In a video pushed out by U.S.-based Cameroonian separatist activist Eric Tataw, the armed separatist fighters charged Fon Mbinglo with collaborating with state authorities. The video closes as the fighters say, “justice will be served” to the Fon whose safety now remains in doubt.

Armed separatists kidnapped 90-year-old Cardinal Christian Wiyghan Tumi, Archbishop Emeritus of Douala, and Fon Sehm Mbinglo II at about 6:30 pm on Thursday, November 5, 2020.

The servant of God was freed on Friday morning, but the gunmen in Baba, Babessi subdivision, Ngoketunji Division of Cameroon’s North West region are yet the free Fon Mbinglo.

Below is a transcript of the exchanges between the traditional ruler of the Nso people and the armed separatists.

Separatist fighter: His Majesty, good morning.

Fon Mbinglo II: Good morning.

Separatist fighter: You are currently in Ngoketunji and we are the Ambazonia Restoration Forces.  We have some few questions for you. His majesty, your royal highness, you as a Fon of the people of Nso, are you aware of the current crisis in your land?

Fon Mbinglo II: Yes, I am aware.

Separatist fighter: What have you done to protect your people and Ambazonia from La Republique in this crisis?

Fon Mbinglo II: I told the government that they should not be killing my people. That they should instead go in for a dialogue because this killing killing, tomorrow, what shall we have?

Separatist fighter: Your royal highness, we the people of Ambazonia, we see your name as a candidate for La Republique Regional Elections. Is that true?

Fon Mbinglo II: I am there as a Fon.

Separatist fighter: But we see your name as a candidate. That means you will be voted in the upcoming La Republique Regional Elections. Is that true? Are you a candidate?

Fon Mbinglo II: Yes! I have not seen it, but I have heard.

Separatist fighters: We have it here, I can show you. What do you have to tell us about that? That you are the Fon of the people, put on the throne by the people, and being respected by the people, and your people are being killed and then you are not going out to look for the solution how you can stop your people from being killed and then you are instead going in for an election. Do you see that as a way out? As a traditional ruler of the people, do you see that going in for an election in the midst of war when your people are being killed; are you seeing it as a solution?

Fon Mbinglo II: No! It is not the solution.

Separatist fighter: Then why do you accept that?

Fon Mbinglo II: I admit that I was not there when they were…

Separatist fighter: so you are not aware of it.

Fon Mbinglo II: Yes!

Separatist fighter: Let’s go very fast. Okay, you have heard about the killing of children in schools. You have heard about mysterious things that are happening to our children and teachers in schools. What is your opinion about school resumption in Ambazonia?

Fon Mbinglo II: When I will go back now, my councilors and I will sit and see what we can do. Because I cannot sit here and make a decision with you people.

Separatist fighter:  So upon all the killing of children in schools, kidnapping teachers, kidnapping students, what is your thought on that, about school resumption? As far as school resumption is concerned?

Fon Mbinglo II: I wouldn’t have accepted that the school should continue if the children are being killed. I cannot accept it.

Separatist fighter:  Now that our children really need that education, and they are trying to acquire the education and they’re being killed and kidnapped, what is your advice on that? How can we do for the children to effectively go back to school now in the midst of this war?

Fon Mbinglo II: That is a tough question for me.

Separatist fighter:  But the question is not tough until you have tried to answer. What is your own advice to others that are still going to school meanwhile there is a crisis in Cameroon?

Fon Mbinglo II: I will advise them to hold on first.

Separatist fighter:  Holding on forever or what do you think is the solution for us to put in place for our children to effectively go to school in the midst of this crisis?

Fon Mbinglo II: (silence…)

Separatist fighter: You don’t have something to say?

Fon Mbinglo II: No!

Separatist fighter: I thought they had asked you a question. Now, lastly Mbeh, now that you are a Fon of the Nso people, you are an Ambazonian and you have told us here that you have been nominated a candidate for La Republique regional elections. And You have earlier told us that the Ambazonia Restoration Forces should stop fighting the government because we don’t have weapons. Now that you are here now, we consider you as an enabler. Do you know so? That you are enabling La Republique activities in Ambazonia because you have abandoned your people. Are you aware of that?

Fon Mbinglo II: No!

Separatist fighter: Now that you are here. Any person that is enabling la Republique in this Ambazonia land, you are a blackleg to us. Now that you are here, the only thing that is going to happen here now is that justice is going to take its course. So, after your justice, what is your advice to other fons in Ambazonia, and chiefs?

Fon Mbinglo II: I will only advise them to work together with their people.

Separatist fighter:  By going in for regional elections?

Fon Mbinglo II: No!

Separatist fighter: By telling the international community that peace is returning to Cameroon, that everything is normal, that normalcy has returned?

Fon Mbinglo II: No! I said they say foreign countries will come before they start to settle the peace.

Separatist fighter:  As you are here now, heading to the village, are you for one Cameroon, Federation, or for Separation?

Fon Mbinglo II: I am for one Cameroon.

Separatist fighters: Okay. Thank you very much. God bless you and let justice take its course. Wait, let me ask you some question…Stop it, the interview is long…