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He is said to be one of the student leaders that
organized the strike action by students of the University of Buea on Monday
November 21st 2016.
According to sources, police resorted to the burning
of the shop of Fritz’s father after failing to lay hands on the fugitive.
It should be recalled that on Monday 21st November
2016, students of the University of Buea took to the streets protesting against
decisions taken by authorities of the said higher institute of learning
relating. The decisions were taken in response to another strike by teachers of
the institution.
According to reports, the protest by the university
students led to the arrest of over 100 students. The Cameroon Report gathered that several
other protesters were whisked off to a secret torture unit in SONARA, Limbe.
Sources revealed that the students’ erupted
immediately after the Vice Chancellor of the university Professor Nalova Lyonga,
issued a communiqué announcing that as from Monday November 21, 2016, CA tests
were going to commence in various departments and schools of the University.
Prof. Nalova’s decision to get students take the impromptu
CA tests wasn’t embraced by all and sundry especially given that lecturers of
the said University together with other Anglophone teachers of the two
English-speaking regions of Cameroon, were observing a sit-in protest then.
Students and parents alike, said they did not consider
it safe returning to campus amidst the strike by their lecturers.
One of the unions that was at the forefront of the students’
protest in UB, is the Commonwealth Students’ Union with Tangie Ryan-Fritz
Forwang Mulutakwi, as its Vice President elect in charge of External Relations at
the time.
According to his friends, Fritz was very vocal
concerning the plights of students of the university and for that reason; he
was elected vice president of the union.
According to reports, students stormed the university’s
administrative building demanding the cancellation of a late entry registration
fee of 10,000 FCFA and the payments of presidential grants of 50,000 FCFA to
the meritorious students. They also pressured the VC to reverse her decision to
schedule CA tests at a time when teachers were on strike. Fritz was one of the
students that championed these protests.
All attempts by officials of the higher institute of learning
to calm the students ended fruitless. The Director of students’ affairs Mr.
Molindo, held consultation talks with the students but the students refused to
give a listening ear.
Meanwhile, the VC was spotted via her windowpane, making
calls. She also looked very furious, according to sources.
The students for their part continued making calls
like, “we need our 50,000 FCFA presidential grants, abolishing of late entry
fees for CA tests and provision of presidential laptops,” in a chorus.
In the course of the protest, a truck full of security
forces stormed the UB campus and began teargasing the protesting students.
Tangie Ryan-Fritz Forwang Mulutakwi, and other members
of his union, were arrested and taken to the Limbe torture camp where he was
seriously beaten and injured.
TCR learnt that he was also forced to sign an undertaking
to stop inciting students to protest against the administration of the
university.
It was after signing the undertaking that he was
freed. After regaining his freedom, Fritz however did not stop to continue his
campaign for reforms in universities in the 2 English speaking regions.
He travelled to his native Kumbo town in Bui division
of the North West region, where his campaign gained more popularity as he was
frequently granting interviews on radio stations and running talk shows on
different community radio stations therein.
It was for this reason that the administration of the
division ordered for his arrest.
But, at the time police stormed their home in search
of him, Fritz was not home, said family sources.
After getting news that he had been declared wanted by
police and that his father’s shop had been set ablaze for failing to tipoff on
his whereabouts, Fritz disappeared into thin air.
At the time of this report, he had not returned home.
Family members expressed fears that Fritz might have been summarily executed.
However, police refused ever having set eyes on him
ever since he fled but insist that should he be arrested, he shall be charged
with terrorism which could cause him a life jail sentence if found guilty, as
per Cameroon’s law on terrorism.
Several other students who
took part in the protest have also escape to unknown places.
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