[JOURNALDUCAMEROUN] Moussa Ramat, ex-mayor of Fotokol in Cameroon...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
’s Far North,tossed in the calaboose
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
in September 2014 for alleged complicity with Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...was acquitted Thursday. AFP has confirmed.
Ramat going by the AFP report was accused of supplying weapons to the jihadist group and assisting in the sale of looted goods from Boko Haram fighters. His lawyer Eugene Balemaken told AFP the accusations "did not correspond to reality". "He was therefore properly acquitted following the debates."
Sources said the former mayor regularly intervened before his arrest in several negotiations that resulted in the release of Boko Haram hostages.
Ramat could be released very soon, said Balemaken, who called the trial of his client as "unfair" because of his help with negotiations.
After serving 29 months in jail, RFI correspondent Ahmed Abba was acquitted on December 22 after being suspected of collaborating with Boko Haram and not passing on information to the authorities. He was released the following day.