Human Rights Center continues to decry threats on book author’s family

 

Human right Barrister Nkongho Felix Agbor, Founder and Chief Executive officer of the Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa has continued to condemn threats directed towards the family and collaborators of the Author and Editor in Chief of Dark Clouds, Lightening and Sunshine for Cameroon, Ikome Ferdinand Nanje. This condemnation has continued in the wake of a newspaper publication in a Cameroonian weekly The Sun No. 304 of Monday February, 23, 2015 which highlighted threats on the author of the publication in question. 

Barrister Nkongho Agbor who is former Legal Officer of the United Nations Missions in Afghanistan and Barrister Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Cameroon says the threats on Ikome Ferdinand Nanje’s family and collaborators is gross violation of Human Rights especially since Ikome Ferdinand Nanje is a member of the center for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa and a vibrant civil society actor and political activist.

The book in question which was published almost two years ago by Philip Wotany Etoma covered topics like “Calculated and wicked plundering of Cameroon’s Human Resources with Little or No Regard to the Plight and Welfare of the Common Man”, and Cameroons Peculiar Political Landscape and Appraisal.” Considering that the author and publisher worked in collaboration with other associates like Akime Lovet and Ehabe Nzang, these two have faced a lot of intimidation, brutalization and all types of humiliation from forces of law and order.  While the author Ikome Ferdinand Nanje and the Publisher Philip Wotany Etoma are presently nowhere to be found, Akime Lovet and Ehabe Nzang are at the moment in detention.   

According to an Affidavit which was earlier issued from the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa CHRDA, it  reiterated that the Victims were no longer safe in a country where the safety of their lives could not be guaranteed considering the high degree of imprisonment of political prisoners in the country at the moment.  

The author was defended in court by his lawyer Barrister Nnoko Ngaaji at the Tiko Court and all efforts to get him freed failed as the author and his co-accused were declared as threats to the peace of the state. This accounts for their disappearance since they have absconded to an unknown destination.