Please help us to FREE Johnson Ayuk

In Cameroon the judicial system is weak, the judiciary is corrupt and at best incompetent, and miscarriage of justice is rife.

Are we sure this is real justice? If I look at the characters in this case, I do not yet find Johnson Ayuk to be personally motivated to kill a great figure in society like Hon. Esseme, because he (Ayuk) is not an aspirant of such high-level political offices. Even though the judges capitalise very much on his threats on witnesses, there is, from my judgement, still not sufficient proof beyond reasonable doubt, that Ayuk is the murder. What I as neutral observer strongly hold is that one of those big names (Nnoko, Mukete etc.)or another big name that might not have surfaced in the case is the architect of the babaric act on late Esseme. Mukete, Nnoko etc. should not simply be left to go completely free of punishment, because there is no reasonable proof of their involvement in the murder! Is it that these politicians enjoy an immunity or they are above the law? I expect the Cameroon justice to identify that such people like Ayuk, if really guilty, are victims of plots well organised by the big names. Thus, more thorough investigation should prevail in such matters, else Hon. Esseme shall not be the last.

Press report-

The Meme High Court, holden in Kumba, Cameroon, Tuesday, December 7, sentenced first accused, Johnson Ayuk, to death by firing squad for murdering Hon. Barrister Martin Esuka Eseme, in his residence in Kumba on the morning of December 15, 2000.

“We have identified Johnson Ayuk as the perpetrator of Eseme’s murder by premeditation. He might have done so in concert with the Muketes, but the prosecution has failed to prove it,” Justice Tasi stated.