Jean Marc Bikoko, Cameroonian best known union leader has urged the International community to press Yaounde on human rights and union rights issues last week, as the head of state Paul Biya returned from his incredible stay in Europe without informing his own people.
Jean Marc Bikoko during his intervention exposing public sector working worst condition in cameroon..
He was arrested on Friday 12 November while protesting for decent working conditions in work place in Cameroon for civil servant or public sector workers and then released after being charged with organizing an illegal protest.
Jean Marc is well known union activist in Cameroon and this is not the first time he has been arrested by authorities.
Talking to him on the phone last week before his arrest, Jean Marc said, there has been a pitiful change in global attitudes to Cameroon since the president amended the constitution and also the wee economic crisis with western and African leaders increasingly reluctant to challenge Yaounde.
The international community should ask mister Biya and his administration not to make people disappear or to jail them merely because they have different opinions or they are expressing what they think it is their own right and right to do that.
Jean Marc was arrested with others members who in the last hours have been released form police cell and will have to attend the court for their crime.
Jean Marc was arrested with others members who in the last hours have been released form police cell and will have to attend the court for their crime.
Jean Marc crime is to have organised a demo and a sit-in in front of the prime minister building in Yaounde in order to hand him a memo regarding the pitiful working conditions of civil servant in Cameroon.
Jean Marc is just asking the prime minister to have a proper look at what it is happening and to bring a change that cost nothing.
Jean Marc is just asking the prime minister to have a proper look at what it is happening and to bring a change that cost nothing.
The memo writing by the Centrale Syndicale du secteur public is a bible of pitiful description of the worst conditions in which civil servant or public sector workers are working in, like not having simple and cheaper desk to work, not been able to have a simple and cheaper pen to write, no toilet tissue in the toilet for those who are lucking enough to have public toilet in use in their department, not even simple basics for the work place.
The state budget is over 2 500 billion cfa francs and nothing or less has been done for that to change...This is the fight Jean Marc has been arrested for and will have to appear in front of the judge this week . He could be sentenced for..many months in prison...
But...Union and collective organisation rights are principally governed by the Trade and Labour Relations, and Cameroon has signed that convention as well and need to respect and have it in practice.
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