Yerima Djoubaierou, a whistleblower who went missing in December in the Adamawa region, is reportedly being detained at the state secretariat of defence (SED).
His crime is that he filmed someone in the ruling party’s regalia being in possession of hundreds of ID cards that reportedly register ghost voters.
Instead of praising and rewarding Yerima for exposing wrongdoing, they are now stripping him of his freedom.
After the video of a man with ID cards went viral, causing a stir among politicians, Yerima went missing.
L’Oeil du Sahel, a French-language paper popular in the northern regions, said it has traced the disappearance of this whistleblower to SED.
SED secretly detains people over major national security issues.
Despite the investigation from L’Oeil du Sahel, SED has not issued a statement indicating whether the man is in its custody or not.
CRM Party urges CPDM to free Yerima
Following the news of his discovery in SED, the Cameroon Renaissance Movement party led by its president, Maurice Kamto, is pressuring the ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement party to free Yerima.
Maurice Kamto also believes that the Cameroon government is responsible for the disappearance of Yerima.
Yerima, currently detained at SED in Yaounde, in the cells of the Central Service for Judicial Research. Kamto describes the facility as an official torture centre for opponents of the regime, where hundreds of CRM militants suffered martyrdom in 2019 and 2020.
“Let the former CPDM deputy of Vina, the president of the CPDM section of Martap, and all those who are directly or indirectly linked to his kidnapping, deportation, and sequestration at the SED take action to put an end to his torture.” He wrote on Facebook.
He further added that alleged electoral fraud, which has subjected YERIMA DJOUBAIEROU to inhuman treatment, is beneficial to the CPDM president, who is also the President of the Republic. Kamto said Biya has every power to act to dissociate himself from acts constituting crimes against humanity by ordering the immediate release of Mr. DJOUBAIEROU.
To him, kidnapping from security officials is not new in Cameroon.
“I invite Cameroonians to remain vigilant, because we all now have proof that those who take advantage of the deadlock in which the regime in place has placed our country do not shy away from any forfeiture or violence and now constitute a real threat to each citizen and to peace in Cameroon,” he said.
