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Press Release of June 19th 1994
The National Executive Committee of the SDF meeting in Bamenda on the 18th and 19th of
June, 1994 under the Chairmanship of NI John FRU NDI, National Chairman discussed inter
alia issues related to the life of the Party, the state of the Nation, the international
scene, the Indomitable Lions.
ON THE LIFE OF THE PARTY
The National Executive Committee is extremely pleased with the overwhelming popular
enthusiasm manifested during the on-going countrywide tour of the National Chairman. The
spontaneous mobilization of the masses transformed each rally in all the visited
localities of the South West and West Provinces into major political festivals.
The National Executive Committee sees in this phenomenon, the commitment of the people
to political parties and leaders who are sincerely and resolutely fighting for the advent
of genuine change, equity, national solidarity, respect for democracy and the inalienable
rights of the citizen. It is also a strong encouragement to those struggling for the
genuine independence of our fatherland. The tour is continuing in the Littoral Province
and will end in the Far North Province which will host our National Convention this year.
As regards the Maroua Convention, the National Executive Committee has appointed a
preparatory committee charged with the on the spot evaluation of the logistics of this
great event. In conformity with the provisions of the Constitution of the SDF, the
National Executive Committee elected DR. TAZOACHA ASONGANYI, Associate Professor in the
Faculty of Medicine of the Yaounde University as Secretary General of the SDF pending
ratification by the Convention in replacement of DR. SIGA ASANGA.
ON THE STATE OF THE NATION
The National Executive Committee reviewed the relationship between SDF and other
political parties in the country and decided to continue the numerous contacts already
made with the opposition parties and all the progressive forces searching for a common
solution to the present political crisis which is paralysing the process of democratic
alternance and the advent of genuine change by preventing real democratic dialogue between
all the components of the Nation.
The National Executive Committee holds that this concertation is all the more necessary
and urgent at this time that the recent trend in our relationship with the World Bank, the
IMF and more specially with France has proven beyond reasonable doubt that the CPDM regime
and Biya's government are totally incapable to fulfill the conditions necessary to address
the dire needs of the country be they political, economic, social, cultural or diplomatic
:
 | the negative conclusions arrived at by the International Experts of the Bretton Woods
Financial Organisations who have just completed an evaluation tour of Cameroon; |
| the failure of Mr. Biya's recent "working visit" to France, where after
fruitless "talks" with French officials, the latter were prompt to issue an
unequivocal disclaimer to the vaguely optimistic and as usual totally misleading
statements of Mr. Biya about some hypothetical promise of financial assistance; |
| the dark clouds hanging over employment prospects with the imminent massive retrenchment
in the Civil Service; |
| the repeated postponements of electoral datelines; |
| the absence of meaningful national concertation on vital issues like the Constitution or
the Nigeria-Cameroon conflict; |
are all ample proofs that Cameroon desperately needs another form of governance.
As regards the Constitutional Conference which the National Executive Committee learns
Mr. Biya has now been forced by his numerous mentors to convene in the coming weeks,
conscious of Mr. Biya's treachery and now notorious bad faith, the National Executive
Committee warns that the SDF will never accept a replay of the 1991 Tripartite act, which
he then used to "gate crash" into the Francophonie summit, or the March, 1994
comedy with the Trade Unions which bogus agreement he used to support his now famous
"Letter of Intent to the IMF".
As regards the Cameroon - Nigeria border conflict, the National Executive Committee
takes note of the meeting at the XXX OAU Summit in Tunis between SANI ABACHA of Nigeria
and Paul BIYA of Cameroon who was attending the OAU Summit for the 2nd time in 12 years!
and the announcement of their intention to set up a joint commission to study the avenues
of resolving the conflict. These belated initiatives which would have long taken place as
earlier proposed by the SDF, only point to the infantile character of the Biya government
policy, its total contempt of the sufferings of the people as a result of its aloofness
and incurable incompetence and the permanent and illogical interference of the French
Government in the affairs of our country.
The National Executive Committee on its part will continue to manifest the solidarity
and fraternity of SDF militants with the soldiers sent to Bakassi and who are operating
there in awful conditions.
ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE
The National Executive Committee is amazed by the almost total indifference of the
International Community towards the premeditated genocide being perpetrated for months now
in Rwanda and before that in Burundi, particularily when the SDF recalls with which
lightning speed International Bodies have reacted in circumstances far less dramatic in
other places.
The National Executive Committee holds that this tragedy is the direct consequence of
the strangling of the democratic process in these two brotherly countries. Here again
facts point to the negative role being played by the French Government in this unfolding
drama. The National Executive Committee appeals to the conscience of humanity and prays
all the people of good will in the world to mobilise without delay and put an immediate
stop to the hecatomb in Rwanda and the wandering of the suffering victims of the two
countries.
The SDF on its part, will launch in Cameroon, a campaign to help Rwandan and Burundi
children orphaned by these terrible wars. The National Executive Committee also intends to
initiate a move towards helping the family of slain President of Burundi Melchior NDADAYE,
which unlike the family of the late President of Rwanda which has been flown to France
thanks to the French Government, is still languishing somewhere in Burundi.
The National Executive Committee enthusiastically greets the presence at the XXX OAU
Summit in TUNIS of President Nelson MANDELA, who shall for ever, remain for future
generations, the symbol of a Free Black Africa, dignified, courageous, open to interracial
human fraternity and to positive understanding amongst people.
The National Executive Committee calls on Africans to copy the example of President
MANDELA who for more than forty years sacrificed all he had for a noble cause and who
despite all the odds of the struggle, remained to the end, confident in the rightness of
his action and convinced in the justness of his cause.
ON THE WORLD CUP 94 AND THE PARTICIPATION OF THE INDOMITABLE LIONS
The National Executive Committee once more decries all the scandalous manoeuvres woven
around our national team during its preparation to this momentous event. The National
Executive Committee strongly condemns the perpetrators of these scandals and in advance
holds the CPDM corrupt regime of Mr. Biya responsible for any mishap to the Lions during
the World Cup 94.
However, being a matter of National Pride, the National Executive Committee calls on
all Cameroonians to give their unreserved support to the Indomitable Lions who are
starting their competition today. The National Executive Committee exhorts the players to
do everything possible to defend the honour of Cameroon and uphold the reputation of our
country as a great Football Nation.
Done in Bamenda this 19th day of June, 1994.
NI John FRU NDI
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
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