Yaoundé: Central African nation the Republic of Cameroon is the latest target in godman Nityananda's fictive state Kailasa. The government of Cameroon has now issued a press release to clarify that the country has not formed an alliance with the United States of Kailasa.
The statement is a response to the circulation of a forged document 'Bilateral treaty for recognition of the sovereignty of the United States of Kailasa'. Cameroon’s Minister of Finance Louis Paul Motaze on April 12 stated that the document is aimed at obliging the country to "recognise the existence of the fictive state" and "approve the transfer of parcels of land" for an amount of 3,500,000 Euros, reported The News Minute.
According to the Cameroon News Agency, only the Head of the State - President Paul Biya - has the "powers to sign and negotiate such conventions''. The fake document had Motaze’s signature and fraudulently affixed the seals of the state. The minister added that an investigation has been launched to identify who is behind the falsified document.
Kailasa has been making drastic attempts to establish its legitimacy and in recent months has made several fake claims of forming bilateral relations with real countries. Many of them have been debunked. In March, the city of Newark in the US scrapped a sister-city agreement with the fictive state and said that the agreement was based on deception.
In February, a representative of Kailasa Ma Vijayapriya attended the 19th United Nations Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (CESR). The 'country' tried to run a narrative that it has been recognised by the UN. However, the global body soon clarified to BBC that the inputs given by Kailasa will not be taken into consideration because its comments were "tangential to the topic at hand." The UN also clarified that the discussions were open for anyone to attend.
Kailasa was set up by Nithyananda, a self-proclaimed godman who is also accused of rape. He fled India in 2019 after the court issued a non-bailable arrest warrant.
It is operated via a group of NGOs located in multiple nations. When asked about its existence and location, the press secretary of the 'nation' said, "We are a revival of the ancient enlightened Hindu civilisational nation and operate through a group of NGOs, recognised by the United Nations, operating from multiple countries across the world. It was established much in the spirit of a country like the Sovereign Order of Malta, a borderless service-oriented nation."
On its website, it is described as the "greatest Hindu nation on Earth'' and it is a "nation without borders created by dispossessed Hindus who lost the right to practise Hinduism authentically in their own countries." It has its own passport, flag, bank, and even flights to it.
The country has no confirmed geographical location. There were rumours that the 'godman' bought an island off the coast of Ecuador and his nation is located there. But, the Ecuadorian administration confirmed that it does not exist.