Mark Bareta’s new “Unity Front” is simply the collapse replayed — the same dysfunction that once destroyed the Consortium, dressed in a new robe. Ambazonia will not be dragged backward. The government is working. Diplomacy is gaining ground. The movement is rising. Bareta is repeating his past. Ambazonia is marching toward the dawn
By The Independentist news Desk
Mark Bareta has resurfaced once again — a familiar voice of confusion, improvisation, and institutional wreckage dressed as national leadership. His latest proclamation of a so-called “Southern Cameroons–Ambazonia United Front” is nothing more than recycled debris from past disasters. It is an attempt to present chaos as strategy, disorder as unity, and personal confusion as national direction.
But Ambazonians remember. We have seen this script before. And it ended in collapse — a collapse in which Mark Bareta played a defining role. To understand the emptiness of his latest fabrication, one must revisit the most revealing chapter of his political history: the rise and fall of the Consortium under his self-declared stewardship.
The Consortium Under Mark Bareta: The Rise, the Missteps, and the Disappearance
When the Consortium emerged as the intellectual and moral backbone of the liberation movement, its stature was undeniable. Led by respected figures such as Barrister Nkongho Felix Agbor-Balla, Dr Fontem Neba, and Tassang Wilfred, it commanded national respect and global legitimacy.
Then came the banning of the Consortium and the abduction of its leaders by the colonial regime. A vacuum opened. And into that vacuum stepped two online personalities: Tapang Ivo and Mark Bareta. They anointed themselves the “leadership of the Consortium in exile,” without any constitutional basis, institutional mandate, or endorsement from the detained leadership. And from that point, the slow death of the Consortium began.
The Transformation of the Consortium into a Social-Media Circus
Instead of safeguarding the Consortium’s diplomatic discipline, Bareta converted it into a noisy online theatre. He replaced: structured communication with personal rants, coordinated strategy with spontaneous emotion, diplomatic engagement with reactionary livestreams, institutional leadership with self-appointment. The Consortium, once a structured civil society institution, was reduced to a confused, improvised, unstable online platform. A body meant to guide a people became a Facebook bulletin board.
The “Restoration Day” Disaster
The clearest symbol of the Consortium’s collapse under Mark Bareta was the infamous “Restoration Day.” He announced it as: a decisive turning point, a historic step toward self-governance, a coordinated moment of national will, But when the day arrived, nothing happened., No structure., No coordination., No strategy., Only silence, confusion, and embarrassment. It was a national humiliation, and the Consortium never recovered from it.
An Institution With No Roadmap, No Committees, No Diplomacy
Ambazonians expected: a roadmap, functional committees, diplomatic missions, leadership continuity, institutional growth, Instead, they received: inconsistent broadcasts, emotional directives, shifting positions, zero diplomatic outreach, zero structural development. Mark Bareta did not lead the Consortium — he dismantled it.
The Implosion: Mark Bareta, Tapang Ivo, and the Death of the Consortium
Inevitably, ego clashes erupted between Mark Bareta and Tapang Ivo. Questions of authority tore the platform apart: Who speaks? Who controls messaging? Who chairs the struggle? Who decides strategy? A national institution became a personal quarrel. And like all structures built on ego, it collapsed into dust. The Consortium died not on the battlefield, not in diplomacy, but on Facebook. And the men responsible walked away without accountability or explanation.
Today that same Mark Bareta wants Ambazonians to trust yet another hurried invention. The Same Confusion Repackaged as “Unity”. In his latest message, Mark Bareta stumbles through claims about: breaking news, popular demand, unity endorsement, new councils, national areas, specialized committees, resurrected alliances. It is not statecraft. It is not governance. It is not unity. It is the same confusion that destroyed the Consortium, repackaged and renamed.
The Circle of Recycled Failures
Every time Ambazonia advances, the same collapsed actors reappear with new slogans and zero substance. Chris Anu, with imaginary transitions. Atam Millan, with hallucinated cabinets. Mike “Fuselage” Fusi, with T-shirt coups. Dr. Anthony Epah, with empty declarations. Elvis Kometa, with breakaway councils. Tapang Ivo, with vaporized command structures. And Mark Bareta, the master architect of inconsistency. Their pattern is predictable: Create a platform. Make noise. Gather the confused. Collapse. Rebrand. Repeat. Ambazonians know the cycle; it is older than the struggle itself.
Are These Men Running From Their Shadows — Or From a Functioning Government?
There is a deeper question Ambazonians must ask: Are these individuals simply running from their own shattered pasts, or are they running from the visible progress of the Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia under Dr Samuel Ikome Sako?
Under Dr Sako’s transformational leadership, the independence quest has been steered toward a clearer, more disciplined, and internationally respected trajectory. The growth in global awareness is not rhetoric; it is demonstrated through concrete diplomatic breakthroughs. Ambazonia’s plight has appeared in respected international outlets such as Newsweek, the influential Washington policy journal The Hill, and the United States military’s prominent publication Stars and Stripes, widely read across Pentagon circles and American defense communities.
These are not social-media achievements. These are state-level markers of rising legitimacy. These are milestones of structured diplomacy, not emotional improvisation. Can Mark Bareta claim such diplomatic relevance? Can Chris Anu? Can any of the recycled failures shouting from Facebook point to even a single instance where their noise reached policymakers in Washington or the defense establishment in the United States?
They cannot. And they know it. That is why they are louder. That is why they fabricate platforms. That is why they run in circles pretending to unify what they once helped scatter. They are running from their shadows — and from a government whose accomplishments expose their emptiness. Ambazonia Has Moved Beyond Their Level. The Federal Republic now operates on: functioning institutions, disciplined defense coordination, structured diplomacy, constitutional governance, strategic continuity, The struggle has matured. The people have matured. And the days of emotional activism are long gone. What Bareta is offering is not unity. It is nostalgia for confusion.
Final Verdict: The Collapse Has Returned, But Ambazonia Has Not
Mark Bareta’s new “Unity Front” is simply the collapse replayed — the same dysfunction that once destroyed the Consortium, dressed in a new robe. Ambazonia will not be dragged backward.The government is working. Diplomacy is gaining ground. The movement is rising. Mark Bareta is repeating his past. Ambazonia is marching toward the dawn.
The Independentist news Desk
