RIP Professor Micheal Yanou

Professor Micheal Yanou, a legal practitioner and lecturer at the Universities of Buea and Yaounde, died on Tuesday, January 27, in a car accident along the Edea-Yaounde road. Barrister Anthony Tchana Yanou, Prof Yanou’s cousin, told The Post that he (Tchana), received a call that January 27 afternoon, informing him of his cousin’s involvement in an accident in Edea. “I received a call from a colleague who was also driving to Yaounde and saw that Yanou‘s car was involved in an accident. I immediately rang Prof. Yanou’s phone and was told, by one of the police officers who was at the scene of the accident, to immediately hit the road, which I did, with the intension of meeting him, perhaps at the hospital, maybe in need of blood or some other thing. But as I was descending Mutengene hill, I got another call from a Commandant de Brigade Routiere who told me Prof Yanou had given up the ghost,” Tchana narrated. Tchana said Prof Yanou was involved in another accident, earlier on Friday, January 23, in Edea, when he was coming to Buea. The car was damaged but he came out safe. He managed to get it to Douala where he left it for repairs and continued his journey to Buea by public transport.

Yanou’s driver, Joseph Ediaga, who sustained injuries and is currently receiving treatment at the Buea Regional Hospital, stated that he has been Yanou’s driver for a long time. He said he could not really explain the cause of the accident. Hear him: “I succeeded in giving passage to a truck that appeared abruptly in front of me and actually swerved back to my lane. It was like a dream, when I realised that the car was somersaulting in the bush.” It is alleged that Yanou died a few minutes after he was removed from the car.

Before his death, Prof. Yanou was a Legal Practitioner, Lecturer and Director at the Ministry of Higher Education.
Barrister Prof Yanou’s remains were brought in and preserved at the Buea Regional Hospital mortuary, pending burial arrangements. Yanou has left behind his wife and three sons a as well as colleagues and friends to mourn him.

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