Ayaba Cho Lucas

Ayaba Cho Lucas (born August 1972) is an Ambazonian activist.[2] He is the former Secretary General of the Southern Cameroons Youth League (SCYL)[3][4] and is the current leader of Ambazonia Governing Council, a separatist organization in Southern Cameroons. Ayaba was expelled from the University of Buea in 1993 because he had led a one-man demonstration against tuition increases; he has been in exile from Cameroon since then.[5][6][7] He eventually ended up in Norway, where he studied human rights and development at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and from where he has based his activism ever since.[8] In January 2017, Ayaba was allegedly targeted for assassination in Brussels, Belgium.[9][10]

Ayaba Cho Lucas (S.G)
Ayaba Cho Lucas in 2022.
Born
Ayaba Cho Lucas

(1972-08-25) 25 August 1972
Northwest Region, Cameroon
NationalityCameroonian
EducationUniversity of Buea (did not graduate)[1]
OccupationLeader of the Ambazonia Governing Council

Anglophone Crisis

As leader of the Ambazonia Governing Council, Ayaba and Chairman Benedict Kuah oversaw the creation of the Ambazonia Defence Forces, which carried out its first guerilla action on September 9, 2017. This was the first armed action by Ambazonian separatists in what would become known as the Anglophone Crisis.[11] This happened seven weeks before the Interim Government of Ambazonia was established, and months before it endorsed an armed struggle.[12]

The AGC's relationship with the Interim Government was oftentimes strained. In March 2019, Ayaba refused to attend the All Southern Cameroons People’s General Conference in Washington, D.C., calling some of the attendants "enablers". The AGC did thus not become part of the Southern Cameroons Liberation Council.[13] During the 2019 Ambazonian leadership crisis, Ayaba supported Sisiku Julius Ayuk Tabe against Samuel Ikome Sako "out of principle". Ayaba argued that it was wrong to attack Ayuk Tabe, who had been under detention since January 2018.[14]

In July 2019, Ayaba claimed that Cameroon had practically lost the war, and that separatist forces controlled 80 percent of the Anglophone regions.[15]

On April 9, 2021, Ayaba held a joint press conference with Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), where they declared an alliance between Biafra and Ambazonia.[16] Ayaba has also proposed an alliance with democratic forces within Cameroon, proposing that Ambazonia should help overthrow Paul Biya.[17]

In March 2022, Ayaba Lucas Cho presented himself, on his Twitter page, as the sponsor of the terrorist attack of Ekondo Titi, which caused the death of seven people, including the sub-prefect and the mayor of this city. in the South West region of Cameroon.[18]

Publication

Ayaba Cho Lucas, published the book "Not Guilty" An African Refugee Experience, which is the journey of a black refugee through the complex and restrictive economic centre of fortress Europe as seen through the eyes of one person.[19]

References
  1. International Campaign for "Justice for the murdered students of Buea" Cameroon (In) Justice
  2. "January 31, 2002 is the new date of Ayaba Cho Lucas court trial in Iserlohn". indymedia-enye. 29 January 2002. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
  3. "The Southern Cameroons Youth League". Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  4. "AMBAZONIANS : NO LONGER FAGGOTS FOR LA REPUBLIQUE". 13 July 2016. Archived from the original on 26 September 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  5. "Persecuted students find shelter in Norway". Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  6. Konings, Piet (2009). Neoliberal Bandwagonism. ISBN 9789956558230. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  7. "A BRIEF HISTORY". Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  8. Trues til taushet, Sørnett, Oct 17, 2012. Accessed Jul 10, 2019.
  9. "ASSASINATION [sic] ATTEMPT OF THE AMBAZONIAN GOVERNING COUNCIL (AGC) LEADER". 29 January 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  10. "Attacks on SCNC activist, Dr.Ayaba Cho Lucas, in Belgium". 29 January 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  11. ADF Lands Ground Troops in Southern Cameroons, Declares War on LRC, Cameroon Journal, Sept 10, 2017. Accessed Apr 19, 2018.
  12. Cameroon: Anglophone Crisis - Dialogue Remains the Only Viable Solution, AllAfrica, Dec 7, 2017. Accessed Mar 9, 2019.
  13. Federalists Meet Restorationists, Which Group Will Perform The Osmosis?, Cameroon News Agency, Mar 29, 2019. Accessed Apr 10, 2019.
  14. Cameroon: Sepratist hardliners react after impechment of detained Ambazonia leader, Journal du Cameroun, Jun 12, 2019. Accessed Jun 12, 2019.
  15. Cameroon's Ambazonia separatists have not carried out torture, insists leader, Sky News, Jul 10, 2019. Accessed Jul 10, 2019.
  16. AGovC Joins Forces With IPOB, Cameroon News Agency, Apr 9, 2021. Accessed Apr 10, 2021.
  17. Ayaba Calls On Cameroonians To Overthrow Paul Biya, Cameroon News Agency, Apr 22, 2021. Accessed Apr 22, 2021.
  18. Sécurité Cameroun : un leader sécessionniste revendique l’attentat à la bombe qui a tué 7 personnes dont le maire d’Ekondo Titi, Agence ecofin, March 06, 2022. Accessed March 06, 2022.
  19. "Book Presentation "Not Guilty" An African Refugee Experience". 22 November 2006. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
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