Rights group to investigate bail charges in police stations

BY TALLA AGHAA CHRISTOPHER Any Cameroonian who visits court premises, police and gendarme stations will read on their notice boards that “Bail is Free”. But to secure the release of any person detained for having committed an offence, the applicants pass through serious hurdles, with the only best option being to bargain with the investigator or prosecutor – who will then demand for the sum of FCFA 25000 as bail fees whereas it is boldly written and pasted on the notice board that “bail here is free”. The SUN gathered that the situation has degenerated since lawyers of the North…