Thierry Marchand French ambassador to Cameroon and Acting President of LRC
From: Concerned Citizen of Ambazonia
To: His Excellency, the Ambassador of France to Cameroon
Sir,
As the Acting President of La République du Cameroun, What Do You Mean by Peace and Collaboration When Your Forces Profit from Oppression?
Monsieur l’Ambassadeur,
Monsieur le Président par intérim,
You speak of peace, of dialogue, and of collaboration—words that resonate well in the halls of diplomacy but ring hollow in the streets of Bamenda, Wum, Mamfe, and Mbengwi. You speak of peace while your police and gendarmerie transform our roads into toll booths of extortion, and your military into a mafia feeding fat on the suffering of our people.
Let us give you facts, not mere allegations.
From Bamenda town to Bamunka (Ndop area), there are at least 25 checkpoints. At each one, your uniformed men demand 1,000 FCFA per vehicle, often more. On average, 50 vehicles ply that route daily in both directions.
Let us do the math for you:
1,000 FCFA × 50 vehicles = 50,000 FCFA per checkpoint per day
50,000 FCFA × 25 checkpoints = 1,250,000 FCFA daily
1,250,000 FCFA × 5 days = 6,250,000 FCFA weekly
That is over six million francs CFA per week extorted from just one road.
From Bamenda to Wum: 13 more checkpoints.
In Bamenda town alone: more than 30 checkpoints.
Not to mention Mamfe, Mbengwi, Bali, and other areas—each plagued by similar criminal setups.
Your officers are not on peace missions. They are on profit missions. Many bribe to be posted to Bamenda because the extortion economy is lucrative. Some of your soldiers do not want the war to end—not because they love Cameroon, but because they love what they’re gaining behind the conflict.
And when our Ambazonian Self-Defense Forces (ASA) call for lockdowns or take action to restore dignity to our people, you label them terrorists—yet you protect and promote the real criminals in uniform.
Monsieur l’Ambassadeur, is this what you mean by “collaboration” with the people of the North West and South West regions?
Monsieur le Président, is this what your government calls state authority?
You both owe the people answers. Not slogans. Not spin. Not deception.
This letter is a warning, and a call. A call to every honest observer to witness the true face of what is happening in Ambazonia—a militarized extortion racket protected by diplomatic silence and international complicity.
Stop frustrating the decisions of the ASA. At the end of the day, it is La République’s military who benefit from the bloodshed, not the people.
Enough is enough.
May God have mercy on Ambazonia.
