Arrests of SCNC ACTIVISTS

From Njousi Abang in the Post Newspaper Buea

Komrades,
My attention was drawn to the fact that Dr Nfor Ngala Nfor, leader of the SCNC was arrested this afternoon along with six others (some of whom are Messrs Ngwa Simon, County Chairperson for Meme, Kang Andrew, County Chairperson for Fako, Ofon Peter, Ndung Emmanuel, Febstac Eric and the Southern Zone leader whose name I could not get) at Pa Kang Andrew's residence in Molyko - Buea, SW Region of Cameroon. Dr Nfor Ngala Nfor had just arrived the town and was about to settle down to eat his lunched when he was picked up without an arrest warrant and barred from eating anything. I gathered he had just come to pay an impromptu courtesy visit to the Region this afternoon. He had actually hinted Mola Njoh that he was in town and was going to pay him a visit at 6 p.m. but this visit has not been realized because he is now languishing in the Judiciary Police cell with some SCNC activists who gathered around him to welcome him as soon as he arrived. When I went to the scene, the wife of Pa Kang, the host, informed me that three commissioners of police, the DO of Buea with a contingent of policemen armed to the teeth stormed their residence with five vehicles in combat ready gear at about three thirty p.m. today, searched their house and arrested her guest who was about to eat some food which she had served him and his entourage. I saw the food which the seven of them had been served to eat still standing there most of which was untouched. The children and neighbours who had gathered were mournfully looking around for anybody who could listen to their pathetic tale. Many questions arise fro

 m these constant arrests of SCNC activists: Is this the dialogue which the African Human Rights Court in Banjul - The Gambia recommended? What harm did these personalities commit that they should be arrested at gun-point? Why is one person and some peace loving compatriots, who desire justice for a troubled country, constantly arrested at homes when they are eating or discussing? Where do we go with this unlawful acts perpetuated against our compatriots? The slogan of SCNC seek justice through peaceful means. They have been to courts to seek justice but there is a huge impediment posed by the government of Cameroun. As I write, Pa Kang's child has just taken a pullover and some other food items to give the father at the cell because he has not been very healthy of late.