From Wilfred Nformi in Kumba
Security
forces in Kumba, Meme division of the south west region, The CameroonWatch has learnt
from reliably sources have reportedly intensify search for a suspected activist
belonging to the now outlawed Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC.
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| Zowku Hyscent |
The young
activist whose name we got as Zowku Hyscent Uvalkal is believed to have fled
the country in October 2016 when mass protest by minority English-speaking
Cameroonians demanding reforms began in Anglophone Cameroon.
Zowku Hyscent,
a university graduate who like his father has been a staunch SCNC activist, is
said to have been distributing T shirts and other paraphernalia of the
separatist group before later going into hiding.
His father
had earlier been arrested and has since remained in detention though charges
are yet to be pressed on him. It emerged from sources that Zowku’s father had
opted to singlehandedly print T-shirts for the separatist group.
Nearly a
hundred Anglophones were also arrested in the wake of the crisis that began in
October 2016.
The Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, it should be said is a self determination organisation seeking the
independence of the Southern Cameroons from the predominantly French
speaking part of the country.
It followers
say the body is a non-violent organization with the motto "The force of
argument, not the argument of force."
In January
2017, the regime of 84 year old Paul Biya through the ministry of territorial
administration and decentralization banned the Southern Cameroons National
Council SCNC and the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium.
Both groups,
it should be pointed out have overtly oppose what they term the marginalization
of Anglophones and violations of the terms of union that brought British
Southern Cameroons and French Cameroon together in 1961.
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