Actualités of Wednesday, 2 July 2014

Source: africatime.com

Gov't and Boko Haram agree on Chinese hostages release

Timidly started about three weeks ago, the negotiations for the release of ten Chinese hostages abducted from Waza in the night from 16 to 17 may 2014 are almost fastened between the parties.

According to our information, in addition to a cash ransom, the Government should also extend at least two bonnets of Boko Haram currently incarcerated in Yaoundé.

In principle, the Chinese ought to have recovered freedom last week, but two factors have dramatically altered the calendar.

The first is political and is related to the participation of the head of State at the Malabo Summit at the end of last week.

This presidential movement has indeed forced the Minister Secretary-General of the Presidency, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, gnawing his brake in the capital while the device was already put in place.

The second factor, which is more important, is natural. The place agreed by the parties for the return of hostages is currently inaccessible to the Cameroonian negotiator because of rain.

Certainly as for the rehabilitation of the three religious, the transaction should take place at a point on the border between Borno State and the Department of Mayo-Sava.

This evolution of the folder will again revive the controversy on the management of the hostages and in particular on the role of the Cameroonian negotiators.

"On four cases of hostage-taking, a team alone is led three to right port. This team has to pivot the Honourable Abba Malla, reliable man for hostage-takers that has even come to impose himself in Cameroon as the interlocutor," says a source introduced.

The least that can be said is that the Member of Parliament for Mayo-Sava took the braid since the liberation of the mill-Fournier family on April 19, 2013.

Now, he has his entry to the Presidency, including the General Secretariat where he won the confidence of the site holder's premises, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh.

It is in his residence in Djemakiya, in the vicinity of the toll, that the latter installed his districts whenever he went for 'operation' in the far north, sleeves rolled up, to retrieve the hostages.

However, the more and more growing weight that the member of Rdpc of Mayo - Sava takes in the guise of the release of the hostages is not without raising some controversy in the region and even outside.

The president of the National Assembly was the first to draw, at the opening of the parliamentary session, 11 June 2014, when he suggested that accomplices of the Boko Haram sect are 'parminous.'

Many observers of the political landscape of the North believe that Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, without naming him explicitly, indexed the proximity of hisfellow Abba Malla with the hostage-takers. Except that by sowing doubt on Member activities, it embarrasses subtly political guardian, Amadou Ali.

"Everyone knows that Abba Malla gives an account of all his actions and gestures to Amadou Ali, his political Godfather. If you are dealing with Abba Malla, it is that you are dealing with Amadou Ali.

In reality, the true negotiator in the release of the hostages is Amadou Ali, it was he who spurred the Member.

All countries need people like Abba Malla to link with criminal groups, otherwise you will have to use arms to get results, what is law to be clear.

The problem is that we do not know any more where the border actually is, links are forged between the protagonists, and if you are not structurally strong, you may be tempted to take part personally.

Instead of throwing stones, you should rather frame it," continues this personality of Mayo-Sava.