A top Cameroonian civil servant has been abducted by suspected Anglophone separatists. Ivo Leke Tambo, recently-appointed chairman of Cameroon’s Anglophone educational board, GCE, was abducted just outside the southwestern town of Lewo.
In a video circulated on social media on Saturday, Leke Tambo could be seen seated on the ground in a bush semi-naked.
Elsewhere, social media footage showed an attack on a bus carrying some 30 people by suspected armed members of the self-declared Ambazonia Defence Forces.
A section of Cameroonians have condemned the acts.
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Authorities did not immediately confirm the abduction of Leke Tambo, the latest in a slew of abductions in recent weeks.
Tension has soared in Anglophone parts of Cameroon accounting for about a fifth of the population, since separatists on October declared the self-proclaimed republic of “Ambazonia”.
The tension was ramped up further in January when 47 separatists, including their leader Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, were extradited from Nigeria.
