BY SIMON NDIVE KALLA
Cameroonians living abroad who have been taking part in protest against elections to hold in the English Regions of the Country have been the point of target by security officials.
Both abroad and back home known as ground Zero, activists and supporters of the separatist movement, the Southern Cameroon National Council, SCNC, have been declared wanted.
Shortly after the movement was banned two years ago, their leaders alongside that of the Anglophone Civil Society Consortium were arrested and jailed at the Kondengiu Central prison.
For eight months they were kept and accused in accordance with the 2014 law on Anti terrorism.
Though a good number of them were release due to pressure, the crackdown for more followers reached its peak when the Anglophone crisis turned itself in to a gun battle between fighters and the Army of Cameroon.
There has been a series of mass arrests and arbitrary detention of the fighters since the crisis escalated.
The advent and insistent of the government to go on with Presidential elections before calling for meaningful dialogue has pushed most young Cameroonians at home to either engage in protests or join the Ambazonian Defense Force.
Those abroad have embarked on demonstrations in front of diplomatic missions and consular offices for the international community to hear their cry.
This seems to be giving the government a bad reputation in terms of international relations and have since been bent on tracking down those they term as destabilzers of the regime.
Massive checks at major airports have been going on for young Cameroonians returning from Nigeria, South Africa, Belgium, the USA and many other countries believing to be harboring Anglophone Cameroonians who are suspected to have taken part in staged demonstration abroad.
Those who succeed in coming back are potential targets when they are identified by the secret survive of the force.
The case is know of a certain returnee youth, whose name we got as Gabriel Tibo Wose Kinge suspected to have taken part in demonstrations in South Africa against the holding of Election before a call for dialogue in the wake of the Anglophone crisis.
Our investigation reveal that, security operatives had been tracking the young Wose Kinge whom the miss each time by an inch.
Due to his slippery nature, his home was demolished and his car shattered leaving the Wose to be living in hiding.
There have been constant threats on his family members to produce him, though they too claim he is nowhere to be found after the incidences.
It is believed that Cameroonian youths who belong to the SCNC living abroad, are responsible for financing the Conflict.
It is even worse when they come back home as they are seen as coming not just to finance but to join the fighters in the forest.
This has made security officers go on rampage to either arrest and most of the times kill on the spot any one they considered as promoting the secessionists vision.
If not killed on the spot, any one arrested is prosecuted for Act of Terrorism which according to the 2014 Anti Terrorism Law, civilians are judged in a military court and may face a sentence of between 25 years and life imprisonment and at a certain degree, a death penalty.
International bodies and human rights organizations have since described the law as a very bad law which favors the regime and limits freedom of expression.