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Social media has been awash with posts following Zogo’s disappearance with Reporters Without Borders condemning “the brutal abduction of a journalist.”
A popular Cameroon radio journalist who had been missing following what a media rights group called an abduction has been found dead, his employer and police said.
“I went to Ebogo (15 kilometres north of Yaounde) early this morning where I saw and recognised the body of Martinez Zogo. The prosecutor’s deputy was present and his wife was there to identify him,” Amplitude FM radio editor in chief Charly Tchouemou told AFP news agency on Sunday, January 22, 2023
Zogo was managing director of Yaounde-based private radio station Amplitude FM and the star host of a popular daily programme, Embouteillage (Gridlock).
On the air, the 51-year-old regularly tackled cases of corruption, not hesitating to question important personalities by name. He had been missing since Tuesday.
The death of Zogo was confirmed to AFP by a police source who spoke on condition of anonymity.
A large crowd gathered as Zogo’s body was taken to the morgue of Yaounde central hospital for an autopsy, a member of the victim’s family told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Social media has been awash with posts following his disappearance — with Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemning “the brutal abduction of a journalist”.
According to RSF, Zogo’s badly damaged car was found outside a police station in a suburb of the Cameroonian capital Yaounde on Tuesday.
Ref: AFP & TRTWorld
