By Norbert Wasso
Renowned peace crusader, Ntumfor Barrister Nico Halle, is pleading with the Head of State, President Paul Biya to urgently create a Justice, Truth and Reconciliation Commission to diffuse the mounting tensions in the country.
Ntumfor Nico Halle was reacting to The SUN newspaper following the events of last Friday, September 22 that saw mass protests across most Anglophone towns and villages. The SUN contacted the peace crusader, who is presently in Yaounde to attend a session of the Bilingualism and Multiculturalism committee where he is member.
Ntumfor insisted that the Justice, Truth and Reconciliation Commission should be an all-inclusive dialogue forum where leaders of the strike that has paralysed the North West and South West regions for almost a year now should sit alongside honest and positive-thinking Cameroonians and be able to resolve all the festering tensions in the country. He added that those in the diaspora should not be left out.
It should be recalled that after the arrest of the Anglophone activists in January, Ntumfor Barrister Nico Halle had come out to plead with the Head of state to grant a general amnesty to all those arrested for peace to reign. His subsequent appointment as member of the Bilingualism and Multiculturalism committee did not dampen his crusade. Fortunately, a presidential order last August 30 discontinued court proceedings against the activists and over 50 have since been released. But a handful of the activists, including Mancho Bibixy are still being detained in Yaounde and other prison centres in the South West and North West.
This recent recommendation falls within Ntumfor Halle’s peace crusade in and out of the country for the past 20 years