According to the ministerial text, Equinox has been tagged with carrying out “irregular activities in their station”, the text read. The text was also read, exclusively on the government controlled radio and TV, Cameroon Radio and Television, CRTV.

In the build to this heavy-hammer decision on Equinox TV, the government of Cameroon via the taxation department of the Ministry of Finance, had levied huge taxes on the Equinox Media Group.

Observers assert that an exclusive and exhaustive interview Equinox TV did with the wife of late President Ahmadou Ahidjo (Cameroon’s first President), Mrs Germaine Ahidjo and had it aired on their airwaves and rebroadcast, have not augured well with the government of President Paul Biya.

In the wake of the constitutional amendment palaver, currently rocking Cameroon, some media houses across the country have been very critical of President Biya, his government and cohorts of the ruling Cameroon People Democratic Party, CPDM, for perpetrating the revision of Cameroon’s constitution, especially Article 6 (2) for their parochial interest.

If the revision of Article 6 (2) successfully goes through in Cameroon, President Biya is likely to be president for life, an affair, which many Cameroonians are not too keen about.    


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