Cameroon - Anglophone Crisis: Fru Ndi Freed After 18 Hours In Captivity!

Par Atia T. AZOHNWI | Cameroon-Info.Net
Bamenda - 30-Jun-2019 - 06h34   4719                      
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Cameroun: L'opposant historique anglophone John Fru Ndi, Yaoundé, 8 octobre 2011- AFP/SEYLLOU
Kidnapped by unidentified armed men Friday, June 28, 2019 at about 3:30pm, Cameroon’s fiery opposition leader Ni John Fru Ndi regained his freedom at 9:30pm on Saturday, June 29, 2019.

The National Chairman of the opposition Social Democratic Front, SDF, party was dragged out of his Ntarinkon residence in Bamenda Friday afternoon by armed men as he was about eating to take his medication.

The SDF National Secretary for Communication, Denis Nkemlemo and the SDF Shadow Cabinet Minister for Information and Media, Jean Robert Wafo confirmed the release of the opposition kingpin later Saturday night.

“The National Chairman of the SDF has been released. He was released 30 minutes ago and is now at his residence in Ntarinkon Bamenda and will soon explain the circumstances surrounding his abduction,” Wafo said.

It should be noted that Fru Ndi had just returned from the hospital and was taking lunch to take his drugs when gunmen forced their way into his house, shot the leg of one of his bodyguards and dragged him away.

"It is confirmed. We are told that armed men broke into his compound when he was just taking a meal after having left the hospital where he had been hospitalized. They asked for him, shot one of his bodyguards on the leg and dragged him [Fru Ndi] out of the compound to an unknown destination," Nkemlemo said.

It is not known who is behind this new abduction of the opposition leader but it would be recalled that he was first kidnapped by armed men [fighting for the independence of a country they call Ambazonia] in Kumbo on Saturday, April 27, 2019 and only freed after over half a dozen hours in "detention".

The National Chairman of the Social Democratic Front (SDF) party was heading a delegation to Kumbo to bury Hon.  Banadzem Joseph Lukong, the party's group leader at the National Assembly when he was taken into "custody" by gunmen.

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