Arrest of Bruno Bekolo Ebe, Jean Tabi Manga is a hoax- Mutations

The Cameroonian newspaper qualified as a "hoax", the information of the Parisian weekly reporting on the arrest of former rectors Bruno Bekolo Ebé and Jean Tabi Manga.

The information published in the issue on newsstands on Jeune Afrique since Monday, November 17, 2014 has been disputed. It published in the form of a telegram, indicating that the former Rector of the University of Douala, Bruno Bekolo Ebé, and the ex-Rector of the University of Yaoundé II Soa, Jean Tabi Manga, "have been placed under arrest". The Cameroonian daily newspaper Mutations described this information as "hoax" in its issue of November 18, 2014.

Mutations was surprised that the arrest and date as warrant of committal and the place of detention of such persons are not communicated to the reader.

The Cameroonian newspaper wondered therefore if there is a willingness to manipulate opinion. The investigation of the daily in the Cameroonian capital led them to find out that Bruno Bekolo Ebé and Tabi Manga are free. The author of the article wrote that "the two lecturers continue to quietly go about their business."

They have reportedly had telephone conversations with the Pr Bruno Bekolo Ebé who noted that he has been in Douala since Friday, and that with the wife of the Pr Tabi Manga who said that her husband was at Lyon in France since November 10 lecturing. He recalled, however, that two former leaders of universities have been pinned by Consupe for the financial management of the institutions they had at a given time.