In Cameroon, Chief Baloum and eight other individuals implicated in the double murder of young people in this locality in the West region have been formally charged and remanded to Dschang Central Prison.
New developments have emerged in the case of two young men burned alive in Baloum! On Thursday, June 25, Chief Baloum and eight others implicated in this incident were officially charged and jailed at Dschang Central Prison. The lawyer representing Steve Diffo’s family stated that the chief and his co-defendants face charges including murder, torture, complicity in murder and torture, and lack of national identification. “No human being, even one sentenced to death by standard justice, should endure such a fate,” the lawyer declared.
At the centre of the case are Bostel Kemta and his friend Steve Achille Diffo Sijamo. The two men, both in their thirties, were seized, tortured, and burned alive on June 5 in Baloum, in Cameroon’s West region, by local residents, under the watch of village chief Charles Constant Pokam Noussi. Implicated for his alleged role in this tragedy, the chief surrendered to authorities on Wednesday, June 17, 2026.
Two complaints were filed by the family. The first was lodged with the Penka-Michel gendarmerie brigade, the district capital to which Baloum village belongs, where the events occurred. The second complaint was submitted to the state prosecutor, who expressed surprise at not having been informed of such serious facts.
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