The good intentions of the initiators of the Anglophone struggle have for some time now been rubbished by new players from abroad accused of sponsoring hoodlums to inflict suffering on those thy set out to liberate.
The campaign of forcing taxi-drivers to paint their cabs in blue and white colours, representing the flag of putative state of Ambazonia, has turned ugly for those resisting it.
Images of some taxis set on fire last Tuesday in Bamenda have turned the anger of those targeted against the sponsors of the burning from abroad.
Observers say by resorting to such self-destructive tactics, the separatists are inflicting suffering on the masses they originally set out to liberate. They question how burning the taxis of those earning a living from it would affect the government of Cameroon which was their target. Some who still believe in the liberation struggle say the new tactic is the handiwork of Ayaba Cho’s AGOVC.
One of the victims of the burnings, Joseph Fru Nde, a physically challenged whose cab driver was attacked on Che Street in Bamenda was lucky to be rescued by persons of goodwill with a new car.
How many Good Samaritans will continue to come up for such gestures? Observers think it is high time the population rose up against separatists now referred as liberators-turned-oppressors.
