Cameroon police arrest Charles Taylor’s son

The son of former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor is due to be prosecuted in Cameroon for illegally entering the country without the appropriate documentation.

Cornelius Taylor was arrested by Cameroonian immigration police at the entrance of Kumba from Calabar by road.

When questioned by police, Cornelius Taylor told the officers he was on his way to Douala to meet a lady who would provide him with travel documents to enter the United States.

Unscathed by lawsuits internationally, Cornelius Taylor could be repatriated if found guilty of illegal immigration.

In 2006, Emmanuel, another son of Charles Taylor, also known as Charles Taylor Junior or Chucky Taylor, was arrested in Miami, Florida, following the imprisonment of his father and sent to the prison of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (TSSL).

Emmanuel, who is an American citizen, was responsible for Liberian forces who provided security for President Taylor before his exile in Nigeria in 2003.

According to Police sources, Cornelius Taylor who spent three days behind bars at the police station before being whisked to the Kumba Central Police Station  was arrested for want of valid documents to step foot on Cameroonian soil, thus being qualified as an illegal immigrant. However, Taylor Cornelius who was later taken before the State Counsel Justice Batuo Paul Akong at the Kumba Legal Department narrated that he wasn't an illegal immigrant.

He maintained that he was coming from Nigeria on an invitation from in Cameroon based in Limbe for some transactions before he could take off for yet another destination. Taylor disclosed that he had only 20 pieces of Diamond in his possession which he sold to the Nigerien, which money enabled him to undertake the Cameroon trip.

However as we went to Press, Taylor Cornelius is reported to have being taken to Buea for further interrogations.

It should be noted that during Charles Taylor   term of office he accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity  as a result of his involvement in the Sierra Leone Civil war from 1991 to 2002 that claim thousands of life in that small West African Country. Sierra Leone .Domestically, opposition to his regime grew, culminating in the outbreak of the second Liberian War from 1999 to 2003. By 2003, he had lost control of much of the countryside and was formally indicted by the Special Criminal Court of Sierra Leone set up by the International Criminal Court S. That year, he resigned as President as a result of growing international pressure and went into exile in Nigeria. In 2006, the newly elected President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf formally requested his extradition, after which he was detained by UN authorities in Sierra Leone and then at the Penitentiary Institution Haaglandan in The Hague awaiting trial. He was found guilty in April 2012 of all eleven charges levied by the Special Court, including terror, murder and rape. In May he was sentenced to 50 years in prison for aiding and abetting as well as planning some of the most heinous and brutal crimes recorded in human history.