Fire Consumes REDHAC Head Office In D’la

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Yaounde
The head office of the Central Africa Human Rights Defenders Network, REDHAC based in Douala, Littoral region of Cameroon has partially been reduced to ashes. This follows a fire incident that broke out in the building recently.
    Though investigations have been opened to ascertain the actual cause of the fire, REDHAC Executive Director, Maximilienne Ngo Mbe, is suspecting the incident to have been an arson act on the structure. Ngo Mbe, is suspecting that a group of unidentified individuals might have set the structure ablaze.
    “It is a criminal act because the hoodlums disconnected the camera 2 found in the archives room ravaged. No one can tell us it is not criminal,” Ngo Mbe explained, adding, that the ravaged parts contains research and publications from Central African countries for the past to years.
    “It’s not just a loss for Cameroon. Here we had works from the DRC, Gabon, with the issue of elections and human rights violations. We had works from Chad, Equatorial Guinea, with the arrest and arbitrary detention of all our collaborators,” Ngo Mbe regretted, adding that the network’s researches, publications and important documents assembled to come up with an archive centre were all razed to ashes.

    While indicating that the organization has tabled complaints to competent authorities for those behind the act to be caught and brought to book, Ngo Mbe, said if not of the goodwill and prompt intervention from the population who used water and sand to quench the flames, her office would have completely been ravaged.
    To note is the fact that the organization has been vocal on the recent happenings in the Anglophone regions and other issues related to the arrest and detention of opposition political parties militants and many others.