AMBAZONIA ON TRIAL - LRCs 18 SECONDS OF FAME

Dear Ambazonians & Members of the International Community

First of all, on behalf of your Interim Government, we would like to extend a 21 Gun Salute to:

All valiant Ambazonia Restoration Forces in the Home Front, those preparing for self-defense duties elsewhere and those in transit to the Home Front to protect Ambazonians from the state terrorists of LRC.

To all Ambazonians everywhere and sympathizers in the Diaspora who continue to support the suffering people of Ambazonia at home, we of the Interim Government do not forget, and will never forget to honor our brave people in these challenging times.

Last week, we were awoken to the disturbing news of the indictment of three comrades, resident in the United States by a federal court in Missouri. Nestor Langmi, Claude Chi, and Frank Cheney were charged on three counts ranging from kidnapping to providing material support to armed groups in Ambazonia. In particular, the indictment mentioned weapons of mass destruction, money laundry, kidnapping, and above all terrorism.

The Interim Government, the People of Ambazonia and President Samuel Ikome Sako would like to inform the families, and especially the wives and children of our indicted comrades that they are not alone. As a people, we are fighting an existential war and an indictment of any one of us is an indictment of the people. In short, Ambazonia is on trial, and we will stand by them to the end.

We have also witnessed LRC fly by night lawyers and so-called legal experts who are already drawing conclusions as to the outcome and claiming instant victory for LRC assuring their captive audience that the entire IG would be arrested and brought under Napoleonic justice in LRC kangaroo courts. Further what these LRC so-called legal minds have hidden from their docile and ignorant public is that the United States does not practice Napoleonic or civil law. As shall be in Ambazonia, the US practices common law whose fundamental difference is that one is innocent before proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt – not the other way round like in despotic LRC. In other words, the burden of proof is with the accuser – all the enablers and proponents of the One Cameroun Solution.

Dear Ambazonians, if Dictator Paul Biya thinks that LRC’s 18 seconds of fame will conceal the failed monologue in Quebec, whose catastrophic outcome we all now know, then we can all agree that finally the Biya Junta is on its final leg.

The shackles of the December 26, 1959, accords that kept Ambazonia in captivity and servitude will soon be shattered and Ambazonia will cease to be part of a corrupt, inept, and inconsequential governance structure whose institutions are simply rubber stamps with neither the mandate nor authority to resolve pertinent issues of state. In 6 years of the Ambazonian war of Independence from French Cameroon, neither the Cabinet, Senate nor House of Assembly has had a debate on the matter or produce any document of a thought process charting the way forward.

Dear Ambazonians, we would like to share the statement of the judge who released comrade Frank Cheney without bail to illustrate the fluidity or perhaps the hint of lack of a legal basis.

In the courtroom after the FBI agent who monitored and questioned Frank narrated his part of the story, a cross examination of the court-appointed defense attorney exposed an apparent lack of a fundamental understanding of

  1. the root causes of Ambazonia’s plight under a LRC under the colonial dragnet of France.

  2. Ambazonia’s right to self-determination under the United Nations Charter, and

  3. The history of Ambazonia within the context of the genocidal war with LRC.

The judge listened attentively to that initial defense and said there was no reason to seek bail. It was a victory no matter how small as the judge recognized that Frank was not a violent man and had his community behind him. He also stated that death is not justified anywhere but no crime was committed in the United States.

Further as President Sako mentioned last week, you cannot convict someone of terrorism when neither the organization he is supporting- the Interim Government - nor the country it represents, Federal Republic of Ambazonia, is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States Congress.

With regard to the other two comrades, Claude Chi and Nestor, this is what we know. Chi is still in custody and the good news is that the Interim Government has secured an outstanding lawyer to initiate his release. As for Nestor Langmi, he is in Ohio on transit to Kansas where the trial will take place. The IG will contact him upon arrival to establish his defense team. The Interim Government has mobilized Ambazonians and friends of Ambazonians to assist in every way possible.

Dear Ambazonians, God is hearing our prayers and this case is the greatest gift to us since the genocidal war began. This is a golden opportunity for the world to see what the evil regime of LRC is capable of doing. Ambazonia is on trial, and it did not start today.

  1. 2017, four LRC lobbies have tried to indict Ambazonia in the United States Congress. The case and evidence before international law was very compelling to Cameroon until they met counter arguments, undeniable facts and the weight of the law. The fruit of their nefarious efforts only strengthened Ambazonia.

The United States Senate Resolution 684 and the Temporal Protective Status, point to the triumph of proven facts over hollow arguments of the evil regime in LRC. This regime in Yaounde denies all accusations until caught on camera. A case in point is the shooting death of Nigerian women with children tied to their backs in 2020. LRC denied all until a determined BBC Journalist nailed LRC on Satan’s cross with forensic evidence. Then Cameroon admitted shooting dead two Nigerian mothers and their infant babies in one of the most barbaric acts ever committed on Camera.

As the bible says in the mouth of two witnesses the facts shall be established. The judicial evidence in our case is irrefutable; the atrocity crimes against Ambazonia is heart wrenching and at each turn LRC has been sidelined: removal from AGOA (Africa Growth Opportunity Act), withdraw of US military support, US Senate resolution recommending talks with no preconditions; and the Temporary Protected Status (PTS). These are all successes within the United States with President Samuel Sako as head of the Interim Government.

That’s not all. Ambazonia won LRC in the Bamenda high court, the international court of human and people’s rights in Banjul and the Nigerian high court. Today we have a pending case against members of the Biya junta at the international criminal court of justice in the Hague. Our existential fight is real and our right to self-determination is grounded in international law. As Barrister Valentine Gana eloquently stated: The crucial factual proposition is “Does Ambazonia have a right to self-determination?” The African Commission in Decision 266/33 said YES – Ambazonia is a sovereign people with rights to self-government.

Nowhere in the world has LRC presented a convincing argument in support of its illegal occupation of Ambazonia. Having failed in the United States executive and legislature to indict Ambazonia, it’s now the turn of the judiciary and we are ready for that fight. Dictator Paul Biya has no right whatsoever in international law to admit assimilation and defuse the resulting fight for independence by granting any special status to the component federal state of Ambazonia, without the consent of the sovereign people of Ambazonia in the failed Cameroon Federation.

We Ambazonians shall never retreat. We shall never surrender until we reach Buea.

Short Live the Revolution, Long live the federal Republic of Ambazonia.