SCNC flag flies in Bamenda on October 1

Despite the grid of the city by the forces of order, activists achieved the feat of raising their flag in some places in the capital city of the Northwest.

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 was the occasion of what activists termed the commemoration of the independence of their territory, the Southern Cameroon.

Despite strong militarisation of the city grid by mixed gendarmerie and police patrols, the SCNC activists ignored the forces of order and hoisted their flag in two places in the capital city of the Northwest, Mile 5 Sentapo and Mile 2 Nkwen Bamenda III district.

The tactics of these activists was to hoist the flag at unearthly hours on the night of Tuesday 30 September. After their act, they disappeared without trace in the dark night. It is in the early hours of the morning of October 1st, that the forces of order and some citizens crossing in the vicinity discovered these flags. Naturally, the mixed forces patrolling the city to prevent any manifestation of these activists removed and swept the flags away.

Referendum A few days earlier, Nwacham Thomas, leader of one of the factions of this movement had committed a statement suspending the celebration of the 53rd anniversary of the independence of Southern Cameroon.

He insinuated that this decision had been taken at the burial of the chairman of the said movement Chief Ayamba Ette Otung in Mamfe. In contrary, Nfor Ngala Nfor, chairman of another faction continued the celebration, taxing Nwacham Thomas in cahoots with the regime of Yaoundé to prevent commemorations of the autonomy and the independence of their territory.

It is worth noting that for about two decades, the followers of this movement call for the autonomy and the independence of their territory, the Southern Cameroon (Anglophone part of Cameroon).

In the past, protests resulted in the arrest of the activists. The recent referendum in the United Kingdom relating to the independence of Scotland had boosted the morale of the SCNC activists in Cameroon. The latter saw in this referendum a premonitory sign on the independence of Southern Cameroon.