Cameroon High Commissioner to Canada frowns at asylum seeker’s comment on alleged atrocities in Cameroon

Cameroon’s High Commissioner to Canada has described as ungrounded statements made by a Cameroonian lady on a Canadian television channel TVA. He said the reports of brutal killings in Cameroon were aimed at tarnishing the image of President Paul Biya’s country.

In a press release on August 2, 2022, signed by the Commissioner’s Advisor, Philipe Fouda Tsila, on behalf of his superior, castigated the statements made by the lady whose asylum claims were rejected.

“As a means to justify her request for asylum, Mrs. OSSOMO NGANDZIGUI thus presented in the eyes of Canadians, Cameroon as a lawless country where “killings” are perpetrated with impunity and everywhere, without any reaction from the Government. The Cameroon High Commissioner categorically refutes the assertions of Mrs. OSSOMO NGANDZIGUI which undermine the image and respectability of Cameroon, which according to him is and remains a State of law, where the various violations of laws and regulations are the subject of public action carried out by the competent authorities, through impartial investigations and judicial proceedings during which the people involved are called to account for their actions”.
The Cameroonian authority stressed.

In the press release, the Cameroon High Commissioner says he deplores when someone claiming Cameroonian nationality uses outrageous, misleading, and borderline delusional remarks against their own country of origin to arouse emotion and attract compassion only to get what they desire.

The High Commissioner called on the Cameroonian community and the entire public to redouble their vigilance and to show discernment in the face of information circulating on social media and which sometimes are believed and reported by many media organizations.

The Canadian television channel had broadcast a news item where a lady named OSSOMO NGANDZIGUI presented herself to the Canadian authorities as a Cameroonian seeking asylum. When she was asked to provide concrete evidence for the acceptance of her asylum application, she narrated that she will lose her life if she returns to Cameroon. She went further to say her husband, who is a member of a gang has warned her that he will kill her if she returns home.

Her Asylum claims have been rejected and now she is fighting to remain in Canada using her alleged situation back home.