Peterkins Manyong
18 September 2008
SCNC top officials have vowed to proceed with this year's October 1 celebrations in spite of arrests and intimidation by what they term the forces of La Republique du Cameroun.
"We shall not relent and we shall not be intimidated," Hitler Mbingho, SCNC Chairman for the Northern Zone, told The Post. He, however, declined to elaborate on the preparation ahead of October 1 celebration.
Mbinglo spoke against a backdrop of recent arrests and incarceration of some SCNC faction leaders in Nkambe. The activists, among them the controversial Professor Martin Chia, self styled promoter of a group working towards the liberation of Northern and Southern Cameroons from Nigeria and La Republique du Cameroun, were later transferred to the Bamenda Central Prison where they were still detained by press time.
Meanwhile, the supposed Southern Cameroons Restoration Government led by Professor Carlson Anyangwe, has condemned what it considers the sustained pogrom against its citizens. The condemnation is contained in a release dated September 11 and signed by Martin Luther Fon Yembe, supposed Junior Minister of Southern Cameroons.
The release condemns in particular the tactics of Bui Company Commander, Samuel Nyemick, and his Brigade Commander, Salomon Tapy, who have reportedly vowed to crush the SCNC before October 1.
The Professor Chia-led activists languishing at the Bamenda Central Prison were arrested on August 26 alongside some SCNC activists who were later released. Unlike the SCNC, the group wants that citizens of the former Northern Cameroon that voted to join Nigeria in 1961 should break away and form a separate country with Southern Cameroonians, which is also inkling to secede from the Republic of Cameroon.
This approach complicates the SCNC strive for self determination; reason why the Ayamba-led group is sceptical about their mission.
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