“The Anglophone Crises is degenerating into a civil war”

Vice National Chairman of the SDF.

The Vice National Chairman of the Social Democratic Front, Josua Ossih has declared that the Anglophone Crises in Cameroon is degenerating into a Civil War. He was speaking on Sunday January 14 at the Ntarikon Palace in Bamenda during the National Executive Committee Meeting of the party. 

Joshua Ossih

He said the party was passing through very tricky moments now because it was preparing for an elective convention in the days ahead. “There is the alarming situation of the Anglophone crises which is degenerating into a civil war since the President declared as he came out of the plane that the country was in a civil war.”As a leading political party, he said the party was preoccupied with this tendency for the President to declare war on his citizens adding that this occupied a reasonable part of debates of the party during the meeting.

 Harping on the socio-economic situation of Cameroonians which he said was very preoccupying, Joshua Ossih said 2018 was going to be a very difficult year for Cameroonians. “We deliberated upon this and arrived at conclusions on how to face the situation.”

On the situation of Cameroonian refugees in Nigeria he said “we didn’t arrive at any resolutions on the Cameroonian refugees in Nigeria but their situation is very preoccupying and it is indeed scandalous that a rich country like Cameroon which was very peaceful in 1982 has been reduced to a poorly governed dictatorial regime riddled with civil war in 35 years with refugees in a foreign country. One of our party officials in the area visited these refugees and noticed that the situation of these Cameroonians was precarious. We are going to carry out measures to ameliorate the conditions of these refugees.”

Cameroon he said was a sinking sheep and “for the first time in our history people are fleeing their country to another country. Parents don’t know how to feed their children and Cameroonians don’t want to register on the electoral register because they have no confidence in the future. The Anglophone crisis was largely debated and the socio political climate was equally a major preoccupation during this NEC meeting. A dictator has declared war on his people and these are all very preoccupying issues. We even have doubts on the capacity of this regime to continue running this country. It is in these challenging moments that SDF is holding an elective convention in a couple of weeks and we are fine tuning preparations towards that convention. We will be having a final meeting in the coming days to take a final decision on the convention.”

Meantime, the Secretary General of the SDF Party disclosed that the convention of the party was going to take place on the 22nd, 23^rd and the 24^th of February and emphatically stated that no effort was being spared to make sure that the convention took place as scheduled.  

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