Separatists, Federalists Calls: South West Distances Self

Schools are expected to begin full-fledged today in the Region following a fiery elite forum in Buea last Thursday

A meeting convened by Senator Peter Mafany Musonge, CPDM political leader for the South West Region, Senator and Grand Chancellor of National Orders, 2 February, 2017, has resolved to steer clear from what they termed “separatists and two-state federalists”.
Invited to attend the forum, held in the premises of Mountain Hotel Buea, were the cream of the Region including MPs, Mayors, traditional rulers, political leaders, trade unions, vocational and civil society organisations, elite ranking from Director level, the South West Teachers’ Association, South West lawyers and members of government from the area.
The meeting, witnessed by the South West Governor, Bernard Okalia Bilai, acknowledged the efforts made by Government to satisfy demands made by Common Law Lawyers and Teachers’ syndicates and consequently called for schools to resume in the entire Region forthwith. Numbering about 1000, the South West elite of various sectors resolved to distance themselves from “the so-called ambazonia, SCNC, West Cameroon and other separatists’ tendencies” which they say have held children hostage from school.
The forum decried the fact that pupils and students have stayed away from classes for two months indoctrinated in the fear of insecurity. The elite urged their traditional rulers to form vigilante groups in the villages and create committees to supervise and go door-to-door to take children to school beginning Monday, 6 February. They upheld the 1996 Constitution of Cameroon whereby 10 decentralised Regions are prescribed. In the statement labelled as the B...