UNDP Endorses SCNC Ideology

The Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) which is shunned by Cameroon government and some political parties in the country, has at last, been embraced and revered by the second largest opposition party in the country, the National Union for Democracy and Progress (UNDP).

In a training seminar for voter registration in Bamenda on November 23, 2012, a former Minister cum member of Central Committee of the National Union for Democracy and Progress (UNDP), Maidadi Saidou Yaya, stressed that SCNC is right when its activists like Mola Njoh Litumbe et al opin that the marriage between Cameroon’s Anglophones and Francophones has completely failed "given that it’s more or less a concubinage marriage or come we stay marriage". He said both the Amadou Ahidjo and Biya’s regimes have failed to right the wrongs to ensure a peaceful and united Cameroon "by making the Anglophone and Francophone marriage ticks ensuring that no partner shows supremacy over another".

Observing that Cameroon’s Anglophone sector has been neglected over the years, Maidadi said that triggered SCNC activists to start gunning for the complete cut of the Anglophones from the Francophones.

According to Maidadi, things will certainly work if the Anglophones join the Grand North. After all, he said, it was a Garoua man, late Amadou Ahidjo, and a Bamenda man late John Ngu Foncha, who initiated the Foumban Conference years ago. He emphasized that Yaounde is not the political capital of Cameroon as many people are made to understand.

According to Maidadi, Yaounde is only the administrative capital of Cameroon as Garoua is the political capital of the Francophone sector of Cameroon and Bamenda the political capital of Anglophone sector, while Douala remains the economic capital of Cameroon.

Harping on election rigging or thievery of the CPDM regime, Maidadi disclosed that the so-called, ruling CPDM party in Cameroon would have been beaten pants down in most elections but for persistent rigging. He said when he was still in the SDF party, the SDF won a council even in Garoua but because the then Minister of State hailed from that region, SDF Victory was handed to the CPDM party like it’s done else where across the country for the CPDM party’s hegemony to continue. "And so I buy the SCNC idea that the marriage between Anglophones and Francophones must be reviewed".

Maidadi was in the company of the National President of YUNDP, Ndansi Elvis Nukam, and a host of central committee and national advisory council members in the like of Saar Pierre, Forchiveur Amidou, Abubaka Gari, Chakem Clothere, Inna Maginatou, Ngum Neba, Ngala George and Dr. Nkwenti Joseph among others.

Ndansi Elvis was coronated, "Tamfu", by the Wimbum warriors society (Nfuh) of Bamenda, who hailed UNDP for electing one of theirs as the National President of YUNDP.