My name is Ahmed ABBA. Journalist and correspondent For Radio France International-RFI- in the Hausa language Department.
My journalistic activities for RFI were re-classified as “national security threat,” by the regime of Yaoundé. Precisely, I was framed for my professional and responsible coverage of the terrorist organization Boko Haram. The regime of Yaoundé, which framed me, claimed that my reportages of the Boko Haram constitute “whitewashing and apologizing for terrorist activities in Cameroon”
As a result, on July 2015, I was arrested and detained by the Cameroonian secret service for doing my job. I was thrown into a maximum high security prison where I was chained and tortured for several weeks.
Now, I am one in a long list of collateral damage of a government which is known for its lack of support of free speech and intimidation and brutality against the press. How do we get here? The answer is that, In Cameroon, it does not take that much to be labelled an “opponent” or “terrorist” by the government, particularly, if you are perceived as not reciting from the government “sacred scripture” and its Gospel of authorized truths. Thus, after a Kafkaesque trial, I was convicted and sentenced by a Kangaroo Court to ten (10) in prison on trumped up charges of “whitewashing and making apologies for terrorism.”
For not reciting the government of Yaoundé’s Gospel of authorized truths, I AM NOW AHMED ABBA, MARTYR of PRESS FREEDOM IN CAMEROON.
*I AM AHMED ABBA. * Joint Liberation Campaign (CL2P-HURINEWS) of Cameroonian journalist Ahmed ABBA, correspondent for Radio France International (RFI) in the Hausa Language
