Cameroon’s top opposition leader, Issa Tchiroma Bakary has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the Biya-led administration to release all post election detainees under a generally skeptical stance on the just ended presidential election results.
Reports indicate many activists and opposition supporters were arrested shortly after Paul Biya’s swearing in as President of the West African country once again.
In a video posted on social media on Sunday, Tchiroma accused the government of “state gangsterism and state terrorism.”
He also asked authorities to stop practices that he said include “ethnic purges.”
“The Cameroonian people no longer want them, the Cameroonian people can no longer tolerate them,” he said.
Tchiroma came second in the presidential election with 35.19% of the vote, finishing behind behind Paul Biya who scored 53.66%, according to official results. But the opposition leader considers himself the president-elect of Cameroon.
