Troops have been deployed in Bamenda following a massive counter demonstration against the pro Francophone and one Cameroon rally to be led today by the Prime Minister. Cat calls have reportedly greeted the big men and women from Yaounde and soldiers have been put on high alert at Commercial Avenue where the  anti CPDM mammoth crowd has assembled.

We are keeping an eye on this latest development and we will keep our readers posted. As we get it!! You will have it.

Anglophone lawyers and teachers have announced a continuation of their strike action as talks between the Francophone government and the trade unions have failed to deliver any positive outcome. The December 6^th meeting ended in fiasco as the actors of the negotiations separated from each other. Cameroon Intelligence Report learnt that the disappointment was visible on the faces of the government mediators in the city of Bamenda.

The actions of Prime Minister Philemon Yang who started the 24-26 November talks have been shameful, disgusting and disgraceful. The teachers and the lawyers have blamed the Head of Government for politicizing the crisis by holding pro Francophone political rallies in Southern Cameroons.

After four hours of in camera work at a high-rise hotel in Bamenda, Wilfred Tassang, the national executive secretary of the Cameroon Teachers’ Trade Union (Cattu), had bitter words for the Yang Philemon emissaries “The strike continues, the Government wants to play with us”.

Obviously, the Francophone teleguided talks could not reach any meaningful agreement because the plaintiffs could not have the minimum of their claims. The trade unions have made it clear that negotiators should debate and highlight by order of priority and then resolve according to a chronologically agreed schedule.

For their part, Anglophone teachers say no compromise will be gotten so long as the government does not proceed without delay with the withdrawal of French-speaking teachers who teach pupils in poor English from Southern Cameroons territory. Our much respected teachers and lawyers have demanded that parents should keep their children at home for their safety.

Common law lawyers have also announced a boycott of the 31st annual international conference of the Bar Councils to be held in Yaoundé from the 7th to 9^th of December 2016.

By Chi Prudence Asong in Bamenda

Bongo square in Buea hosted militants hired from all over La Republique du Cameroun on Tuesday December 6, 2016 for a meeting of the ruling CPDM crime syndicate. The rally was summoned by a Francophone spy turned Prime Minister, Philemon Yang. It was intended to solemnly declare the position of the ruling party that Anglophone demands and mood manifestations that paralyzed activities in the English-speaking part of the country were inconsequential.

Two Francophone surrogates; Peter Mafany Musonge, and Philemon Yang including a certain Jean Nkueté, addressed the numerous pro Biya comedians who communion in Buea. Jean Nkueté whose children all live abroad said social media amplified what exactly happened. He blamed the Anglophone Diaspora for the crises and hinted that they were enemies of the Cameroonian nation “who are taking advantage of the tensions in Buea and Bamenda to destabilize the country.”

A frustrated Senator and former Prime Minister Peter Mafany Musonge reassured the public that the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo government was seeking solutions to the demands made by the lawyers and teachers and called on the trade unions to end their strike.

Philemon Yang, the Head of Government, angered Anglophone CPDM party militants when he observed that the issue of returning to federalism is totally rejected by Yaoundé. After Buea, the Prime Minister and the Secretary General of the CPDM will travel tomorrow Thursday, December 8, 2016 to the city of Bamenda, in the North West Region, for a similar meeting.

By Rita Akana in Buea

The Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo regime has developed a nebulous plan towards foiling and destabilizing the present momentum building among Anglophones. It has been revealed that the political elites of the South West and North West region have been given directives to start fanning the flames of the North West/South West divide as seen through a report published on Cameroun-Info.Net invoking the South West minority problem.

Cameroon Intelligence Report was reliably informed that the Francophone regime’s diabolic harsh plot has a hydra-headed plan which inter alia includes rumours of arms importation via the Federal of Nigeria and the spreading of rumours of lawyers and teachers being bribed.

Anglophone servicemen and women in the secret service including the gendermarie have been handed guns to secretly deposit them at the residences of some union leaders and then arrest them on that charge and organize kangaroo military tribunals to try and sentence them to life imprisonment.  We also recently gathered intelligence that Yaoundé plans to sack all Anglophone top officials including the Prime Minister and replace them with new stooges to guarantee their continues domination of the politics of the country.

CPDM social media experts with the support of some mobile phone providers such as MTN have  posted Prof Paul Goghomo’s visit to Bamenda on today the 6th of December and spreading rumours of bags of money he’s bringing along to bribe union leaders. The corrupt and the corruptible will fall for this bait but the Anglophone struggle is more than money and supersedes the North West/South West Francophone creation.

These repeated allegations through text messages and radio talk shows are intended to wear out the people and discredit the leaders. The same source indicated that the meeting with Francophone union leaders in the Star Building was intended to destabilize the Anglophone education holdup. Yaoundé will do anything within its power to isolate Anglophones of all possible sympathizers among Francophones.

Whipping up xenophobic sentiments is part of the game plan. That was exactly what Tchiroma and others tried to do on the 20th of November 2016.

By Rita Akana

Prime Minister Philemon Yang has reportedly held a meeting following the events in Bamenda, capital of the North West region. The Head of Government met in a close session on Sunday the 4^th of December 2016 with a segment of some prominent leaders from the North West Region.

The meeting which grouped some elites, Senators, Parliamentarians and other top government officials from the region, was organized following the recent street protests.

The end of discussion was sanctioned by a communiqué calling for peace and resumption of classes. The signatories assured the population that government has taken note of the problems raised by the protesters and that appropriate measures shall be put in place incessantly.

CRTV

From All Anglophone Teacher Trade Unions

To

All Anglophone Cameroon Parents &Guardians

Dear all,

We have once more noted that the authorities in Yaoundé care very little about native NW/SW children.

While we are crying and denouncing the destruction of our children for close to fifty years, Yaoundé is scheming and hatching plots and plans to complete the destruction.

What does the Head of State mean by bilingual science and technical teachers?

Where and when were they trained?

Where did they do secondary education?

Our people, this is not the sign we asked government to show us as evidence of its commitment to solve the education issues we tabled. We see this as a wicked attempt at piercing an ulcer. A man does not solve a problem that he does not recognize. Yaoundé has failed to acknowledge the problem. The unions and teachers who suffer the most when our learners are turned into slaves have unanimously rejected Yaoundé’s bilingual teachers offer.

We have requested that the 2billions should cease from being an announcement to a solution and that recruitment of bilingual teachers be corrected to read “recruitment of indigenes of NW/SW regions to be trained in the higher teacher training colleges of Bambili and Kumba”. Note that 1000 is an insignificant number. How many of them will be French teachers to enable our colleges to have just 1 per school? Ndian division has only 07 French teachers for 25 colleges. How many will be physics teachers etc?

Dear people, we have come this far.  If we retreat now without government’s commitment to solve the problem, then we have auctioned our children. Mine are not for sale. Am sure yours are not. I love my children. Am sure you love yours too and perhaps even more. Together therefore, let us stand up for them.

The teachers and students strike enters week three on Monday Dec 5th. Let us make it work. We are very close to the solution. God bless and prosper our children.

Bamenda, Dec 3rd 2016.

For the unions,

Tassang Wilfred,

NESG CATTU.

Anglophone teachers have kicked against the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo government’s recent move to end the lingering strike by the teachers, saying that no amount of coercion will make them return to work unless the contentious issue of the bi-cultural nature of the country’s education system is satisfactorily resolved.

Speaking on the so-called Prime Minister Yang Philemon’s proposal to end the strike, the teachers trade unions have issued a statement saying  that the government was making moves to engage those they described as thugs to masquerade  themselves as 1000 bilingual teachers in order to open schools in British Southern Cameroons.

Describing the move as an exercise in futility, the teacher’s trade unions have rejected the proposal from the Prime Minister because the proposal was not time structured and many issues were not specific. BBC’s Randy Joe who had a conversation with one of our intelligence officers in Yaoundé today opined that the Biya proposal did not offer anything to the Anglophones.

The Anglophone teacher’s communique observe with dismay, the CPDM government’s unwillingness to address the Anglophone problem but rather chose to indulge in blackmail, propaganda and looking for scapegoats. The press release stressed that the Anglophone teachers union’s stand still remains the same.

One of the teachers who spoke to CIR but sued for anonymity regretted the Biya regime’s constant refusal of the Anglophone problem.  Contrary to announcement made over state radio and television, the Anglophone teachers have made it abundantly clear that their strike action continues unabated.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Martin Belinga Eboutou, the Director of the Civil Cabinet at the presidency of the republic has made public President Biya’s decision to preside over the closing ceremony of the 10th edition of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations that has been marred by violent demonstrations in the Anglophone section of the country. The Lionesses of Cameroon will clash with the Falcons of Nigeria in the final game of the competition.

Talks between the Anglophone Teachers Trade Unions and the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo government have broken off. A statement from the Prime Minister says President Biya has decided on two measures aimed at improving the working conditions in public and private schools. The Biya decision read on state radio and television made a mockery of Prime Minister Philemon Yang who met the Anglophone teachers as a conciliator but could not reach an agreement.

Biya has announced the disbursement of a special subvention of two billion FCFA to lay private and denominational schools and a special recruitment of one thousand young Francophone bilingual teachers who are holders of Higher Education Diplomas to take over the schools in British Southern Cameroons.

Anglophone Teachers have been crystal clear. They want real, concrete improvements to the bilingual structure and nature of the country.  They want to teach, not more empty promises and rhetoric. The Anglophone teachers trade union statement published recently stated that children in boarding schools will be sent home on Friday December the 2^nd 2016. The statement also said schools in Anglophone Cameroon will be close for a year if negotiations with the Francophone regime fail.

The President Biya decision via a prime ministerial order signed by Philemon Yang is an indication that Yaoundé will never listen, noted a teacher from Government High School Mamfe who sued for anonymity. Cameroon Intelligence Report gathered from a source close to the Minister of Higher Education that the Anglophone teachers and lawyers tabled an unrealistic proposal that Francophones can never accept.

Prime Minister Philemon Yang declined interviews in Gabon over the issue where he recently represented the Cameroonian dictator during a security and political crises meeting grouping member states of ECCAS on Wednesday in Libreville.

The Anglophone teachers’ trade union and the Biya Francophone government have been engaged in an ongoing dispute for the last week. The Anglophone Prime Minister and the Anglophone trade union leaders reached tentative agreements and now Biya and his pro Yaounde comedians have voted against those deals.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai (Editor-in-Chief) Cameroon Concord News Group

The so-called judiciary services have opened a formal process against innocent university students who staged a peaceful demonstration within the University of Buea campus recently. Those arrested are now being put on trial for their alleged role during the strike action. The Cameroon government high court judges who are all seeking for promotion will sentence hundreds of students from the University of Buea over lame and ridiculous reasons concocted by the Francophone dominated gendarmerie forces.

Cameroon Intelligence Report understands the CPDM court proceedings started today Thursday the 1^st of December 2016. The students were transported like sardines in terrible conditions, looked dirty and shaken by the brutality of their Francophone tormentors to the court aboard the trucks of the national gendarmerie. A CPDM judge is expected to read the charges against them.

By Rita Akana in Buea