The Limbe District Chairman of the leading opposition Social
Democratic Front Party, SDF,has since February 3, 2016, been detained at the cells
of central police station of the town, in the South West Region of Cameroon.
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| ZAMA IN CELL : ITS MY RIGHT TO PROTEST |
The tough talking Godden Zama
Ndenge was bundled up and arrested in the Cassava Farms neighbourhood by security forces, as he staged what some of
his supporters are describing as a peaceful protest against the demolition of houses
by the Limbe City Council which started February 3.
The Limbe Government Delegate who is said to have hinted the SDO
for Fako who immediately ordered the arrest of Zama seems bent on the
demolition ‘project.’
“Is that not sufficient to arrest him? He was trying to incite the
population to revolt,” stated the Government Delegate to the Limbe City
Council,LCC Andrew Motanga Monjimba,
February 3.
Motanga was unable to
explain how the social democrat was ‘inciting people to revolt,’ and asked that
his offices be visited for explanations on the ongoing demolition of buildings
in his area of command.
The SDO for Fako, Zang III was not immediately reachable.
The SDF party hierarchy which is reported to have been informed is
said to be taking some measures to secure the release of their Limbe District Chairman.
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| ZAMA: ADDRESSING HIS COMRADES |
Witnesses said they spotted the SDF militant with a placard
staging a one man peaceful protest to demand explanations and put to a halt to
the demolition exercise; a demand the party district had made on January 28 in
a statement, following a district executive meeting.
“We
recommend that the city council starts the demolition exercise by demolishing
all makeshift council structures constructed in wood.
This would include most
of the market infrastructure in Limbe and particularly the part of the Newtown
market lying on the road going down to the manga Williams avenue.
We urge the
city council to create employment opportunities for youths rather than demolish
houses left for them by their fathers and grandfathers,” the Limbe SDF District
had then stated.
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| MOTANGA: LIMBE GOVT DELEGATE |
The Limbe
City council is reported to have given a period of three years (between 2012 and
2015) for owners of plank houses around the roadside to pull them down or sell
their
land to someone who could put up a block house. That dateline is reported
to have expired January 31, 2016.
When a regime does not have a clear vision, then its actions becomes repressive towards the people. Whe the officials of the LCC give such an automatum to the city dwellers to vacate their residence beside the road on the simple basis that their houses are in blanks, then, we can see open discrimination in society perpetuated by the government which is suppose to protect and provide for the people. This may become worsen when we see that the cpdm regime is bent of eternalizing itself in power through the recent "calls from the people" le legitimize Biya's bid to run for president in 2017, then, something must be done soonest. Will SDF not use this as a pretext to mobilize Cameroonians towards putting a national pressure on Biya and his henchmen? Will the SDF Chairman not lead a national call to oppose the trick Biya is staging again? Or has SDF decided to play the "see and say nothing" game? As for USDP, we are ready for the change.
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