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Place of Birth: Douala, Littoral, Cameroon
About Titus Edzoa
- Titus Edzoa (born 4 January 1945) is a Cameroonian politician.
- He served as Secretary-General of the Presidency of the Republic and Minister of Public Health before announcing his candidacy for the 1997 presidential election; subsequently he was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for embezzlement of public funds.In 1997, shortly after announcing his intention to stand as a presidential candidate against President Paul Biya, Edzoa was arrested for alleged embezzlement, and promptly sentenced to 15 years in prison.
- The Court of Appeals in Yaoundé upheld the convictions and sentences in 1999.
- Edzoa sent a delegation to President Biya on 25 May 2001, seeking a pardon; Biya was, however, unwilling to consider the matter unless he received a written request, and Edzoa was unwilling to write such a request because he suspected that it might be used against him.Edzoa was reportedly kept in difficult conditions at the maximum security gendarmerie headquarters.
- Still imprisoned, he sought to be taken to Europe for medical treatment in 2003, but that was not permitted.
- However, he was released on the 25th of February 2014 after spending more than 17 years in Jail.When his prison term was about to end, the supreme court slammed another 20-year jail term on Professor Titus Edzoa. Presided over by Justice Marc Ombala Ateba on December 17, 2013 the court simply upheld the lower court’s decision that slammed a 20-year jail term each on the Titus Edzo. On the eve of the celebration of the reunification of Cameroon in February 2014 in Buea, President Paul Biya signed a presidential clemency from which Titus Ezoa benefit. He walked free from prison on February 25, 2014
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