General Talk and Do

Biography The man who eventually adopted the pseudonym "General Talk and Do" has claimed that he took part in the peaceful 2016–17 Cameroonian protests, only to be disappointed by the authorities' response. According to one of his audio messages, he was part of a protest march in Kumbo during which protestors had asked the traditional ruler of the Nso people, Fon Sehm Mbinglo II, to listen to their grievances. However, the fon rejected the protestors' demands.

From 2017, the Northwest Region and Southwest Region of Cameroon became the site of a civil war known as the "Anglophone Crisis" between the Cameroonian government and Ambazonian separatists. Having joined the insurgency from the start, He and his followers set up a tax for local drivers from the Mbveh Market from 2018, forcing them to pay a toll when moving through rebel areas. In August 2022, the Cameroonian commander Bouba Dobekreo falsely claimed that his forces had killed General Talk and Do. In October 2023, General Talk and Do forbid any civilian traffic on the Tobin-Kumbo road after the Kumbo Council ordered the local drivers to stop paying taxes to the area's separatists. In October, General Talk and Do and his militia organized a parade in Kikaikom to celebrate the anniversy of the Ambazonian independence declaration.