Despite strong allegations that the Senior Divisional Officer, SDO, for Upper Nyong in the East Province, Sylvestre Essama, September 17, opened fire on demonstrators, protesting against electricity blackout in Abong Mbang, government has tacitly shirked responsibility for the death of two students.
In a press briefing in Yaounde on Tuesday, September 18, the Minister Delegate at the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation, MINATD, Emmanuel Edou, rather blamed the killings on demonstrators, who he claimed, were violent in their protest against the absence of electricity in the area for several months.
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