8 CRM political prisoners back home after serving prison sentences in 3 detention centers
A total of eight (8) political prisoners, all members of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement (CRM) political party of Prof. Maurice Kamto have been freed from different incarceration centres where they spent about two years. The 8 were welcomed in their home town, Sangmelima in the Dja and Lobo Division of the South region on November 8.
Speaking to their loved ones, friends and comrades, they said they had been locked up in the Mfou prison in Yaounde where they spent six months and 11 days, the Yoko prison where they spent another two months and 13 days and the Yaounde central prison where they spent 16 months and 4 days.
Though warmly welcomed, they had a bitter story to narrate:
“If you really want to know Cameroon better, my dear brothers and sisters, visit its prisons. They are horrible with inmates served inhumane treatments. Even the treatments given to slaves were better. Thank God for Prof. Maurice Kamto because we are free and back home in jubilation. He asked us to tell the people of Sangmelima not to bow to intimidation from tyrants in the government. We should be brave and face them,” Weubass Pierre Raoul a CRM former detainee explained.
The time spent incarcerated, they said, has only strengthened their determination to fight for a just course.
“We are determined than before. We have serious work to do. Cameroon is ours. Everybody has to contribute their quota to make it a better place,” Weubass Pierre Raoul added.
The former detainees have called on evryone to mobilize and fight for the transition of power in Cameroon to become a reality.
