Brice Nintcheu,warns of mass resistance should Professor Maurice Kamto be excluded from the October 12 presidential elections
By The Editorial Desk 26 July 2025
This week, the Cameroonian political diaspora—long detached from the brutal realities on the ground—has reawakened to the dictatorship it once accommodated. Brice Nitcheu, president of CODE (Collective of Democratic and Patriotic Organizations of Cameroonian Diaspora), issued a fiery letter to the diplomatic corps, warning of mass resistance should Professor Maurice Kamto be excluded from the October 12 presidential elections in La République du Cameroun.
Suddenly, we are told that Cameroon is in crisis. Suddenly, there is talk of international law, electoral justice, and sovereign rights. But to Ambazonians, this performance is not just late—it is hollow.
Where was CODE when entire villages in Ambazonia were reduced to ashes?
Where was this urgency when schoolchildren were slaughtered, journalists jailed, and over one million of our people forced into exile?
Where was Professor Kamto—brilliant jurist though he may be—when the 2018 bloodbath in Menka-Pinyin shocked the world?
Let us not forget: Kamto’s party, the MRC, has never acknowledged Ambazonia’s legitimate right to self-determination. It has never challenged the fraudulent foundation on which Cameroon’s so-called unity rests. Instead, it positioned itself as a cleaner, gentler heir to the colonial project—offering reform where rupture was required.
And now, having fallen victim to the same state machinery he once rationalized, Kamto’s camp sounds the alarm. But justice is not a fire extinguisher pulled only when your house is in flames. The truth is that many who now cry foul helped pour gasoline when Ambazonians were burning.
From the editorial desk, we are neither bitter nor vindictive. But we are clear:
Ambazonia is not part of the Republic of Cameroon. It never was. It never will be.
We were a UN Trust Territory under British administration, with no treaty of union binding us to French Cameroun. The so-called federation of 1961 was a deception. The 1972 referendum that dissolved it was a coup. And the last 60 years have been a slow genocide masked as nation-building.
The government of Ambazonia, under President Dr. Samuel Ikome Sako, has reaffirmed the nation’s position:
“No election organized by the Republic of Cameroon will be tolerated on Ambazonian soil. The destiny of our people will not be determined by the ballot box of our oppressor but through a negotiated separation, international mediation, and lawful decolonization.”
To our friends in the diplomatic community:
Do not be distracted by intra-colonial disputes. The crisis in Cameroon did not begin with Kamto’s exclusion, nor will it end with his reinstatement. The core issue remains the illegal occupation of Ambazonian territory, the denial of our national rights, and the complicity of international actors who continue to pretend otherwise.
To CODE and its allies:
You are now reaping the whirlwind of silence. While we wish no harm to your movement or its leaders, we remind you that justice—true justice—is indivisible. We invite you not just to condemn electoral fraud, but to confront the foundational fraud of 1961. Until then, your protest will ring hollow to a people who have endured far worse for far longer.
We are not amused by the current spectacle. We are not distracted. We are building a nation—and the reckoning has only just begun.
Editorial Team
The Independentist
Buea—Boston—Brussels
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