Cardinal Tumi Bitter Truth about The Anglophone Problem

Cardinal Tumi Bitter Truth about The Foumban Conference: According to His Eminence Cardinal Christian Tumi, there has never been any reunification in Cameroon. The Cardinal also tells us that nothing will change in Cameroon with the current government.

In an interview granted to “ONG Un Monde Avenir and Lavoixdukoat.com” at his residence on Monday morning , August 21, 2017, His Eminence Christian Tumi summarized what happened in July 1961 in Foumban as follows”There has never been any marriage between British Cameroons and French Cameroon. They are living as concubines. ”

During the interview, the man of God who was ordained bishop in 1980 said : “They signed nothing at Foumban. Prime Minister John Ngu Foncha (who was a former Catholic teacher) did not have the power to negotiate, because Cameroon was under the tutelage of France and England. The French who supported Ahidjo, were at the conference. But England and the United Nations who were to validate the act, were not present. There has never been a document about what happened in Foumban. People went there to drink wine. ”

Cardinal Tumi Bitter Truth about The Anglophone Problem

Do not think that the Cardinal is against reunification. He simply notes that with federalism, “Cameroon was well managed, development was on . There was a prime minister in the two parts of the country.

Paul Biya had signed a text on federalism which specified that governors should be elected and it should have ten federated states. Paul Biya then promised decentralization. That would have been good. But I have the impression that he was asleep when he signed the document and that he woke up only to discover what he had done. Because he had never implemented anything. The problem is that he does not want to share power. “This concentration of power is at the center of the crisis in the English-speaking regions.

Asked why opinions are divided on the existence of an Anglophone problem, His Eminence said : “There is an anglophone problem. The problems are physical and same across the country, but there is nuance.

British Cameroons was already a country. It was managing itself, with a well organized administration, a prime minister. If decentralization had been established, there would be no problem, it would have avoided future problems in other parts of the country. ”
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