Gov’t steps up manhunt for Anglophone activists, separatist sympathisers

By CYNTHIA AKUM With the crisis in the North West and South West regions, which has since escalated in to an armed conflict, raging on, the government has stepped up its manhunt for Anglophone activists and symperthisers of the separatist cause. In this light, security operatives have been indiscriminately arresting Anglophone activists and suspected activists. Sources say the arrested persons are being detained under deplorable and inhuman conditions. Some have reported died in detention. This has caused many of them to flee into hiding and the whereabouts of many is not known. Meanwhile, as the gun battles between the military…