By Mua Patrick Mughe in Yaounde
Well known international peace
advocate, Ntumfor Barrister Nico Halle who in January 2017 began clamouring for
general amnesty to be granted all individuals arrested and detained in the wake
of the ongoing Anglophone crisis has now emerged with yet another campaign, requesting
the head of state to urgently address the nation with focus on the current
atmosphere in the two English -speaking regions.
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In an interview granted The Cameroon Watch via telephone recently, Ntumfor Nico Halle who is also president of the
general assembly of the Cameroon Bar said he was also pleading with the head of
state to pardon all those still detention who were arrested in connection with
the ongoing crisis in the North West and South West regions.
The Douala-based legal expert of
international repute said by addressing the nation, the current tension in Anglophone
Cameroon is most likely to be abridged that will eventually pave the way for a frank
and honest dialogue.
“I am begging that as father of this nation,
let the head of state address the nation in general and North West and South
West regions in particular” Ntumfor who is also an election expert appealed
yesterday when contacted by The Cameroon Watch.
He later added that: “I have moved my
advocacy from just pleading that all Anglophone detainees be freed to
requesting the head of state to talk to his children as the father of the
nation because I believe that such an address from him as the father of the
nation will go a long way to deflate the current tension.”
He said once that is done “an
enabling environment will be created for an inclusive, objective, sustainable
and impartial dialogue to take place and that way the general amnesty he would
have granted will enable the Anglophones who have gone on exile to come back
and be part of the talks so that peace can return.”
“Cameroonians have learned a lesson
from this situation. Things can never be the same again. It is a fact that
Anglophones have been marginalised. It has been established that there is an
Anglophone problem. Anybody who says, there is no Anglophone problem is
dishonest, a hypocrite and should never be trusted” Ntumfor who last year
celebrated 30 years of legal practice added.
The Bar general Assembly boss who
headed the national bureau of the Christian Men Fellowship, CMF of the PCC for
several years then went to state that “As a peace crusader and one who has been fighting against moral decadence
in all its forms in the nation for more than 20 years, I have always condemned
in the hardest of terms any situation that is likely to compromise the peace
that Cameroon enjoys.”
He recounted that “it is for this
reason that late last year, when lawyers and students were molested by security
forces; I condemned it in the hardest of terms.”
“Some lawyers were tear gassed, some
were molested, others vandalised and brutalised, all of these, I did condemn
and I called for peace to return” Ntumfor recalled.
He said the lawyers were only expressing
their grievances in a very peaceful way as provided for by the constitution but
was taken aback by the violence attacks they suffered.
“Since some of them were arrested in
January and some on went on exile, I immediately started an advocacy otherwise
known as a crusade pleading on my knees, praying and appealing to the head of
state to grant general amnesty which is a form of pardon provided for by the constitution”
he narrated.
With regards to the head of state’s recent
decision to free some of the Anglophone detainees, Ntumfor said “Since August 30
when the head of state instructed that those arrested should be released, I
became very happy. Euphoria and ecstasy caught me but the next day when I heard
that not all the detainees were released, I decided that I will continue to be
on my knees and plead with the head of state that he grants pardon to all of
them.”
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