Three months after the assassination of journalist Martinez Zogo, the “case” still keeps all its secrets. Government and justice have opted for the bare minimum in their communication strategy, leaving room for rumors, manipulation, and misinformation.
Authorities have failed to provide total transparency in the “Martinez Zogo affair” at the expense of those who hoped for it. At the beginning of February 2023, against all odds, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, Minister of State, and Secretary General to the Presidency of the Republic, signs a press release, as a result of a shocking public reaction to the discovery on January 22, in a suburb of Yaoundé, of a severely mutilated body, displaying signs of serious abuse, and in a state of decomposition of Arsène Salomon Mbani Zogo, alias Martinez Zogo, who had been reported missing five days earlier.
The close collaborator of President Biya then announced the arrest of the few people suspected of being involved in the “assassination” of the journalist, as well as the establishment of a “mixed police-gendarmerie commission”, on the instructions of the head of the State, to shed light on this “case”. Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh also shares that other arrests would follow.