REPLY TO NTEMFAC OFEGE ON THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS

REPLY TO NTEMFAC OFEGE ON THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS

In response to my post entitled: WHAT BIYA SHOULD DO NOW, Ntemfac Ofege reacted as follow:

“Dear Mr Tikum Mbah Azonga: How absurd!

The RIGHT of the good peoples of the Southern Cameroons to self determination is not and will never be Mr Biya's to decide.

You have been told this in not so many words.’’
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You can read my original post to which Ntemfac reacted by following the link below

http://www.tmazonga.blogspot.com/2014/03/what-biya-should-do-now.html

MY RESPONSE TO NTEMFAC OFEGE

“Thanks, Ntemfac. But the fight to which you claim to be committed cannot be fought - let alone won – here on the internet.  From the way you are going about the fight, you seem to be erroneously emphasizing three points: 1. Talk, 2. Talk, and 3.Talk. No action. You quote constitutions and the law and the UN. You preach and pontificate and weep. But nothing changes.

 Power is never handed to anyone on a platter of gold. It is fought for and "captured". That`s why the German “Iron” Chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck once said,

"The great questions of the day shall be determined not by speeches and resolutions, but by blood and iron!"

But you are doing is talking and standing still. There is a saying that anyone who goes to war should not start counting the number of dead people, in order not to be discouraged. You are frightened of what may happen. That is why you have not ventured forward. You are not yet at the war front. So what will happen when you hear the first shot?

The famous writer, Mark Twain, once said: “Everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it”. And that`s true because we always blame the “bad” weather   but do not go the extra mile – we do not go out of our way - to make it better.

I am sure you remember the anecdotal story about the cat that terrorized the mice in a house. One day all the mice held a meeting and after brainstorming, they agreed that the best way to stop  the cat was to tie a bell around its neck so that when they hear the bell, they will know it is coming  and take cover. It was a brilliant idea, unanimously voted for. When it now came to who would be bold enough to tie the bell around the neck of the cat, no one was willing!

You have made a lot of noises about the Southern Cameroons in the last fifty three (or fifty, depending on which you prefer) without doing anything about it. You will make the same noises for the next fifty years. In the meantime, grass will grow under your feet.

I know and believe there is an Anglophone problem which must be solved. But I do not buy the idea of the Southern Cameroons. I believe that we can solve the problem “within the house”, like the SDF Chairman and his party are attempting to do. This country is mine and I refuse to forfeit it to anybody. Nobody has greater rights to it that me.

Besides, the great statesman, Solomon Tandeng Muna once said” people come and go but the nation remains.