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Cameroon: Businessman to Sue Police Superintendent for Assault
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The Post (Buea)
25 July 2008
Posted to the web 25 July 2008
Ernest Sumelong
A Buea based businessman, Adolph Molua Bibi, who trades in forest products, is considering legal action against an Assistant Superintendent of Judicial Police, Solomon Dibonge, for assault.
Molua Bibi told The Post that the officer tried to victimise him with the intention to extort money but when he (officer) failed to achieve his aim, assaulted him.According to the story, the Buea Judicial Police had launched a hunt for scammers two months back but the officer in question had allegedly used the opportunity to hunt even innocent people in a bid to get money from them.
The Superintendent had even reportedly used warrants of arrests in his possession, stealthily arrested and released people unconnected with scamming without the knowledge of the State Counsel who reportedly issued the warrants.
Bibi told The Post that the officer came to his house in his absence with the intent to arrest him. "I reported the issue to the State Counsel and presented my business documents to exculpate myself from the false claims linking me to any scamming business.
When the State Counsel learned that I was a genuine businessman, he instructed the officer to hands off me. After the Superintendent failed to achieve his aim, he went around making public utterances that he would deal with me and make me sleep in the police cell."
Going by Bibi, he was in a bar with his friends recently when the officer came around and called him to a corner as if to discuss something important. Bibi said he thought the officer came to apologise for the past incidence but the officer accused him (Bibi) of organising secret meetings and talking against him. Bibi said the officer brutalised him and teargased him.
"When I fell to the ground and in desperation gave my phone to sympathisers insisting that they should call my lawyer, he got enraged; jumped at me, broke bottles and destroyed other property at the bar.
He also cursed and questioned what lawyers can do to him. He said he had his uncle who is the Inspector General of National Security No 3, Kome Ntungwa, and that nothing can happen to him," Bibi said.
Immediately after the officer had left, Molua Bibi said, a nearby bailiff, Eyong Bisong, came to the scene and made a report of the damages.The Post learned that the Police Superintendent carried out the act when he was on leave and also he was not on any police duty.
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The Post learned that the said officer has severally used his position and carried out illegal arrests and detentions with similar motives.Bibi said he is bent on taking legal action against the officer and that he hopes to get legal redress for the assault. According to him, it would deter the officer from harassing him or other innocent people.In spite of efforts to get the officer to comment, he could not be available.
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