Cameroon – Anglophone crisis: Massive Arrests In Wum, Mile 16 As Young Men Now in Hiding
Some Youths Being ferried To Station After Arrest Wilson MUSA
Military trucks stormed the Mile 16 neighborhood in Buea Sub Division in the late hours of Monday February 13, 2017 with massive arrests of youths especially those who could not present their National Identity Cards.
Inhabitants of Mile 16 and its environs were taken unaware when military men jumped from the trucks and started making random arrests.
Unconfirmed reports say the military men were searching for some prisoners who escaped after allegedly taking part in the 11 February March Past in Bongo Square under the guise of University Students. Most of those who marched under University of Buea had shaved their hairs leaving many to conclude that they were Police trainees and prisoners hired to fill in the blank spaces.
Another Massive arrest took place this Tuesday in Wum, Menchum Division in the North West region; dozens of youths were taken into custody at the Wum Gendarmerie Brigade. Today’s arrest took place in front of the Convoy of North West Governor Adolphe LELE L’Afrique who is on a working visit to schools under Menchum Division to get first hand information on the effectiveness of back to school. The Governor will later visit Boyo Wednesday.
Most of these arrests are have not been justified but follows spates of confrontations with local administrators in these areas especially on 11 February 11, 2017 where Anglophone schools boycotted in the two regions.
Par Wilson MUSA | Cameroon-Info.Net
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West Cameroon: Extended Justice Ayah drama may yet end with a twist
14, February 2017
The arrest of Lord Justice Paul Ayah Abine of the Supreme Court of Cameroun has reportedly received strong condemnation from the international community. CIR has gotten intelligence that President Biya has voiced his anger against Justice Minister Laurent Esso who lured Ayah Paul into the Supreme Court.
The arrest has made a mockery of Cameroon as a nation within international circles with some European investors pulling out of already signed business ventures. Sources at the Supreme Court hinted that the Anglophone judge cannot be tried under the prevailing circumstances and the stipulation provided for by article 629 of the penal code.
Laurent Esso who ordered his arrest has come under attack from other Francophone judges of the Supreme Court and inside sources say, Esso may be on his way out. The inexperienced Justice Minister is trying to get Lord Justice Ayah to announce that he has retired from the highest court in the land due to his age.
Understandably, Ayah is 65 and like any other Cameroonian Supreme Court judge, he can only retire when he wants. The retirement that is being proposed to him presently, has been interpreted as a diabolic harsh ploy seeking for ways and means to jail him. Lord Justice Ayah has blatantly refused to speak to junior judges at the military tribunal in Yaoundé.
By Sama Ernest
