Speaking during a press briefing in Bamenda recently, the chief executive officer of Farmers' House, Peter Ngufor said the military option President Paul Biya has taken to end the war in the English-speaking regions was a wrong step.

" The question of resorting to military solution was not very good because our armed forces are trained to fight wars, not fight the population who are unarmed", he cried.

He was reacting to the end of year speech delivered by President Biya on New Year's eve, where the President said he was to tackle the ongoing crisis with more arms if separatists fail to drop their weapons.

The CPDM militant said he sees separatist fighters as protesters and not terrorists. He said it was impossible for someone to live with his neighbour for 50 years and wake up one day to declare them terrorists.

He however commended the Head of State for the speech he presented, given that it addressed all areas of interest in the country, a speech he said reflected a new Cameroon.

" I insist on the term New Cameroon because it means we forget the past and turn a new leaf", he said. He further suggested that the should apologise and stop teh word terrorism.

" Apologising does not ;mean you are weak, but that you have seen errors and want to correct. He should grant a general amnesty to those ailed within the context of the Anglophone crisis and those in the Diaspora so that we all start afresh, as he himself called it a New Nation", he advised.