On Monday, thousands of people demonstrated against separatists assaults and kidnappings at churches and schools.
Numerous people were missing, including five Catholic priests, a nun, and two worshippers who were seized from a church on the western border of Cameroon with Nigeria last month. Demonstrators wanted to know their whereabouts.
In Ebonyi, a community in the Tombel district, hundreds of people march to demand that separatists cease torturing, kidnapping, killing, and mutilating residents.
The Southwest area, one of two regions that separatist organisations want to secede from Cameroon for a new English-speaking state, includes the Tombel district.
Demonstrators at the daily rallies, which began on Saturday, claim they want all of the rebel-closed schools to reopen so that students may receive an education.
The demonstrators argue that those who are frequently harassed, kidnapped, or tortured by fighters, including as clergy, teachers, traditional leaders, hospital staff, and humanitarian workers, should be permitted to operate without interference.
No one should be required to pay a ransom, according to protesters who are calling for the immediate release of all prisoners.
Five Catholic priests, a nun, and two worshippers who were kidnapped from a Roman Catholic church in the town of Nchang last month are among the abducted individuals the demonstrators want released. The missing parishioners and clergy are members of the Mamfe Roman Catholic diocese.
The whereabouts of the kidnapped clergy are still unknown, according to Reverend Father Humphrey Tatah Mbui, director of communications for the National Episcopal Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cameroon.
“Gunmen have been asking for money and the bishop of Mamfe, his lordship Aloysius Abangalo does not have that money they are asking for, and even if he had, I wonder whether we have reached a point where the church should be giving money as ransom,” Mbui said.
Mbui claimed that while several hundred Christians are participating in the protests, the church did not coordinate them.
The government of Cameroon claims that demonstrations are occurring in English-speaking towns and villages like as Kumbo, Oku, Esso Aah, Wum, Kumba, and Mamfe. The administration claimed to have sent troops to guard the demonstrators.
