ANGLOPHONE PROBLEM: BIYA FEELS MORE HIT FROM THE CONSORTIUM... AS IT GET MORE TOUGH

The interim leaders of theCameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortiumhave dismissed reports over state radio and television calling off the strike. The leaders say, the government succeeded in gettingsignatures of some insignificant members of one of the teachers’ trade unions and claimed that the Consortium had agreed to stop the strikes and the civil disobedience campaign. The leaders have announced a ghost town operation for Monday and maintained that all schools should remain closed.Inside sources deep within the Consortium hinted our Buea undercover reporter that it is the people’s revolution and only the detained leaders have legitimate authority to call off the strikes. TheCameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortiumis pushing for a highly publicized sit-in civil disobedience on the 11thof February.  Approximately eight teachers met with CPDM agents from Yaoundé and traded their signatures for blood money.The Consortium maintains that the Francophone government has been ineffective and biased because it is tied to Anglophone political elites who are not the genuine representatives of Southern Cameroonians. The leaders of theCameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium,who began the sit-in action in 2016, said that since no progress has been made schoolswill not resume until a proper agreement is reach between the Francophone political elites and the people of Southern Cameroons.The interim leaders noted that they were pleased with the SouthWest reaction against the Buea Musonge meeting that attemptedto invoke the North West/South West Divide tactics.  Southern Cameroonians have held rallies in major cities in the West to generate support for the struggleand the West Cameroon cause, attracting thousands to the resistance.Biya is reportedly feeling the pressure and is now taking the issue a lot more seriously. During a ceremony held in honour of the 4 senior army officials who died when their helicopter crashed in the Far North region, the 83 year-old leader appealed for unity.