By Cassimando
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. Minute by Minute Report on Cameroon and Africa
The 81 SCNC activists who were arrested
and detained in Kumbo since July 27, 2013 have been released in Bamenda on
August 3, 2013. It is alleged that the mixed contingent of police and gendarmes
stormed a private resident where the 81 activists were holding a meeting. It is
alleged that the 81 activists were latter transferred to Bamenda upon the
request of the North West Attorney General. Taking advantage of the absence of
the Attorney General the detainees upon arrival in Bamenda were ferried to the
Regional delegation of Public Security. Sources say also arrested was SCNC Chairman
Nfor Ngala Nfor as well as a six month pregnant woman. The eldest among them is
said to be about a 100 years old.
More so, it is alleged that 31 of the
detainees were locked up in a cell of 41m by 41m square while four others were
left on a corridor on bare cement floor. Besides, the house where they were
arrested was also ransacked by the police and gendarmes. Classified sources
hinted that Barrister Gabriel Chumbon filed a “mandamus” to the regional
delegate for National Security which is an order from the court for the
detainees to be released.
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. Minute by Minute Report on Cameroon and Africa
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