Kondengui: The Hawk's Detainees Send a Request to Paul Biya

Those who are detained as part of Operation Sparrowhawk are hoping for a potential presidential pardon.

"They sentenced me to fifteen, two septennates. Now he can give me back my freedom. "It is in these terms that Titus Edzoa was speaking on the columns of Jeune Afrique in 2011 while he was still serving his sentence at the State Secretariat for Defense (Sed) in Yaounde.

At the time, the former secretary-general to the presidency of the Republic asserted that his legal difficulties were completely unfounded. Simply because the head of state was "poorly surrounded", and that he "leads the Cameroonians to their loss." A speech that certainly matched the presidential ambition he had displayed in April 1997, year of his resignation from the government and his incarceration.

Kondengui: The Hawk's Detainees Send a Request to Paul Biya

The surgeon then thought that his presidential dream was an "intellectual approach to which Paul Biya, blinded by an incompetent entourage, did not understand." February 2014, Titus Edzoa and Michel Thierry Atangana, both incarcerated in coaction of misappropriation of money public, are released.

On March 1 of the same year, a few days after his release, the former collaborator of Paul Biya gives a press conference in Yaoundé. On his political ambitions, he asks for hindsight by praising the virtues of silence. The former SGPR suggests that he resigned from the government, without his resignation from the CPDM. An affirmation that settles the debate on its presumed presidential ambitions.

Since that day, Titus Edzoa quietly follows his cure of silence. We saw him at the side of Ni John Fru Ndi at the SDF congress in Bamenda, at the end of February 2018. Does he hope for a return to favor at 73 years old? All hope is possible. Like Titus Edzoa, many of the former managers imprisoned as part of the fight against corruption and embezzlement act as political prisoners.

They think they are victims of political cleansing. But few are the ones who attack Paul Biya head-on. The entourage of the Head of State and the authorities in charge of legal issues are incriminated for their lack of objectivity in the management of Operation Sparrowhawk. Most prey of the hawk therefore did not change dance steps with the change of pace.

They are in the hope of a hypothetical liberation. It was this hope that was the main idea of ​​the preaching of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Yaoundé, Jean Mbarga. A few weeks ago, saying the Easter Mass in the central prison of Yaounde, the celebrant affirmed: "Jesus is able, even after death, to bring you out of the tomb. All the more, after your incarceration, he will get you out of here. "

Words of hope for Jean Baptiste Nguini Effa. "When one believes in Christ, prison is not a grave, one resurrects with Christ and one will be free and as Archbishop Jean Mbarga said, one was never free until one is in prison. I was sentenced to 30 years in prison on October 12, 2012. On July 20, 2017, the Supreme Court declared that this conviction was completely annulled and broken. This is a resurrection, "said the former director general of the SCDP.

But most of them are waiting for a potential solicitude of the Head of State, hoping that after Titus Edzoa, the soap opera series episodes.

Source -- CamerounWeb