The following excerpt is taken from Justice Ayah Paul’s Facebook Page; a post published on the 14th of September 2017. He writes …:
In the early afternoon today, Ayah Paul Abine called at the Yaounde gendarmerie headquarters (SED) where he had been kept in captivity for 223 days. He was accompanied by some members of his household. The intention was to seek clearance to visit some ten Anglophones still in detention there, and to supply them some necessaries. This was sadly not possible as the Authorities argued convincingly that the inmates are still on hunger strike…
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| Justice Ayah Paul Returns To The Prison |
In another development, it would be remembered that the concept of nolle prosequi is purely a Common Law principle. It follows that magistrates of the Civil Law and their auxilliarties need time to get properly impregnated with it. That explains why the recent presidential instructions on the discontinuance of preceedings against Anglophone “detainees” were misconstrued.
We have been at work behind the scene, explaining that a nolle prosequi puts an end to the case without the possibility of lifting the veil to identify the individual persons standing trial in the case. It was, therefore, in error that, in the pursuance of a nolle, it was imagined that it was competent of anyone whatsoever to determine who to benefit and otherwise in the same case. In other words, proceedings stopped in respect of all the Anglophones under investigation and all those standing trial in relation to the current cisis.
The most we can say as of now is that our construction of the concept of a nolle may soon bear fruits by the grace of God!
