Fellow Compatriots,
The African Union (AU) just concluded its 12th Ordinary Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 4 February 2009. Although most of our people were unaware of what was going on behind the scenes, this was no ordinary Summit for the people of the Southern Cameroons.
La République du Cameroun, in yet another futile political manoeuvre against the inexorable restoration of the sovereign statehood of the Southern Cameroons, had proposed a calculated agenda item on what it falsely called the “Peaceful settlement of the Bakassi conflict” to be discussed by the organs of the Union. In the proposal, la République du Cameroun invited African leaders to do a number of things, which if done, would have seriously undermined the work of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (an organ of the AU) before which is a complaint from the people of the Southern Cameroons on the violation of their eastern frontier by la République du Cameroun.
La République du Cameroun’s proposals were also framed in such a way as to make it appear as though the African Union was endorsing that country’s annexation and continuing armed colonial occupation of the Southern Cameroons.
What la République du Cameroun was asking the AU to do in effect was for the AU to undercut the work of its own organ.
Thanks to the vigilance of the Southern Cameroons Restoration Government (RG), the Southern Cameroons People’s Organization (SCAPO) and the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), and thanks to the guidance of Divine Providence, and the wisdom of African leaders, this misconceived and duplicitous agenda item never managed to get into the final agenda for the Summit.
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