Anglophone marginalization protest imminent

Bertin Kisob, initiator of the Biya-Must-Go movement, has vowed to stage a sit-in protest at Poste Centrale roundabout in Yaoundé against all odds, to protest poor governance and Anglophones marginalization in Cameroon.

While stating in a press release that the Biya regime must go because it is old, incompetent and unproductive, Kisob said that there is an “institutionalized marginalization of Anglophones in Cameroon.”

Kisob, notorious for being a crusader against the Biya regime, has also made himself an Anglophone activist, arguing that “since we joined our French speaking brothers in good faith, they promised a lot but never fulfilled them. I don’t think Foncha, Muna and others of blessed memory will contradict me here. Worst still, this government has a very bad habit of ignoring you when they get what they want from you.”

Explaining the reasons for his planned sit-in on July 29, Kisob who is also National Chairman of the Bamenda-based Cameroon Party for Social Justice, CPSJ political party, said the current regime’s policies and system of governance cannot move the country forward.

“Even their master, France, is only doing well because it is still exploiting many of its former colonies.” He said.

Talking about his personal experiences with the government which threw out his candidature for President in the 2011 presidential elections, Kisob insists “there is no agreement you can have with them that will stand the test of time. They have no gentlemanly way of life where a word given stands for ever. They increase taxes, prices of fuel and basic commodities at will without any justification.”

The politician, who is equally a coordinator of a church in Bamenda, says he is determined to die for the cause. He said he knows he might be arrested and given the same treatment that was given to La Piro de Mbanga, but said the “useless slogan of the force of argument and not the argument of force” propagated by the Southern Cameroon’s National Council, SCNC, is a chicken idea.