Cameroon: Police Brutalise, Arrest Anti-Corruption Activists

14 December 2008

The President of the International NGO, Citizens Association for the Defence of Collective Interest, ACDIC, Bernard Njonga, was Wednesday, December 10, arrested by elements of the Central Police District in Yaounde.

The activist and eight others were brutalised and arrested at the ACDIC headquarters at the Rue Ceper neighbourhood as they mobilised some 1000 farmers to state a protest march against what they call high level corruption at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

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