In Cameroon, senior chief Baloum and eight other individuals implicated in the double murder of young people in this locality of the country’s West region have been charged and remanded at Dschang Central Prison.
New developments in the case of two young men burned alive in Baloum! On Thursday, 25 June, Chief Baloum and eight others pursued in this matter were formally charged and incarcerated at Dschang Central Prison. According to the lawyer representing Steve Diffo’s family, the chief and his co-accused face charges of murder, torture, complicity in murder and torture, and failure to possess a national identity card. “No human being, even one sentenced to death by normative justice, should ever suffer such a fate,” the attorney stated.
At the heart of this affair are Bostel Kemta and his friend Steve Achille Diffo Sijamo. The two men in their thirties were abducted, tortured, and burned alive on 5 June in Baloum, in Cameroon’s West region, by a group of local residents, in the presence of village chief Charles Constant Pokam Noussi. Accused of playing a role in the tragedy, the latter surrendered to authorities on Wednesday, 17 June 2026.
Two complaints were filed by the family. The first was lodged with the gendarmerie brigade in Penka-Michel, 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 acts.
