The Advocate Cameroon

  BY A Correspondent The pioneer leader of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium, CACSC, Barrister Felix Agbor Nkongho, aka Agbor Balla, in a briefing at the Canadian House of Commons has beckoned the Canadian authorities, to pressure the Cameroon government and other decision makers, to organise a referendum, for the people of former Southern Cameroons, to decide their fate. Addressing Canada’s House of Commons’ Sub-Committee on International Human Rights, chaired by Anita Vandenbeld, Agbor Balla briefed the members of the Committee on Human Rights violations and the evolution of the Anglophone struggle. He narrated how the crisis started with written petitions by lawyers, which he said was ignored. Agbor Balla went on to say that the dissenting opinions then graduated to peaceful protests which were brutally suppressed, followed by arrest and imprisonment of leaders which created a power vacuum that was filled by pro-independence advocates as the moderates advoca...

  By Liengu Christiana A young Cameroonian whose name we got as Nyoki Menyoli William, who happens to be a plumber residing in the crisis hot zone of Ekona is said to be facing danger from both separatist’s fighters and state Military. According to reports, Nyoki Menyoli Williams was close to some military officers who passed by his house and place for work for his services. News would later go wild to the hearing of separatist’s fighters that he was closed to these military guys. According to the separatist’s fighters Menyoli was acting as an informant and betraying their presence and actions in the red-hot locality. This would mean that he has to keep away from his relationship with the Military for fear of the separatists. On the other hand, that action would indicate that he is a supporter of the separatist’s fighters, hence putting him on harm’s way from the military. The worst happened on September 23, 2018 when he was kidnapped by separatists’ fighters to the f...

  By GEORGE FON IN MAMFE A young man whose names we got as Tiku Kingsley Egbe is reported to have escaped from detention after he was arrested in his hideout in his village Ntenako, Manyu Division of the Southwest Region. Tiku Kingsley Egbe alongside some other youths were picked up by security officers in a raid that left many others who tried to intervene manhandled and teargassed. The February 5, 2018 arrests had been described as arbitrary and condemned by Human Rights Groups who say at the time of the arrest, Tiku or the others were not posing any threat to national security or peace in any form. Tiku is reported to have escaped from the detention facility through an unknown means and ever since, security forces have been on the look out for him. We gathered that Tiku has severally been accused of being a is a staunch member of the Southern Cameroon National Council, clamoring for the separation of Anglophone Cameroon from Francophone Cameroon, which he has often denied claimi...