Poor detention conditions oblige the Anglophone detainees to launch an SOS appeal for food assistance.

The appeal letter from Kondengui Prison, Yaoundé is signed by the triumvirate: Mancho Bibixy, Penn Terrence Muluh and ESO Wskemba. The ever increasing number of detainees is so troublesome to these people who understand how harsh and crude the feeding conditions are in Yaoundé and especially for the Anglophone detainees.

The Anglophone detainees are deliberately starved, tortured and traumatized so that they can gradually suffer from mental degradation and then die. Francophones are too crude and viciously wicked and this has been exhibited during this crisis. How can these two separate entities that have nothing in common continue to pretend that they can live together and under the same roof as well as taking the same instructions? This missive was drafted on the 20th of January 2018 by Anglophone illegally detained persons to people of good will. In their appeal letter disclosed by their Advocate, Barrister Agbor Balla on social media, these illegally detained people have categorically denounced and rubbished the living conditions of prisons across Cameroon.

These illegally detained people as well called for inclusive dialogue aimed at putting an end to this prolong crisis. There are illegally detained persons who were kidnapped since 2016 and have never been sentenced,while others had been conditionally been released though never convicted of any crime.  

The remaining 105 are possibly going to be sentenced if inclusive dialogue aimed at breaking the deadlock isn't attained. They are likely to be sentenced by the kangaroo courts, not because they are guilty but because the French Military Magistrates are tale guided,aimed at humiliating the Anglophones.

They assume that this is aimed at teaching the Anglophones a bitter lesson that they won't forget so soon or in a hurry. Unfortunately this isn't helping matters at all as the situation keeps escalating on a daily basis. Coming to terms with the realities of a very devastating prison condition, the government through the Minister of Justice and keeper of the seals, Laurent Esso solicited and obtained from the National Assembly an increase of four billion francs on the initial budget previewed for the the social welfare of the Penitentiary services across the country. This increase merely and barely witnessed the daily food ration rise from 290 FRS to 408 FRS.

On the other hand their medical coverage merely and barely witnessed an increase from 5172 FRS in 2016 to 35.000 frs in 2018. While waiting for the actualization of the reforms,the illegally detained Anglophones in Kondengui are openly expressing their disappointments and disillusionment with the manner at which their cases are handled, suffering from constant hiccupping or adjournments. They now really on the support of people of good will.

Barrister Agbor Balla equally has launched an appeal for food and medication to be generously contributed for these illegally detained Anglophones.