Wife of missing engineer accuse authorities of "inactivity"

Irène Flore Tchamba is still waiting for the authorities to keep the promises made to her and other members of her family.

Interviewed by the Cameroonian website hurinews.com, the wife of the Cameroonian engineer who disappeared in Congo-Brazzaville during the night of 7 to 8 April 2011 expressed indignation towards the action of the Cameroonian authorities.

She considered that the cry of distress launched by the Cameroonian authorities at a press conference on September 8, 2011 in Yaounde has not been heard.

"When the first motion had been filed to the General Delegation of national security, it made us understand there that the request was listed at the Direction of surveillance of the territory. My father-in-law, my mother-in-law, my sisters-in-law and I went there, we were told there that it was not up to the family to follow the issue and that if there is news; the authorities will make us know. But until today, nobody has ever contacted the family", Mrs Tchamba noted.

She added that the delegate-general for national security who allegedly promised her father-in-law to take control of the folder has done nothing so far. At that time she was surprised by their silence, Irène Flore Tchamba solicited "a little effort" on the part of the authorities deemed capable to help unveil the truth about the fate of her husband.

The wife of the missing engineer said she still awaits the Cameroon Embassy in Congo-Brazzaville to contact them as requested by the Minister of external relations in June 2013. She said she has never been contacted by any Congolese judicial authority for the purposes of the investigation.

But Madam Tchamba does not lose hope that one day the truth about the disappearance of her husband will be unraveled. "I am sustained by faith, which gives me the strength, whatever the degree of inactivity of persons who are supposed to booster investigations on this case, the light will eventually appear, I am convinced."