The president of MRC Maurice Kamto can move freely. The government decided on Tuesday to lift the blockade around his home, a few days after the regional election contested by the opponent was held just over two months ago.
as reported from Yaoundé, Polycarp Essomba
It was at the end of the morning on Tuesday that the news broke. Police and gendarmes at the entrances to Maurice Kamto’s residence and in front of the latter’s doors were urged to lift the siege.
They were around twenty permanent, and often a few more, who had changed day and night for more than two months to prevent Maurice Kamto from moving outside his house. In this way, the de facto resident was placed, all visits to the opponent were filtered and most were banned.
Maurice Kamto only received his lawyers and sometimes family members. This placement under house arrest began on September 20, two days before the march that the opponent had called for to protest the convening of regional elections, to demand an end to the conflict in the English-speaking regions and the resignation of President Paul Baya. Qualified as insurgents, these demonstrations had been suppressed by the authorities and led to the arrest and imprisonment of several MRC militants.
These regional elections finally held on December 6 “without major incident” according to the government. The force therefore decided to loosen the grip around its main opponent. Although his case is under review under the terms of a press release from the Minister of Communications published on Tuesday.
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