Northerners in Cameroon deny seeking secession.

(From Panafrican News Agency (PANA) Daily Newswire)

Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - Northerners in Cameroon, who petitioned the authorities in September last year complaining that they were being marginalised, have dismissed speculations about a plan to secede from the rest of the country.

One of the main signatories of the petition, Antar Gassagay, told PANA the objective of the memo was solely to denounce what the people of northern Cameroon considered a neglect of that part of the country.

The memo, signed by mostly former government ministers, has just been translated into the ten major languages of the region and recorded in audiocassettes.

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