The public law teacher at the University of Yaoundé II has filed a preliminary administrative appeal with the Director General of External Research following a 42-day detention at the SED due to an “administrative fault.”
The facts recalled in the appeal served to the head of the General Directorate of External Research could not leave the public law specialist, accustomed to administrative litigation, indifferent. Those who know Professor Aba’a Oyono well knew that he would sue the State of Cameroon following his “kidnapping,” “inhumane treatment,” and “deprivation of liberty” in the context of the post-election tensions of October 2025. He has now begun by filing a preliminary administrative appeal with the DGRE to request financial compensation of three billion FCFA.
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The academic bases his claim on “the administrative fault resulting from a kidnapping followed by the delivery of a human ‘package’ to the SED, leading to forty-two days of harsh deprivation of liberty.” He recalls the events that occurred since October 25, 2025, the date of his abduction. On that day, DGRE men arrived at his home, hooded and in a black Pajero. Without a search warrant or an arrest warrant, let alone any court order, they forcibly took him into the vehicle, hooded and transported him. He underwent inhumane treatment on the way and was then deprived of liberty for 42 days.
According to him, the order given by the director of external research to his “hooded and heavily armed” agents for the purpose of ensuring his “kidnapping” is part of “the issuance of an administrative act of a decision-making nature that sparks a legal debate” regarding the administrative fault that caused harm. This can engage the responsibility of the administration. For the claimant, this debate would lead to the conclusion that the DGRE agents violated the Constitution as well as the regulatory provisions governing their service and must be held accountable.
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In his legal argument, the teacher maintains that his “kidnapping” was intended to muzzle him as the proclamation of the results of the October 12, 2025, presidential election approached. An election during which he supported opponents Maurice Kamto and Issa Tchiroma Bakaray. His “kidnapping” occurred at the same time as that of Djeukam Tchameni and Anicet Ekani, other supporters of the same politicians within the framework of the Union for Change 2025.
For him, all these facts constitute a wrongful illegality, an irregular act of the administration that the DGRE must rectify. Thus, based on the facts and legal arguments, he is requesting compensation for the harm related to the cessation of all his activities due to the 42-day deprivation of liberty, valued at three billion FCFA. Otherwise, he announces that he will refer the matter to the competent administrative court, alongside a referral to the military tribunal against the DGRE agents.
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