Cameroon's Anglophone Problem: Government Wages War on Social Media Users

The Cameroon government has waged a war against what it calls "abusers" of the use of social media both at home and abroad. This information was disclosed recently by Issa Tchiroma, the Minister of Communication and spokesperson of the government during a press conference in Yaounde. He was facing the press in relation to bloody skirmishes that rock Bamenda recently as the struggle for a solution to the "Anglophone Problem". During the press conference, the minister sounded the following warning to users of social media: "To those who undertake to use the communication benefits of social media to misinform public opinion, distort the facts and incite hatred, disorder and violence, the government gives a firm warning, that the state will do everything by its own means and with the assistance of its friendly countries, to track them down, to flush them out, to arrest them and to refer them to our Courts", said Issa Tchiroma Bakary.>>> Read more