How laying down arms can be made effective

By Mwalimu George Ngwane* The Head of State’s call on 6th November 2018 for separatists to lay down their arms as a peace offering and ceasefire is timely and laudable. Indeed it reiterates an earlier call by the Governor of the North West Region Adolphe Lele L’Afrique as contained in a local tabloid some months ago. The said tabloid carried a front page caption titled “Ambazonia fighters promised huge compensation to surrender weapons”. The full story on page 5 of the newspaper further quotes the North West Governor, Adolphe Lele L’Afrique inter alia “Our children, brothers, sisters and loved ones…