Weeks back, some six Survie Cameroon Survival Initiative, SCSI volunteers were picked up by the forces of law and order in Yaounde for distributing hygiene kits. They were later held for days before being released.
The chairman of the SCSI management committee, Penda Ekoka announced yesterday that three other volunteers have been arrested. He says they had been peacefully distributing face masks and hydro alcoholic gels to the populations of the city of Sangmelima on Saturday May 23, 2020.
Condemning the act, Penda calls it “police barbarism.”
“SCSI also recalls its six volunteers arbitrarily arrested in the Mokolo Market in Yaoundé… Two other volunteers arrested on May 14, 2020 while filming the departure of their comrades arrested and placed in police custody,” he says.
“The only crime of all these young humanitarian volunteers is to have helped their compatriots confronted with COVID-19,” Penda laments.
Citing the rapid increase in the number of COVID-19 cases recorded in the country, he says “the arrest of young volunteers who sacrificed their time to distribute preventive products to their compatriots is more than immoral”.
The SCSI leaders after being interrogated by government days back told the press they were not going to stop their activities.
This was followed by more distribution of COVID-19 prevention kits in other towns across the country.
Mimi Mefo Info
When Median Bah Ekue heard villagers saying she was dead, she could not speak to…
A new Human Rights Watch report finds that fifteen years after promising to halve gender-based…
Today, 25 June, marks exactly one year since Issa Tchiroma Bakary did something Cameroonian politics…
Paul Biya has been pronounced dead more times than most leaders are pronounced anything. The…
Mayo-Tsanaga continues to bear the scars of a security crisis that has dragged on for…
Le plus grand tournoi de football de la planète a déjà atteint son rythme de…