By DANIELA NEBA NGUM
Senator Otte Andrew Mofa has viewed the possibility of a civil war to emerge from the ongoing Anglophone crisis in the Northwest and South West Regions of the country if the situation is not properly handled.
Senator Otte made the alert on Monday, January 12 during a press conference with Media practitioners in Kumba at the Kumba City Council hall.
“When we start losing our love ones, the enmity, the frustration and the anger grows and from this so many things can take place like vengeance, hatred, destructions and even the outbreak of a civil war”, Senator Otte hinted.
He further called for an end to violence and for peace to return to the once peaceful and vibrant Mbonge Sub-Division in Meme Division in other to prevent the outbreak of a civil war.
“I am praying that this peace loving people should come back to their senses, violence should stop and farming should start. We are approaching the farming season and most of their lands have not been prepared. Those who are working on the roads have suddenly stopped working; most of the transporters are not functioning. Very soon, we will die of hunger in this division.
“It is very sad for a people who don’t depend on government for anything, I want to testify that my people are hard working, they struggle to send their children to school through farming, all throughout their lives they have depended on farming, we want them to go back to their villages, let the chiefs return peacefully to their villages, control their villages so that life can return to normalcy”, Senator Otte added.
According to the Senator the hard working, welcoming and loving people he used to know in Mbonge Sub-Division have disappeared because of the ongoing crisis.
‘In fact, we had fantastic, hard working, loving, welcoming people who try to build up the economy of this country through cash crop production like cocoa, coffee and other crops but coming back today, I am meeting a very sorrowful situation, the bread basket of this country will soon disappear because of the unfortunate situation of insecurity in my division”, he furthered.
Senator Otte noted that if this situation persists, there might be famine in this part of the country since people no longer go to their farms.
“As a Senator of the area, I am appealing that things should return to normalcy, we want the return to peace, we want people to go back to their villages, we want people to go back to farms so that people from the bread basket of this country should not die of hunger”, Senator Otte noted.