The Unity Government Scam: Biya’s Latest Deceit and Why Ambazonia Was Right All Along

The future is already written: Ambazonia’s sovereignty is irreversible. Cameroun’s crisis cannot be solved by constitutional cosmetics. A broken union cannot be repaired by the same people who broke it. History has reached its verdict. Ambazonia was right. Ambazonia is right. Ambazonia will remain right.

By Kemita Ashu, Independentist Contributor

Suddenly, after forty-three years on the throne, the illegitimate regime in Yaoundé is calling for a “unity government,” a “national dialogue,” the drafting of a new constitution, and a fresh electoral code. To the untrained eye, this may look like reform. To anyone with a memory, it is pure trickery. It is the same old machinery of deceit that Paul Biya has used for decades to keep Cameroun trapped in authoritarian paralysis.

Let us be clear: this latest performance is not an act of repentance. It is not a moment of national renewal. It is not a democratic breakthrough. It is panic dressed as patriotism, and manipulation disguised as unity. Because the obvious question stands: Where was this urgency for constitutional reform for the last forty-three years? A Regime That Never Believed in Constitutional Rule. This sudden interest in a new constitution is not only suspicious; it is insulting.

From 1982 to 2025, Biya has amended, twisted, and weaponized every constitutional document placed before him. Constitutions in Cameroun have never been blueprints for governance. They have been tools for dictatorship. Here is the regime’s constitutional history in simple terms: 1961 federal constitution: dismantled. 1972 constitution: discarded. 1996 constitution: never implemented.
Countless amendments: used only to entrench Biya’s personal power.

For Biya, the constitution has always been a napkin—something to wipe his hands with after another feast of authoritarian indulgence. So why should anyone believe that after 43 years of constitutional contempt, he has suddenly discovered democratic conscience? This is not reform. It is the latest item in the arsenal of deception.

Biya’s Timing Exposes His Fear

If constitutional change were truly important to this regime, it would have happened long ago. Why not in 1984? When Biya unilaterally changed the name of the state and broke the federation? Why not in 1996? When he promulgated a constitution he never intended to implement? Why not in 2008? When he abolished term limits to secure life presidency? Why not in 2018? When the Anglophone war escalated into a national crisis?

Why now?

The answer is simple. Because the regime is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. The economy is crumbling. The population is disillusioned. The international community is watching. The military is overstretched. The succession battle is tearing the inner circle apart. And Ambazonia’s resistance has become irreversible. A dying regime always pretends to seek unity.

The “Unity Government” Is a Trap

Calling for a unity government after decades of refusing unity is not a political gesture. It is a trap. For 43 years: Yaoundé ruled by decree. Ignored all constitutional obligations. Arrested political opponents. Rigged every election. Silenced every dissenting voice. And militarized every region. Now the same regime expects the people to believe it wants shared governance? What exactly has changed? Nothing—except their desperation. A unity government under an illegitimate regime is not unity. It is an attempted co-option of the oppressed, so that the dictatorship can die slowly instead of immediately.

Ambazonia Was Right From the Onset

The Ambazonian people saw through this decades before the rest of Cameroun. This is why Ambazonia demanded self-determination. This is why Ambazonia rejected fake dialogue. This is why Ambazonia refused cosmetic reforms. This is why Ambazonia insisted that a people cannot negotiate their lives with a system built on lies. From the onset, Ambazonians understood the foundational facts:

The so-called union of 1961 was never completed.
There is no treaty of union. There is no legal foundation. Ambazonia is not breaking away. It was never lawfully joined. Every constitution since independence has been a betrayal of federalism.
Ambazonia was promised equal partnership. Yaoundé imposed domination. The root problem is structural, not electoral. You cannot fix a fraudulent marriage by repainting the bedroom. No constitution drafted in Yaoundé can ever protect Ambazonians. The very architecture of the state is built on assimilation and predation.

Self-determination is the only path consistent with history, law, and justice.

Ambazonia said this long before the 2016 uprising, long before villages burned, long before the world woke up to genocide-level abuses. And Ambazonia was mocked for it. Now, as Yaoundé scrambles for legitimacy, the truth stands tall: Ambazonia was right from the beginning. The Regime Wants to Reset the Clock. Ambazonia Will Not.

Biya’s last-minute constitutional theatrics are a desperate attempt to regain control of a narrative he lost years ago. Cameroun’s political crisis is not a drafting problem. It is a legitimacy problem. And legitimacy cannot be manufactured through another round of lies. Ambazonia will not participate in the burial ceremony of a failed state.
Ambazonia will not be co-opted into a unity project designed to cover a dictatorship’s nakedness.
Ambazonia has no obligation to save a system that has spent decades destroying it.

The future is already written: Ambazonia’s sovereignty is irreversible. Cameroun’s crisis cannot be solved by constitutional cosmetics. A broken union cannot be repaired by the same people who broke it. History has reached its verdict. Ambazonia was right. Ambazonia is right. Ambazonia will remain right. And no last-minute constitutional performance from Yaoundé will change that truth.

Kemita Ashu,