A group of prominent Cameroonians residing in Europe have today written two petitions addressed to President Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso and the President of the European Commission Claude Juncker calling on both men to make public declarations on the fate of Captain Guerandi Mbara who disappeared in France travelling on a Burkinabe diplomatic passport.

Captain Guerandi Mbara fled Cameroon after attempting in 1984 to overthrow the Cameroonian dictator President Biya and was granted political asylum in Burkina Faso by his classmate at the military academy in Yaoundé, Blaise Compaore-- who subsequently issued him a Burkinabe diplomatic passport.

The Cameroon diaspora noted in their letters that they were concerned with the silence maintained by both President Compaore amid reports that a personality travelling with a Burkinabe diplomatic passport has ever since been missing and the EU Commission president following the disappearance of an African diplomat deep within European Union territory.

Joining the Cameroon- European diaspora, Prof. Maurice Kamto did observe recently that the Captain Guerandi matter should be referred to the United Nations Security Council.

Captain Guerandi Mbara is reported to have been killed in Europe by a group of Russian mercenaries with links to the Cameroon and Burkinabe governments.