Thwarted Bamenda 20th May Terrorist Attack Was Blackmail-SCNC

SCNC National Chairman, Nfor n Nfor

The Southern Cameroon National Council-SCNC has described claims by some security agents to have foiled a planned bomb attack by SCNC activists on the 20^th of May in Bamenda as a scam to make gains and gain favors typical of the system. According to Nfor N Nfor, Chairman of SCNC (an outlawed secessionist movement seeking the independence of Southern Cameroon), this allegation by government and the incarceration of these people is a form of Blackmail the regime in place has been using over the years to chicken out and silent Southern Cameroonians. “For many years, they have used such blackmail to give the SCNC a bad name and hang it,” he said.

          The SCNC has not sidetracked from its original stands to gain independence through peaceful means, he stated. Most of the people who purportedly were caught with bomb making material, if that is true are not SCNC activists though they are Southern Cameroonians, he said. “In 2012 before the advent of Boko Haram when Philemon Yang was in London, a kind of fraudulent document was produced to incriminate the SCNC as having links with Boko Haram. We replied and gave the UN and Yaoundé a copy. We have no links with Boko Haram and have nothing to do with terrorism or any terrorist group in the world. Southern Cameroonians are peace loving and would not indulged in any violent act. What is happening now is mere blackmail” Nfor N Nfor declared. Asked to know whether he has visited those who have been incarcerated and charged with terrorism, Nfor N Nfor said, “No Southern Cameroonian who has been detained for seeking self determination has been abandoned. We have visited them and have done a lot to prove their innocence. We have taken lawyers on their behalf. The SCNC is the father of the liberation movement in Cameroon,” he underscored.

         Going by the declarations of the National Chairman of the SCNC and the circumstances surrounding the arrests in Bamenda, it is obvious that a lot needs to verify to establish the validity the arrests.

          Although Mbarga Nguele, The General Delegate for national security was in Bamenda to reward the officers who claim to have thwarted such a planned attack by SCNC, many people are of the judgment that some people want to use the volatile situation in the country caused by Boko Haram to make gains and benefit underserved promotions.