This reflection is inspired by the fact that when radical opposition SDF MP, Joseph Wirba took to the rostrum at the Ngoaekele Glass House and declared that ‘When injustice becomes a rule, resistance becomes a duty’, many thought he was only referring to the Anglophone resistance until last December 31, 2019, when during his state of the nation’s address, President Paul Biya almost reechoed same words as to the effect that if resistance in the two English speaking regions of Cameroon continue to become a duty, his speeches about government’s resolve of effective decentralisation and greater autonomy in Northwest and South West would become a rule.
It is the more informed by the fact that when in one of the two occasions, Hon. Joseph Wirba swore that the word ‘West Cameroon’ would never leave the lips of English speaking Cameroonians many thought it was only to end it Anglophones not knowing that it would soon become increasingly difficult for word ‘Anglophone Problem’to leave Biya’s lips each time he is addressing the nation or receiving foreign diplomats, or better still, contemplating traveling abroad.
It is also inspired by the fact that as the scales have fallen off the eyes of Yaounde authorities to realize that rather than melting, the two cubes of sugar have produced oceans of current, President Biya has quickly reawaken to the fact that unlike in Decembers of 2016 and 2017 where he declared authoritatively to the nation that the situation was under control in much the same way like that of Boko Haram in the Far North, things have continued to go out of hands in the Northwest and South West regions.
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