Last Saturday, May 20, 2017
marked exactly four months since soldiers bundled Supreme Court deputy advocate
general out of his residence in Yaounde and took him manu militari to the
detention facility of the state secretariat for defence, SED.
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| Justice Ayah Paul Abine |
To this day, the super scale
magistrate who is said to be going blind in the dungeons continues to say his
detention is illegal and that he is still unaware of his supposed crime. His
community manager wrote in a Facebook post last Friday: “But my morale is
exceedingly high and I am very serene for I know The Good LORD, the ultimate
and incurruptible judge Himself fights for me. I have lived an exemplary life
throughout my career in strict respect of the law and in all honesty and
integrity. My hands are clean and so I fear not.”
The post also makes mention of
the detainee’s worsening health condition. “But my health on the contrary is
not at its best as I have picked up a heart condition while my sight has
seriously (especially my left eye) depreciated. In the face of the silence
maintained by the authorities as to who gave orders for my abduction and what
evidence they’ve got against me, I am abandoned to rumours all of which are
laughable;” the post reads partly.
In Ayah Paul’s voice, the
communicator questions rhetorically; “why am I not taken to court like all the
others picked up on account of the Anglophone problem in order for me to defend
myself against all that is being rumoured (in very high place) in open court
before all Cameroonians?; why am I kept here in complete ignorance of what my
crime is (if any exists in the first place)?; why are the authorities
completely silent as to the reasons behind my being kept here; not even has the
national station, to whom I pay taxes, as much as mentioned my name? what is my
crime?
But while these questions are
being raised, some Francophone tabloids have already sealed Ayah’s fate. One of
them went to the extent of announcing the imminent revocation or dismissal of
Ayah from his post of Advocate General
of the Supreme Court to facilitate his trial for colluding with secessionists
or terrorists!
It should however be recalled
that the former no-nonsense Member of Parliament and leader of the PAP party
has been taken to the Mfoundi High Court twice, but has been denied bail. His
family has also been requesting his release, citing the law and his deteriorating
health as indisputable reasons.
Other local and international
organisations have also called for his immediate release.
culled from The Horizon Newspaper
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