ADDRESS TO ALL AMBAZONIANS
ByHR Excellency; Fon Fongum Gorji-Dinka
The Spearhead of the Ambazonian Liberation Struggle
Through the AMBAZONIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTION COUNCIL (ALEAC)
On the occasion of the Launching of The Ambazonian Nationality Campaigns
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Compatriots of the hour, Fellow Children of God:
I understand that I have been silent as the Ambazonian Head of State but this silence is not of my own making. Everything associated with the Ambazonian revolution has been a matter of the happenstance of the moment as our good Lord and strategy would dictate.
Today, things are happening in a positive direction which requires my addressing you not only in a capacity as the Spearhead of the struggle to liberate Ambazonia from Cameroon’s occupation, but more importantly, as that proto-AMBAZONIAN who just like you, still longs for our God’s given right to live freely in peace and harmony in our country which we can no longer wait to differentiate from Cameroon by calling it Ambazonia!
There are millions of Ambazonians who right now silently desire this goal --their full and unfettered independence! However, as in every revolution, they would have to be represented by just a few dedicated and disciplined bunch. Yes we have ours! Yes, we can not be different from other peoples who have had to trudged through the tormenting trials and tribulations associated with liberating themselves from servitude. Yes, ours is a very resourceful enemy, but unlike in other cases, Cameroon has this very unique advantage of having taken full control of our peoples’ minds thanks to the very important element we as the “several peoples” of Ambazonia have been negligent at appreciating. I am talking about the very crucial prerequisites of survival of any person, peoples, nations or states found in the element of IDENTITY and its accompanying NATIONALISM!
I am very happy to say that we have finally crossed the Rubicon with regards to the fact that our people are irreversibly committed to restoring their independence. But we have to first of all be independent in the mind and this is the responsibility of that individual Ambazonian! What is already self-evident is that those already liberated in the mind are the ones that can be counted upon to be dedicated and disciplined Ambazonians to carry on with the law enforcements efforts. They are the trailblazers to be counted on so that other Ambazonians would see for themselves the POWERS that can come to us as a united people conscious that they are operating from the position of strength already secured when Restoration Law 84/001 dissolved the Federal Cameroon United Republics in 1984.
Let us be honest with ourselves or die as hypocrites several times over! Can anyone truly say that the world knows that the real name of that ill fated federation was FEDERAL CAMEROON REPUBLICS and not as we came to be called Federal Republic of Cameroon? Does it matter that we insist on the true nature of the constitutional arrangement that could have occurred only between two sovereign states? Dos it matter that we act as the sovereign state who understands how to serve its best self-interest by exploiting only those RIGHTS that defines and enhances its already acquired sovereign status? All these are questions which you as that Ambazonian expressing your rights to your Ambazonian nationality, would have automatically responded to in the affirmative.
This is why I must first of all congratulate those of you who have adopted the liberating Ambazonian nationality for breaking loose from those sentimental attachment to a name (an abbreviated one for that matter) that has done absolutely nothing good for our people since time in memorial, except to act as the most efficient medium of Cameroon-inserted sabotage into our liberation quest. It has to be recognized that by you breaking loose from the sentimental attachment to the name that bears Cameroon nationality, you have rid yourself from that colonial mentality, and are now free to examine our demise inside pan-Cameroon from just the operation of facts of our history and nothing else. You as that Ambazonian, have come to realized that you are not to be held hostage to any idea, factions, groups, entities, political movements, and political parties, etc. if there is a slight chance that even by appearance, it has something to do with the offending Cameroonian state. You are that independent thinking person. You are by nature an AMBAZONIAN.
Today, I am happy to note that the youths of Ambazonia, both at home and in the Diaspora are beginning to invoke their independence of their minds. They have recognized the value of solely focusing on the actual tasks of seeking the enforcement of the law and judgments, both domestic and international which demand the unconditional withdrawal of the Republic of Cameroon to the east of the international boundary line from Lake Chad to the Mongo River Estuary. They are not only talking about fighting for their independence, but are actually visibly doing something about it in a concrete way in the affirming of their independence of the mind as AMBAZONIANS.
I am happy that you that hard thinking realists, have come to the conclusion that our struggle has victory at the end, if and only if it is based on Law Enforcement and not that roundabout politicking. That, you are beginning to chant this as the only war cry that would attract attention of those we seek help from is how we will gather power to ourselves and to our cause. The AMBAZONIA LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTION COUNCIL (ALEAC) is there for you to adopt and deploy as our best and proven tool to activate a source of power we have not yet exploited – the mass movement power from all AMBAZONIANS. I am calling on all Ambazonians to simply proof to the world that they know who they are and what they want—that they are not Cameroonians but Ambazonian, by joining ALEAC and executing its programs.
Let me tell you a story so that you can appreciate a bit about what our collective resolve as Ambazonians can do to generate power to our liberation quest:
In 1993, I in my capacity as the Head of State of Ambazonia, then living in exile in Nigeria, wrote a letter to Nigeria’s Head of State General Sani Abacha requesting: (a) Nigeria’s full recognition of Ambazonia as a sovereign buffer State between Nigeria and Cameroon and (b) Nigeria’s Good Offices to get Cameroon to peacefully withdraw to the east of the international boundary that separates Cameroon from Ambazonia. I enclosed the judgment of the Bamenda High Court case HCB/28/92 published in English edition of Le Messager News Paper of 10 February 1993
The Nigerian ruler found from his lawyers that truly international law recognises the Republic of Cameroon as the French Cameroon whose territory lies on the east of the international boundary line from Lake Chad to the Mongo River. So General Abacha secretly accorded unofficial recognition of Ambazonia as a sovereign State; and accepted the accreditation of our Honorary Consul General. General Abacha initiated quiet diplomacy to get Paul Biya to arrange a peaceful withdrawal of Cameroon from Ambazonia. But French oil firms in Cameroon feared that this would deprive them of the oil concessions Cameroon had given them over Ambazonian oil fields. So they prevented Biya from going along this line.
General Abacha then decided to force the issue by seizing the Bakassi Peninsula in the hope that Biya would now talk on the basis of: Nigeria would withdraw from the peninsula if Cameroon withdraws from the mainland. French oil companies got Cameroon to instead file a case before the United Nations Security Council accusing Nigeria of an act of aggression. Cameroon called for Nigeria to be condemned and flushed out of Bakassi like Iraq was flushed out of Kuwait. When the Nigerian Ambassador to the UN in his preparation to reply, circulated the Cameroon High Court judgment HCB/28/92 which declared Cameroon presence in Ambazonia as an act of continuing aggression, France saw that the Security Council could pass a resolution for both Nigeria and Cameroon to return to the coastal boundaries as obtained at their respective independence. Since the Franco-Cameroon alliance would thus lose control over the Ambazonian oil fields they got Cameroon to quickly withdraw their complaint against Nigeria.
It is this same Franco-Cameroon alliance that has prevented Paul Biya from withdrawing from Ambazonia as required by the January 2005 Annan Bakassi Peace Accord (ABPA) which states:- “I President Biya of the Republic of Cameroon , in a bid to provide lasting peace to the Bakassi conflict hereby commit myself and government to respect the territorial boundaries of my country as obtained at independence”
You are aware that Kofi Annan had to change his plans and send his UN plane ahead with the UN copy of the ABPA; and then flew out of Cameroon later with Air France to foil the plot by Franco-Cameroon agents to shoot down the UN plane with the Secretary General on board so as to destroy the document. At the Yaounde airport, Kofi Annan and his entourage were searched like terrorists suspects before they boarded the Air France plane to Paris. But the document had already gone with the UN plane direct to New York.
My fellow compatriots listen to me and follow the natural logic of power:
If in response to my request in 1993, Big Brother in Nigeria took action to try to enforce HCB/28/92, you would agree with me that we would get a positive response if we today make a request to enforce the several laws that have added up to HCB/28/92 since 1993, most especially the Annan Bakassi Peace Accord and the United Nations Human Rights Tribunal on Civil and Political Rights Communication 1134-2002 judgment.
What we need is the legal expertise, the exuberant expression of our Ambazonian nationality and then the funds to lay the requisite foundation for the recognition by other states of the Republic of Ambazonia. What we do not need at this critical juncture is playing politics or the appearance of playing to the political games of entities and peoples with no evidence that they have our best interest at heart. As Ambazonians, we know that our destiny is and will always remain in our hands and to do anything less amount to betrayal of our cause.
Certainly, I can tell you that the legal expertise is available – as you already should know, Ambazonia since 1992 had exhausted domestic remedies and its corollary international remedies since 2005. What remains is that we as the resolute people of Ambazonia find all ways and means to ENFORCE all the judgements applicable to our case for restoring our independence. Besides the availability of legal expertise, rest assured that the requisite foundation for our law enforcement campaign has been laid, except for one thing that is lacking ---- the availability of funds.
That is why I feel confident enough to challenge you to set aside $150k for operation ALEAC; then urgently place just 10% of that amount at my disposal; then watch how God who has won so many battles for us without much financing, would win us this final battle of the recognition of our country AMBAZONIA, by other sovereign states who believe in the rule of the law.
My Dear Compatriots:
You would agree with me that our struggle is a revolution; and a revolution is a war; and war demands strict military discipline namely: “Authority from above and obedience from below.” We no longer can afford to be seeking exemptions from these known and respected rules of engagement. As our shameful history has it, we have done so only at our very own peril and not anyone else.
It is said that God helps only those who help themselves. So I trust that you the diehard patriots, and you those AMBAZONIANS who would be convinced by these patriots would take the challenge and include your names in Ambazonian history as the few who made the sacrifice at this decisive moment to free our enslaved, subjugated and down trodden 6 million unsuspecting people.
Yes! We can free Ambazonia; Yes! We can then shout….We are Free!!! Free at last…FREE at last!
Free for ever as the people of Ambazonia (formerly known as the people of the United Nations Trust Territory of the Southern British Cameroons)
Compatriots God be with you.
God bless Ambazonia
Fon Fongum Gorji-Dinka
