Prof. Jean Calvin Aba’a Oyono, Djeukam Tchameni and the heirs of the late Anicet Ekane are turning to the courts against the State, State agents, or some supporters of the regime. Complaints are being filed in series.
The waves and vibrations that marked the post-election tensions of October 2025 are reaching the aftershock phase. Political actors targeted during demonstrations aimed at claiming victory for opponent Issa Tchiroma Bakary—who were accused of attempted insurrection or undermining State security, arrested or “kidnapped,” and incarcerated “arbitrarily” as they emphasize—are demanding justice to redress the wrongs they allegedly suffered.
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Academic Jean Calvin Aba’a Oyono is asking the General Directorate of External Research for compensation of three billion FCFA for kidnapping and 42 days of arbitrary detention. He threatens to take the administrative judge against the State of Cameroon and the military tribunal against DGRE agents. Dominique Djeukam Tchameni, a pillar of the Union for Change 2025 and companion of Anicet Ekane, who is still “arbitrarily detained,” is taking the journalist Bruno Bidjang to court for spreading unfounded news aimed at presenting him as a dangerous person and is seeking damages. For their part, the heirs of Anicet Ekane, seeking the causes of his death in detention, are requesting a counter-expertise regarding the autopsy findings and the investigations carried out following his death.
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The almost simultaneous action of the various actors demanding justice cannot be insignificant. They were arrested during the same period preceding the proclamation of the results of the October 12 election. An election at the end of which voices were raised to denounce irregularities and contest official results. Beyond the politico-administrative pressures that led to their arrest, their incarceration, as well as the other “inhumane treatment” and “unfounded accusations” they denounce, will they benefit from equal treatment before the law? The response they are launching, although in a position of weakness before the institutions and those they protect, should, in the context of judicial independence, draw from all the facts and legal arguments what is in their favor and thereby establish responsibilities.
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