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Peter Ngufor in culturally dressed while in Zanzibar
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Bamenda based business magnet,
patriot, peace promoter and farmer Peter Ngufor has literary given a standing
ovation to the President of the Republic Paul Biya for discontinuing the
proceedings before the Yaounde Military Tribunal against some Anglophones
arrested in relation to the violence committed in recent months in the North West
and South West Regions.
Reacting to the Wednesday August
30, 2017 decision made public by the Minister Secretary General of the
Presidency of the Republic Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh at his Mile 3 Nkwen Farmers
House Office, Pa Ngufor as he is fondly called praised the move saying “it was
a big relief! I was very happy indeed.” Acknowledging his personal knowledge of
the president he noted “I have personally known President Biya and I know that
he is a gentleman of all order and I know that if you advise him well he will
take it and do it.”
According to the business magnet
“it is true that he delayed a little bit but all the same I was confident that
he was going to come out at last. The events of Wednesday evening came as a big
boomerang and we are all very happy and I have a strong feeling that school
resumption will start very well with no hitch and in the release he mentioned
that apart from this measure others will follow like discussions and trying to
find out ways and means to solve the Anglophone crisis once and for all. I
think it is a very good step and we should not always be pessimistic! We should
always have confidence and the Cameroon nation has a very big potential as a
united people not as divided people so we should give the authorities a chance
and hopes that all the problems will be solved eventually. ”
To those who consider the gesture
a weakness on the part of the President Peter Ngufor was categorical; “any
leader that sticks to a point even though unreasonable it shows weakness! The President
has really showed his strength in this decision. He has also shown that he is
the father of the nation apart from being president. So we all congratulate him
that he has done a very good thing that will go a long way to galvanise the
state of Cameroon.”
As to the impact of the decision
on school resumption, the very well established farmer expressed hope saying “I
have a very good degree of confidence and I wish that we should not exaggerate
because the president has really shown good faith! For once we should give him
a chance and the school should resume while we continue with the discussions.”
With the coming of the decision,
Pa Ngufor also expressed hope that business persons in the city will begin the
distribution of books and other school related items in a bid to accompany the
school resumption process. “I am confident that the school year will not be
perturbed and the school, the book sellers should have confidence. We don’t
think the president will stop there. He has already made a good gesture which I
appreciate personally and I have confidence that everything will be
regularised.”
Historically according to Peter
Ngufor , the current crisis started long away with former President Amadou
Ahijo. Hear him “this crisis we keep forgetting started with President Ahijo.
He is the one who destroyed the foundation of this country. I will say this
over and over. Well at the time he thought he was being smart; you are not
smart with the life of a nation. This nation at the time we were already 12 or
14 million people; you don’t joke with a population of 14million. If I blame
him it is because he mistook the reunification for victory. He did not conquer
west Cameroon but from his behaviour. He wanted to make it look like he had
conquered the West Cameroon and it is not true. I have evidence.” He recalled
his experience in Buea when late President Ahijo and Late President Omar Bongo for
an event he describes as reception of “conquerors.”
On the form of state, Pa Ngufor
cited the successful USA and proposed that he thinks ten autonomous states with
elected governors will be ideal for Cameroon. “in Cameroon we can still have a
central government with ten autonomous regional state. That does not cause any
harm; rather it re-enforces that strength of the nation.”
On the way forward he added “my
message is more to the Musongue Commission. They have an uphill task. They have
to go to the population! They have to lay the foundation of this nation!
Foumban was the destructive phase of Cameroon. Once you clear Foumban you are
left with what prevailed before Foumban and that is where the Musongue
Commission is supposed to duel seriously. I count very much on the Musongue
Commission and I think that if you bring in any proposal that is sound to Biya
he will implement it. So I think since he appointed the Mosungue commission, I
have a strong feeling that once they come with their results and findings, he
is going to implement it and after the implementation of the Mosungue findings,
I think Cameroon will be a firm, sincere and solid nation. In fact I am waiting
for the Mosungue Commission.”
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