Viban Jude, National President of the Cameroon Association of English-Speaking Journalists, CAMASEJ said the freelance journalist had been found at the Secretariat of State for Defence, SED, but did not give further details.

Njoka was seen 24 days after he had been taken into custody on May 15 by plainclothes security men in Douala. His lawyers, Barristers Akuwidze Joseph, Pekum Emmanuel, and Amungwa Tanyi, say he was first held at the military research service in Bonanjo, Douala before he was later transferred to SED in Yaoundé.

“He is frail and pale for he drinks mostly water because he is traumatized psychologically to have been kept for twenty-four days incommunicado till this morning when we met him,” lawyers are quoted as saying.

Legal Counsels for the detained freelance journalist say he is accused of sponsoring separatist fighters in the country’s North West and South West regions and for being very critical, on social media, of government’s handling of the Anglophone Crisis since 2017.

According to the legal team, “He is alleged to also belong to several social media platforms wherein information about the ongoing crisis in the two English speaking regions of Cameroon is shared…three laptops seized alongside his android phone are currently being searched by the investigator at the Centre des Recherches Judiciare at SED to ascertain the veracity of allegations brought against him”.

The death of journalist Samuel Wazizi in military custody and the attention the case has received locally and internationally made it possible for lawyers to be granted access to freelance journalist Njoka who had been held incommunicado.

The detained journalist’s wife, Vebatia Fai Vivian is quoted as saying that the plainclothes security men on the day of Njoka’s arrest “… took along with them an HP laptop, the keys to his office where they went, searched and equally took two laptops with marks, Lenovo and DELL with a sum of over FCFA 50,000”.

Open sources say Njoka earned a BSc. in Journalism and Mass Communication in 1990 from Ahmadu Bello University, a federal government research university in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria. The native of Kumbo, Bui Division of Cameroon’s North West region returned home and worked at Magic FM in Yaoundé and as well as L’Effort Camerounais, the Roman Catholic Newspaper of the national Episcopal Conference of Cameroon.