The Cameroon Journalists’ Trade Union, CJTU, has condemned a death threat made by Sali Babali, City Mayor of Maroua, towards a journalist working in the city.
CJTU reacted in a recent release signed by Marion Obam, President of the institution’s National Executive Office.
According to the release, the City Mayor threatened journalist Ousman Boubakari Sali on April 4, 2023, following a publication the he made on March 30 about an abandoned municipal dump site in Maroua.
“You, the journalists, you criticised me, and I’m going to kill you,” CJTU quoted the Mayor in their release.
In this light, the Trade Union strongly condemned the action, which according to it, consist in “breaking the thermometer instead of treating the fever.”
They equally called on the national and international community bear witness to the “threats to freedom of expression.”
The threat on journalist Boubakari Sali came at a time journalism in Cameroon has been threatened by the killing of popular radio host Martinez Zogo and another radio journalist and priest Ola Bebe, in Yaounde earlier this year.
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