Best leg forward

The best leg forward for Cameroun is a reset:

• agree that the Ahidjo/Biya CNU/CPDM has misled everyone by annexing and occupying a legitimate UN Trust Territory (former British Southern Cameroons), and is continuing to go from one illegal act to the next by systematically destroying all its institutions, making a mess of a whole state that was part of a federal arrangement, now seemingly moribund.

A reset would restore the State of former British Southern Cameroons and leave the République du Cameroun to hammer out its issues with its citizens (and the French). In practice, the result would be two states with two clearly different systems living side by side (hopefully in peace).

Right now, no one can really say what the justice system in Cameroun is. But I can tell you what it was in former British Southern Cameroons before 1972 (the unfortunate year we lost self-rule). Our justice system was based on common law plus the administrative policy of "indirect rule": "a system regulated by laws in which some powers were delegated to a chief or group of individuals termed a 'Native Authority' to maintain law and order through native courts, to collect taxes and eventually to operate a treasury."

Right now you are living the consequences: today's reality in Cameroun. What I am contending here is that the only way to resolve the situation is to stick to the truth of the political-history playbook and undo what Amadou Ahidjo and Paul Biya created: a house on shifting sand.

The State of former British Southern Cameroons WILL be restored. We are able and ready. Waiting for someone to come and clean your backyard? You'll be waiting a long time. Biya will go. The system will NOT change. So…

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Ready to go!

— Wanaku Verdzekov