Cameroon’s Biya orders probe into journalist's gruesome murder
Mourners place candles in front of a portrait of journalist Martinez Zogo at Radio Amplitude FM in Elig Essono district in Yaounde, Cameroon on January 23, 2023. Zogo was kidnapped and later found murdered. PHOTO | DANIEL BELOUMOU OLOMO | AFP
Cameroonian President Paul Biya has ordered a probe into the abduction and subsequent brutal killing of journalist Mbani Zogo Arsène Salomon who was popularly known as Martinez Zogo.
The lifeless body of 51-year-old Zogo, in an advanced state of decomposition, was discovered in the locality of Ebogo near the central African nation’s capital Yaounde on January 22, 2023, five days after he had been kidnapped by unidentified assailants.