GUY ZOGO,JOURNALIST, SUES PRESIDENTIAL GUARD FOR HARASSMENT

The Secretariat of State for Defense, SED, Yaoundé is due to handle a case between a journalist, and some three elements of Cameroon’s Presidential Guard, GP.

Guy Zogo who works for Equinox TV said he was victim of harassment and intimidation on January 11 2016.

Guy Zogo: Attacks on Press is Getting too Much

The journalist was at his Mendong residence, Yaoundé, when some three men he identifies as elements of the presidential guard threatened to fling his doors open.

“The three soldiers threatened to smash my door, when I asked who they were and what they wanted after working hours. After threatening to force my door open, I heard them on phone repeating “Mon Colonel,Nous sommes la”! (My Colonel, we are there). 

I sensed some danger and decided not to open the door. 

I started calling colleagues, neighbours and informed them I was under attack. People came out massively. When they saw that people had mobilsed, the three men left in all haste. The population had insisted that I was going nowhere without a warrant of arrest.  Others told the men in uniform to allow the press have its freedom,” Guy Zogo narrated.

Guy Zogo decides to inform competent authorities. “I had to take legal action for all these harassment and intimidation on me and the press in Cameroon to stop. It is as if it was an attempted kidnap,” Zogo said, although he did not immediately identify those who stormed his home.

Presidential Guard leading (BIR) Soldiers in a march Past 

On why the ‘attack’ on Guy Zogo, it is reported that some of his programmes and issues he handles does not seem to please some elements of the presidential guard. Other reports had said they were not unconnected to a magazine programme he did at the week end on the 2015 defining moments and 2016 perspective in Cameroon.

One of the issue under review by Zogo and his panelists during the programme was whether or not presidential guards in African countries still had their place. Panelists reportedly gave their comments whether the corps should be dismantled or not.