Cameroonian presidency has debunked reports stating that Paul Biya, the president of the country is dead.
Gatekeepers News reports that there has been rumours of the ninety-one (91) year-old leader’s demise after ABS Africa TV announced the president’s death on Tuesday.
The president has not been seen in public after he left Beijing where he attended the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC) on September 8.
Boya couldn’t return to Cameroon in mid-September medical team advised him to remain in Switzerland where he has since then regularly undergone medical care and extended periods of rest.
Cameroon Intelligence Report, an online platform revealed that the president has been battling heart problems and memory failure for many years.
According to the false report; Biya’s health was worsened by prostate cancer, which spread to other vital organs and eventually claimed his life over the weekend at a hospital in an uncertain location of Paris or Geneva.
However, director of the presidency’s civil cabinet, Samuel Ayola issued a statement debunking the president’s rumoured death.
He said, “For some time now, some malicious people through social networks have tried to make people believe that the President of the Republic is seriously ill, or even passed away.”
“The Civil Cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic wishes to reassure all our compatriots as well as the international community about the excellent state of health of the Head of State who works and goes about his business in Geneva from where he has never left since his arrival from Beijing.”
“The Civil Cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic strongly condemns behaviors that abuse freedom of expression to try to disturb national and international opinion.”
