Buea: Gendarmes arrest Comedian cum promoter, CY International, without warrant
Gendarmes without an arrest warrant stormed the residence of Cameroonian comedian, CY International on Sunday night, picked him up aftwe a complaint filed by the President of the Cameroon International Film Festival, Agbor Gilbert.
CY International, who spearheads an “80/20 campaign” supposed for the valorization of Cameroonian content was arrested due to an outing he made concerning a Nigerian actor Alex Ekubo who visited Cameroon. The outing cannot be found on his page again.
“Alot of hate speech , xenophobic outings especially latest one on Alex Ekubo”. A source close to CAMIFF boss told CNA.
The areest of Tayong Cyprian popularly known as CY International, came a day after his birthday.
But his team has argued that five Gendarmes arrested him without a warrant. They think that this is an arrangement between the Gendarmes and Mr Agbor to frustrate his 80/20 campaign.
Our source at CAMIFF said, the President “filed a complaint normally and dropped his statement” but did not state whether they saw a warrant.
Prince Mykel Inobi, a key stakeholder at CAMIFF uploaded a post on his Facebook wall few hours after the arrest stating that, “today is a great day! 99 days for the thief – 1 day for the Owner. Now you all will C Y #xen0ph0bic approach to chasing clout is bad for our ecosystem.”
