BY KUBU EVELYN
Family members in the restive Regions of the North West and South West of Cameroon, have been having the sleepless nights since the Anglophone crisis which started in 2016 and metamorphosed into an arm conflict. The government has embarked on pursuit to fish out activists both at home an abroad for persecution and prosecution in dreaded military courts in Cameroon for alleged terror- ism-related offences, has life imprisonment as maximum jail sentence. A majority of Southern Cameroon National Council, SCNC, activists, a pressure group clamouring for the total independence of the former British Southern Cameroon and the creation of a new state of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and Human Rights activists have already been declared wanted by the government who has promised to guillotine them if found around the country.
Mancho Bibixy, Tse Conrad and Penn Terence are examples of activists who were arrested in January 2017, stood trial before the military court and are currently serving a life jail sentence at the kondengui maximum security prison for supposed terrorism charges.
Cameroon not guaranteed
As the war rages on, more and more Human Rights crusaders, SCNC, activists remain the target of the Cameroon government. The government believes they are the ones fanning the armed conflict that is now characterized by extra- judicial killings, burning of vil- lages and houses, molesting, torture and detention in very inhumane conditions of innocent civilians, including arbitrary arrest, living many Anglophones as Internal Displaced Persons, IDP’s both in Cameroon and Nigeria.
This hunt for Human Rights – crusaders and activists have caused many of them to go under- ground. One of those whose where about remains cloudy as a result of this is one SCNC militant and Human Rights activist, Dioni Martin Mokwe from Banga- Bakundu, Meme Division South West Region. The activists who has not been seen or heard from in Cameroon since January 2019 is said to have undergone several, tortured, molestation detention, and placed under harsh inhumane detention conditions. He has been declared wanted terrorism-related offences since his escape and is currently under the military search light.
According to his wife, Dioni spouse Kange Nanyongo Faith,
who is in distress over the disap- pearance of her husband, Mr. Dioni Martin took part in a peaceful march organised by SCNC in 2017 as an SCNC activist, and a volunteer in a Human Rights group in Cameroon. This move, we gathered, landed him in trouble; he was whisked alongside others to the kondengui maximum prison in Yaounde and was released after intervention of the Apostolic Church authorities
where he was a preacher and used most of his sermons to preach about the Anglophone crisis.
After his release, farmily sources hold that Dioni Martin, was assigned to gather statistics on human rights abuses perpetuated on innocent civilians by the military. He was was identified by the military, who arrested him alongside others at a check point along the Tiko- Douala highways. Dioni, was given draconian treat- ment, and because he was bleeding profusely he was admitted in a local clinic. Reports say while at the clinic, his father made arrangements for him to escape. As we went to Press we gathered that the government has launched relent- less efforts for him to be arrested.
Cameroon that used to be an island of peace in the Center Africa Sub Region, is now having sleepless nights with constant sporadic gun shots and cross fire between the military and separatist fighters otherwise known as amba boys who have taken up arms against the state clamouring for Independence of former British Southern Cameroon or the creation of a new state known as Federal Republic of Ambazonia.