Decision to bring Ahidjo's remains is family affair -Biya insists

The Cameroonian government is still insisting that the decision to bring the remains of Ahidjo to Cameroon from Senegal is a family affair, but widow Germaine says the government is blocking the entire process. Former ministers, diplomates and important personalities have died out of the country but were flown to Cameroon and honored.

Yet a former president dies and the state says family have to decide. Even after signing Amnesty on April 23, 1991 forgiving 1984 April 6 Coup plotters, the state is still reluctant to bring the remains of Mr Ahidjo to his land.


As we remember 25 years after the death of the first president of Cameroon, we also remember one event which has since been used as a remembrance of the animosity that reigned two years after Ahidjo resigned.

What Biya has forgiven but not forgotten. The April 6 Coup according to official statistics had the following:


1,053 people arraigned
436 accused
617 acquitted
256 Gendarmes missing
Tribunal gives 46 death sentences with 3 persons in absentia
35 execution took place
2 life sentences
183 people sentenced between 2 to 20 years.
183 discharged
20 additional investigations for suspended cases
A great majority pardon as Amnesty signed in 1991-in which Ahidjo is involved.