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Ayuk Tabe &co life-jail appeal case Thursday.

2020-03-16
No: 477

Ayuk Tabe &co life-jail appeal case Thursday.

The Appeal on the substantive matter of Ayuk Tabe and ors comes up this Thursday March 19th 2020 at the Appeal Court of the centre Region, Barrister Amungwa Tanyi Nicodemus, Media and Communication Chairman of Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and ors, hinted The Horizon.

Defence lawyers are said to be confident their arguments will be able to overturn the ruling of the lower court.

The Yaounde military tribunal had on 20 August 2019 sentenced the 10 leaders of the Anglophone separatist movement to life imprisonment in what activists described as a sham trial.

The head of the movement, Julius Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, and nine of his followers were convicted of charges including terrorism and secession and given a fine of $350m (£286m) after an all-night sitting by the court.

But lawyers for Ayuk Tabe and ors filed a petition which was accepted after payment of a whopping 5 million FCFA for Production of a Record of Proceedings.

In January 2018, Ayuk Tabe was arrested with 46 other separatists in a hotel in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, allegedly by Nigerian special forces. They were then handed over to Cameroon – a move that was ruled illegal by a Nigerian court in March this year.

The defendants refused to recognise the right of the military tribunal in Yaounde to try them.