Some 20 local and international
lawyers have dragged the Director of the Laquantine hospital to a Bonanjo Court
in Douala over the death of Monique Koumate.
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| DIRECTOR DISSONGO II : TIME TO EXPLAIN |
The lawyers are
accusing the Director of the Lauantinie Hospital Jean II Dissongo for “refusing
to assist” (Monique Koumate) and “voluntary homicide.”
The men of law would
also be defending those detained in connection with the matter. Notably the
midwife and the first nurse, the morgue attendant and the woman who tried to rescue
the babies identified as Rose Tacke.
“We simply want to be
the light of the society and to ensure that injustices perpertrated all the
time does not go without reparation. We want justice to take its course, that’s
why we are in our numbers.
We took the decision to take the matter to court
after concerting with the families and we do hope to accompany them through out
the process,” declared one of the lawyers Barrister Guy Olivier Moteng.
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| ROSE TACKE: HEAVEN IS YOUR WITNESS |
The lawyers are
arguing that it is because of the absence of proper medical care, neglect and
abandonment, that the ‘protagonist’ in the whole macabre story, Rose Tacke, had
no option than to ‘operate’ her relative and save the twin.
They said if the
twin survived she would have been decorated. The lawyers said they would focus
their argument on what intention she had for carrying out the ‘surgical
operation.’
FAMILY INTIMIDATED
Reports are also
suggesting that there are attempts at intimidating the family by the administrative,
health and judicial authorities.
At the Gendarmerie Legion in Douala, the
security forces there are said to have been refusing to register their
complains against the Director of Laquantinie hospital on flimsy excuses that
the Companie Commander was not on seat.
One of Monique Koumate’s family
members, her supposed husband, identified as Gaston Goumelong was surprised that
judicial police officers are interested in the whole matter and were asking him
repeatedly his main plan of action.
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| LAWYERS WANT JUSTICE |
He is quoted as confiding that he is
shcocked, some gendarmes were warning him to steer clear the battery of lawyers
who spontaneously constituted themselves to defend Rose Tacke and the other
detainees.
The investigators are
said to be interested in the steps to be taken by the family instead of
searching for the truth about what has actually transpired. A date for the
first hearing in the case is yet unknown.
*With Correspondent Reports...
*With Correspondent Reports...
Well, but what happened within the 8 - 9 months when the babies were in the womb? Was there a follow up? Was this situation not predictable within these long months? Investigations should not only focus on their arrival at Laquintinie but probe into the history of the pregnancy. In everything, the medical system in Cameroon is a death trap enforced over years of corruption ! When people elect self exile from such a system, no one believes them !!
ReplyDeleteThis is the time for the judiciary to act and prove the those so called security officers are always in for anything that will swell their back accounts. This time the doctors znd the medical family should tell us what the sword to do. Is it to make money and neglect life or to save life. The administration would not have waited for the lawyers to start but all those who were on duty would have just been dragged to court and sentenced to maybe life in prison with hard labor. The world is watching the reaction of Cameroon government.
ReplyDeleteThis is the time for the judiciary to act and prove the those so called security officers are always in for anything that will swell their back accounts. This time the doctors znd the medical family should tell us what the sword to do. Is it to make money and neglect life or to save life. The administration would not have waited for the lawyers to start but all those who were on duty would have just been dragged to court and sentenced to maybe life in prison with hard labor. The world is watching the reaction of Cameroon government.
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