Biya regime says former Minister Marafa is a common prisoner
The CPDM government has rejected calls by the United Nations for the immediate release of former Minister Marafa Hamidou Yaya. The Biya regime responded on Friday against an earlier position adopted on June 2, 2016 by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, following its 75th session in the month of April.
To the regime in Yaounde, the former minister of state, sentenced by the Supreme Court on the 18th of May 2016 to 20 years in prison for intellectual complicity and misappropriation of public funds, worth 29 million US dollars, about 14.5 billion CFA francs that was meant to acquire a Boeing Business Jet for the travels of the Head of State remains a “common criminal and a common prisoner and nothing more than that” noted Issa Tchiroma Bakary, Minister of Communication and government spokesman.
The government spokesman argued that the Cameroonian justice system found him guilty of the facts of embezzlement of public funds for which he was prosecuted, and sentenced therefore to 20 years in prison in accordance with the penal code and the Constitution which is the fundamental law of the country.
Rita Akana (Cameroon Intelligence Report)
16/07/2016 @ 17:17
What goes around comes around. This gentleman is one the architect of the system in place. His role as minister of interior and other key ministerial posts speaks volumes of the importance he held in the regime. what he did to angry and hungry passive protesters in the 2008 manifestation is yet to be eclipse in the memories million Cameroonian. When the going was good the people of Cameroon were stupid. So now that it’s reverse the Cameroonian people shouldn’t be a party to the fight of titans.
Those who eat alone must be hungry alone. Until then long live Cameroon and the justice system.