The media treatment of the murder of journalist Martinez Zogo, kidnapped on 17 January and killed, has provoked a reaction from the Cameroonian government.
In a statement issued on Thursday, the government spokesman, Rene Emmanuel Sadi said the media treatment of the murder case was “insulting”, describing the publications of RSF and the newspaper Le Monde as “erroneous analyses with no correlation with the reality in Cameroon”.
The journalist was abducted in front of a gendarmerie post in the capital Yaoundé, and his body was found dead five days later.
Martinez Zogo was the director general of the privately-owned radio station Amplitude FM and the star host of a daily program, Embouteillage, in which he regularly denounced corruption in the country. This prompted NGOs such as Reporters Without Borders to call it a “state crime”.