As
Cameroon of Biya Locks Up Lawyer
Ndoki UN of Guterres Entirely
Silent and Corrupt
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NYP
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, July 13 –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 on
July 12-13
it's reported
that The Vice
President of
the Women’s
wing of the
Women’s wing
of the
Cameroon
Renaissance
Movement,
Barrister
Michelle Ndoki
has been
charged with
illegal
emigration by
the Military
Tribunal in
Yaounde. This
was made known
on Friday July
11 as the
court
established
charges
against
members of the
Cameroon
Renaissance
Movement who
are detained
at the
Kondengui
Maximum
security
prison.
Michelle Ndoki
who was
arrested in
Limbe as she
attempted to
leave the
country will
remain in
detention
following the
charge. All
attempts by
her lawyers
after filing a
habeas
corpus
petition for
her release
were thrown
out by the
Court of First
Instance in
Yaounde and
the Appeal
Court of the
Centre
Region.
She will
remain in
detention
alongside the
President of
the CRM
Maurice Kamto
and his allies
who have
equally been
charged by the
Military
Tribunal.
And from
Guterres?
Nothing. He is
corrupt.
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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