Cameroonian accused of making bombs for Boko Haram

He was arrested in 2014 in the streets of N’Djamena in Chad.

Dr. Tchipnjo Kouam is currently appearing before the Military Court of Yaounde. He is accused of helping the terrorist group Boko Haram to make explosives. On April 24, 2016 was held the arguments of the defense in this case. This has enabled to demonstrate that his client can not be charged for alleged complicity in terrorist acts. “How can we explain that a pharmacist housed in a well known hotel and the Chadian capital should be treated as a vagabond“, asked Michel Ntchale.

According to the defense lawyer, the charge on his client can not rest on the fact that he was trained as a chemist. This is simply “prejudices“. Besides that he indicates that Dr. Tchipnjo Kouam can not be presented as an accomplice, based on the fact that “the main actors themselves were never presented neither for preliminary investigation nor before the bar“, one reads in the columns of the Kalara newspaper on newsstands this Tuesday, May 3.

In fact, Dr. Tchipnjo Kouam, pharmacist, and also promoter of Pharmacie Vitalis in Douala, was arrested in 2014 in N’Djamena, Chad’s capital. The newspaper said he was staying there to “build partnerships for the marketing of generic drugs in the Central African region.” While visiting a cyber cafe he was then arrested, not being in possession of his ID.

After custody in Chad, he was handed over to the Cameroonian authorities. Detained for a year in Maroua, he was transferred to the Directorate General of External Research in Yaounde. From there he was at the Central Forensic Research of the National Police for investigation. Despite the discovery of “serious mental problems“, he will appear to the Military Court On 10 May, where he will know his fate.