Edith Kah Walla, President of the Cameroon People’s Party, CPP, has accused the government of Cameroon of flouting International laws, while describing the extradition of President Ayuk Tabe and other Anglophone leaders from Nigeria to Cameroon as “international kidnapping”.
In a strong worded letter to Cameroonians, Kah Walla bemaons the arrest of Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and other Anglophone leaders, calling on the s tate to: “immediately ensure that these leaders have access to their families and lawyers,” for it is their right guaranteed by the Cameroonian law.
The CPP boss in the letter, decries government’s bad faith in handling the Anglophone crisis as seen in the death of civilians and armed forces, the illegal imprisonment, the burning of villages and also the alarming rate of refugees, which, according to her, is now between 15,000 and 45,000 refugees.
“The attacks of the armed groups are multiplying every day; the reprisals of the armed forces entail the loss of innocent lives and the destruction of villages. The social and economic effects of these are disastrous.
“No Cameroonian is exempted. We are all paying and will continue to pay for decades, the price of irresponsible governance that has driven our country to this point. What can we do? Today, we ask you to join your voice and call on the two groups that commit acts of violence in our country and endanger the lives of Cameroonians,”
To Walla, President Biya, is responsible for the situation the country finds itself in now. “You are the only group responsible for the situation in our country. Thirty-five years ago, a prosperous and peaceful country was handed to you. For three decades you have led us on the path of poverty and growing conflict. Today, we are on the brink of war, pure and simple.
“It is time for it to stop. As a plan, you must take immediate steps to ensure that our country does not collapse completely,” she averred. She called on Biya to resign and not to take the country “… further into the war.”
She equally exhorted “all English speaking Cameroonians, to agree on the need to end discrimination and to ensure that Anglophones enjoy all their rights as citizens.
Journal du Cameroon