CAMEROON,UN MAY NOW BE WILLING TO GRANT SOUTHERN CAMEROONS INDEPENDENCE - ORDERS ISSUANCE OF ID CARDS TO S.C par Sylvanus Ezieh

Cameroon Journal, Yaounde, May 13 - If an article, published recently in the Nigerian daily Globaltimes is anything to go by, then the Southern Cameroons independence struggle may be taking a very unprecedented turn from the United Nations Organization - UNO.In the article headlined: "UNO state of Cameroun: Reality or fallacy," the Abuja-based newspaper wrote: "...remarkable achievements are being recorded as currently evidenced in the UN willingness to rectify and regularize the independence of the UN State of Southern Cameroons. That is, all of the former British Cameroons controlled territory ...they have also been given an official authorization, signed by the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, for Prof. Martin Chia Ateh to issue identification cards to citizens of the Southern Cameroons..."

In the article that carries the pictures of Presidents Paul Biya and Goodluck Jonathan, Globaltimes, quoting Section 76b of the UN Charter as well as Act 102(1) and (2) noted that the terms of any union between a member state of the United Nations and another country have got to be evidenced in writing and a copy filed at the United Nations secretariat which will publish it.

It adds that failure to do so as was the case with the Southern Cameroons and La Republique du Cameroun "renders the whole arrangement invalid under international law as it cannot be cited before any organ of the United Nations..."

Portions of the report read: "Since the arrangement between the Southern Cameroons and La Republique du Cameroun cannot be cited anywhere around the UN organs, it is evidenced that Her Majesty's Government failed in the diligent execution of the trust responsibilities it had assumed in 1946 to lead the territory of British Cameroons to self-government or independence...by Resolution 1608, the UN had stipulated that before the British trust over the Southern Cameroons was to end on 1st October, 1961, there was to be a tripartite conference; comprising Britain as the administering authority, the Government of Southern Cameroons and the Government of La Republique du Cameroun to draw up a treaty of the union embodying the agreed terms and understandings for the joining of Southern Cameroons to La Republique du Cameroun. Such agreed terms were expected to be the marriage certificate for the union. Since 1991, the Southern Cameroons began the quest to reclaim their independence which has been laying waste for many years..."A certain Prof. Martin Chia Ateh, consultant at the United Nations, who Globaltimes says is the new arrowhead of the Southern Cameroons independence struggle is quoted in the newspaper report as saying: "Considerable efforts were made even at the time of independence for the UN to correct the mistake and injustice meted against the people of the trust territory; most of them who struggled to mobilize people towards self-determination and who had been going through hell both in Nigeria and Cameroon..."

In what looks like giving wings to the report that the United Nations was now willing to rectify and regularize the Southern Cameroons independence, Globaltimes in the report recalls what it qualifies as: "Very informational and instructive facts". Among these facts, it cited the handing over of the two maps (the map of the independence of La Republique du Cameroun on 1st January 1960 and the map of the UNO State of Cameroon), to President Biya on May 20, 2010 in Yaounde by Ali Abdulsalam Treki, president of the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly and the handing over of two flags; being the flag of La Republique du Cameroun on 1st January, 1960 and the United Nations flag for the UNO State of Cameroon on 1st June, 2010 in Yaounde by Ban Ki Moon, United Nations' Secretary General.

Even though Globaltimes quotes an overwhelming majority of Southern Cameroonians as complaining that they are being greatly discriminated against, marginalized and treated as second class citizens in Cameroon, it adds, however, that available evidence shows a huge reluctance on the part of Anglophones in juicy positions to take up the gauntlet.

Sylvanus Ezieh

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