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For the Archbishop Emeritus of Douala, the time is serious. And as long as there is no dialogue the crisis will continue.
From every indication, Cardinal Christian Tumi, archbishop emeritus of the Douala archdiocese, would not relent blowing the whistle about the ongoing Anglophone crisis until a lasting solution is found.
In yet another outing and the recent of all, the venerated cardinal has continued to advocate for dialogue and continues seeing it as the only way out of the raging crisis that began in November 2016.
“When we talk about the Anglophone crisis, the first idea that comes to my mind is that the time is serious and as long as we continue to kill, military, civilian, because all life is sacred, it will always be a dead end. We pray that terrorism should cease as soon as possible. And that everyone meets around a table to talk. As long as there is no dialogue, that is to say that we listen to each other, the crisis will continue,” he said.
Concerning the origin of the crisis, Cardinal Christian Tumi declared, “we were two different political entities culturally and even geographically, and we decided at a time to unite. Almost all the protagonists of this crisis were not yet born in Reunification 32 years ago. It was we who fought for the reunification of Cameroon. I believe that the cause of the crisis is unfaithfulness to the demands of the Reunification. We did not remain faithful to the demands of this reunification. I think maybe I'm wrong, that the intentions were not the same. Our Francophone brothers and sisters were already an independent nation, but they were not free. However, our English-speaking brothers and sisters, they were not yet independent but they were free.
Continuing on what could be considered the cause of the English-speaking problem, the Cardinal maintained, “The two nations have found an understanding, how to live in peace and together. There are principles and requirements we all agreed on. But as the story unfolded, a whole francophone part under the influence of France, it must be said, has become unfaithful. We are now where the French-speaking part was at Reunification, that is to say, at the Republic. So the idea with the support of France, I know what I'm talking about was to assimilate English speakers. That is the problem, Tumi concluded.
This is the umpteenth time that the prelate is speaking about the crisis that has led to humanitarian crisis in the English speaking regions of Cameroon. In one of his outings on the crisis, Cardinal Tumi chastised security and defence forces of Cameroon for burning down villages and looting property. He made reference to the case of Tadu in Bui division, Northwest region, where he visited and Kwa Kwa in the Southwest region.
He however condemned violence no matter where it came from, and advocated for dialogue as the possible way out of the crisis.
By LVV
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