As is now tradition, the major celebrations of the Cameroonian State are marked in the North-West and South-West regions by attacks by secessionists. This year, it is the city of Turtle in the North-West which suffered the fury of terrorists claiming to be the virtual State ofAmbazonie this February 11, 2024, the day of celebration of Youth Day. A homemade bomb exploded during the school parade and left one person dead and several injured, according to official sources.
« The UPC condemns these barbaric attacks », We can read in a press release signed by its secretary general. For Robert Bapooh Lipot« the terrorist-secessionists attacked the Foundation of our Nation which is our Youth“. An act of defiance that the secretary general of theUnion of the people of Cameroon (UPC) does not want to be left unpunished. Especially since “ this barbaric and odious act reminds us of the determination of the terrorist-secessionists to sow terror and cause the destabilization of the Institutions of our Country», Regrets Bapooh Lipot.
Hardening of your tone
Refusing capitulation, the general secretary of the UPC campaigns for the use of violence in the face of violence: “ No negotiations should be considered with those who have decided to use barbarity as a weapon to destabilize Cameroon and its institutions. », Supports the leader of the UPC. “ While reiterating that there is no need to bring the Republic and the State of Cameroon to its knees before the Barbarian Terrorists », Robert Bapooh Lipot thought that « the legal and legitimate force of the State must be fully put into motion for the greater interest of Cameroon “. Better, ” the UPC, condemns these barbaric attacks and calls for the Sacred Union of the entire Cameroonian Political Class behind the Head of State, HE Paul Biya and the Cameroonian Armed Forces to defeat the Terrorist-Secessionists and bring Peace to the Regions North-West and South-West», he says.
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Robert Bapooh Lipot had already made the same request the day after the Bamenda attack in 2023. Paul Biya remains deaf to what it seems. So far, the government is content to condemn and seek out the perpetrators of the various crimes it neutralizes. Still, the Supreme Chief of the Armed Forces, who extends his hand to the secessionists, still refuses to bring the State to its knees in the face of the extremists. Wielding both the stick and the carrot. In all ways, ” The UPC provides its support to the Cameroonian Army and the Head of State, HE Paul Biya, to give exceptional powers to the Defense and Security Forces in this war of attrition imposed on our State by terrorist-Secessionists and their allies “. More importantly, the secretary general of Party of crabs goes further this time. By proposing to Paul Biya to break diplomatic relations with so-called friendly countries which “ host these terrorist-Secessionists and their leaders on their territories ».
