SCNC employs petroleum price hikes to hype Ayamba’s funeral

Members of the secessionist Southern Cameroon National Council, SCNC, in Kumba have resorted to using the new prices of petroleum products as a marketing tool to win back lost sympathisers for the funeral of its National Chairman Chief Ayamba Otun, billed for July 26 and 27 in Manyu Southwest Region.

In public debates and even quarrels , the activists use the increase in the price of petroleum products announced Monday, June 30, by the Biya regime to convince sympathisers that, the future of the Anglophone polity lies in keeping “the dream of Ayamba” alive.

The activists, most of whom included youths involved in bike riding claimed that, the new prices of petroleum products means nothing to them at a moment when they are mourning their National Chairman.

They argue that instead of contemplating actions that could disturb public peace and stability, energy should be geared towards marketing the SCNC gospel.

Those targeted remain people who seem to be at variance with Governments’ decision to increase the price of petroleum products and are ready to make public their dissatisfaction.

Speaking to The Post in the early hours of Tuesday July 1, one of the activists who refused to be named told The Post that, arrangements are underway for four seventy-seater capacity buses to transport mourners to Ayamba’s funeral.

The activists stated that, all the “sons and daughters” of the deceased SCNC leader from Buea, Tiko, Muyuka and Kumba are going to be travelling in a group to honour their leader.

Quizzed on why the use of the increase of petroleum prices as a hype mechanism to get more people travel to Manyu, the activists replied that in issues of politics, topics that appeal to the majority have proved their salability over time.

Another activist, who identified himself as Jerome Nzougwe declared that “petrol or no petrol, we are going to give our National Chairman a befitting burial that equates what goes with the death of a national hero and so all we are telling the people is think about tomorrow and not the new prices of petrol."

Before the announcement of the increase in the prices of petroleum products and cooking gas, the activists in the economic hub of the Southwest Region had been holding a series of coordinating meetings focused on the burial of Chief Ayamba.