Lekie elite instigating Rwanda-kind of conflict - Hon Cavaye

The Speaker of the National Assembly, Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, has accused elite of Lekie Division in the Centre Region, of instigating in Cameroon, the type of war that eventually led to genocide in Rwanda.

He made the accusation in a release which he issued in Yaounde last week after elite of the Lekie Division, led by the Minister of the Supreme State Audit, Henri Eyebe Ayissi, issued a motion accusing elites of the northern Regions of Cameroon for plotting alongside Boko Haram to destabilise the ‘New Deal’ regime.

He described the outing of the Lekie elite as inappropriate, dangerous and detrimental to national unity and cohesion in Cameroon. To him, hints of stigma churned out in the communique that marked the end of the CPDM meeting in Obala last weekend, indicting that the sons of the northern Regions, is more of a call for disunity in Cameroon than the mobilisation of the population against the common enemy, Boko Haram.

Speaking as President of the National Assembly and spokesperson for the northern Regions, Cavaye said there was never, and never would there be, a rebellion against the ‘New Deal’ in the North. He denounced what he termed as attempts to ‘Rwandanise’ Cameroon, being perpetrated by Lekie elite and frowned on attempts by the three Ministers, MPs, General Managers and other high-ranking administrative officials originating from the area for “cultivating hatred amongst compatriots.”

Reacting to the move made by the Lekie elite, a worker at the National Assembly said: “The pill has been a difficult one to swallow. More striking is that their actions are in a complete break with their personalities. Such acts can trigger negative feelings amongst citizens. We had to react and reassure all the elite and the forces who felt offended by the release of Henri Eyebe Ayissi and his associates.”

The Lekie Outing

During ceremonies marking the end of training of Councillors in Obala, the spokesman for Lékié elite, Henri Eyebe Ayissi, denounced “the sneaky strategies of national accomplices to Boko Haram and their attempts to destabilise the republican institutions with support from certain powers.” He remarked on that occasion that there are passive accomplices and facilitators of the sect in Northern Cameroon.

The broadcast of the motion of support from the Lekie elite on State media and other news organs, in which sons and daughters of the Division denounced a plot by the northern Regions and their efforts to destabilise the republican institutions, sparked feelings of discontent among sons and daughters of the Grand North.

The motion, titled: “Call of sons and daughters of Lekie for total war against the Islamist sect and foreign complicity in Cameroon,” has given more locus to claims driven by some media organs that there could be a possible complicity by sons and daughters of the North to destabilise the Yaounde regime.

‘No Cameroonian Version Of Boko Haram’ In a related story, the Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, at a press conference in Yaounde, September 5, frowned at perpetrators of rumours that there was a Cameroonian version of the Boko Haram.

Informing reporters about what is happening, Tchiroma pointed out that after looting cattle and food stuff from inhabitants of the Far North, they have left these people in very difficult situations. As a result of this, they come back to propose huge sums of money to these sons of the North to enroll in their group.

To him, they succeeded in getting some northerners over, but their attempts to draw more are futile. He further explained that with the reorganisation of the army, Boko Haram is recording a great loss every time they come to loot food stuff, cattle and traffic arms.

He used the occasion to laud the efforts of the soldiers who have been deployed to various areas on the borders and dissociated the activities of any Cameroonian who may have enrolled in the ranks of Boko Haram to fight against Cameroon.