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AMBAZONIA GOVERNING COUNCIL
BUEA, FAKO COUNTY
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF AMBAZONIA
Email: [email protected] I www.ambazoniagc.org
Press Release No: AGC/SF0821
DATE: 08/21/2017
On the AGC Working Relationship in/with SCACUF and the Recent Attacks on the
Address of the Commander-in-Chief of the AGC by SCACUF South Africa and on
Southern Cameroons Broadcasting Corporation (SCBC)
In the last week, the AGC has received questions from some members of the public on whether
the AGC is a constituent member of SCACUF and is still working with SCACUF. Today, the
AGC leadership has also received a significant number of concerns from members of the public
on a Press Release from SCACUF South Africa dated August 17, 2017, and recently on
commentaries by Mr. Sama Raymond on SCBC on August 20, 2017, that attacked the public
address made on Monday, August 14, 2017, by the Commander-in-Chief of the AGC, Comrade
Cho Ayaba. The one statement of interest delivered in less than fifteen seconds in an over
twenty-five minutes address relates to Comrade Cho Ayaba specifically asking Ambazonia
Missions that if it be possible, let the strongholds of La Republique du Cameroun that serve as
their hiding place and locations for plotting the continuous abductions and killings of our people
anywhere in the world, and abducting Ambazonians arriving at Airports in Douala and Yaoundé
with impunity, while deceiving the international community that all is well in our homeland, be
pulled down. We believe that these two issues are interrelated and we have determined it
necessary to provide official information and clarification from the AGC to the Ambazonian
public.
On the Relationship between AGC and SCACUF
1. SCACUF Constituent Membership
The AGC is a founding member of SCACUF amongst six other movements. The AGC approved
the creation of SCACUF with the conviction that unity is necessary, even in our diversity, to
prosecute the case for our freedom both in the homeland and in the international community. The
AGC was and remains party to this unity, conscious that ideologies and methodologies of the
different constituent movements and the Ambazonia people at large on the attainment of our
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independence will always differ because human beings, even as identical twins, are by their
nature different. However, through consensus building, a true and solid unity platform in our
diversity can be achieved and sustained with our common focus being an end to the occupation
of our homeland once and for all by La Republique du Cameroun and her acolytes who seek our
destruction and extinction. The AGC embraced SCACUF fully aware that with this diversity,
uniformity in all things will be an illusion because it will require the silencing of dissent, the
refusal to listen to the views of others, and a dictatorship that would easily cause the constituent
movements to depart the unity platform.
Nevertheless, through an agreed upon functional framework, trust (likely to be built with time),
avoidance of insincere political schemes, and consensus building as the history of other freedom
fighting organizations with different constituent autonomous entities, such as the African
National Congress (ANC) in South Africa, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in
Palestine, the European Union, the African Union and the United Nations, we will work together
for the common good. In this regard, the AGC remains committed to a truly solid unity platform
that will stand the test of time for our independence.
2. Building a Solid Unity Platform
The AGC is an abbreviation standing for “Ambazonia Governing Council”. It was not formed as
such after SCACUF created a Governing Council at its Third Conclave a few weeks ago; it has
rather always existed as such from its creation. It was formed over five years ago by founders
with membership in the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), Southern Cameroons
Youth League (SCYL), and Southern Cameroons Liberation Army (SCLA). These members
assessed why the Ambazonia independence had not come to fruition after many years. They
decided that a comprehensive methodology involving targeted diplomacy, community
mobilization and self-defense in a unity platform in which they could function irrespective of
their individual movement affiliations was necessary to complete the work that will intensify the
Ambazonia freedom cause in all fronts. As such, they have built the AGC over the years into a
well-structured organization with revolutionary institutions of governance mindful of the
enormous task before it.
The experiences of these members of the different movements showed beyond reasonable doubt
that in the absence of a clear and agreed upon working framework reflected in a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) between the movements and the unity platform, and in the absence of
regulatory terms of reference of the platform itself that guide and check its actors and operations,
the platform eventually collapses in the short, medium or long term. History has shown that
where an agreement that defines the roles and responsibilities of each party with respect to the
collaborative effort of our independence project is lacking, the unity platform becomes
ephemeral.
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There have been multiple unity platforms and governments formed in this struggle in the past,
but they have either ended up leading to the creation of multiple other groups or the governments
have ended up collapsing because of lack of clear terms of reference such as MOUs and
regulatory frameworks consented to by the parties. The Memoranda of Understanding ratified by
the different constituent entities provide a foundation for eventually establishing the statutes of
the unity platform and its activities. The creation of SCNC and later SCYL from SCARM, and
the fate of the interim governments that were created by our respectable and renowned Prof.
Carlson Anyangwe, that formed by the great brains of our revolution such as Fon Gorji Dinka,
and that once led by a great soldier of this revolution, Dr. Ebenezer Akwanga, are cases in point.
With these considerations, the AGC in response to previous works in SCACUF, prepared and
submitted a Memorandum of Understanding to the Secretariat of SCACUF on June 1, 2017. This
MOU has since then never been brought up on a SCACUF agenda for discussion and ratification.
To ensure AGC’s full involvement and participation in SCACUF, Section 1.4 of this MOU, for
example, purports that “The AGC shall assign representatives, and SCACUF shall accept at least
one assignee of the AGC in each standing committee, including the Secretariat of SCACUF.
Whenever any bodies of SCACUF are setup with representation from other movements, AGC
shall be equally represented in the bodies…” This is representative participation necessary for
consensus building to cement and solidify our unity platform. Furthermore, nowhere in that
MOU does the AGC suggest that the helm of SCACUF shall be reserved to the Commander-in-
Chief of the AGC, Comrade Cho Ayaba. This is because the AGC believes and knows that it is
the duty of the constituent movements that created SCACUF, to convene in a free and fair,
honest and transparent process to choose their leader. The Ambazonia Governing Council (AGC)
still awaiting when SCACUF will bring up the MOU for discussion with the AGC and
ratification.
3. Recent Action
The AGC is aware that one of the reasons that caused MoRISC Global under the leadership of
Comrade Boh Herbert to depart SCACUF was the non-ratification of the MOU that MoRISC
Global submitted to SCACUF. The AGC is aware that just as no one is being paid in the AGC
for the work being done for the freedom of our homeland, no one is being remunerated in
SCACUF too, except otherwise. Therefore, certain ordinary delays can be expected. Conscious
that the neglect of MOUs can lead to such progressive destruction of our unity, the AGC after
waiting for more than two months without receiving any feedback from the SCACUF
Secretariat, and after observing procedural issues that could tear us apart such as the exchanges
between Mr. Tassang Wilfred and Mr. Milan Atam after the Third Conclave, including therein
the revelation from Mr. Milan of a “connivance” plot before the conclave to destroy AGC, the
AGC has rather again taken the first step to engage SCACUF Leadership and to resolve the
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issues of operations in SCACUF that keep arising because of the absence of a regulatory
framework on which actors or officials in SCACUF function.
Thus, on August 6, 2017, AGC wrote to Mr. Sisiku Julius Ayuk, Chairman of the SCACUF
Governing Council, pointing out the issues that are/were hampering unity and destroying the
platform, and asking for two things to be done swiftly to lay a solid unity foundation, build and
cement working relationships, and resolve the issues: (1) a meeting of the leaders that created
SCACUF be convened to examine and resolve the prevailing issues, and consequently fortify the
commitment of constituent movements to the unity platform; and (2) the MOU submitted by the
AGC to SCACUF, intended to establish a clear framework of working relations in and with
SCACUF so as to avoid conflicts in future be brought up for discussion and ratification.
It is our understanding that SCACUF has set up a committee led by the tireless freedom fighter,
Dr. Nfor Ngalla Nfor, to examine these issues. We are not yet aware whether there is a working
timeline for this Committee. We look forward to timely and fruitful work from it, and discussion
and ratification of the MOU, so that all constituent movements can then proceed with working
together to establish a clear consensual regulatory framework for SCACUF. We expect that for
the Ambazonia people to hold each movement to account tomorrow, each movement should
ratify the agreed upon regulatory terms of reference, and all officials should respect them. In the
absence of these things, the unity platform will remain at the whims and caprices of a few
individuals who will manipulate others and the public in ways that will crumble the platform in
future, create a significant problem for the struggle as it intensifies, and be a waste of time that
would have otherwise been devoted to other things that could have moved the revolution in the
favor of Ambazonians.
Attack on the Commander-in-Chief of the AGC’s Address by SCACUF South Africa and
on SCBC
We observed, although not totally dismayed, that SCACUF South Africa on August 17, 2017,
followed by a program by Mr. Sama Raymond in South Africa on SCBC on August 20, 2017,
launched attacks on the Commander-in-Chief of the AGC, Comrade Cho Ayaba, for calling on
the BlockbyBlock forces at his command to bring down structures that serve as hiding places and
venues of plotting the murdering of Ambazonians at home and abroad, and the plundering of our
land by the Yaoundé colonial regime and her acolytes. The AGC worldwide wants to state
unequivocally that it stands by the words of its Council leader. We want to reiterate that we are
not afraid of anyone, not when it comes to defeating La Republique du Cameroun and chasing
her out of our homeland. If our people cannot have peace in the homeland, La Republique du
Cameroun will have no peace abroad. We are not afraid to go to jail for our freedom; Nelson
Mandela, a South African, was in it for twenty-seven years as a freedom fighter, was labelled a
terrorist for bringing down structural strongholds of apartheid after the ANC formed a military
wing, and was later given the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. We are not afraid to do same unto
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death, if death be the price we must pay for the freedom of the generation to come after us.
Centers of evil do not stand before freedom fighters and they get into sweet talking and
sympathy with their rapist and killer.
Is it not hypocrisy for anyone to claim he or she is asking those in the homeland to take down
structures of the occupier while the same persons abroad are afraid to even utter words of
toughness or do the same things they are asking those at home to do, simply because they want
to secure their lives of comfort abroad while those at home are in bunkers and dungeons of
Yaoundé? Is it not hypocrisy that while great soldiers of the revolution such as Mr. Chris Anu of
the Cameroon Journal have put out multiple audio recordings calling for the burning of tankers
that the occupier uses to transport our resources, makes money from them, and then uses the
money to purchase ammunition to kill our people on the streets, and these same frights filled
men have never attacked Mr. Anu, yet they waste hours attacking Comrade Ayaba? Is it not
hypocrisy that the same people who claim they tell our friends and families to hold on to the
battle and fight hard for freedom at home were nowhere near the “house of evil” in South Africa
when some brave Ambazonians were on the phone asking for resistance directives from
Comrade Ayaba to tear down the gates, and successfully chased the abductors of our people
away?
Fellow brothers, we understand you said those words might put the diplomatic gains you have
made at risk. Perhaps, you can send the names of the countries and institutions to us with whom
you have sealed the diplomatic victories, if they exist, and we will reach out to them and accept
responsibility for our utterances in a bid to safeguard those diplomatic gains that we really need
for our independence. To also safeguard your comfort, please, refer any officers that come
knocking at your doors to us and we will take responsibility for our toughness to free our
homeland. We also wish to assure you that we respect your free speech whether expressed on
paper or on TV; it is the beauty of the Ambazonia we seek to build, even if at this time it puts a
dent on the unity we purport to be custodians of.
Dear Sirs, the revolution requires brave men with tough minds that can look at evil and not be
intimidated. If those few words already make you afraid, we can only give you one advice
conscious that the days ahead will not be a walk in the park: Fasten your seatbelts!!
Sincerely
Edward Che – AGC SA
Deputy Chief of Communications
Ambazonia Governing Council (AGC)