Njoh Litumbe attributes SCNC failures to internal divide and greed

Njoh Litumbe, one of the front-line leaders of the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) has attributed the failures of the liberation movement to greed and internal divide.

He was briefing the press October 7, 2014 upon his return from the United Nations (UN) in New York, where he spent close to nine weeks presenting the SCNC case before the Secretary General of the UN and the UN General Assembly.

“…I was in the United States to remind the UN General Assembly and the UN Secretary General of the plight of the people of the Southern Cameroons,” Litumbe said.

He said he entered several offices while in the US to tell whoever cared to know that the SCNC has a genuine case that should be listened to.

“I was received by the Gate-Keeper at the State Department. We chatted for two hours on the petition I had sent to the United Nations,” the senior citizen said.

According to Litumbe, the SCNC struggle would have been history if they buried greed, witch-hunting, and internal suspicion.

“The tragedy with us is that we are ever so divided. If we worked like we did in 1995, we would have had the independence of the Southern Cameroons already,” he lamented.

He regretted that greed on the part of Nfor Ngala and the late Chief Ayamba Ette went a long way to compromise the struggle for independence.

“Some people are over ambitious and they want to see immediate results,” he said.

Njoh Litumbe disclosed during the briefing that he chaired a wake in honour of the late Chief Ayamba on July 25 during his stay in the US.

He revealed in the course of the briefing that the SCNC is reorganising its basic leadership organs that will culminate in a constituent General Assembly that will sanction the election of a new chairman for the group.

Ayah Paul Abine, Secretary General of the People’s Action Party (PAP) and former CPDM MP for Akwaya has been tipped to take over the leadership of the SCNC.

SCNC sources say Ayah had said he will only accept the SCNC top job if all the structures of the movement are reorganized.

Quizzed then after the events that took place in Mamfe on the fate of the SCNC and the Constituent General Assembly that was supposed to take place after the funeral of Chief Ayamba, Ayah had said, no such constituent assembly was going to hold.” However, he added that “no one should say this is an end to the SCNC. Arresting a corpse and putting Mamfe under security siege does not mean an end to the SCNC.”

Ayah insists that he has made no statement on whether or not to become SCNC chairman, “but I have been called by many people to become. I’m going to consult with top SCNC officials for the way forward.”

Litumbe has said the SCNC will hold government by its balls to ensure that Maxwell Oben is released on November 4 when the Court of Appeal meets.

Maxwell Oben was arrested on January 29, 2014 for reading Ernesto Che Guevara’s book on Urban Guerrilla and for educating the youth on the ideals of SCNC.

Oben was charged for preaching secession, civil war, armed insurrection, and planning to disrupt President Biya’s visit to Buea.