Anglophone Crisis - Hon. Joseph Wirba On BBC "Governor Of Southwest Calls Us Dogs"

Hon. Joseph Wirba On BBC  "Governor Of Southwest Calls Us Dogs".According to the parliamentarian, Jakiri is in shock since the death of the gendarme last week.

Interviewed Sunday, Nov. 12 by our colleagues on London radio, BBC, MP Joseph Wirba decried the current climate in his constituency, Jakiri, North West Region. Regarding the circumstances of the death of Constable Major Djonlay, the deputy of Jakiri indicates that a group of unidentified people had broken into the local Technical High School, molested students and kicked them out of school.

It was after this act that gendarmes were sent to hunt them. " We can not say exactly what happened afterwards. We learned later that afternoon that a gendarme had died. It's really sad, "says Joseph Wirba.

Anglophone Crisis - Hon. Joseph Wirba On BBC  "Governor Of Southwest Calls Us Dogs"

The MP indicates that following this death, the city of Jakiri was more militarized to find the alleged killers of the said policeman. He regrets, however, that the soldiers sent to this city do not investigate this dead man but instead commit abuses.

" They are breaking doors, taking out the occupants and beating them up, " he said, adding that " the Jakiri people are in a state of shock ". Joseph Wirba points out that several people from Jakiri took refuge in forests and bushland for fear of being abused.

" These soldiers do not even identify people. They hit everyone. Last Saturday, I was going to a nearby village as part of my parliamentary tour when these same soldiers threatened to tear my vehicle off, "said Wirba, who later informs that the car's records were taken by the military.

The member says that since September 2017, more than 1,000 people in the Northwest and Southwest have been injured by law enforcement. It also notes that nearly 150 people are missing, nearly 122 people have been killed and more than 40,000 have taken refuge in neighboring Nigeria.

To get out of this crisis, MP Wirba notes that those who govern must first recognize that they (English speakers) are human beings in their own right. " As you have already followed, the Governor of the Southwest Region we (English-speaking) calls dogs. When you are an authority and you refer to the governed as dogs or cats, that means you do not recognize their humanity, "said the MP.Anglophone Crisis - Hon. Joseph Wirba On BBC  "Governor Of Southwest Calls Us Dogs"