« I beg you my brothers and sisters, give this money and come, I beg you, I beg you, I beg you “. These are the petitions of a man who is tied on all fours behind his back, with his head down. Crying with tears, under the eyes of people who cannot be seen in the video, but who speak English. Decorated with khaki shorts and a blue T-shirt, his exposed body parts suggest that the man had been tortured.Lying on the ground, similarly dressed, was Roland Ewane, the lieutenant ofIdabato removed on 1^Yes last October by armed men posing as Nigerian pirates. Since then there has been no news from the civil administrator.

Voices ask him ” how much they agree to give » to free him. And torment the man to answer” seven hundred thousand“. And his captors continued: ” If they don’t take it with us, what can we do for you?“. This video was sent by his captors to his wife. ” They started from 5 million with the petitions, they went to 3 million dollars; from 3 million dollars, they went down to a million. And since yesterday, they have been talking about 700 thousand dollars, ten generators, a 200 horsepower Yamaha engine and the release of their people who find themselves in prison in Buea.», Reported the lieutenant’s wife. The family is far from raising that amount.

The days Roland Evan obviously counted, the family almost broke down: “You can see how my head is shaking. It’s like I have Parkinson’s disease; daily stress. When pirates call morning, noon and night with a voice that could kill someone, in threats and then you hear the voice of your husband crying in the background. Brother, how do I feel? I almost died! I’m already half dead! », Trusting the poor woman who could find advice from the Prime Minister (whom she was unable to meet) to turn to God. The “diplomatic” issue is between Cameroon and Nigeria.

Roland Ewane was kidnapped on 1^Yes last October in the middle of the night. The coincidence with the date (commemoration day of the reunification of the former French and English Cameroon) suggested the separatists who are fighting for the separation of the two English-speaking parts of the country. ” It was 2:45 a.m. on October 2, I think it was Tuesday, when I got a call from the mayor of Idabato: “Mama, Mama, the bad boys have go into the city, they have taken your husband with them”’. So I asked him the question, “Where are you, while we pick up my husband?” He hung up », Says the sub-prefect’s wife in a report made by Canal 2 international. ” Anyway, he lives in the society’s mobile hut. He has no place to live. So in this transit booth, the mayor and his wife, the deputy mayor and his wife and the mayor’s other children,…», specifying the woman who is suffering.

Idabato’s lieutenant’s wife broke down in tears as she told her story. She is a woman weakened by this situation, who depends on God, without giving up the fight. I Hate Moneywho was president of the Cameroon Bar Association, tried to appeal to the abductees: ” I invite you to evaluate the human cost of your actions. I beg your sense of humanity to free Mr. Ewane Roland Ekwe and allow him to return to his family. We will choose compassion over violence, and understanding over conflict », pleaded the candidate for the 2025 presidential election, in an open letter.

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