The first vice-president of the Movement for the Renaissance of Cameroon, Mamadou Mota, is taking the Douala Ndokoti court of first instance against former MRC activist and executive Okala Ebode.
Okala Ebode, a teacher at the University of Douala, is expected at the Douala Ndokoti court of first instance on March 19, 2026. Following Mamadou Mota’s referral, the politician must appear for charges relating to “false statements and attempted false statements,” recognized and punished by the penal code under articles 74 (2) on criminal responsibility, 94 on punishable attempt, and 162 on false statements.
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Indeed, Mamadou Mota is dragging his former party comrade to court because the latter referred to him as “national president of the MRC” and “acting national president of the MRC” in a previous bailiff’s writ. The said writ concerned the legal summons seeking the annulment of the decision of the MRC national mediation and arbitration committee of November 07, 2025, excluding Okala Ebode from the party.
However, according to Mota, these titles are “false, inaccurate, foreign, contrary to the organic texts” of the MRC. Consequently, Okala Ebode allegedly committed offenses of “false statements” for having led a ministerial officer to believe a distorted truth and “attempted false statements” for having tried to lead the judges of the Yaoundé high court to believe it.
The referral to the Ndokoti court of first instance is undoubtedly aimed at obtaining from said court a stay of proceedings at the Mfoundi high court. Before this court, the former deputy treasurer of the MRC requested the annulment of the decision excluding him from the party. The hearing at the civil chamber of the court, postponed to March 26, 2026, will take place after the start of the trial on March 19 before the correctional chamber of the Ndokoti court of first instance. This jurisdiction will rule on preliminary questions to be decided before dealing with the substantive issues relating to the annulment of the exclusion from the party.
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