Southern Cameroons Interim Government

Southern Cameroons Grassroots Action Day, November 28, 2009

November 9, 2009

THE KUMBA DECLARATION

“Southern Cameroons’ Grassroots Action Day”

Whereas, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), in its rather controversial ‘verdict’ on Communication 266/2003, acknowledges the historical, legitimate and legal fact that “Southern Cameroonians are a People”.

Whereas, the African Charter states in Article 19 that “All peoples shall enjoy the same respect and shall have the same rights. Nothing shall justify the domination of a people by another; Whereas Article 20 of the same African Charter states:

“[1] All peoples shall have the right to existence. They shall have the unquestionable and inalienable right to self-determination. They shall freely determine their political status…

[2] Colonized or oppressed people shall have the right to free themselves from the bonds of domination by resorting to any means recognized by the international community…”

Considering the request by the ACHPR for Southern Cameroonians and the Respondent State in that Communication to report its position to the Commission within 180 days;

Mindful of the indisputable fact that the ‘People’ are sovereign and have the last says in any decision concerning them; And finally, in view of the fact that Southern Cameroonians, and NOT the leaders of the liberation movements, SCNC, SCAPO, Ambazonia, SCARM, SCYL etc., have the final say on their plight as a people: The people of British Southern Cameroons, on whose behalf the plaintiffs filed Communication 266/2003, meeting in Bamenda on October 24, 2009, and in Kumba this day, November 8, 2009 resolve as follows:

SCAPO Official Statement

November 3, 2009

This statement is about the knee-jerk reaction of the Minister of Communication in la République du Cameroun [aka the Republic of Cameroon] on the recommendations of the African Commission of Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) in Banjul on the Southern Cameroons case instituted by Kevin Ngwang Gumne and others against the Republic of Cameroon, and the rumours that the Southern Cameroons’ Peoples Organisation (SCAPO) is a political party in la République du Cameroun (LRC).

The ACHPR recommendations included the reform of the Higher Judicial Council with purely Law Persons of the Judiciary. Has the government allowed the reform which will give meaning to independence of the Judiciary duly won for Cameroon by SCAPO and their team? The minister paraded the image of Gumne on CRTV and invited SCAPO and the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) to transform into political parties in LRC.