Government bent on prosecuting strike actions leaders in Cameroon

BY LUSY LIMA The Cameroon government has vowed to hunt down and prosecute leaders of major strike actions that have rocked the country within the last two years as a way of deterring others from ever standing up against the state. The country has since 2006 been plagued by sporadic strike actions with the most prominent ones being the November 27, 2006 University of Buea strike action against the alleged manipulationof results of entrance examination into the institution’s medical school and the February 2008 strike action against hike in fuel prices, poor working conditions and the unlimited extension of presidential…