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Cameroon Security Surround Opposition Leader's House, Teargas Protesters

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   YAOUNDE - Cameroon police have surrounded the home of
   opposition'¯leader Maurice Kamto and detained an unknown number of his
   supporters. Kamto, who accuses President Paul Biya of stealing the 2018
   presidential election from him,'¯called for protests Tuesday against
   regional elections and Biya's leadership of the country.'¯ Authorities
   deployed riot police and troops, some of whom used tear gas on the
   protesters.

   The opposition Cameroon Renaissance Movement (CRM) says riot police and
   military troops on Monday night forced themselves into the home of
   party leader Maurice Kamto.

   The secretary-general of the CRM, Christopher Ndong, says police
   detained a number of their supporters, including Alain Forgues, the
   party's legal advisor.

   "They [police]arrested professor Forgues and some militants
   [supporters]who were there," he said. "They had some beatings and Kamto
   told them that they would not stop him. So, we are going to march. We
   are not afraid of arrest because we know what we are doing is within
   the ambits of the constitution. It is our right to manifest and our
   march is peaceful."

   Ndong says police detained an unknown number of people and took them to
   unknown locations.

   CRM leader Kamto, he says, was neither beaten nor detained. But
   security has surrounded his home and there is concern that if he
   leaves, he could be arrested.

   Ndong says police also detained opposition supporters in Cameroon's
   coastal city of Douala, where they used teargas on protesters, and in
   towns in the west and north.

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