The president of the anglophone separatist movement in Cameroon, Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, was extradited to Yaounde on Monday after being detained in Nigeria, the government said.
Ayuk Tabe, who had been held in Abuja since January 5, was sent to Cameroon with 46 of his supporters, Cameroonian government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary said in a statement.
“A group of 47 terrorists, which includes Mr Ayuk Tabe, has been in the hands of the Cameroonian justice system for a few hours,” Tchiroma said.
“They will answer for their crimes” before the Cameroonian courts, he added, underlining the “determination” of Nigeria and Cameroon “never to tolerate that their territories serve as a base for destabilising activities directed against one or the other”.
Prior to their extradition, Ayuk Tabe and nine others had been “held in secret” at a hotel in Abuja,…
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