Actualités of Friday, 19 September 2014

Source: Journal du Cameroun

Bishop Kleda denies his relationship with Guerandi Mbara

The Archbishop of Douala challenged the article in the magazine, Jeune Afrique which reveals that Guerandi Mbaram is his "cousin". The Archbishop of Douala, Bishop Samuel Kleda disputes filiation as the magazine Jeune Afrique, published this week, with Captain Guérandi Mbara, one of the soldiers who attempted to dethrone Paul Biya in a coup in 1984.

"I thought that Jeune Afrique was a serious newspaper. Contrary to what I thought, I have realize that they are broadcasters of lies. This man is not my cousin; unless that Jeune Afrique creates this new relationship", says the Archbishop of the economic metropolis, in the columns of the newspaper, West Coast, edition of September 16, 2014.

In its weekly edition, from 14 to 20 September 2014, Jeune Afrique weekly published an investigation into the abduction of Captain Guérandi Mbara, exiled to Burkina Faso since June 1984, by Cameroonian information services.

According to the version provided by Jeune Afrique, Guerandi Mbara was reportedly drugged and then transferred to Cameroon from January 2013. On 25 January, it was alleged that he was specifically handed over to officers of the Directorate-General of external research (DGRE).

“In Cameroon, only his family, including his cousin, Samuel Kléda, Archbishop of Douala, dares cry for this man obsessed with power," wrote Jeune Afrique at the end of this survey. What the concerned refutes.