Clothed in the socio-economic and political stalemate of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon, many are those who have been victims of the outcome. This time around, the journalism corp wasn’t spared.

At about 2:45pm, Thursday 21st February, the President of the North West Chapter of the Cameroon Association of English Speaking Journalists, CAMASEJ, was abducted. Ambe MacMillan, had left for town but got intercepted in the Locality of Nkwen by some unknown gun men. He was thereafter taken to an unknown destination where he passed the night.

Talking to the Press at his residence after his release, few minutes after midday, 22th February, Ambe MacMillan revealed that his crime was that, he advocated for school resumption in the troubled anglophone region. Ambe further thinks schools, hospital and the press should be spared from the war cage.

“The years that will be lost can’t be regained, the killings that are done need to be reported by journalists, let them not be attacked alongside Doctors, if we clamour for development” says Ambe

Upon learning of his abduction, journalists from within and without took to the main stream and social media advocating his release. Prominent Cameroonian Political leader, Kah Wallah, took to twitter demanding that the media must not be touched. International Peace journalist, Steven Young blood, Cameroon Community Media Network, CAMASEJ National Bureau, national Private media and even Diaspora activists of the “Ambazonian State” cried foul through communiques and advocacies.

Ambe is the first journalist to be abducted in the region by separatist fighters. However, Cameroonian security has arrested a couple of pressmen since the crisis started with some released.

Ambe MacMillan is also the face of online TV, Waka Africa TV. He worked with afrique nouvelle radio in Bamenda and is tipped to the National presidency of CAMASEJ in 2019. He is a common name in the north west median Landscape. He is married and a father of 2.