Cameroon: Anglophone Consortium leaders, 25 others due in court today

Dr Felix Nkongho Agbor Balla, Dr Fontem Neba, Mancho Bibixy plus 25 other Anglophones  will today be told whether they will be freed or face a death penalty for acts of terrorism, secesion, contempt against the state , propagation of false information amongst other charges. This as their trial resumes at the Military Tribunal.

It will the second time this case is heard since the merging of the Balla-Fontem-Mancho affair and that of 25 other anglophones who were whisked top Yaounde in the heart of the crisis. The defense counsel has been pleading for their clients to grant bail to the leaders and those arrested within the heart of what has today been termed Anglophone crisis, but the court had given a deaf ear.

The argument whether to grant them bail or not was at the centre of discussion last April 27 when the trial took place, it was then that judges decided to adjourn the case for May 24, 2017. Several persons have been calling on the state to release the Anglophones arrested including Ntumfor Barrister Nico Halle, President of the Bar General Assembly. The detained Anglophones are accused of vandalism, hostility, terrorism, revolution, secession among others.