As
Cameroon and Nigeria Spin
Border Deal to China Media
Those Illegal Refouled Still
Jailed
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NYP
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, July 6 –After
Paul Biya who
has ruled
Cameroon for 37
years on
January 28 had
his opponent
Maurice Kamto
arrested,
Inner City
Press again asked UN
Secretary
General Antonio
Guterres and
his spokesmen for
their comment
and action, if
any. This came
after Guterres
had Inner City
Press roughed
up on 3
July 2018
after it
interviewed Biya's
Ambassador
about the two
men's Budget
Committee
deals and banned
from the UN
since -
Guterres even tried
to get Inner
City Press
banned from
the Park East
Synagogue,
here, which
was denied /
dodged by his
French spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric, who put
up then took
down a podcast
in which he
brags about
his "mutually
assured
destruction"
relationship
with
journalists, here.
Now with
those
illegally
refouled from
Nigeria
to Cameroon
still
imprisoned
with no word
from Guterres or
his Deputy SG
Amina J.
Mohammed, this
from one of
Guterres' favorite
news sources,
China state
media:
"YAOUNDE, July
5 (Xinhua) --
Cameroon and
Nigeria agreed
on Friday to
take further
measures to
boost
multifaceted
cooperation in
fighting
against
terrorism
along their
borders.
The agreement
came Friday
night
following a
two-day
meeting of the
seventh
session of the
Cameroon-Nigeria
Transborder
Security
Committee in
Cameroon's
capital
Yaounde.
Officials at
the session
resolved to
share
information
"regularly" in
a bid to stop
"terrorist
activities"
including Boko
Haram attacks,
secessionist
tendencies,
illegal
exploitation
of natural
resources,
illicit
trafficking of
firearms and
drug
trafficking
along their
borders.
"We have to
make it
practically
impossible for
criminals to
leave Nigeria
and come to
Cameroon and
for criminals
to leave
Cameroon and
go to
Nigeria,"
Cameroon's
Minister of
Territorial
Administration
Paul Atanga
Nji
said.
"So on both
sides,
administration
should be
strong enough
to counter all
the barbaric
and terrorist
acts that they
want to
perpetrate,"
said the
Cameroonian
minister." Ayuk
Tabe, where
are you? Where
is the golden
statue that Guterres
took from
Biya, and CEFC
China Energy's
bribes to the
UN?
After
Guterres on June
28 tried
to erase his
failure and
failure of
credibility on
Cameroon by
embracing an
attempt to
mediate by
Switzerland, in
Geneva Swiss
police used
tear gas against
protesters
of Biya's
corruption,
right in front
of the UN. Given
Guterres'
track records,
perhaps it
was this that
he was welcoming.
Then
even the Swiss
police arrested
for
roughing up a
journalist six
of Biya's guards
- in the way
the NYPD has yet to
act on
Guterres' abusive
guards Ronald
E. Robbins, who
roughed up
Inner City
Press after it
questioned
Cameroon's
ambassador here,
and others who
didn't give
their names, here.
Inner
City Press live
tweeted
the shameful
May UNSC
session and uploaded
Guterres' envoy
Francois
Fall's
failing
statement here.
More
here.
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