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AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
14 December 2008
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The President of the International NGO, Citizens Association for the Defence of Collective Interest, ACDIC, Bernard Njonga, was Wednesday, December 10, arrested by elements of the Central Police District in Yaounde.
The activist and eight others were brutalised and arrested at the ACDIC headquarters at the Rue Ceper neighbourhood as they mobilised some 1000 farmers to state a protest march against what they call high level corruption at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Two journalists, Jean Baptist Ketchateng of the French daily Mutations and Armand Okol of Satellite Radio and Television in Yaounde were also arrested in the police blind raid. They were later released from detention after the police identified them. The police detained Njonga and eight of his collaborators, accusing them of organising an illegal meeting.
The ACDIC President had mobilised over 1000 farmers from all over the ten regions of the country to protest against the fact that a circa FCFA 1.2 billion allocated to Common Initiative Groups engaged in the production of maize was embezzled with the complicity of officials in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
In a an investigative study ACDIC published recently, it was revealed that out of the FCFA 5.2 billion allocated for CIGs involved in maize production from HIPC-I funds, 1.2 billion has been embezzled in three years through the use of fictitious CIGs by government officials.
Interpreting the study as a flagrant indictment of the Minister of Agriculture, the Divisional Officer for Yaounde III, botched its launching at the Yaounde Hilton Hotel on December 4.
He said so long as the Minister did not give his blessings to it, it was illegal. Journalists and onlookers who had come to witness the launching of the report surreptitiously left for the ACDIC headquarters where the report was launched.
Another launching ceremony billed for the Hotel de Deputes in form of a dinner with MPs Tuesday, December 9, was banned by the administration. Njonga's arrest therefore is the culmination of his hide and sick game with the administration ever since he published a study of stinking corruption in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Paradoxically, the ACDIC president was arrested when government officials had roll out the drums to celebrate this year's International Human Rights Day under the canopy of National Commission of Human Rights and Freedoms.
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