IF WE CAN'T DIALOGUE, WE WILL NEED PEACE TALKS
On Saturday 17th March 2018, Professor Ivo Leke Tambo, Board Chair of the Cameroon GCE Board and former Secretary General of the Ministry of Secondary Education was abducted by unknown masked and armed men. The Professor was put through a humiliation ritual as he was stripped naked and a video of the scene circulated on social media. I watched the video with great sadness as it shows not only that things are not getting better on the ground but also that morality and public decency are rapidly evaporating. Evidence from what followed the capture of Sub-divisional Officer of Batibo and the Regional delegate for Social Affairs for the North West Region is that government's response will be increased violence. Prof Leke Tambo is the highest profile personality captured so far and it seems that if the opportunity is presented, the dissidents will either seek to capture more or will start performing acts of violence on those captured. On gov...