As crisis in NW, SW escalates: Gov’t steps up clampdown on suspected activists, sympathisers

BY LUSY LIMA As the crisis rocking the North West and South West regions, which has morphed into an armed conflict, continues to escalate, the government has stepped up its manhunt for Anglophone activists, separatists and suspected sympertisers of the Anglophone cause. In this light, security operatives have been indiscriminately arresting activists and suspected activists as well as people considered to be sympertisers to the move by separatists who are fighting for the independence of what they have christened Republic of Ambazonia. The government’s crackdown has caused some of them to flee into hiding and the whereabouts of many is…