Cameroon: “I am an advocate for a 2 State Federation,” says Barrister Agbor Balla
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Responding to a trimmed video circulating online during his presentation in the Grand National Dialogue in 2019 wherein he is heard calling for one and indivisible Cameroon, Barrister Agbor Nkongho, the president of the outlawed Anglophone consortium and the president of the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa has cleared the air on his stand on the form of state in Cameroon. According to him, the people who edited the video did so for ill-intention,
In his previous facebook publication, he said to those whom he believes are trying to pull his image down that “We have frontline leaders in the Southern Cameroons who don’t want to see any attempt at finding a solution. To them, it is their way of the highway. These experts with the crab mentality and Pull Him/Her Down ( PHD) syndrome must destroy everyone who doesn’t think like them.”
He said on his official Facebook page that he is for a two states federation while reiterating that the two-state federation has been his stand tracing back to the year 2000 and during the days of the Anglophone Consortium. Below is his full statement on Facebook.
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” I have watched a “ doctored” video making the rounds on social media. This is a deliberately manipulated video of my presentation at the GD. The video which has been edited to suit the purposes of ill-intentioned individuals does not reflect the totality of my entire presentation. I hope that you watch the complete video. Those who have continuously carried out a systematic campaign to bring my image into disrepute have edited the video to suit their mission. This smear campaign is an exercise in futility.
I avoid getting into this kind of debates. However, to put the record straight I will reiterate that I am an advocate for a 2 State Federation. That has always been my position. You can consult my LLM Thesis of 2000 in VUB Belgium where I wrote on “ Do the Southern Cameroonians have a right to self determination in International Law”? You can equally follow my video during our demonstration in 2001 at the EU head office in Brussels.
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I have been consistent in my position on federalism. This was equally the same position during my leadership of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium. We must learn and appreciate to respect freedom of opinion and expression. Differences in opinion should not be used to denigrate and preach hatred and incite violence against others.
Our struggle was and should not be aimed at replacing a form of ideological dictatorship with another. Those who engage in the same kind of tactics that have been used against the people for decades must realise that you cannot do good by imitating evil. The aspirations of our people are also for freedom and liberty, not for intolerance and dirty machinations that echo the horrors of what they have suffered for decades.”
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Berinyuy Cajetan is the founder and publisher of Human Rights and Legal Research Centre (HRLRC) since 2017. He has intensive experience in strategic communications for Civil Society Organizations, campaign and advocacy, and social issues. He has an intensive experiencing in human rights monitoring, documentation and reporting.
