Cameroon Wahala of July 15th, Martinez Zogo case twist to Samuel Wazizi

⚰️ From Martinez Zogo to Samuel Wazizi: A Country That Refuses to Bury Its Dead | Cameroon Wahala📢 CAMEROON WAHALA 🗓️ July 15th, 2026 "Don't let me die here." Those were Samuel Wazizi's last known words to a fellow detainee. He never left custody alive. Tonight's episode isn't about a case moving forward. It's about a case the state tried to close — without ever answering for it. 🔹 August 2, 2019: CMTV journalist Samuel Wazizi arrested for criticizing the government's handling of the Anglophone crisis. 🔹 5 days later: transferred from police custody to a military installation by the 21st Motorized Infantry Battalion — the same unit still active in the South West today. 🔹 10 months of total silence to his family and lawyers. 🔹 June 2020: the military finally admits he died — on August 17, 2019, just 10 days after arrest, officially from an untreated infection. Reporters Without Borders later obtained photos showing injuries consistent with torture. 🔹 To this day: his body has never been returned to his family. A military investigation was reportedly delivered to the President in October 2020. Its findings have never been made public — not to Parliament, not to the family, not to the courts. Two petitions for an independent inquiry were denied. Then in November 2024, before a United Nations commission, Cameroon's own Ministry of Justice representative simply declared: the case is closed. It isn't. Media Defence has since taken the case to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights — filed August 2024, admissibility and merits submitted June 2025. What Cameroon refuses to judge at home, the international community is now examining. And Wazizi isn't alone. Artist Mudlong has separately spoken publicly about alleged torture by military intelligence — met with the same pattern: an announced investigation, then silence. Tonight, Mayor Cyrille asks the question that connects this case to Martinez Zogo's: how many files can a state leave permanently "under investigation" before silence itself becomes the verdict? This episode is dedicated to Samuel Wazizi and to a family still waiting — for a body to bury, and for a truth they're owed. Le MRC travaille pour l'avènement d'un État de droit. L'information politique africaine sans filtre. 🎥 Watch the full episode: 🔗 [insert video link] Share this. Some stories don't get to stay closed.