the Olympic champions in 2000 and reached the finals
of the Confederations cup in 2003. Despite the success, President
Biya has failed to develop even the least infrastructure. Instead he
jumps on each of these opportunities to take the financial fallouts
and make political capital out of the Lions. At the height of this
treachery, the president, during the 2004 presidential polls, had the guts to coin
his campaign slogan 'The Lion Man'. In 2002, the reputable Time
Magazine raised the question of politicising sports when they
discovered that the president had programmed council and
parliamentary elections of that year to fall with the world cup in
South Korea and Japan.
The treatment the Biya regime has meted to the lions so far can only
be qualified as unjust and unfair. Even bonuses to the players has
been hard to come by, most often only after they go on strike. In
1994 for example, a scandal broke out when over fcfa 500 million
jointly contributed by Cameroonians to help the team prepare the
American expedition was shamelessly embezzled by the regime.
The tale between the Biya regime and their exploitation of the
indomitable lions can only be summarised by the well-known Pidgin
English adage, which says
'Monkey
di work, Baboon di chop'
signed, A lions fan.
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Yet President Biya ignores
this crime which his ministers and ambassadors commit unashamedly and in
broad daylight, and instead insists on chasing shadows. He thinks he can
fool the people and international community with simulations and 'hot
air'.
Until
government intervenes directly to make things better for the public, the
latter will continue to writhe in the frustration of unscrupulous "bank"
managers and their colleagues.
Cameroonians on that festive morning. It