YAOUNDE —
Barely 24 hours after being released from detention centers, some of the people accused of fighting for the creation of an English-speaking state in Cameroon have called for the movement’s leaders to be released if President Paul Biya wants peace in the country.
The detainees’ release last week came after Biya ordered charges against them dropped.
Evelyn Ako, a mother of four, says she spent the night with her husband for the first time in 22 months. She says he was arrested in the English-speaking Southwest town of Mamfe and taken to Yaounde.
“With him besides me, we can work harder,” she said. “He used to give me money to support my children but this year, they are in the house. They have not gone to school because of [his absence]. So this thing has disturbed us a lot. It has disturbed even our family because any money that we gather, we used it to buy foodstuff to go and give him. We use it to buy medicines, dresses.”
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Mukong
December 18, 2018 at 9:52 PM
The buffoons of LRC thought that by embarking on mass arrest of innocent Ambazonian young men and women, they were gong to use their blood thirsty savages call Rapid Intervention Brigade (BIR) to intimidate the rest into submission. Unfortunately for them, our gallant and fearless Ambazonian young men and women decided to use antique guns from the cellar of their parents to defend the defenseless.