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Cameroon: Change Activists Advocate Freezing of Biya's Swiss Account
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The Post (Buea)
4 July 2008
Posted to the web 4 July 2008
Peterkins Manyong With Online Reports
A Swiss-based activist group has said it is imploring Swiss authorities to freeze President Paul Biya's account in that country and repatriate the stolen money.
The Chairman of the Cameroon Action Group for Change, CAGC, Daniel Tabeng, said they sent a memo to the President of Switzerland copying the UN.
"Investigations will take time but the result will be fruitful. 700 US million dollars stolen by late Nigerian dictator, Sani Abacha, were frozen. Mobutu's too. Sensitisation is already on. We are launching CAGC this month and installing branches in all parts of Europe. The UK branch will be launched on July 26," Tabeng told The Post online.
He noted that many Swiss NGOs that could have given the Biya regime financial aid are afraid to do so because the money would end up in Swiss banks.Promising hell for Biya, Tabeng recalled that in the memo he sent to the UN and Swiss government he also called for the release of those who were convicted for the February riots.
According to the activist, the fact that Biya's children attend school in Switzerland is another reason why any upheaval there gives the Cameroonian president nightmares.
"You know Switzerland is a very sensitive country to African leaders who have embezzled huge sums of their people's money and stashed in banks there. So, it's like when Switzerland quakes they wake because of their private interests there."
He promised to make Switzerland uncomfortable for Biya if he continues to oppress Cameroonians.Tabeng condemned the President's decision to postpone the appointment of ELECAM members, describing Biya as an even greater trickster than Robert Mugabe.
"He is jittery about anything that can loosen his stranglehold on power," he said.
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He stated that CAGC's aim is to sensitise the international community on acts of human rights violations like arrests and torture of political opponents and subjugating Cameroon's Anglophones.
Wow! As a Cameroonian all I can say is wow. LOL. A bit slow are we. It's about time.
Hi , I'm a Cameroonian living abroad , every day I woke up from bed I look at myself through the mirror and I ask my self a question "when will I see my home land glitering like Newyork , Chicago, Pennsilvenia . Phily , Paris , berlin , swiss etc?". This has always been my worris from the day one I enter this so called free country. from the air I started seeing things and Istarted asking question to this people how did they get all this things done . They told me that they... [Read Full Text]
Dear Hugan,I read your outcry.I read how you decried the belly politics we have in our land.My advice as a last resort is for you to never cease praying.These people together with their white accomplices are the very embodiment of demonic forces roaming our planet today.Don't think u can beat them by just talking.The only One to end this open exploitation is God Himself;but (unfortunately for us),we want it now. He is not deaf,He listens to our cry.Just a little while longer and all crying history will be concluded.Never mind,that day is fast approaching.I see it rising with an emerging... [Read Full Text]
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