S. Cameroons 53th independence anniversary :

SCNC hoists flags in Bamenda, demonstrates in US
 

From Nebah Josua in Bamenda

The Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC which since 1961 has been advocating for a Southern Cameroons independent state last Wednesday, October 1 successfully hoisted their flag at various strategic points in Bamenda. The motive behind the hoisting according to the vice chairman of SCNC, Nfor Nfor was to mark the 53^rd independence anniversary of Southern Cameroons which is always commemorated every October 1 when Southern Cameroons obtained their independence from the British.

The flags were hoisted in four strategic areas in the city of Bamenda including BMM Upstation, Ntarinkon Fru Ndi’s Junction, Tubah Council Junction and ST Paul Junction. The activists had beaten security vigilance and raised the flags at night, breaking Wednesday morning. Security operatives only discovered the flags flying in the morning. The police lowered the flags and checked away with them.

No information of any public demonstration in any town across the country has yet been reported. By press time yesterday, our reporters in Kumbo and Mamfe where activities of the group are always violent were yet to file in reports on the nature of activities of the activists in their respective towns.

Meanwhile, latest reports reaching our news desk have it that SCNC activists based in the United States of America staged also gave the day a historic mark by demonstrating in front of strategic offices.

In an anniversary message to all Southern Cameroonians, Nfor Nfor called for vigilance and steadfastness in the strife for self government. He also stated unequivocally that SCNC will leave no stone unturned to achieve its objectives: “To surrender to foreign domination and alien rule of la Republique du Cameroun is perpetual slavery of body and soul from cradle to the grave not just of the living but of generations yet unborn.”

Nfor quoted the examples of several other countries that went the same strife Southern Cameroons is undergoing today before achieving its independence. “This reality which faced the peoples of South West Africa (Namibia), Eritrea, East Timor, among others, boldly confronts our generation. Each generation standing at the crossroad of its history must out of absolute necessity answer the question "Who are we?" and "Who is not us?"