Young Secessionist Activist Escapes From Detention
By GEORGE FON IN MAMFE A young man whose names we got as Tiku Kingsley Egbe is reported to have escaped from detention after he was arrested in his hideout in his village Ntenako, Manyu Division of the Southwest Region. Tiku Kingsley Egbe alongside some other youths were picked up by security officers in a raid that left many others who tried to intervene manhandled and teargassed. The February 5, 2018 arrests had been described as arbitrary and condemned by Human Rights Groups who say at the time of the arrest, Tiku or the others were not posing any threat to national security or peace in any form. Tiku is reported to have escaped from the detention facility through an unknown means and ever since, security forces have been on the look out for him. We gathered that Tiku has severally been accused of being a is a staunch member of the Southern Cameroon National Council, clamoring for the separation of Anglophone Cameroon from Francophone Cameroon, which he has often denied claimi...