The internal organs of Musa Fatoul, a cattle rarer killed on December 31, 2023 in Foumban in the Noun division have still not been found and the unidentified and suspected body part traffickers are still on the run.
‘We are continuing with investigations to identify and arrest the body part traffickers. This is a big crime that shouldn’t go unpunished,’ Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Zourmba , Major Commander of the West gendarmerie region said.
The cattle rearer was allegedly killed by two men, Bouba, 21 years old and Damdi, 29 in the course of a fight with the help of a machete. His body was found at a place called Fosset.
‘That fateful day I received a call that my younger brother’s corpse had been found at Fosset. He was butchered like an animal,’ Amadou Saley said.
Lt. Col. Jonathan Zourmba , major commander of the West gendarmerie region explained that ‘the victim had consumed sachet whiskey given to him by Bouba. Later on, Musa and Damdi engaged in a quarrel that led to a fight. Damdi brutally sent a
machete through Musa’s stomach, pulling out his internal organs.’
The suspect Damdi who escaped was arrested recently following investigations opened.
‘We arrested Damdi in Tiko, South West region. Bouba was also apprehended after. We are not relenting efforts to arrest individuals who made away with Musa’s internal organs,’ the commander added.
The gendarmerie officials urged the population to stay vigilant and denounce criminals.
Source: Cameroon News Agency
Addis Ababa: The destabilizing effect of cross border crime is developing into a serious problem that poses a threat to peace and security of each country globally, Federal Police Deputy Commissioner General Zelalem Mengistie said.
Opening the Prosecution and Law Enforcement Dialogue and Roundtable in Ababa Ababa today, the deputy commissioner general said the destabilizing effects of cross border crime as a global phenomenon is developing into a serious problem that poses a threat to peace and security of each country.
‘We are living at a time when technological and communication advancements have shrunk distances between states and opened up new frontiers of opportunities for economic, political and social interactions,’ he noted.
This process of globalization has also led to unprecedented opportunities for illegitimate transactions such as human trafficking and smuggling of migrants by criminal organizations.
Due to this, people are suffering owing to traffickers and smugglers who are making enormous a
mounts of money through exploitation with no care for the safety of those they move, the deputy commissioner general pointed out.
Not only are many migrants have been victims of extortion, torture, detention for ransom, sexual violence and exploitation, forced labor and domestic servitude, but also dying every day.
To fight criminal networks involved in human trafficking and smuggling of migrants, the Regional Operational Center in support of the Khartoum process and the African Union (AU) Horn of Africa Initiative (ROCK), and the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa of the European Union played a pivotal role by funding the project attributed to this particular issue, it was learned.
According to the deputy commissioner general, Ethiopia is playing its leading role in fighting criminal activities in human trafficking and smuggling of migrants.
ROCK Technical Director, Heve Jamet said that the main goal of the roundtable is to gather people from the justice, the prosecutor office, and the police in order to ex
change ideas on how to implement the cooperation and the smooth transmission of information between all the forces.
The ROCK is a project which focuses on human trafficking and human smuggling funded by the European Union.
‘I just want to underline that Ethiopia is a very important partner for us. It is one of the main partners of this project,’ the technical director noted.
The objective of ROCK is to fight criminal networks involved in human trafficking and migrant smuggling and to mitigate the dangers and often fatal consequences that migrants face in the hands of the smugglers.
Source: Ethiopian News Agency