THE PRESIDENT ADDRESS - MEZAM COUNTY DRAFT

• Office of the President
• July 17, 2022

THE PRESIDENT ADDRESS - MEZAM COUNTY DRAFT

Let me begin by acknowledging My friend and Brother the Vice President of Ambazonia
My indefatigable Eric Ateh,
The Speaker of the Interim House of Representatives Dr Winnie Lobati.
The following trusted associates of mine in Central Administration from the great County of Mezam,
are worthy of mention: 
Dr. Tita Emmanuel - SOS for Health and Social Services,
Dr. Abiedu Patience - SOS For Women Services,
Mr. Steve Neba-Fuh - SOS for Home Affairs & Community Mobilisation,
Mr. Akemche Joseph - SOS for Finance and Resource Mobilization, Ma Mankaa Fokwa - Vice Chair of the Presidential Advisory Council,
Mr. Blasius Awonsang- Secretary of the SIA - DSS,
Mr. Zama Sylvester – Secretary of SOP-DSS
Barrister Fru John Nsoh - Ambazonia State Attorney,
Mr. Muma Brown - Ambassador to Asia
The Chief of the Red Feathers, 
All other comrades from Mezam assisting as Ambassadors, Country Coordinators, or Directors at the Presidency.
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County/LGA Executives:
Mezam County Coordinator & Bafut LGA Chair: Mr. Theo Fusi,
The County Defense Officer Cde Wilson.  
Bali Nyonga LGA Chair: Mr. Wilson Tita,
BaMendankwe LGA Chair: Mr. Philip Tala,
Mankon-Mbachongwa LGA Chairlady & : Ma Gilda Ntum
Nkwen-Ndzah LGA Chair: 

Dr. Marcellus Atanga,
Santa LGA Chair: Prince Chinje,
Tubah LGA Chair: Mr. Constantine Yundi.
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Representatives in the IHR
Bafut LGA Representative: Hon. Mangie Alice Mfonyam,
Bali Nyonga LGA Representative: Hon. Richard Gangbobga,
Bamendankwe LGA Representative: Hon.  Clement Asongwe,
Mankon-Mbachongwa LGA Representative: Hon Dr. Charles Ade Tima,
Nkwen-Ndzah LGA Representative: Hon  Pastor James Tita,
Santa LGA Representative: Constance Achu,
Tubah LGA Representative: Hon. Timzuh.
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Board Chair of our National Treasury structures: Ma Victorine Yangni,
Wounded Warrior Project Director: Ma God Yi Eye
 
You now understand why in a good year like this one, the rain should start in Bamenda. Please Mezamites if this struggle is likened to a huge burden the IG is rolling up a steep mountain, just imagine how many hands from Mezam are on board with me to do the heavy lifting. If you should turn your back on this struggle it shall be very difficult for the rest of Ambazonia. Thank you Mezam. 
 
 
My Dear People of Mezam
Fellow Ambazonians,
 
Here we are today, in the great County of  Mezam to kick-start the county rounds for AWARD 22, after the successful national launch that took place on the 4th of June 2022.

It is only befitting for us to start this special event by reflecting on the over 45.000 Ambazonians that have been slaughtered by the ruthless genocidal regime in Yaounde. I pay special homage to all our innocent thousands, including babies and women who have been brutally butchered by the genocidal regime of Paul Biya; I pay utmost respect to our valiant vanguards - our heroes, who have fallen since the launching of the armed struggle, who were killed while trying to protecting their people and defend our God-given homeland. 

That is the true spirit of our Anthem which says “we pledge our loyalty..to those that bore the land with their blood.” We, and generations to come will forever be grateful for their sacrifice.
 
(A moment of silence in their honor…please).

The blood you shed for our freedom will always count as the full prize of the unconditional independence of Ambazonia.
 
Fellow Ambazonians,
 
Here is Bamenda in the great Mezam County
No one can be in this county and not feel at home. Your hospitality and generosity are boundless.
My communion with you today for this special patriotic duty we are gathered here to perform is unique. I have often described this county as the epicenter of our resistance movement. 

It is a common saying in Ambazonia that once ‘Bamenda’ has decided, there is no turning back. Your revolutionary spirit is the reason why the enemy has come a long way to fear our collective resolve. 

You are a people whose resilience is relentless, whose determination is ferocious and who put their money where their mouth is.

I say this with empirical evidence, from the history of our liberation to the recent numbers of our last two consecutive drafts, your works stand out as a monument for generation hereafter to attest.

I am confident today, that as we accomplish this revolutionary task, you will do so with a greater sense of duty. Knowing that the success of our endeavor hangs desperately on the 
sacrifices of those who still have their hands on the plow, not on the whims of those who have now joined the queues of deception, the bench of spectators, or the circles of vain talkers.
 
Fellow Comrades
The 1994 Bamenda Proclamation at AAC II was the last option we gave the enemy to make right the wrongs of the sixties, or else the “Zero Option” would be inevitable. 
The endurance and patience of our forebears were looked upon by the enemy as a collective weakness, while they plundered our resources and subjugated us at the same time. Little did they know that our patience was not so elastic; that a Joshua generation will rise one day to take up the lead of our liberation charge based on the Zero Option.

We are that Joshua generation, and we will settle at nothing short of a free Motherland - Ambazonia.
Remember our sacrifice in this liberation struggle is only second to those on the Home Front facing the music of bullets, especially our Ambazonia Restoration Forces, not forgetting our refugees and IDPs in dire conditions who are hoping and praying that we fight even harder to free homeland sooner than later, so they can go home alive.

As patriotic and responsible citizens of Ambazonia, our financial commitment to this sacrificial endeavor while enjoying the relative safety abroad is just the minimum we can do to free our people from this 61-year-old annexation. 
They should not bare the brunt and pay the tabs. The Draft is the partnership obligation by the Diaspora towards the Home Front. There is no turning back until we reach Buea.
 
Permit me to read out a poem I wrote yesterday, as a tribute to Lefangse
 
They all targeted “Lefangse”to stop this train
To size down Dr Sako, or switch off the blade
 of our jet engine, the IG
He was targeted from day one,
Twice, I tried in vain to arrest the deadly waves,
but the wind had him at laggard head with the rocks,
Jeopardized his revolutionary survival.
And Towards the other end of the tunnel
destiny helpers and many true friends, He lost ! 
Was doubted by his true admirers,
Betrayed by handlers and starved by deceivers.
Rejected, dejected and abandoned he was Trapped!
Encouraged to reconcile with his shadows,
But the hill of his enemies was bigger.
Abandoned! 
We saw a shadow behind 33
Was that a tourist’s trap?
But suddenly the cruel waves hit again
Or was it a nightmare,
Because I don’t know
But I could hear the wave crying game over!!
I don’t know , I almost said I know what happened next! But No No! Or do you?
Let me challenge those who plucked “Lefangse”
From our family tree, with knives sharpened in Etoudi,
It seems like yesterday!
Please tell us now, that he is alive and well,
Tell me or why not?
You met a man struggling with his kids
And you thought you loved his kids better,
that you can do better for them
Now you realize you, you can’t do sh--t
To provide them with basic survival needs.
No blankets to keep the chicken safe!
Please Lefangse where are you?
And where are the 7 carted from Kata,
A friend of the wise shall be wise but
A companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Alluta Continua!
 
Our Valiant Ambazonian Restoration Forces,
 
We have wone the war, though we may have lost some battles. If those two weeks set out by Dictator Biya to crush us when he declared war on us in November 2017, have dragged on for more than 5 years now, it is the proof that they failed and we have prevailed. They have not crushed us not because they changed their minds to do us good, but because they cant. 

Now, their dream of crushing Ambazonia by the military option is more farfetched than when they launched the war in 2017.
And you ARFs, you put love for country first and refused to be distracted by genocide enablers, criminal belleticians or revolutionary scavengers whose goal is to keep us in perpetual slavery under Yaounde. 

I salute you all our valiant soldiers especially our ARFs of Mezam, and I enjoin you to stay focused and united in your commitment to defend homeland. There is no bigger patriotic duty than putting your lives on the line for country! I salute you all and thank you for your selfless sacrifices to liberate Ambazonia.  
 
Talking about unity in the body of our revolution, no one has championed more meaningful collaborative efforts than yours truly, since this liberation war started in 2017. 

First, it was the Ambazonia Self-defense Council for all defense forces, the ARFs – in all 13 Counties, The Unity Conference of Washington 2018, Southern Cameroons Leadership Council, and ACT – Team for negotiation. 

Can someone tell me what went wrong with these initiatives? I understand the importance of unity or what I will prefer to call purposeful collaboration within our liberation movement. 

But, let no one deceive you, unity with those who are no longer fighting the enemy you are fighting is an act of surrender, unity with your enemy disguised as a friend is suicide, Unity with those who imprison, disarm and torture you, to force you to join them or get killed is as dangerous as voluntarily handing your weapon to the enemy for your protection. Unity for the sake of unity is simply insanity. It is as stupid as a hungry lion calling for a gathering of all cats and your pussy cat also attends, expecting to be welcomed and protected.

As guerilla fighters, your survival is paramount. You cannot just collaborate talk less of unit with people with a track record of betraying, 
terrorizing and killing their own fellow comrades-in-arms. You collaborate only with one who can use his last bullet to defend you if need be, one who can take a bullet for you. Not one who will betray you ok kill you for the highest bidder at every opportunity.   In my recent visit to Ndian County during my County tour, I made it clear that the AMBAZONIA RESTORATION FORCES, ARF  which you are proudly part of, is already a Unity Force. That we may know that we are ARFs United in Mezam? This DRAFT is for all of you.
 
I commend Any collaboration with non ARF forces fighting alongside ARFs to liberate homeland. However, this must be done purposefully and strategically, and that should require detail consultation and vetting by our military intelligence unit.

We know the mayhem that these random unity escapades have caused some of our devoted commanders and fighters especially in BUI and here in Mezam. 

The briefings I get from some of the LGAs like Bali Nyonga and Bafut are disturbing and could have been avoided if our forces had not been infiltrated by the Unity Palace confusion. 
They united with the wrong people, their hideouts and itineraries were exposed, some got killed and others arrested and used as guides to track more.
 
Dear Comrades-in- arms, brave ARF, 
By now you should have learned some lessons the hard way. Let unity not be like casting a fishing net into a river and collecting everything that comes up with the net.  

No! You should know better by now - that your Interim Government is there for you and have your greatest interest at heart. That is why we are here again tonight - to draft for you.
We count on you. 

Ambazonians count on you. The enemy dreads your bravery. At the beginning of this war, you were just numbers determined compatriots struggling to grapple with what befell us. 

Today you are not just numbers but tested and experienced soldiers, who understand the art of gorilla warfare, you are masters of your terrain, causing sleepless nights to the genocidal enemy, as you execute the sacred duty of defending homeland. I am confident that if we do our best for you tonight and we draft generously, you have what it takes to get us better results as we tackle the final phases of this liberation struggle.

You draw up the plan according to our National Strategic Security Plan, and I am confident you know how and what to do. The draft tonight will go a long way to accelerate the continuous implementation of those strategies we have in place and the new ones in the pipeline.
 
Let me emphasize once more that, the purported attacks on French Cameroon civilians perpetrated by covert LRC military agents are just decoys to attract sympathy 
from their local population over an increasingly unpopular war against innocent civilians in Ambazonia. Frech Cameroon citizens are disgusted by their military’s 
despicable massacre of our people, and the random killing of women and children just to manipulate international opinion against our liberation cause.  

Almost 5 years into this war, our war has not changed in character – we are defending ourselves and our territory against annexationists. 

Attacks on French Cameroon civilians anywhere do not serve our interests in any way or promote our territorial objectives. Any preemptive targeted incursive attacks in enemy territory (East of the Mongo) during this war cannot be aimed at French Cameroon civilians who are also victims of the French colonial stranglehold.
 
Dear Compatriots in the Home Front
My Dear People of Bafut, Bali, Mankon Mbachomba, Bamendakwe, Nkwen Ndzah, Santa and Tubah LGAs Make no mistake, as we continue to bleed the enemy in terms of casualties and escalate the economic cost of this war, they are recycling the old colonial tactics of infiltrating our ranks and destabilizing us from within. 

Those who congregated to tear us down have already failed. You stood tall and mounted roadblocks to tell them that we own the land. 

When it was necessary for you to sacrifice some more in the Homefront with extra lockdowns, you followed instructions from your Interim Government. 

The enemy recruited some from amongst us, trumpeting lies and unfounded allegations, executed a coup d’état against yours truly, 
to manipulate some of the weak and under-informed amongst you, you overwhelmingly resisted their charlatanry. You refused to be bridled by these agents of LRC handlers who were disguised as patriots and hid amongst us.  

They told you “ Sako is gone”; that the Draft is banned, - here we are today to let our actions speak louder than empty words, ready to proudly draft our substance towards those who have drafted their lives for this cause. 

France and LRC have not given up on trying to divide us. Their new hope is to do all to cut off the umbilical cord between you in the Homefront and the IG (aka the diaspora) and arbitrary impose a leader on ground that LRC can easily buy, intimidate, kill  or manipulate to end the struggle.
Thank God for Bamenda, we are smarter than them.
 
Dear Financial Warriors, 
Let’s draft as if this Liberation war is starting today. The darkest part of the night is towards dawn. 
Despite the numerous distractions, let’s remain focused. The stakes are high. Our ARFs of Mezam are watching and waiting for us and relying almost entirely on what we will do tonight. 

Let’s not fail them. Let’s, prepare and put the ball back in their court.
We are continuously pushing the enemy LRC to the wall with our collective resilience and raw determination. 

There is much more external pressure now on LRC to heed the Swiss-led mediation than ever. Even the French are timidly putting pressure behind the scenes. There are many signs announcing a new dawn in our struggle in the year ahead. So, let’s remain focused and steadfast in our task. Let us hit our foot on the gas and go even more aggressive against all enemy presence and positions in our territory. 

Let’s, use this next one year to clear out all remaining enemy posts in our territory. We know that the enemy LRC desires to talk to us and not with us. So, they are still aiming at “winning” the war before any talks. Let us answer them with our wallets waved high tonight. 

Give your thousand USD to tell LRC and Macron “you are wasting your time, you cannot win Ambazonia”.
One thousand dollars every Draft year is just our minimum patriotic commitment to the cause. 
To those of you who can do more than this minimum I strongly urge you to do so – That is what I am doing this year.

Let us draft, draft and draft; and most importantly, let’s redeem our pledges as fast as possible in order to give our forces the capability and capacity to get us to the table, not to surrender but to negotiate from a position of strength.
 
 
Let the 2022 Draft  For Mezam County Commence!
 
Viva the great people of Mezam County, 

Viva, our brave Ambazonia Restoration Forces,
Viva the Federal Republic of Ambazonia,
God Bless A
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Samuel Ikome Sako, Ph.D
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