PURPORTED DEATH OF F. M. NO PITY
One of the most wanted of the Ambazonian fighters by the colonial LRC military Mbashie Clement aka F. M. No Pity has been reported dead. This is captured in a video and images of his lifeless body. Though the LRC military as time passed announced that it killed him, which was a lie, for he came in videos debunking the colonial LRC military claim. Even if F. M. No Pity is no more, the Ambazonian spirit is alive and the freedom of Ambazonia is not centered in the life of one fighter. Does LRC think killing No Pity is killing the Ambazonian Restoration fight? No, for before F. M. No Pity there were fighters and after him, fighters will remain.
The LRC Colonial Military is circulating videos purporting to be the lifeless body of F. M. No Pity.
Early life and taking up arms
"General No Pity" is the nom du guerre of Clement Mbashie, an Ambazonian who was born in Bambalang. In the late 2000s, he studied at the Cameroon College of Arts, Science and Technology Bambili, a secondary school in Mezam County. He was forced to work part-time to pay for his education. After his first failure to achieve GCE Ordinary Level, he relocated to Buea where he became a doughnut and yogurt vendor while taking evening classes. His situation began to change as Buea became affected by the 2016–17 Anglophone protests and the accompanying economic unrest, as Mbashie was laid off by his employer. By this point, he also had become the father of a son. After a period of unemployment, Mbashie opted to instead work as a motorbike taxi driver, a profession he practiced in the time leading up to and during the early stages of the Anglophone Crisis, an open separatist rebellion in western Cameroon.
On 31 July 2018, the in-house slave mayor of Buea banned all motorcycling within the city due to so-called security reasons. Mbashie was among the members of the taxi driver trade union who unsuccessfully protested against this decision. Without a job and perspective, as well as anger over the negative impact of the Cameroonian state on his life, Mbashie returned to Bambalang and joined the liberation movement. By 2019, he served alongside the Seven Karta, an Ambazonian fighters group associated with the Ambazonia Self-Defence Council. He was not a full member of the militia, however, spending time with the Seven Karta to learn how to operate as a guerrilla.
As commander
At some point before or during 2020, he became the leader of the Bambalang Marine Forces and adopted his nom du guerre. The Bambalang Marine Forces originated and initially mainly operated in Ngoketunjia. General No Pity gained prominence as one of the Ambazonian military leaders who are most "wanted" by the colonial LRC security forces, as his militia quickly became rather successful as well as increasingly brutal. Under his command, the Bambalang Marines burnt down the residence of the prefect of Balikumbat and beheaded several LRC soldiers. In March 2020, it was falsely reported that General No Pity had been killed in combat near Bamali. In 2021, General No Pity expanded his reach and increased his attacks, with his troops operating in Bambalang, Bui, Boyo, and Mezam Counties. Under his leadership, the militia carried out two successful raids into the West Region of LRC throughout 2021.
He also became part of the Ambazonia Restoration Forces (formerly the Ambazonia Self-Defence Council) which are loyal to the Interim Government of Ambazonia, one of the factions involved in the Ambazonian leadership crisis. In September of that year, General No Pity and the Bambalang Marine Forces cooperated with the Jaguars of Bamessing to ambush a military convoy. The operation resulted in the death of 15 LRC soldiers, the destruction of two armored vehicles, and the capture of several guns by the fighters. General No Pity celebrated the success by filming himself and his fighters next to the burning vehicles. This ambush received national attention in LRC and led to the LRC government intensifying its manhunt for him. In the month following the Bamessing attack, he called on the United Nations to take notice of the Anglophone Crisis in an audio message.
At the time, he was described as the leader of the "Ambazonia Revolutionary Guards" as well as chief commander of the Ambazonia Restoration Forces by the Cameroon Intelligence Report. Meanwhile, the LRC military launched operations to hunt him down, resulting in clashes that left several Bambalang Marine Forces members dead. LRC Security forces once again claimed to have killed General No Pity, only for him to resurface in Manyu. Eventually, LRC security forces arrested Antoinette Kongnso, believed to be the pregnant ex-girlfriend of General No Pity. The separatist militant reportedly responded by kidnapping Fon Yekum Kelvin of Bambalang, and demanding that Kongnso and several of his imprisoned followers be freed in exchange for Kelvin. Kongnso was released on bail in December 2021.
As time went on, General No Pity made more and more incursions into Bui, where he forced several minor separatist factions to unify into the "Bui Unity Warriors". Cooperating with the Ambazonia Defence Forces (ADF), he was even able to convince elements of the Bui Warriors, another rebel group, to break off and join the Bui Unity Warriors. In June 2022, General No Pity personally led an attack at Njatapon, a border post between Ngo-Ketunjia and the Noun River, killing nine Cameroonian soldiers. In the following month, Lekeaka Oliver was killed. This left General No Pity arguably the most important active Ambazonian militia leader. In early August, General No Pity led an offensive against army camps in Oku. The attack was repelled and the separatist commander was reportedly wounded in battle.
Several members of his militia were killed; Bareta News went so far as to call this clash No Pity's "Waterloo". Following these events, General No Pity went off the radar for several months. On January 28, 2023, he resurfaced in a video where he said that "three truckloads" of soldiers had attacked his stronghold in Bambalang two days prior, only to be repelled with heavy losses.
