Dear Editor,
I write to share my appraisal of your editorial of Monday , 11August 2025, that peddled the idea of installing a Vice President in a foreign country to represent Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia). That can only be a scam, intended for the exploitation of our resources.
For the International Community to listen to such a lie, is dishonesty and another betrayal.
Since 2017, when the destroyed government of Southern Cameroons was restored and Independence declared, our message to the Republic of Cameroun, their master, their proxies and the International Community has been the full restoration of the statehood and recognition of Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), and stop the annexation by the Republic of Cameroun.
A call that upholds International Law by revisiting the UN proceedings of 1961,in relationship to the decolonization of Southern Cameroons and correct the mistakes made.
People do not give up their independence for the post of a so-called vice president in another country.
This has got nothing to do with the famous Resolution 1608 of the GA of United Nations of April 1961. it was not the post of vice president that the United Nation deliberated and voted on in 1961.
The never-again generation of Southern Cameroonians are smarter. Let the International Community keep listening to lies and manipulations from Yaounde and their proxies, but let them know that Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) is not giving up their Independence struggle.
How comprehensible is it to believe that Ambazonia can lose more than 60,000 lives and counting , hundreds of villages burnt, millions displaced, tens of thousands of refugees, and imprisoned leaders, Forced disappearances and much more, for a mere post of Prime Minister in some other country?.
This can only be distraction and a delayance of justice.
Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) informs the Republic of Cameroon and the International Community that she is aware of such distractions, betrayals, manipulations, and injustices, she is not postponing what was started in 2017.
Sincerely yours Anonymous
Rebuttal/Response
Dear Anonymous,
Thank you for your thoughtful and passionate response to our editorial of Monday, 11 August 2025. Your points are not only valid but resonate deeply with the lived experience and historical memory of Southern Cameroonians who have borne the brunt of the ongoing crisis.
You are correct that the post of a “Vice President” in the Republic of Cameroon is not only irrelevant to Resolution 1608 (XV) of the United Nations General Assembly of 21 April 1961 but also alien to the legal and political context of the decolonization process. Resolution 1608 did not envisage Southern Cameroons surrendering its sovereignty for a token administrative title under another state. Instead, it outlined a clear, three-step process culminating in a treaty of union — a step that never occurred.
Your point that no nation sacrifices its independence, its people, and its right to self-determination for a mere subordinate office elsewhere is historically sound. The cost of the Ambazonian struggle since 2017 — the loss of more than 60,000 lives, the destruction of over 400 villages, the displacement of millions, and the imprisonment or forced disappearance of countless others — underscores that the core issue is not about titles but about the restoration of a wrongfully interrupted sovereignty.
If the international community continues to entertain narratives from Yaoundé that seek to reduce the Ambazonian cause to a bargaining chip for a vice presidency, it risks being complicit in prolonging injustice and undermining the very principles of international law it claims to uphold. As you have rightly said, the so-called “never-again” generation is alert to these distractions. The political consciousness within Southern Cameroons today is far beyond the level where symbolic positions can pacify or derail the demand for full recognition of independence.
That is why our editorial emphasised that representation without sovereignty is not progress — it is political cosmetics. The only path to genuine peace and justice is through an honest revisiting of the UN’s 1961 proceedings, an acknowledgment of the illegality of the ongoing annexation, and a mediated process that respects the will of the Southern Cameroonian people.
Your letter reinforces the message that our people’s resolve is not for sale, and that any international solution that ignores the fundamental right to statehood is neither credible nor sustainable.
Sincerely,
The Editor
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