Cameroon Echoes {Echos Camerounais}

A sweet hoax turns sour for sugar thieves

L-R. Gideon Bala, Idris Oyibo, and Soji Smart were arrested while attempting to hijack a trailer. Photo: PETER NKANGA

A discharged soldier, Idris Oyinbo, and a dismissed police officer, Gideon Baba, both went to the Apapa Wharf on March 15, 2010 with one mission in mind: commandeer and escort a trailer load of bags of sugar to awaiting buyers in Mushin, a suburb in Lagos State.

At about 6:30pm the same day, the duo, partially dressed in army and police outfits, met with their sponsor, one Kingsley (at large), who is believed to have masterminded the operation. In turn, Kingsley introduced them to Soji Smart, who would drive the trailer to their destination.

Zambia: Genital cocaine trafficker jailed

A woman who concealed over 300 grammes of cocaine in her private parts with intent of offloading it on the country's illicit drug market has been jailed. The Lusaka Magistrates Court slapped a five-year jail term on Alice Mulonda Sandi on Thursday.

She was arrested by the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) at the Lusaka International Airport on her arrival from Pakistan last week.

Sandi was charged with trafficking and importing narcotic drugs, contrary to sections 6 and 7 of the Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances Act Cap 96 of the Laws of Zambia.

Magistrate Lameck Ng'ambi noted although Sandi was a first offender, the offence she committed and the drugs she carried were serious and dangerous.

Ng’ambi reminded Sandi that she should have thought about her three children before engaging in the illicit activity, although he noted that the accused pleaded guilty because she was caught trafficking cocaine.

Nigerian Makes FBI Most Wanted List For Stealing $44m

PHOTO: AN FBI PHOTO SHOWING TOBECHUWKU ONWUHARA.

San Francisco March 13, (THEWIL) – The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI has added a Nigerian, Mr. Tobechukwu Enyinna Onwuhara, 30, to its list of ‘Most Wanted Fugitives.’

According to a report on America’s Most Wanted, the Bureau said ‘Tobechi Onwuhara is a criminal mastermind’ who in less than three years stole $44 million dollars from banks in the United States using sophisticated methods including stealing bank customer’s personal information, Home Equity Lines of Credit details and account numbers.

Crédit Foncier : Le marché à problèmes de près de 4 milliards Cfa

Crédit Foncier : Le marché à problèmes de près de 4 milliards Cfa 

Le Commission de passation des marchés a octroyé un marché à Bfi international dans des conditions que contestent des concurrents qui ont saisi le Pm et l'Armp.

Dans le quotidien gouvernemental Cameroon Tribune du 17 février dernier, en page 23, un communiqué signé du directeur général du Crédit foncier du Cameroun (Cfc), Camille Ekindi: "La société Bfi International, rue Lac Ghar El Melh-Les Bergers du lac- 1053 Tunis a été retenue pour l'exécution des prestations objet de l'Appel d'Offres susvisé. Montant de l'offre: FCfa 3.699.037.288 Ttc. Délai de livraison: dix huit (18) mois pour compter de la date de notification"… 

Sanctions : Le Mindef frappe 19 éléments du Bataillon d'intervention rapide Delta (Bir Delta),

Ces mesures de révocation, d'arrêt de rigueur assortis de 45 jours de prison font suite aux évènements sanglants de Limbé. 

Deux semaines après la présentation à l'étendard des éléments du Bataillon d'intervention rapide Delta (Bir Delta), basé à Man'o War Bay, Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o, ministre de la Défense, a sanctionné hier les éléments de cette unité d'élite impliqués dans les exactions de Limbe. Dans un communiqué de presse signé du Mindef, Mebe ngo'o indique que "suite aux exactions perpétrées dans la nuit du 23 au 24 février 2010 par certains éléments égarés Bataillon d'intervention rapide Delta (Bir/Delta), au lieudit Church Street, et au terme des enquêtes menées à cet effet, les sanctions disciplinaires ci-contre ont été infligées aux personnels militaires dont la responsabilité a été établie".

Somalia: 20 killed in clash over water, land

Clashes between two clans in central Somalia have killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens others in Mudug region of central Somalia, witnesses said on Monday.

The two brotherhood clans have been battling over land and water in recent weeks in Mudug and the latest fight happened in a village some 110 km northeast of Dhusamareeb, regional capital of Galgadud.

Osman Ali a resident in Dhusomareeb told AfricaNews by phone that the latest clash which erupted late on Saturday killed at least 20 people. “Those dead are most of the fighters from two clans.” He added that 13 fighters were also wounded in the battle. 

AFP quoted a Hawiye elder as saying "The heaviest fighting occurred near Jildhere village and there are bodies still strewn in the streets and forests close to the village."

Russians jailed over race murder of Cameroonian

Nine members of a Russian white supremacist group have been jailed for up to 22 years each in connection with the killing of a man from Cameroon.

Three of the group, known as Simbirsk White Power, were convicted of the racially motivated murder of Etizok Ndobe Ernest in the city of Ulyanovsk.

Investigators said his throat was cut and he was stabbed repeatedly on his way home from work as a DJ in 2008.

It is the latest in a series of cases involving racist attacks in Russia.

9 Russes condamnés pour meurtre de Camerounais Ernest Etizok Ndobe

Il s’agit des néonazis qui avaient tué le Camerounais Ernest Etizok Ndobe en août 2008. 

Neuf Russes, membres d’un groupe néonazi découvert après le meurtre en 2008 du Camerounais Ernest Etizok Ndobe à Oulianovsk, ont été condamnés jeudi à des peines allant jusqu'à 22 ans de prison, selon l’Agence France presse, citant le comité d’enquête auprès du parquet local. Trois membres de cette organisation, baptisée « Simbirsk white Power » (pouvoir blanc de Simbirsk, ancien nom d'Oulianovsk), ont été reconnus coupables de meurtre motivé par la haine raciale, précise le comité dans un communiqué. Notre compatriote travaillait comme DJ sous le pseudonyme de Black James et avait été attaqué dans un square alors qu'il rentrait chez lui. Ses assaillants lui ont porté plusieurs coups de couteau avant de lui trancher la gorge, a indiqué un enquêteur au quotidien russe Kommersant.

Herdsmen raid Jos village, kill hundreds

Herdsmen raid Jos village, kill hundreds

By Ugar Ukandi Odey

Less than two months after hudreds of people lost their lives in two days of ethno-religious crises in Jos, Plateau State, another 500 have been reported killed in a night raid on Dogon Nahowa village, Jos South local government area, yesterday. Another source said over 200 were kiled. Both figures could not be confirmed last night. The villagers said their attackers were Fulani herdsmen who swooped on them while they slept.

Vatican Hit By Gay Sex Scandal: Nigerian and Italian involved

The Vatican has been thrown into chaos by reports that one of the Pope's ceremonial ushers, as well as a member of the elite Vatican choir, were involved in a homosexual prostitution ring.

The allegations came to light after Italian newspapers published transcripts of phone calls recorded by police, who had been conducting an unrelated corruption investigation.

The tapes appear to record Angelo Balducci, a Gentleman of His Holiness, negotiating with Thomas Chinedu Ehiem, a 29-year-old Nigerian Vatican chorister, about men he wanted brought to him for sexual purposes. Balducci was allegedly paying 2,000 euros ($2,714) for each man he met, according to the Irish Times.