The Cameroonian transport minister has confirmed the death of all the 11 people on board during a plane crash in a forest in Cameroon on Wednesday, May 11.

State radio on Thursday reported that the nine passengers and two crew members of the propeller plane had died in the accident.

“The 11 occupants died, they have all been identified and recovered,” the Minister of Transport, Jean-Ernest Ngallé Bibehe, told journalists during a visit to the accident scene on Thursday evening.

In groups of two, gendarmes covered in sweat came out of the dense forest with the remains of the victims wrapped in white sheets, a journalist from AFP noted.

“There are mutilated bodies, others burned,” said a ministry official, who requested anonymity.

More than 200 villagers took part in the search for the bodies and debris, in addition to the gendarmes.

The two black boxes have been recovered and “they will shed light on the circumstances of this accident”, said Mr Bibehe.

“A strong wind was blowing before the crash, we believe that the bad weather conditions are at the origin of the accident,” said a policeman who requested anonymity.

The make of the plane has not been made public, but Cameroonian media report that it was a Dash 8-Q400, a turboprop aircraft made by Canadian company Bombardier.

The plane was carrying employees of COTCO and service companies from Yaoundé to a pumping station linked to the pipeline in Dompta, in the northeast.

Source: AFP

The pilot of the aircraft carrying 11 people, which crashed in a forest in central Cameroon on Wednesday has been identified as Adzuayi Ewuga, daughter of Senator Solomon Ewuga, a former Deputy Governor of Nasarawa State.

Ewuga, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), also served as Minister of State for Federal Capital Territory under the Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration.

According to local media reports, the aircraft was flying from Yaounde Nsimalen Airport to Belabo, in the east of the country when air traffic services lost radio contact.

The plane owned by Caverton Aviation Cameroon was chartered by a private company, the Cameroon Oil Transportation Company (COTCO) that maintains a hydrocarbon pipeline that runs between Cameroon and neighbouring Chad.

The deceased worked with the company which is a subsidiary of Caverton Offshore Support Group based in Lagos, Nigeria, which also controls Caverton Helicopters.

A family member, Oliver Slodgz Ewuga, also confirmed her death on Facebook.

“I Tried To Understand Why My Body System Failed To Fit Inn Since Yesterday, Now The Sign Is Revealed. My Only Family Pilot,God Knows Best.Am Really Heart Broken. Good Night Adzuayi Solomon Ewuga.Rest On Sis,” he posted.

Source: Sahara Reporters

The Vice President of the Ambazonia Interim Government Comrade Dabney Yerima says Biya French Cameroun’s biggest failure is the collapse of its entire projects in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia as the Francophone regime has been unable to confront the Southern Cameroons resistance.

Dabney Yerima made the comment in a lengthy conversation with Cameroon Concord News Group on Wednesday. The soft spoken exiled leader said La Republique du Cameroun is now facing a very serious internal crisis and things are falling apart between Yaoundé and Paris because the Biya regime has been unable to confront the Ambazonian resistance.

“There is presently a general realization deep within French Cameroun political elites that the assimilation and annexation of Southern Cameroons has been the biggest failure and that all French Cameroun political projects in Ambazonia have failed. The Ambazonian people are not ready to accept the continuation of the occupation even through a federal structure” Vice President Dabney Yerima noted.

Yerima blasted the current bout of Biya regime atrocities against British Southern Cameroons, saying, “What you are seeing today in Mamfe, Kumba, Bamenda, Ekondo Titi, Ekok and Kumbo are provocations, repression, killings and abuse, which have reached the point of total insolence and criminal ferocity.”

Asked whether the Southern Cameroons crisis has become a source of confusion for the corrupt Biya French Cameroun regime, Yerima said, “The Biya French Cameroun regime recently signed a military agreement with President Putin of Russia which gives Moscow the green light to help Yaoundé develop more repressive systems to confront the Ambazonian resistance but our Southern Cameroons Self Defense forces are also creating new forms of resistance that La Republique military does not know how to handle, including the hit-and-run tactics, which they have no recipe for and have no ability to control.”

Elsewhere in the conversation, Dabney Yerima said the so-called special status to Southern Cameroonians has failed and is not accepted by the people of Ambazonia anymore.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

President Paul Biya is now a shadow of himself and he is slowly but surely turning into a child as he approaches his final days here on planet earth. He met recently with his French doctor but had completely lost the power to speak.

Cameroon Intelligence Report gathered that the reviled dictator has been reduced to a wheelchair after moving to the extension of his palace in Mvomeka’a.  Medical care and well trained physicians are lacking in Cameroon after his 40-year-rule.

A source close to his family hinted this reporter late on Wednesday that Biya is almost turning into a child.

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, he had made frequent visits to Geneva for medical care — because Cameroon’s own public health system crumbled thanks to his CPDM government’s lack of investment.

The so-called lion man now appears slumped and frail and is seen these days struggling to speak to everyone around him and blaming his collaborators for his failed presidency.

Both French and Southern Cameroonians are no longer interested in news about the man born into a Catholic family, once feted as an African democrat and champion of communal liberalism—but was ultimately corrupted by unchallenged power.

Biya remains a tyrant with a penchant for luxury and has wasted Cameroonian tax payer’s money in numerous five star hotels all over the world.

The war in Southern Cameroons, Boko Haram incursions, the difficult security situation in the east of the country, death squads, rigged elections and an imploding economy are all consequences of Biya’s relentless pursuit of power.

Cameroon is currently at the mercy of Biya and his appointees and under his 40-year-rule, the nation is suffering from an economic ruin, with runaway inflation, mass unemployment and food shortages.

He may never be held to account for the disaster he is presiding over. But some like Atanga Nji and Beti Assomo will face the long arm of the law.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

Ambazonian fighters at NKOR Sub Division in Bui raided the village of Katatu and reportedly arrested Alhaji OUMAROU. Cameroon Intelligence Report sources hinted that the fighters’ confiscated 3 bikes after a heavy gun battle with elements from the 52 Mechanized Infantry Battalion. One Amba fighter was killed and one Cameroon government soldier seriously injured.

Cameroon Intelligence Report understands that Ambazonian fighters have asked everybody to leave NKOR as they plan to stage attacks against Cameroon government security forces in the coming days.

Elsewhere and precisely in Santa, a younger sister of retired colonel TAMANJONG was also arrested by Amba fighters who are demanding the sum of 3.5million francs CFA before they release her.

Extortion, kidnapping, ransom is now a method used by some Southern Cameroons Self Defense Groups to finance themselves through predation.

All fingers are pointing at the so-called Ambazonian Defence Forces (ADF) and its gang leader Cho Ayaba Lucas for the poor outings of some Southern Cameroons patriotic fighters and for encouraging the kidnapping business in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia.

By Fon Lawrence in Bamenda  

A plane carrying 11 people crashed in a forest in central Cameroon on Wednesday, the Ministry of Transport said.

Air traffic controllers “lost radio contact with the aircraft” which was later “located in the forest” near Nanga Eboko, around 150 kilometres (90 miles) northeast of the capital Yaoundé, the ministry said in a statement.

A ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the plane “crashed” and rescuers were “trying to see if it’s possible to save anyone”.

The plane was chartered by a private company, the Cameroon Oil Transportation Company (COTCO) that maintains a hydrocarbon pipeline that runs between Cameroon and neighbouring Chad, official sources told AFP.

The aircraft, whose type and make was not made public, was flying from Yaoundé-Nsimalen airport to Belabo, in the east of the country, the ministry statement said.

It was the first major air catastrophe reported in Cameroon since 2007, when a Kenya Airways plane carrying 114 people crashed after take-off from Douala Airport. There were no survivors in that accident.

Three years later, an investigation by Cameroon’s civil aviation authority concluded that the crash was due to pilot error.

Since then, Cameroon has only experienced minor air accidents involving small passenger planes or helicopters.

Source: AFP