The President of the Imaginary State believes that the secessionists who fight the Cameroonian army in the North-West and South-West of Cameroon, must not give up the fight.
In Cameroon, the crisis in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon has assumed worrying proportions for nearly five years now. On the ground, the Ambazonians and the Cameroonian army are waging a merciless war. It is with this momentum that Sisiku Ayuk urges his supporters to hold on.
The separatist leader posted on July 7, 2021, a message that is unambiguous about his resolve in favor of secession. “We have to do what we have to do today; we will and we must as Ambazonians, so that our children can do what they want to do tomorrow, ”he tweeted.
The undisputed leader of the Anglophone crisis does not hide the vision he has of the country he has already divided in his imagination: “The pain of the experience of the people of the former British southern Cameroon now known as the ‘Ambazonia, through many decades of oppression and subjugation, is real and very deep. The good in most people outweighs the bad in them, ”he continues.
This exit comes a year after the announcement by certain media, including Jeune Afrique and RFI, of the existence of negotiations between the Cameroonian government and the self-proclaimed leader of an imaginary republic called “Ambazonia”. And even if Yaoundé had officially served a denial, our colleagues maintained this information, indicating that Ayuk Tabe and some of his companions had been extracted from prison in July 2020 for discussions with a government emissary.
As a reminder, on August 20, 2019, the Yaoundé Military Court sentences Ayuk Tabe and nine other of his supporters to life imprisonment. It must be said that Sisiku Ayuk Tabe is presented as the main engine of the ongoing protest in the North West and South West regions since 2016. In January 2020, he was arrested in Nigeria with nine of his companions. Extradited to Cameroon, they were sentenced in August of the same year to life imprisonment and a record fine of CFAF 250 billion.
On the ground, unfortunately, their arrest did not end the violence. The abuses have even become almost daily. Several NGOs speak to date of more than 3,000 dead and at least 600,000 displaced, as well as tens of thousands of refugees in neighboring Nigeria.
