MAY 28, 2013 Mola Litumbe wants to meet Biya CAMEROON MIRROR NO COMMENTS Mola Njoh Litumbe wants to meet President Biya in audience while he visits Buea during reunification celebrations. Litumbe, 86, has spent almost half of his life fighting for “the liberation of Southern Cameroons”. In 2011 he was nominated Southern Cameroons home front leader of The Patriotic Coalition Front. A Liberation Movement of the Southern Cameroons. As preparations for reunification anniversary intensify, he is hoping to make the best out of it. “I will like to meet and talk with Paul Biya when he visits Buea.” Litumbe told the CJ exclusively at his residence in Buea. It was the first time he was disclosing his intention to the press. But he said he already made his intention known to the South West Governor. “I have spoken to the Governor and informed him that I will like to meet with the President when he visits Buea. How that will be arranged is outside of my competence. The governor said I should make the request at the appropriate time.” Said Litumbe. He has suffered three house arrests in less than a year in the hands of the government he seeks audience with. Last month a colloquium organised by the Ministry of Higher Education in Yaounde declared at the end of deliberations that no legal documents were established at the time of re-unification between the two Cameroons to bind them in a union. Litumbe said he was inspired significantly by that declaration to make his request. “It is a significant discovery. And the discovery by the high-powered government colloquium will have great repercussions in the sense that Cameroon has admitted posthumously to the decision of the International Court of Justice that really they lied to the court. I have been saying all along that Southern Cameroons never joined La Republic du Cameroon, that we are merely cohabiting. I admit that this cohabitation has lasted half a century but it can be corrected. I think the evidence now presented by the Biya regime will now persuade him to dialogue with us which is why I am seeking to talk with him when he comes here (Buea). If we do not have dialogue, this whole thing will fall into the hands of people who have no patience. If he refuses dialogue the next step will be that the Southern Cameroons will be free to go their separate way. All the avenues of dialogue and peaceful resolution would have been exhausted.” Litumbe said. He said if the opportunity comes he will like to present to Biya the Federation option as the major solution to the Anglophone problem. “A Federation of two states equal in status in order to respect the cultural upbringing of the two parties. Also with an equitable sharing of the three arms of government, that is, the legislative, judiciary and executive. That is what the founding fathers advocated.” He said In Buea opinions are however divided over his move. “Let Biya meet him and dialogue. Why is he pretending as if there is no Anglophone problem” said Emmanuel Chi, a taxi driver. “Let them stop making noise. We have fought for a long time to no avail. Only God will solve the Anglophone problem.” Justine Mumfor, a job seeker in Buea added. We contacted authorities at the Ministry of Communication in Yaounde but they refused to comment. If Biya accepts to grant Litumbe audience, it will be a significant step towards attaining equal rights for Anglophones and Francophones in Cameroon. Cameroon Journal
Posted on: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:55:52 +0000
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