André Blaise Manka returns to prison

The Cameroonian justice is still blaming him for the destruction of the statue of French General Leclerc.

The Diaspora has decided to mobilize for his release. Brice Nitcheu, president of CODE, threatens to deposit a statue of Adolf Hitler at the French National Assembly if the President of that Chamber does not intervene in favour of the imprisoned activist.

André Blaise Manka has returned to prison. The nationalism activist was sent to the central prison of New Bell, in Douala, for the past few days. Like the other time, he is alleged to have demolished the statue of the French General Leclerc.

The Court of First Instance of Douala-Bonanjo condemning the activist demanded that he pay the costs involved in the Leclerc monument Rehabilitation. Essama declined but decided to offer instead monuments representing the Cameroonian heroes. Apparently, he is not alone in his fight.

He received the support of the politician and defender of human rights Jean De Dieu Momo. He decided to defend him in court. Other supports for Andre Blaise Manka are abroad. Brice Nitcheu, president of the Collectif des organisations démocratiques de la diaspora (CODE), the journalist Abdelaziz Moundé Jimbam and even the leader of the MANIDEM, Mariane Simon Ekane who is currently staying in Paris have all decided to rally for his release.

Moundé Njimbam is mobilizing through the ‘Support Committee for Manka Andre Blaise “since Monday, April 4, 2016, the public in Paris and France. A poster campaign, a demonstration outside the Leclerc monument in Paris and a public lecture are also planned. He denounced the “ignominy leading Africans and especially in Cameroon, prosecute citizens and throw Cameroonians in prison for the sole fact that they claim monuments for their heroes in their countries, as the General Leclerc, Marechal of France, rightly on his own."

For his part, Brice Nitcheu welcomes “an act of bravery and daring” of André Blaise Manka and called in a letter to the President of the French National Assembly Claude Bartolone, to “use the influence that France has over the Cameroonian government for the immediate release of our comrade, and dropping charges against him. ”

Otherwise, CODE is arguing that André Blaise Manka, by opportunely dismantling the statue of General Leclerc, did what the French would’ve done if their government erected a statue of Hitler in France, threatens to go to the French National Assembly “with a statue of Adolf Hitler.“