Dialogue Has Never Been Forbidden!
From two inter-ministerial committees in 2016 to the Major National Dialogue in 2019, government’s efforts to calm the storm in the two restive regions have been unwavering.
From the onset of socio-political crisis in the North West and South West Regions, the government of Cameroon opted for dialogue as a sure way out of the irksome upheavals. In fact, when members of the English-speaking teachers’ and Common Law Lawyers’ Trade Unions tabled their complaints against insufficiencies in their respective corps, the guarantor of Cameroon’s constitution, the President of the Republic, took measures to bring solutions to the problems raised in line with Republican legality. Even when the situation degenerated to outright violence with separatists questioning one of Cameroon’s hitherto most cherished hallmarks – living together, the Head of State kept on with the view that it is a Cameroonian problem and must be handled by the citizens throu