The Journalist / Chief Executive Officer at The Community Initiative for Development Communication (CODEC) was speaking in Menji, capital of Lebialem Division, Sunday, December 6, 2020, on the sidelines of the election of regional councilors.

Self-styled separatist 'General' Ayekeh of the Alou Guerrilla / Gorilla Fighters, and his mentor, Oliver Lekeaka alias Field Marshall of the 'Red Dragons' are known to have made Lebialem almost ungovernable since 2017. But after state forces gunned down Ayekeh Lestico on October 13, 2020, Lekeaka who had crowned himself 'King of Lebialem' is said to have gone comatosis.

Journalist Aminateh says Lebialem is now calm, urging his kith and kin to return home and make the division what it should be.

His words: “I am very happy to be in Menji after about four years. Contrary to what we get on social media, the place is very calm under state control. Menji is very quiet. My travel from Dschang to Menji was very safe, contrary to what you will hear on social media that there were gunshots. I have not heard any gunshots since I left my house in Buea.

“I am in Menji now. I initially planned to leave immediately after the elections. But I have changed my mind to spend more days and get to know the reality on the ground because I think our community needs to be more responsible. They need to come back home. We want people to come back home.

“I was talking to the Senior Divisional Officer for Lebialem, Mr. Mungambo William Ekema and he is expressing shock that those of them who are civil servants are here all the time. But the people who are supposed to be indigenes of this area are the ones who are coming and running. Nobody knows what they are running away from.

“And I also want to add that the people we are running away from are our children. They are children born in Lebialem. They are Bangwa boys and girls. We know them, we know their parents, we know their houses. It is our collective responsibility to call them to order and to sit them down and talk to them that it does nobody any good.

“I was very worried to see Mary Health of Africa Hospital, where I was born, without electricity. And it is a very disturbing situation. And nobody is going to come from Yaoundé or the United Nations or wherever they're saying that people are coming from, to make Lebialem a better place for us. We are the ones who are supposed to make Lebialem what it is supposed to be.

“We should stop this generalized irresponsibility coming from our end. They are already tagging us at the regional level and some other things. We need to be serious. Thank you. ”