Millan Atam,the old story teller with a new story.
By: The Editorial Desk – The Independentist
July 16, 2025
INTRODUCTION: ANOTHER DIVERSION OR A PATH TO LIBERATION?
Once again, at a strategic moment in our liberation struggle, the ghosts of failed negotiations and fragmented loyalties rise from the ashes—this time in the form of the so-called Southern Cameroons Alliance, led by Millan Atam, a longtime associate of imprisoned leader Sisiku Ayuk Tabe. This group, which once distanced itself from the Swiss-led dialogue only to later embrace the flawed Canadian deception, now calls for an urgent mobilisation ahead of October’s presidential elections in La République du Cameroun.
The question we must ask is simple: Mobilisation for what purpose, and under whose command?
THE MESSAGE: POETIC WORDS, FATAL CONSEQUENCES
The invitation for the July 19 secret Zoom meeting, cloaked in revolutionary rhetoric, outlines a dramatic roadmap. It presents the Biya regime as bleeding, vulnerable, and on the verge of collapse—a perception we share. But it is what they propose to do with this opening that reveals their underlying motives and the dangerous path they are pushing Ambazonia toward.
Let’s analyse their proposed steps:
Rebuilding fragmented forces (with no accountability or coordination with the established Self-Defense Council of the Government)
Paying monthly stipends (without clear oversight or financial transparency)
Reactivating the “Another Look” platform (a shadow structure with no popular mandate)
Pushing a Somaliland scenario (a risky and premature assertion of independence without territory-wide control or international recognition)
These are not bad goals in themselves—until you realise they bypass the legitimate, elected Government, discredit existing institutions, and operate through secrecy and exclusion. The very essence of government-in-exile is accountability, structure, and the rule of law—principles this movement clearly undermines.
THE SOMALILAND ILLUSION: A MISTAKEN COMPARISON
To invoke Somaliland is to misunderstand Ambazonia’s reality. Somaliland emerged from a collapsed Somalia. Ambazonia is dealing with a genocidal occupier that still operates with the backing of France, the AU, and deceitful Commonwealth silence. Somaliland was a product of internal collapse; Ambazonia faces external colonial domination. We cannot substitute struggle with fantasy.
STRATEGIC CONFLICT WITH DR. SAKO’S VISION
Compare this with the vision and strategy articulated by President Dr. Samuel Ikome Sako:
Building legitimate governance with checks and balances through the House of Assembly and the Judiciary
Pursuing an aggressive diplomatic offensive with international partners and legal filings (e.g., to the ICC, ACHPR, and UN)
Dr. Sako’s vision is government; Atam’s strategy is a militia club with a political ego.
WHY THIS MATTERS FOR OCTOBER
Let’s be blunt: Any mobilisation that is not explicitly against participation in the October 2025 elections in La République du Cameroun is, by default, a step toward legitimising occupation. The “Somaliland Option” becomes a smokescreen for those unwilling to directly oppose the CPDM electoral machinery.
There is no mention in their plan of shutting down the elections in Ambazonia. There is no mention of Biya’s illegitimacy, no condemnation of the colonial constitution, no pushback against the CPDM’s genocidal campaign. That silence speaks volumes.
CONCLUSION: A CALL FOR CLARITY
Ambazonians must not be fooled by recycled voices offering recycled solutions in moments of crisis. The Southern Cameroons Alliance, by bypassing legitimate structures and evading electoral lockdown strategies, exposes itself as a vehicle for confusion—not liberation.
The Ambazonian people must ask: Where were these voices during our darkest hour? Why now? And why in secret?
The greatest danger to any liberation struggle is not the enemy’s strength, but the ally’s deception.
THE PEOPLES POSITION IS CLEAR:
Reject all shadow platforms that bypass the Government
Support October Lockdown and full disengagement from LRC’s electoral circus
Unite behind the Government-led diplomatic and ground strategy
Resist decentralised militia formation without oversight
Call out opportunistic leaders who reappear only when power seems within reach
Let us not follow shadows. Let us follow vision.
The Editorial Desk, The Independentist
