Albert Camus writes that to name things wrongly is to add to the misfortunes of the world. Defining the independence in Africa is still a big problem. As of today, the definition of that term is not settled. Hence battles over semantic control, agenda setting, legal and ideological hegemony are useful for the understanding of socio-economic and political organization and ways in which ordinary people sign up into laws that subjected them to authoritarian power where statehood is a biopolitical experiment of plantation system as nation-state where the independence are now considered transition in modes of subjection.
In this new modes of subjection, the president replaces the colonial master and rights, while universal, are actually restricted to an entitled few which is the president and his close allies. Within this context, special privileges are restricted to the few and the prison system turns into a plantation system where domestic terrorism is not a state crime because the plantation is a state of exception where the law is suspended and practices at the whim of the master and his legal despotic associates who treat any forms of dissent as criminal activities because of lack of constitutionally protected free speech and assembly. Hence, no constitutionally protected activities besides the ones allow by the state. Thus, the prison system is a site where the «bad negroes» are sent to languish.
Thus, how the political power, in the name of fighting corruption, stages and re-stages legal judicial spectacles to deprive legitimate political opponents from participating in political election.
If the plantation master, Paul Biya, is a real “democrat” as he pretends to be: why does not he free his opponents and take the risk of confronting his political “competitors” and internal “adversaries” designated in transparent ballot boxes? There is no need to sequester them arbitrarily.
The CL2P has the reluctant duty to lift the veil over the true dictatorial nature of a regime which presents itself to the face of the world as a model of “appeased democracy.” In practice, “appeased democracy” is a democracy as long as Paul Biya keep winning elections which he has done for the past 34 years through rigged elections and the imprisonment of the political competitors. In responses to these repeated electoral hold ups, it is important, consequently, to keep in mind the legal despotism Paul Biya uses to systematically incarcerate his potential rivals Designated as “prevaricators of the public wealth”.
The CL2P recognizes that it is not always an easy exercise to work for human rights under a blast of propaganda orchestrated by the Cameroonian regime that naturalizes, minimizes and desensitizes ordinary Cameroonians and the world to its old tricks, deprivation of ordinary Cameroonian’s human rights and vicious opportunism.
Hence the CL2P continues to fight for human rights because silence is the worst sentence for a prisoner of conscience. It plays an important part in the trivialization of political crime, particularly in Cameroon.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
We invite you to always put names and faces behind the perfectly oiled political propaganda of the regime that has been in place in Cameroon for 34 years, especially when it claims to fight mercilessly against corruption with Kafkaesque trials, and arbitrary convictions (the famous trials with drawers).
FOR THE CL2P HERE ARE THE MAIN VICTIMS OF THE POLITICAL AND JUDICIAL ARBITRARY IN CAMEROON
1. Marafa HAMIDOU YAYA
2. Jean Marie ATANGANA MEBARA
3. Urbain OLANGUENA AWONO
4. Aboubakary SIDIKI
5. Polycarpe ABAH ABAH
6. Me Abdoulaye HARISSOU
7. Mohammed IYA
8. Zacchaëus FORJINDAM
9. Yves Michel FOTSO
http://cl2p.org/declaration-
10. Ahmed ABBA
http://cl2p.org/cameroun-
11. Chief Ephraïm INONI
THE ADDITIVE LIST OF ENGLISH-SPEAKING ACTIVISTS SEIZED BY THE POWER OF PAUL BIYA IN THE YAOUNDE DETENTION CENTERS, ALL CONSIDERED AS PRISONERS OF OPINION BY THE POLITICAL PRISONERS ‘RELEASE COMMITTEE (CL2P)
Here is the complete list of the defendants of the Anglophone crisis, according to the Network of Defenders of Human and Peoples Rights (REDHAC)
1 – Barrister Nkongho Felix Agbor Balla
2 – Justice Ayah Paul Abine
3 – Dr. Fontem Neba
4 – Mancho Che Bibixy
5 – Prof. Chia Ateh
6 – Barrister Abandem Walters
7 – Kuyase Leonard Sallan
8 – Aselacha Martin
9 – Ngwa Joseph Ngaling
10 – Awuh Tevence Ambe
11 – Munji Rolland
12 – Nkembu Chigum Anicet
13 – Njousi Abang David
14 – Tsi Conrad
15 – Moforchu Che Jea n Rene
16 – Awah Thomas Dzenyagha Junior
17 – Miclaksh Junior
18 – Yadomgheh Hillary
19 – Pang James Puh
20 – Sunjoh Dieudonne
21 – Ngembe Eugene
22 – Ngalim Felix Sateh
23 – Tah Emile Agwe
24 – Kiugah Valentine
25 – Levala Brian
26 – Awan Zacks
27 – Tangwa Marvin
28 – Awermo Joseph
29 – Yusinyu Gerald
30 – Tambu Cedric
31 – Ndasi Julius
32 – Mungou Priestly Azeh
33 – Manyaka Gaston
34 – Langgwa Justin Tardeznywy
35 – Vernyuy Clerance
36 – Wandong Enoh Moses
37 – Chiafo Richard
38 – Temi Clifford
39 – Tim Finnian
40 – Tatih Eric Ngu
41 – Alobwede Van Kinsly Same
42 – Tata Elvis
43 – Achomba Hans
44 – Bezeng Mervine Akwang
45 – Nkwenkam Momenkam Tite
46 – Veranso Steven
47 – Wakemba Esono
48 – Penn Terence Khan
49 – Ndzenyuy Elvis
50 – Ndenge Gordon Zama
51 – Fontem Neba Dieudonne
52 – Ngembe Eugene
53 – Livisone Fung
54 – AchUO Azang
55 – Hampel Azang
56 – Afuh Javes Ngourou
57 – Njuh Kingsley Kelly
58 – Mamouda Sule
59 – Kum Gerald Chuo
60 – Abang Modest Amih
61 – Tsu Itie Franck
62 – Ngong Solos Wallang
63 – Nasser Fontoh
64 – Ewi Alain Meeh
65 – Ten Josua Mua
66 – Kangsen Nestor Mbah
67 – Fung Marcel Mih
68 – Tibi Vingent Tebug
69 – Ngong Canisius
70 – Lunba Bruno Nkemta
71 – Achou Emmanuale Kum
The country of Cameroon is at a dangerous crossroads. It is time for moral clarity because old tricks won’t work tomorrow. As things stand today, Cameroon faces a darkening political future and the question of national unity is more pressing than never before. Paul Biya can help a lot by beginning to free political prisoners for a free and fair political competition.
The Commitee For The Release of Political Prisoners (CL2P)