By Nformi Sonde Kinsai
A fresh complaint addressed to the Chief of Service, Service Central des Recherches Judiciares, Yaounde, has been submitted against John Ewome Eko, popularly known as Chief Moja Moja of Bwassa village, Fako Division of the Southwest Region.
The complaint lodged by Barrister Nico Amungwa Tanyi of the Nde Nsto and Associates Law Firm, dated August 6, 2024, was submitted to the Chief of Service, Service Central des Recherches Judiciares, on the same day.
The complaint accuses Moja Moja, a member of the Rapid Intervention Battalion, BIR, and now in a detention facility in Yaounde, of “desecration of corpses, torture, war crimes, abuse of function, conditional threats, secession, insults, hate speech, and others.”
Barrister Amungwa notes that they are “representing the legal interest of Tamfu Richard, Barrister at Law, and others who have provided us with reliable information to prepare this complaint for and on their behalf against Ewome Ekobo John (Chief Moja Moja).”
In the complaint, Amungwa said their clients have informed them and they “believe truly in them that the above suspect, before his declaration that top military personalities contacted him to organise a coup d’état to overthrow the government in place and subsequent arrest or detention… committed war crimes, insulted and threatened Barrister Tamfu and other lawyers for defending victims of his atrocities and crimes against humanity.
“He was so particular about Barrister Tamfu Richard and others because they stood in defence of victims of his assault, maiming, and desecration of their corpses,” it is reported to the judicial authority.
The Barrister recalls that “the Ngule and Mboh families represented by Ngule Raymond, Ngule Celine, and Tanyi Mboh accused Moja Moja that on the 15th of March 2023, in complicity with the elements of Military Security, SEMIL Buea, they abducted their sons, Ngule Linus (late), student of the Faculty of Law and Political Science, bearer of matriculation No. LP20 C610, and Mboh Jeres Akua, postgraduate student of the Department of Public Law and Public Administration, bearer of matriculation No. LP19 A768, both officially enrolled students of the University of Buea.
“That they tortured and slaughtered Ngule Linus to death and dumped his corpse at the Fako Funeral Home and detained Mboh Jeres Akua incommunicado under sustained torture for several weeks before throwing him into the prison of Buea, confiscating the corpse of Ngule Linus that was later released by an Order of the Military Tribunal Buea.
“That same March 15th, 2023, Moja Moja displayed two corpses in public view in Buea, broadcasting the same on his show on social media, wherein he was drumming his chest that it was his catch of terrorists from the North West Region. Moja’s atrocities were well corroborated and acclaimed by some top elite and politicians in Buea, who habitually gave him a standing ovation,” the complaint reads.
Barrister Amungwa told the Chief of Service at Service Central des Recherches Judiciares that “considering the outrages of Moja Moja as narrated by our clients, we respectfully urge you to open an investigation against him, for no one is above the law, and that shall be justice.”