Nearly 11 months after the assassination of Cameroonian radio host Martinez Zogo, the state scandal that it triggered continues to shake the nation.

On Friday morning (Nov. 01), the prime suspects in the murder of the late 50-year journalist were set to be released.
A document allegedly issued by the military court of Yaoundé ordered the provisional release of Jean-Pierre Amougou Belinga and Léopold Maxime Eko Eko.
Examining magistrate of the Yaoundé military court, Lieutenant-Colonel Florent Aimé Sikati II Kamwo, on Friday supposedly considered that there was insufficient evidence to justify their continued detention.
Counter-intelligence boss Eko Eko and tycoon Amougou Belinga have been detained at Yaoundé’s Kodengi prison for months, and in March, they were charged with torture.
Late on Friday, a missive indicated that documents issued earlier in the day, couldn’t be trusted, and a letter penned by the government commissioner read that the order of the examining magistrate of the military court granting release to the suspects in Martinez Zogo’s murder, was a forgery.
The lawyers of counter-intelligence boss Eko Eko expressed disbelief as they await new developments.

The murder of Salomon Mbani Zogo better known as Martinez Zogo left many shocked in Cameroon as NGOs continued to call out violations of press freedom and freedom of speech.
The man, in his fifties was the host of popular daily radio show, Embouteillage or Gridlock in English.
On the air, he regularly tackled cases of corruption and alleged embezzlement, not hesitating to question important personalities by name.
Amougou Belinga was one of them, a businessman reputedly a friend of several ministers.
Reporters without Borders alleged that “the outcome of the investigations [remained] very uncertain as the affair’s ramifications reach up to the highest level of the state while the political environment [was] described by several local sources as verging on insurrection.

Source: Africa News