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The 6.30 BBC news this morning (8 October,2008),reported that some 30 Southern Cameroons National Council ( SCNC ) members had spent their second night in the Tiko Police cell following their arrest when a combined detachment of Police.Gendarme, and the Army swooped on them, afternoon, October 6th 2008 in Mutengene; a rapidly growing township on the outskirts of Tiko, South West Province, one of the two provinces, that resulted from La Republique du Cameroun’s mutilation of Southern Cameroons.

Reporting from Yaounde, the BBC correspondent, Randy Joe said, among those arrested was Chief Ayamba, SCNC Chairman, who has recently returned from a long tour of Europe and was holding a meeting with his members when the Forces of Law and Order swooped on them. According to Randy Joe, the SCNC is advocating for a separate state of Southern Cameroons which reunited with la Republique du Cameroun in 1961.He said the separatists complain that they are marginalized and treated as second class citizens.