The Road to UNPO

By Dr Arnold Boh Yongbang

Southern Cameroons UNPO Admission Ceremony at The Hague

In 1993, His Royal Highness, Fon Fogum Gorji Dinka, Head of State of the Republic of Ambazonia , sought membership of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO). His application was rejected because he could not show proof that the Ambazonia Movement had grassroots support in the Southern Cameroons.

In 1994, Justice A.N.T. Mbu, then Legal Adviser in the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) Executive, submitted an application on behalf of the SCNC during the Elad leadership but the application was never followed up.

In August 1995, the Cameroon Anglophone Movement (CAM) contacted the General Secretary of the UNPO directly through Mr. Ebenezer Tabot Tabot, CAM's representative then at The Hague. We clarified to the General Secretary then that the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) was the sole legitimate representative of the peoples of the Southern Cameroons and that all Southern Cameroons liberation movements and organizations, with the exception of the Ambazonia Movement, operate under the umbrella of the SCNC.

We also emphasized the fact that the Cameroon Anglophone Movement (CAM), the vanguard movement for the liberation of the Southern Cameroons from the evil bondage of La Republique du Cameroun and France, was instrumental in creating the SCNC as an umbrella organization. The initiatives CAM undertakes internationally through its foreign network as well as directly from the base, become operational through the SCNC.

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Comments

[Frank]

Good job, Yongbang! However, you lose points for including unwarranted personal attacks in your account.

[Tacho]

A wonderful and promising job! Let us remain focused and exploit this window of opportunity with all the great and constructive ideas we have.

[Nancho]

Doctor Yongbang,
This is really excellent work for your country. I wish you success for you and your country men who must still be under the colonial domination.

[Chebo]

You are doing a fine job and it is supposed to be very close to your finest hour-less personal fights and try to educate the rank and file who should be prepared to make personal sacrifices

[Tandeh]

Well written and convincing, but if you, on the one hand and Chief Ayamba, and Dr Nfor Ngala Nfor, on the other, don`t stop lying in your comments on simple facts like to whom the original invitation by the UNPO was sent to first, then that is just downright dirty politics because the name on the invitation, which has been made pulic, is self indicative.