Bochong El Hadj Lawan Bako, UDP Chairman Facebook
The Spokesman of the Presidential Majority and United Democratic Party, UDP, Chairman, Elhaj Bochong Lawan Bako has said he will present vexing issues at the Major National Dialogue announced for the end of September to resolve the ongoing crisis in Cameroon’s North West and South West Regions.
Reacting to President Paul Biya’s Tuesday message to the nation, Elhaj Bochong Lawan Bako who campaigned for the CPDM candidate’s vision of peace, stability, development says there is a huge package UDP will be taking along to the National Dialogue for peace to return to Cameroon.
“I retained one thing; inclusive dialogue. Giving the time frame that dialogue will hold by the end of this month, to me, is a welcome move. Since he [President Paul Biya] is inviting political parties, we are going to be present,” he said.
Lawan Bako adds that: “Top on agenda is the devastating Crisis rocking the two Anglophone Regions. When we shall eventually reach the dialogue table, we shall present some of the vexing issues. For example, it is normal that there are the Common Law and Civil Law systems in Cameroon, but it is inadmissible that the two Ministers are all Francophones.
“Then, get down to SONARA, the Director is Francophone and, logically, the Minister of Mines should have been an Anglophone or vice versa. Whether we like it or not, these are facts we must seek redress to. There is a huge package UDP will be taking along to the National Dialogue for peace to return to Cameroon.”
President Biya denies Marginalisation claims
In his message to the nation Tuesday, September 10, 2019, President Paul Biya said Anglophones have always had a choice place in all the governments he has formed since ascending to power.
Hear him: “The supposed feeling of marginalization by the people of the North-West and South-West Regions has often been advanced to justify this crisis. On this score, I wish to remind our compatriots in these regions, but also to those in the other eight regions of Cameroon, that marginalization, exclusion or stigmatization have never guided the work of the various governments I have formed since I became president of our country. Though no human endeavour is perfect and, in a developing country like ours with multiple challenges and limited resources, many needs are still to be met, in all the regions.
“…Such is the case with the purported marginalization of Anglophones, persecution of the Anglophone minority by the Francophone majority, Government’s refusal to engage in dialogue preferring a military solution to the crisis or even ridiculous accusations of genocide.”
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