Many flee as gov’t steps up crackdown on suspected separatists, sympathisers

By CYNTHIA AKUM While thecrisis that has been rocking the North West and South West regions, which has spiraled into an armed conflict, rages on, the government has stepped up its crackdown on all those suspected to be activists or sympathisers to the Anglophone cause. The government has also been cracking down on those suspected of aiding the separatists in their fight for the independence of a country they have christened Ambazonia. In this light, security operatives have been indiscriminately arresting Anglophone activists and suspected activists and their symperthisers. Sources say the arrested persons are being detained under deplorable and…