Global Conscience Initiative has characterized the arrest and detention of the Kumba Electoral District Chair of the Social Democratic Front, SDF party, as arbitrary and a gross violation of the constitutional and human rights of Mr. Asapngu Ferdinand. Global Conscience…
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Southern Cameroons Case: PAIN/GCI drag Nigeria to African Commission
People Against Injustice (PAIN) Gambia, and Global Conscience Initiative (GCI) Cameroon, have filed a joint complaint to the African Commission on human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) against the Federal Republic of Nigeria for the latter’s refusal to respect a Federal…
Southern Cameroons Case: PAIN/GCI drag Nigeria to African Commission
People Against Injustice (PAIN) Gambia, and Global Conscience Initiative (GCI) Cameroon, have filed a joint complaint to the African Commission on human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) against the Federal Republic of Nigeria for the latter’s refusal to respect a Federal…
Growing Arbitrary Arrests, Detentions, and Extortion in Kumba Police and Gendarmerie Stations
In spite the introduction of the new Criminal Procedure code that guarantees some basic human rights of suspects, police and gendarmes in Kumba continue to detain persons for prolonged periods of over a week demanding huge sums of money from…
GCI Opinion: Chronicle Article on Kumba Council is Biased and Misleading
Global Conscience Initiative’s Chief Executive has described as abuse of free speech an article published in the Chronicle newspaper No. 113 of February 6 – 18, 2007, alleging a financial scandal rocking the Kumba Urban Council. “The allegations in the…
UB Crisis: GCI Says ‘NO’ to impunity
Global Conscience Initiative has strongly condemned the brutal killing and wounding of students in the on-going strike action in the University of Buea, and has demanded for the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators of what GCI CEO Samba Churchill…
GCI Reports: Man Charged FCFA 100.000 for Courting State Counsel
A 27 year old man was charged FCFA 100.000 by a female State Counsel whom he tried to court through phone messages. The man, who police arrested on the orders of the state counsel, was immediately shaved and remanded in…
GCI Reports: Kumba Gendarmes Continue to Detain Suspect After Ten Days
On August 19, gendarmes in Kumba raided the home of one Tebe Valentine at 4.00 a.m and, without any warrants, searched his home before whisking him to their station and dumping him in their cell. The gendarmes recorded a statement…
GCI Reports: Tuberculosis Scare in Kumba Prisons; Three Deaths in 72 hours
Two Nigerians and a Cameroonian have died in the Kumba Prison within seventy-two hours. Prison authorities, who reluctantly admitted the deaths, said the three died from tuberculosis although they admitted that no autopsy was carried on the corpses to establish…
GCI Reports: Another Youth Dies in Prison Cell
A 27-year-old man died in the Limbe Police cell on July 16, 2006, and was abandoned in the Limbe Provincioal hospital mortuary. Limbe police shot and arrested the alleged armed robber, Fuh Nestor, during a shoot- out in Bota –…