A long and arduous search for persons alleged to be backing the Anglophone crisis is underway as the situation in the restive North West and South West Regions of Cameroon worsens.
Faced with adeteriorating socio-political climate in the two English-speaking regions, and other security concerns in the Far North, Adamaoua and East regions, Government, in a desperate attempt at calming the troubled waters, has multiplied efforts towards apprehending those considered as the masterminds behind the crisis.
Common Law Lawyers in Cameroon went on strike in October 2016 to protest government’s attempts to annihilate the Common Law practice in a constitutionally bilingual and bi-jural Cameroon. The strike lasted for over a year.
Anglophone teachers in the country joined the strike on November 21, 2016 to uphold Anglo-Saxon values under threat in Cameroon’s two English-speaking regions. Same day, ManchoBibixy staged a coffin revolution at Liberty Square in Bamenda to protest against the marginalisation and economic deprivation of Anglophones.
Matters came to a head on Thursday, December 8 when the population of Bamenda took to the streets to denounce the politicisation of a strike action they consider genuine and borne of longstanding grievances.
Days of ghost town have since been observed throughout the South West and North West Regions of the country.
On January 17, 2017, Barrister Nkongo Felix AgborBalla and Dr.FontemNeba, leaders of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium (CACSC) were arrested moments after the consortium had been banned along with the SCNC.
SisikuAyukTabe, president of the self-styled state of Ambazonia was arrested in Nigeria on January 5, 2018 along with nine other members of his cabinet including Tassang Wilfred, NforNgalaNfor and Barrister EyambeEbai.
As we went to press, a trusted source in the police informed us that plans were far advanced for the arrest of two alleged activists – AkoFormenRandolf Maxwell and Denning  EpieNjumbe.

The duo, our source said, have been earmarked for arrest as a result of the crisis as both national and regional search warrants have been issued against them with their photos to be dispatched to relevant quarters to ensure they are arrested.
There is apparently no hiding place for the activists of the Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC and separatists of the Ambazonia self-proclaimed state. The regime in power is bent on arresting them and to a greater extent hand them heavy jail sentences for acts of treason, terrorism, secession, propagation of false news, rebellion against the state and sponsoring of the Anglophone crisis.
The Sun gathered that AkoFormenRandolf Maxwell and Denning  EpieNjumbehave since gone comatose apparently benefiting from security tip off after having been declared wanted by the Yaoundéregime for their alleged role in the on-going social political impasse rocking the North West and South Regions of Cameroon.

AkoFormenRandolf Maxwell’s ordeal with the regime started in 2017 after thousands of protesters went across the streets in Anglophone Cameroon, demanding for independence of Southern Cameroons better known as the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. This protest demonstration landed Ako in numerous detention cells as many protesters were arrested including Denning  EpieNjumbe. Reports hold that AkoFormenRandolf Maxwell and Denning  EpieNjumbewere among those subjected to inhumane treatment at the Mobile Intervention Unit (GMI5)  of the police in Buea. It has since been a tale of intimidation and arrests.
The government crackdown on Anglophone activists has since intensified with arbitrary arrests, detention, torture and extra-judicial killings becoming the new normal.
The fate of many remains precarious as security forces battle separatists. President Paul Biya has since taken a tough position on the crisis in the two-English speaking regions. Guns have since taken the place of dialogue and peace.

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The lives of supposed Anglophone activists and activists from the North West and South West regions of Cameroon are in jeopardy as government intensifies crackdown on separatists fighters and search in the restive two English speaking regions. A good number of activists have been arrested and placed under dehumanising conditions in different detention centres across Cameroon, while many are reportedly on the run.
Those arrested are termed terrorists and levied several trump up charges including but not limited to propagation of false information, revolution, insurrection, secession and non-possession of National Identity Card. Meanwhile a good number of those on the run have been declared wanted with warrants of arrest issued against their names.
Last October 2016, Common Law Lawyers in Cameroon went on strike to protest the supposed annihilation of the Common law practice. Anglophone teachers joined the lawyers in the strike, November 2016, to decry government’s attempt to assimilate the educational system.
Government’s attempt to broker peace was futile as leaders of the strike actions termed government’s solutions as cosmetic with lack of good faith. This culminated in the arrest of some ring leaders like Barrister Nkongo Felix Agbor Balla and Dr.Fontem Neba January 17, 2017.
A series of events unfolded some youths later picked arms for “self defense” following governments declaration of war on separatists. All these led to the arrest of the President of the self-proclaimed state of Ambazonia Ayuk Tabe, in Nigeria on January 8, 2018 along with nine other members of his cabinet including Tassang Wilfred, Nfor Ngala Nfor and Barrister Eyambe Ebai.
This vexed youths, teachers and a cross section of population in the North West and South West region that they took to the street, January 15, 2018 to protest the arrest and extradition of Ayuk Tabe and his team. This protest was greeted by a repressive intervention by the military who used live bullets and tear gas on the aggrieved predominantly youth. Many sustained injury and a good number of youths and fathers were arrested and placed is inhumane prison conditions. Some of those arrested, later escaped and are still being hunted.
Buea-based Ako Formen Randdolf Maxwell, Denning Epie Njumbe,Mukete Iya Diwo,and some members of Buea Teachers Association (BTA) whose names are still to be confirmed are those alleged activists arrested during the January 15 protest and whisked to the Buea Central Prison. While in detention, reports have it that, they were denied access to family members and lawyers, except while going to courts. The SUN had it on good record that, Iya Diwo was in detention for several weeks during which she was molested, raped and placed under dreadful conditions alongside others.
A source, closed to the family, hinted that Iya was later released on a conditional bail alongside others but her health deteriorated such that she was hospitalised. While at the hospital, security officers are said to have stormed their Buea residence on several occasions. With this latest development, Mukete Iya Diwo smuggled herself out of the hospital and since then, her where about remains gloomy.
Recent statistics from civil society organisations has it that over 530,000 have been internally displaced in the North West and South West regions, over 1850 killed and least 50,000 registered as refugees in neighbouring countries, since 2016, when the crisis commenced.

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