In Chad, Robert Gam has not given any sign of life since he left the premises of the Socialist Party without Borders, late Friday afternoon, September 20. His party, for whom he was in the crosshairs of the Chadian secret services since the death of Yaya Dillo last February, accuses them of having kidnapped him.
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With no news from its secretary general for two days, the Socialist Party without Borders (PSF) says it is ” very worried “, Sunday September 22, and accuses the Chadian secret services of having kidnapped Robert Gam.
According to the opposition party, which has had very tense relations with the Chadian government since the death of its leader Yaya Dilloshot in the head during the army’s assault on the PSF headquarters on February 29, the last time Robert Gam was seen was on Friday shortly after 5 p.m. local time, when he was leaving the party premises on a small motorcycle. All trace of him has been lost since then.
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Robert Gam had then told his political comrades that he was going straight home, but he never arrived. And since then, neither his family nor the PSF leaders have had any news of him, although they obviously tried to find out. Hospitals, police stations, offices of the General Intelligence Service: ” We have been everywhere [à Ndjamena] but it’s like he vanished into thin air ” explains one of the PSF executives.
Robert Gam was subject to “harassment and intimidation”
If the PSF today accuses the Chadian secret services of having ” removed “Robert Gam, it is because he assures that his secretary general was in their sights since the death of Yaya Dillo, killed barely more than two months before the presidential election of May 6. Following his death, Robert Gam had effectively become the party’s number one, continuing his predecessor’s line of radical opposition. He had just given the Chadian government one month to release the activists of his party arrested during the attack, threatening if they did not ” to organize protests throughout the national territory “.
Since then, Robert Gam has been the subject of ” of harassment and intimidation “, according to the PSF executive already cited who also claims that, just before his disappearance, “ suspicious motorcycles and vehicles with tinted windows without license plates [d’immatriculation] ” were present around the headquarters of the training. For the moment, neither the Chadian government nor the National State Security Agency (ANSE) have responded to RFI’s requests.