Several British Southern Cameroonian citizens, members of the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), were arrested in the Tiko on October 6th, 2008 by the colonial occupation forces of the French Cameroun Republic. Their crime? Meeting as free men and women in a private residence.
The British Southern Cameroons government considers this arrest and detention as a criminal kidnapping, and one more in a historical pattern of state-sponsored acts of terror by the occupying French Cameroun Republic in a desperate need to hold on to their increasingly tenuous presence in the Southern Cameroons territory.
We have received reports that these detainees have been beaten and tortured by the criminal and brutal French-trained gendarmes of the Camerounese occupation forces. Those arrested (ages are in brackets) are:
1) Chief Ayamba Ete Otun (84), Chairman of the SCNC
2) James Sabum (64)
3 Ngoe Alius Mukube (62)
4) Emmanuel Fongoh (62)
5) Mary Bati
6) Sylvester Taku (68)
7) John Babila (62)
8) Ndikum Linus (70)
9) Ndifor Joseph (68)
10) Jacob Sama (70)
11) Wilson Fokum (60)
12) Freeboy Acho Eboa (62)
13) Agbor Fothung (81)
14) Arrey Mathias
15) Fokum Andrew
16) Tita Nji Christian (62)
17) Tintanti Moses
18) Yume Peter Findi (64)
19) Stephen Mbah C
20) Laurence Nwellem
21) Mukete Samuel
22) Ofon Jaspa
23) Tamfor Bless.
24) Tambo George Wongunwun
We are calling for the immediate release of all of these British Southern Cameroons nationals and remind the French Cameroun Republic and her colonial agents in the British Southern Cameroons territory, including the perpetrators of this umpteenth criminal act of kidnapping, colonial governor Louis Zanga and his friend, Jules Marcellin Ndjaga, the so-called SDO of Fako that they will he held personally responsible for the well being of our citizens under their detention.
Media & Communications Department
British Southern Cameroons Governemt
