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Rights Activist, Barrister Agbor Balla, Reignites Anglophone Plights In Canadian Parliament

Mimi Mefo Takambou by Mimi Mefo Takambou
November 1, 2018
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The Executive Officer of the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (CHRDA), Barrister Felix Agbor Nkongho, also called, Agbor Balla, has told Canadian authorities that the most appropriate way to end the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon, will be the organisation of a referendum for the denizens to decide the fate on the union with La Republique du Cameroun.

The Rights Activist who doubles as the pioneer leader of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium, (CACSC), made the statement while addressing the Canadian House of Commons, Wednesday October 32, 2018.
According to Barrister Agbor Balla, the Canadian authorities, should pressure the Cameroon government and other decision makers, to organise a referendum, for the people of former Southern Cameroons, to decide their fate.

He went on to tell the Canadian House of Commons that, “If you talk to the average person in Anglophone Cameroon, separation is now en vogue. Now the majority of the people would not settle for anything less than separation. The majority of the people now are asking for referendum for them to determine their fate,” Barrister Agbor Balla said.

Addressing Canada’s House of Commons’ Sub-Committee on International Human Rights, chaired by Anita Vandenbeld, Agbor Balla briefed the members of the Committee on Human Rights violations and the evolution of the Anglophone struggle.

Agbor Balla went on to say that the dissenting opinions then graduated to peaceful protests which were brutally suppressed, followed by arrest and imprisonment of leaders which created a power vacuum that was filled by pro-independence advocates as the moderates advocating for a federal system of governance were imprisoned.

He narrated how the crisis started with written petitions by lawyers, which he said was ignored.
Hear him:
“We have a government which really doesn’t respond. Lawyers had written about four memorandums to the State, documenting the problems that they face, but unfortunately, no body responded to them. Nobody even acknowledged receipt of these documents. So they decided to have a sit-in strike action. For One month, no body responded to them. Then we decided that we will march in the streets with our wigs and gowns and call the attention of the government if they were really sleeping, they will realise that we meant business. But the lawyers were brutalised, they were beaten, they were dragged in the mud, their wigs and gowns were seized. As a result of that, teachers and students had to join them in protest. These were peaceful protests, but unfortunately, on the 17 of January, 2017, internet was disconnected in the English speaking regions of the Country for three months. That is part of the collective punishment. We have had war in the North on Boko Haram which is going on and at no point in time, was internet cut off there, but because of protest in English speaking Cameroon, internet was cut off for three months. We were arrested, blindfolded and cuffed. They drove us for over 10 hours, locked up in dehumanising conditions and charged us in front of a military tribunal. So during this period, when they had taken out the moderate leaders, the movement moved into the hands other groupings which had been existing, but did not have the voice. So now a platform had been created and the young people in Anglophone Cameroon who wanted change had created that platform which we were just fortunate to be their leaders and because of the treatment that they had given to those who were clamouring just for federation and better living conditions, and reforms in legal and educational systems. Most people argued that if you, who were preaching federation are facing a death penalty, I will rather preach cessation and separation and equally face the death penalty. So that is how positions hardened, because of the way people were killed and others arrested, and now we have a separatist movement.”

Agbor Balla in his submission lobbied for Canadian authorities to also put in pressure in order for a lasting solution to be brought to the crisis that keeps degenerating.

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