As the Anglophone crisis, which has metamorphosed into an armed conflict rages on, the government of the Republic of Cameroon, through its military is currently targeting innocent Anglophones, and activists.

The government has consequently launched a manhunt for them for siding with Separatists.

As a consequence, more and more Anglophone activists are going underground as they have been declared wanted by the military. Search and arrest warrants for their apprehension all over the national territory have been established.

The alleged activists both home and abroad have been considered as dangerous and threats to the public. The population has equally been urged to be vigilant and report to the closest gendarmerie or police stations. Those who have successfully escaped to countries where the respect of human rights is prime for protection, their names are still in the military database pending arrest and prosecution.

The innocent alleged activists include Nji Alfred Ndifor, Eko Olivechance Liyengu, Mbone Akanji Martin, Mbanwei John, and Charlette Nkwa Mbiaya.

As we went to press, we gathered that the entire population of Limbe, is still to come to terms with the fate of one of their illustrious daughters, 30-year-old Eko Olivechance Liyengu, whose whereabouts remains cloudy since June 2025. Reports say like many other youths who have disappeared amidst the armed conflict raging on the restive North West and South West Regions, hers is more of political witch-hunting.

Family sources say Liyengu, a Human Rights activist with particular interest on Child Protection Rights, was arrested by the military on May 17, 2025 while returning from sharing with children of some communities in Limbe considered as separatist zones, her knowledge she gathered from the 5^th Global Conference on Children and Youth which took place from the 27-29 of March 2025 in Oxford UK where she presented a paper on “The Impact of Parent-Child Relationship on the psychosocial well-being of Adolescents in Limbe, Cameroon”.

THE SUN gathered that Eko Olivechance Liyengu, a regular participant on radio debate programmes, critic of the regime and Columnist, was arrested on grounds that she is siding with separatists. She was accused of returning from separatist zones where she must have exchanged information with them, thus concluding that she is aiding and abetting terrorism in Cameroon.

Despite the fact the Eko struggled to explain, eyewitnesses disclosed that she was bundled into the military truck and whisked to their camp in Man O’ Bay and later to Buea. In Buea, she was further accused of going to the UK to collect aids for separatist and tarnishing the image of the Cameroon government through her presentation, judging from her published abstracts with Proud Pen.

Family sources hinted that Eko Olivechance Liyengu was released on the fifth day and reminded that her case file will be sent to the military prosecutor for prosecution, and to report at the military prosecutor office once a week. Despite battling with health issues following the injuries sustained while in military detention, Eko Olivechance went underground and later escape for safety when she received a distress call from her husband while at a pharmacy to purchase drugs that the military came looking for her in the house.

It should be recalled that this is not the first time Eko Olivechance Liyengu has been arrested, tortured, molested, and detained in very cruel, harsh and degrading inhumane detention conditions by the military. In 2016, as one of the youth coordinators of the Cameroon People’s Party, CPP, of Edith Kahbang Walla for the North West and South West Region, she was arrested alongside other members of the party at the sidelines of a planning meeting at Buitingui Community Hall. They are said to have been planning to go and join their party leader’s peaceful protest in Yaoundé against the marginalisation of Anglophones. The outspoken critic of the Yaoundé regime was later on arrested, molested, tortured and detained in very degrading conditions on April 15, 2019 during a military raid in Buea. She was arrested for instigating violence in Cameroon through her newspaper articles, radio talk shows and for siding with separatists.

Despite the fact that her whereabouts remains cloudy, the military still keeps making impromptu patrol to their neighbourhood just to apprehend her after locking up her husband to produce her without which he won’t be released.

Government forces have engaged in extrajudicial killings, random looting, shooting, torture, molestation using disproportionate and indiscriminate force, abusing and arresting protesters, burning more than 200 villages, 500 houses, displacing hundreds of thousands of civilians, attacking hospitals, beating and raping women and girls.

The Anglophone crisis began 2016 with Common Law lawyers and teachers strikes, which later attracted the people of the two English-speaking regions of the country, as they said their accumulated grievances emanated from marginalisation by the majority French-speaking part of Cameroon, inequality in employment, adulterations of the judicial and sub educational systems.

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There is no denying the fact that the Cameroon military has continued to kill children and rape young girls. These crimes are heart-breaking.

As a Human Rights Activists with a keen interest in Child Protection Rights, after serious investigations amidst ongoing armed conflict in the North West and South West Regions, with the death toll increasing as the days go by, keeping children vulnerable following the brutal extrajudicial killings of their parents by the military, it is my humble opinion that the military must be investigated. Those found wanting, should be prosecuted to serve as deterrent to avoid future brutal killings of innocent Anglophone Cameroonians.

The cases of these extrajudicial killings by the military as narrated by victims abound.

When I visited Monica on 3 September 2021, Monica, was just 20 at the time. Opon asking her questions, she said she was afraid when she saw the Cameroon military arrived in her village, Ngie in Momo Division of the North West Region of Cameroon, and began attacking homes in retaliation for the killing of one of their soldiers by separatist fighter earlier that day. She explained to me how she grabbed her child and ran to hide in the house, but the soldiers forced the door open. They ordered her husband to lie on the floor, and told her to leave her daughter to one side. One of soldiers then raped Monica. As her husband attempted to defend her, they shot him three times: in his head.

After about an hour, they took Monica and her child outside and their house was set ablaze. They drove them to an army camp, where they were held with ten others. The youngest of them was just 13 years old.

Each day, they raped them one after the other. They were only released after spending 75 days in detention, when one of the soldiers agreed to help them and informed his commanding officer about what was happening in the camp. But by that time, two of the girls were already dead.

Narrating her ordeal, Monica told me that because of the rape, she later gave birth to twins.

Anizette is another girl whom I spoke with from Batibo still from the North West Region of Cameroon of a disgusting and heartbreaking incident that happened to her. At the time of my interview with her, she was still panicking and suffering from trauma.

She told me that she while she was having dinner with her grandparents in 2021 when the Cameroon military men suddenly entered their home, killed her grandparents and raped her.

The girl child in Cameroon remains a victim of this senseless war. When will this war end?

As an activist, I have spoken to members of government and military officials, who have consistently maintained that their troops have not committed these crimes. However, contrary evidence shows otherwise.

Despite the repeated threats on my life, I will stop at nothing to ensure that the perpetrators of these atrocities against Anie, Monica and other girls, are brought to Justice.

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