Crise Anglophone. NW,SW Crisis: South West Governor Sensitises populations Against Mass Exodus
Bernard Okalia Bilai was at the Buea bus station last Saturday to debunk rumours of military assault in the Region report CT.
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After two sequential communiqués to the public, Bernard Okalia Bilai, Governor of the South West Region, was personally at the Buea Mile 17 bus station on September 15, 2018, to sensitise panic-stricken passengers, drivers, bus owners and park boys on the dangers of massive exodus triggered by rumours of an imminent military assault and restriction of movement in the Region.
Stepping into the bus station by midday, Governor Okalia Bilai was shocked at the thousands of people apparently stranded without ready buses to board, tons of luggage and households displayed on the ground and the physical depression worn in the faces of those seeking for bus tickets to move out of the Region. Some fluent speaking passengers told the Governor that gun bullets had pierced through the walls of many houses along the road and in the quarters and villages.
Others spoke of avoiding remaining alone in localities where everyone else had moved out. Yet, one eloquent and bold lady-traveller told the Governor that the social media had announced an imminent military assault in the South West Region and that a greater deployment of troops was already being observed around.
As such, the panicstricken population of the Region, notably from Buea, Kumba, Limbe, Mamfe, Muyuka and Nguti were drifting to safer ground outside the Region and especially to Douala, Nkongsamba, Yaounde and other neighbouring francophone areas.
In a fatherly response, the Governor reminded the travellers of the dangers of abandoning their homes to thieves, quitting their businesses for misery and moving into strange towns without adequate means of survival.
Okalia Bilai urged the drivers and bus owners to sensitise those itching to migrate about the baseless rumours of military assault and the risks involved in desperate movements.
The chief executive of the Region urged the population of the South West to remain calm in their homes, send children to school and trust that the Security Forces would protect their lives and property. He wondered how children would go to school when they are carried up and down in unfounded panic.
In the past two weeks, the Buea bus station called Mile 17 Park, has witnessed an unprecedented movement of persons emptying out of the South West Region due to the on-going Anglophone crisis that inflamed in November 2016. Recent social media gossips carried announcements of a full scale war between the separatists groups and the regular forces.
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