GCI Updates

Global Conscience Initiative organized a one-day workshop on December 10, 2007, to commemorate the 59th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. About thirty persons drawn from various backgrounds in Kumba assemble in the Global Conscience conference hall and for close to five hours brainstormed on articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights […]

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 Chief Executive said the arrest of the SDF leader by the Meme administration on Election

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 Court ruling asking her to table the case of the Southern Cameroons before the International

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 Court ruling asking her to table the case of the Southern Cameroons before the International

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 them as bail fee. Global conscience in the past 10 days has received over 14

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 article are just not true, investigated, biased, misleading and have all the elements of malice”,

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 describes as crimes against humanity. Samba said that responsibility must go to the head and

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 the awaiting trial on August 25, 2006, without any statements recorded from him. GCI Volunteer

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 from the suspect only five days after his arrest and demanded FCFA 50.000 as a

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 the exact cause of death. The Prison authorities refused to give good information about the