By
kum Bandolo
Security forces are said
to have intensified the search for SCNC activists following a gubernatorial warning
of a possible attack by the banned group’s radical activists.
The Governor of the South
West Region, Bernard Okalia Bilai recently alerte the new SDO for Fako Division,
Emmanuel Engamma Ledoux during the latter’s commissioning into office that
security reports indicate the SCNC are planning to attack Anglophone Regions,
in a bid to take back what they called their territory.
The Governor therefore implored
the new SDO to beef up security on the ports and main entrance from Nigeria,a neighboring
country, so as to check threates from those with links to the secessionist group cum
terrorist group.
The SCNC, which is fighting
for the independence of Southern Cameroons but is considered by the Cameroon
government as a terrorist group, was banned last January 17 in Cameroon, as the
Anglophone identity crisis worsens
Several SCNC leaders are
already in detention and are being prosecuted for fighting for the restoration
of the Independence of Southern Cameroon.
Prominent amongst them is
Oben Maxwel alongside four others who were arrested in Bamenda and Kumbo and
charged with acts of terrorism.
Worthy of note is the case of
a certain Ernest Nanje Sermobia who joined the SCNC since 2004.
Nanje Sermobia, an SCNC flyers distributor, was
reportedly picked-up in January 2014 in Muyuka, in the company of other activists
by security agents in mufti ,but Nanje Sermobia slipped off the hands of his captors. Since then his whereabouts is not known but
it is believed he must have fled to Nigeria, to join many other SCNC activists
there.
Mola Njoh Litumbe, another
lead activist for the independence of Southern Cameroons has often condemned
the deplorable conditions in which activists are kept in jail, insisting on the
respect of international human rights instruments, to which Cameroon is a
signatory.
The renewed search for SCNC
activists comes at a time when Anglophone Consortium leaders such as Abgor
Balla and Dr Fontem as well as Zama Gorden, SDF Limbe District Chairman, are
being prosecuted for terrorism charges.
Those charged with terrorism could face up to
25 years in prison or a death sentence.
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