FORMER MINISTER MARAFA HAMIDOU YAYA SOON TO BE RELEASED DUE TO THE INTERVENTION OF THE U.N

After the release of Me Lydienne Eyoum, supporters of the former Minister of State found a smile.  Pardon granted to Me Lydienne Eyoum by the head of State, Paul Biya, is excellent news for the relatives of the former Minister of State Marafa Hamidou Yaya. If the lawyer, sentenced to 25 years in prison, was released at the end of a legal artifice, is firstly, do, due to pressure on the president of the Republic by his french counterpart and judicial decisions adverse to Cameroon. The hope is therefore allowed for the former close aide to the head of State. The man who cannot be seen otherwise than as president of the Republic in fact combines all the ingredients that helped Me Lydienne Eyoum out from the clutches of Kondengui. First, the political pressure. Marafa Hamidou Yaya has, according to his family, of the understanding of the United States. Unusually, 04 July 2013, the Ambassador of this country in Cameroon, Robert P. Jackson, had visited Cameroon to visit him  in his prison located in the premises of the Secretariat of State to defence where he is imprisoned since May 25, 2012. The conversation between the head of the diplomatic mission of United States and Marafa Hamidou Yaya, which took place in the office of the boss of places, Jean Baptiste Bokam, lasted about 45 minutes. "The gesture of the diplomat, arrived with all the attributes of its function at the prison, was a clear message to the Cameroonian authorities", welcomes today Mohamadou, a supporter of the former Minister of State. Indeed, it is not tradition ambassadors posed such acts without the endorsement of their country and the host country. In August 2013, Robert P. Jackson gave an interview to the daily Le Jour, in which he explained the reasons for his visit to Marafa Hamidou Yaya. "I specifically visited the former Minister of Territorial Administration of Cameroon, in prison, to see his State. '' Especially to check the conditions of detention in which it is located, how he is treated. And I find that my Act is consistent with our mission to monitor the observance of human rights and to ensure that our two Governments are doing all they can to promote human rights,"said the diplomat. But the peak of maintenance was in this small heavy sentence of innuendo concerning the conviction of the ex-Secretary general of the Presidency of the Republic: "the judgment did not show evidence of corruption", he slipped between the lines.   PRESSURE since, the United States remained faithful to their line of conduct on the Marafa case. Since 2012 also, in their various reports on the situation of the rights of man in Cameroon, they have continued to characterize the former Minister of State, sentenced to 20 years in prison for "intellectual complicity" in the context of a diversion of funds allocated to the purchase of a plane of the head of State, political prisoner. "The Americans must put the foot a little more on the accelerator and they have many levers of pressure. Our hope rests on their shoulders because the French, at least the left to power in this moment, already too got the President on these court records. Don't forget that before Me Lydienne Eyoum, there was the release of Thierry Atangana", explains a member Rdpc North, close to the former Minister of State. Anyway, according to supporters of the former Minister of State, new elements reinforce pressure on the head of State, even today, only to order in any way whatsoever the liberation of his former collaborator. More recently, it is the decision of the Working Group of the United Nations on arbitrary detention transmitted to counsel for Marafa Hamidou Yaya on June 27, 2016, and which calls on the Government of Cameroon not only his release, but also compensation for damage caused by the deprivation of his liberty. Better, this working group intends to enforce its deliberations insofar as Monica Pinto, the Special Rapporteur of the Commission of human rights of the United Nations on the independence of judges and lawyers, has been seized to take "appropriate action" on this subject. From heavy of multifaceted sanctions threats so on the State of Cameroon in the event that it would not apply the decision of the International Court.   State of health was another element that favours the release of Marafa, his State of health which continues to get worse. Historically, his lawyers argued for evacuation abroad where appropriate treatment could be administered to him. This window could be used to justify its enlargement. The President does not ignore the State of health of his cufos. In October 2011, it had also encouraged him to go undergo an eye operation at the American Hospital of Paris. Offers that Marafa Hamidou Yaya had the rest politely refused. Three months after leaving the Government, in December 2011, now free of the public commitments, it had also taken steps to go to France, in company of his wife to follow appropriate treatments. After him granting a visa, France, Ambassador Bruno Gain, had nevertheless suggested it to inform Paul Biya of this movement. Following the advice of the french diplomat, Marafa Hamidou Yaya had actually warned the head of State who he had indicated his travel date: April 16, 2012. Come back to read this article in a few moments


Source : dailynewscameroon