Cameroun: L'opposant historique anglophone John Fru Ndi, Yaoundé, 8 octobre 2011- AFP/SEYLLOU
Ni John Fru Ndi, National Chairman of the opposition Social Democratic Front, SDF, arrives in Cameroon Saturday, October 31, 2020, after spending close to ten months in the United States seeking medical care.
A day after the political leader’s expected arrival, the SDF party plans an ecumenical service in honor of the memories of its frontline members who died while their chieftain was away.
The Ecumenical Service in memory of Hon. Joseph Mbah Ndam, Batonnier Francis Sama, Mayor Balick Awah, and Barrister Manga Moussole is scheduled for Sunday, November 1, 2020, at 2:00 pm at the Yaounde residence of Ni John Fru Ndi situated at Nkolfoulou, along the road to Soa.
65-year-old Hon. Joseph Njang Mbah Ndam, National Legal Adviser of the SDF died Monday, April 13, 2020, in Yaoundé where he was receiving medical care. He served as Member of Parliament for Momo West Constituency (Batibo) from May 1997 to March 2020.
Barrister Dabryn Manga Moussole, Vice Chairman of the Littoral Regional Bureau of the SDF died in Douala on April 23, 2020.
Barrister Sama Francis Asanga Legal Adviser of the SDF died on June 6, 2020, and was buried on June 8, 2020, at the Nkolfoulou residence of Ni John Fru Ndi. The one-time President of the Cameroon Bar Association was buried in a fashion akin to COVID-19 fatalities.
The former Mayor of the Bamenda II Sub-divisional Council, Balick Awah Fidelis, 70, died on July 19, 2020, in Bamenda. He ran the council from 2007 to February 2020.
SDF remembers fallen stalwarts on Sunday (c) SDF
The abovementioned SDF frontline members died while Chairman Fru Ndi was away. He had gone to the U.S. to seek medical attention following his double abductions by separatists last year.
Before leaving the country in January, Fru Ndi accused President Paul Biya’s Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, CPDM, of being behind the attacks on the SDF candidates for the February 9, 2020, municipal and legislative elections in a bid to wipe out the party from the country’s political map.
The SDF eventually came out of the elections with only five seats at the National Assembly. Two of the seats were got from Boyo Division in the North West Region and the others from the Littoral. Of all the councils in the North West, the SDF could only retain the Bamenda III subdivisional council.
Cameroon.Info.Net recalls that armed men seeking to create a putative state christened Ambazonia – a geographical allusion to Cameroon’s North West and South West Regions, twice kidnapped Ni John Fru Ndi.
Fru Ndi was first kidnapped in Kumbo on Saturday, April 27, 2019, and only freed after over half a dozen hours in detention.
On Friday, June 28, 2019, at about 3:30 pm, the fiery opposition leader was again kidnapped. He said the armed men dragged him out of his Ntarinkon residence like a pig. He only regained his freedom at 9:30 pm on Saturday, June 29, 2019.
It is not known if Fru Ndi will remain in Yaoundé or will take up residence in Bamenda.
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