This is the voice of Ambasunia. Truth in resistance, clarity in crisis.
Today is Sunday, August 31st, 2025.
Fellow Ambasunians, our editorial today is titled Augustine Ngom Jua, betrayed but never broken. Augustine Ngom Jua was born in 1915 in JNjinikom, Boyo Division. A teacher by profession, a nationalist by conviction, he rose to become the Prime Minister of West Cameroon in 1965 after John Ngu Foncha.
Ngom Jua stood tall as a defender of the federal compact of 1961, insisting that West Cameroon’s laws, schools, finances, and dignity be preserved against French-backed centralisation. He championed intellectuals and professionals. Unlike today’s mentored Biya regime that hunts down Ambazonian brains, Ngom Jua uplifted them.
He even opened the annual General Meeting of the Cameroon Society of Engineers, affirming that a nation must be built on knowledge, not crumbs. But in 1968, betrayal struck. Augustine Ngom Jua was forced out, replaced by Solomon Tandeng Muna, who dismantled West Cameroon’s autonomy and paved the way for Ahidjo’s fraudulent 1972 referendum.
Ngom Jua was humiliated, politically exiled, and died in 1977, betrayed but never broken. Today, the betrayal continues through the sons of those who sold us out. Barrister Akere Muna, son of Solomon Tandeng Muna, still chases crumbs from Yaoundé.
He even dreams of becoming Vice President of La République du Cameroun, a position not found anywhere in their constitution. Francophones mock us as Anglophones who will accept anything, and Akere’s hunger for crumbs only proves them right. Contrast this with another son of Njinikom, Francis Nkwain, also a teacher, but one who chose a different path, opportunism and complicity.
As Biya’s Minister, he shut down Cameroon calling, silenced Anglophone voices, and entrenched his family in the regime. His sons-in-law, Victor Arrey Nkongho Mengot and Martin Bang, became regime pillars. As Minister of Mines, Nkwain was embroiled in bribery scandals over Yaoundé’s water contracts.
These are the fruits of betrayal. Two sons of Njinikom, two paths, Jua: integrity, vision, and resistance. Nkwain, opportunism, betrayal, and crumbs.
Ambazonia must remember. Ambazonia must choose. Our destiny is not for sale.
Our dignity is not for crumbs. This has been the voice of Ambazonia, truth in resistance, clarity in crisis
This is the voice of Ambasunia. Truth in resistance, clarity in crisis
