Cameroon: State Journalist Arrested Barely A Few Days After World Press Freedom Day

Yaounde, Cameroon; Teke Julius, journalist with the Cameroon Radio Television, CRTV has been arrested and detained at the gendarmerie bridage in Limbe, capital of Fako Division, South West Region while he was covering the visit of the Prime Minister, Head of Government, Philemon Yang.

The arrest took place on Monday the 9th of April, 2016 and before Julius was put off communication, he told me by telephone that ; «I was recording some comments being made by some senoir officials concerned with the completion of the Limbe Omnisport Stadium and other projects the PM is visiting when some men in uniform came and asked me to follow them. I later found myself at the gendarmerie brigade where one of the men in uniform told me that I was under detention at the behest of the SDO of FAKO for unauthorized recording».

Shortly after that conversation, Teke went off communication and all attempts to contact him again have gone futile.
The Prime Minister, Head of Government arrived in the South West Region on Sunday the 8th of April, 2016 to inspect the newly constructed football stadium there, along with other infrastructure meant to facilitate Cameroon’s hosting of the Women Africa Cup of Nations in November, 2016 and the Africa Cup of Nations in 2019.
Cameroon is rated not free, by Freedom House in the 2016 freedom of speech and of the press perceptions.
Reort by John Mbah Akuroh,
Journalist, CRTV- Editorial Adivsor
At The Times Journal, Secrzetary General of
The Commonwealth Journalists Association, CJA,
President of the Cameroon Anglophone Newspaper