The National Chairman, John Fru Ndi, led anniversary celebrations in Nkambe, Donga Mantung Division of the North West Region.

The SDF is 24 and the leading opposition party is sounding off about years of work towards achieving genuine democracy in Cameroon. Created on May 26, 1990 with slogans that promote the vision of power to the people and equal opportunities, the SDF is still grappling with challenges and speed brakes to emerge as the ruling party.

It is against this backdrop that the SDF National Chairman; Ni John Fru Ndi launched 24th anniversary celebrations in Nkambe yesterday. It was a rare moment to rekindle hope in militants and state the party's position in the face of security challenges currently staring Cameroon on the face. On the way to Nkambe 48 hours after retiring from the US where he went visiting, Chairman, Fru Ndi told CT that "Vigilance in the face of security threats" will be the focus of his anniversary message.

It is all about the mobilization of Cameroonians to watch out against trans-border criminality and acts of terrorism that could jeopardize the nation's peace. Away from the Chairman; Hon. Cyprian Awudu Mbaya, SDF MP for Donga Mantung who had turned full circle to host the visiting Fru Ndi, said his constituency is lucky to have the SDF Chairman lunch anniversary celebrations in Nkambe before stop overs in Ndu, Tatum, Kumbo on his way back to Bamenda.

Hon. Awudu Mbaya is a believer that the SDF is strong at 24 with the party having moved from the 1990 spirit into real politics where the SDF is now part of the National Assembly and the Senate. To hear him, "The struggle for veritable change still features prominently on the agenda of the SDF until genuine democracy is achieved with a level ground where the will of the people is visible in one man, one vote at the polls.'

Back in Bamenda, birth place of the SDF, anniversary celebrations took place in respective electoral districts with Bamenda II militants filing out at the Mankon municipal stadium while Bamenda I militants joined Bamenda III militants in the neighbourhood of Nkwen for celebrations.