Yaounde Military Tribunal:Trial of journalists, others continues

The matter was on April 15, 2016, adjourned to May 18, 2016, for prosecution witnesses to appear.

The trial continued at the Yaounde Military Tribunal on Friday, April 19, 2016, of three journalists accused of failing to inform the authorities of threats to State security. Also charged alongside the journalists are a Notary Public and political leader. Presiding at the sitting was the President of the Yaounde Military Tribunal, Col. Mrs. Abega Mbezoa, with Ndzie Pierrot Narcisse and Nkoa Akouna as Military Prosecutors.

The brief court sitting saw the adjournment of the matter to May 18, 2016, for prosecution witnesses to appear in court. Ndeutchoua Tongue Rodrique, formerly of ‘Le Messager’ newspaper and now with Canal 2 International Television, Ebole Bola Félix Cyriaque of ‘Mutations’ daily newspaper and Dr Baba Wame, a lecturer with the Advanced School of Mass Communication, ASMAC, Yaounde, are accused of “non-denunciation” or concealing information dangerous to State security.

Together with Abdoulaye Harissou, a Maroua-based Notary Public and Aboubakary Sidikki, a political leader and businessman based in Douala, all five are accused of having foreknowledge of armed attacks on the East Region by a group of Chadian, Central African Republic and Sudanese rebels. Harissou and Sidikki are accused of assassination, illegal possession and use of a firearm, possession of ammunitions, hostility against the State, revolution and outrage against the Head of State.