Uchiba Nelson writes to the Editor of the Independentist Lamenting the deaths of Zachariah Abendong and Samuel Wazizi

Letter to the Editor

Zachariah Abendong & Samuel Wazizi: Two Illustrious Sons of Ngie Assassinated by Colonial La République du Cameroun

Sir,

The people of Ngie have given Cameroon and the world illustrious sons whose voices were silenced by the same colonial system that continues to oppress us today. Two names stand as enduring symbols of this injustice: Zachariah Abendong and Samuel Wazizi Ajeikiah.

The late Zachariah Abendong, who served as Secretary General of the KNDP under Dr. John Ngu Foncha, was assassinated in 1964 by colonial gendarmes of La République du Cameroun. His “crime” was daring to denounce the brutality of those very gendarmes in West Cameroon. For speaking truth to power, he paid with his life.

Decades later, another illustrious son of Ngie, Samuel Wazizi Ajeikiah—a gifted journalist and rising star—was brutally murdered in 2020 by the same machinery of repression. Reports allege that after his killing, his body was dissolved in acid to erase evidence. His death was not an accident of war but a deliberate act of terror against free expression.

It is heartbreaking, and indeed shameful, that some so-called sons and daughters of Ungiekum today celebrate the name of Zachariah Abendong while at the same time supporting the very system that murdered him, Wazizi, and countless other children of Ngie across Southern Cameroons. Their complicity is a betrayal of our martyrs and a stain upon the memory of our land.

May the blood of these illustrious sons of Ngie, and of all our children murdered by the barbaric and genocidal system of La République du Cameroun, speak against those in Ngie who defend and serve the interests of our oppressors. May those who continue to collaborate with this murderous regime know the pain and suffering that have scarred the families of our martyrs.

History will not absolve those who sell their conscience for crumbs while their own brothers and sisters lie in unmarked graves. The legacy of Abendong and Wazizi is a solemn reminder: freedom will never come from colonial La République. It will come from the steadfast struggle of Ambazonians and the courage to reject complicity.

Yours faithfully,
Uchiba Nelson