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Sombo Celestin and Ebete Romuald are two Congolese citizens living in Souanke. In Juillet 2017, Sombo Ceslestin went to Ebete Romuald’s house and took a hunting weapon (type caliber 12) with the autorisation of the latter to carry out a hunting expedition.

In January 2017, Eboto, a Congolese from DRC, resident in Pokola was visited by his countrymen named Benz and Djuna coming to propose him a big hunting expedition. Due to financial difficulties he accepted the offer. Armed with a war weapon and ammunition, the three people entered the forest and Eboto Willy was the carrier.

On January 05, 2018, Edenga Justin met with Arsene Adzele while he was entering the village Gol who asked him to find a buyer of ivory tusks. On January 09, Edanga Juscar went to Souanke where he met with Mr. Sarli who ordered ivory tusks and then he came back to Gol and told Adzele Arsene that he found a potential buyer.

In March 2018, one named as Ndourou and others after a hunting expedition and having no means to move the ivory and weapons used to hunt decided to keep them at Edanga Joseph’s place.

In February 2018, Zebengou Bavant, chief of the village Douma 1 organized a big hunting expedition with the participation of a renown hunter Ekombi Amino assisted by his son Mbela Georges and his brother-in-law Mbomo Felix.

In 2008, while his wife was pregnant, Kazouna Cyprien proposed to Essoula Idriss to carry a hunting expedition for him to get some money to cover the delivery of his wife. During the hunting expedition, they came across a small dead elephant and they removed the two small tusks that they sold to XAF 40,000 (forty thousand).

In August 2016, Essaio Jaures entered the forest to set traps. On his way, he came across rangers on patrol who arrested him because the area was protected against hunting. Brought to the state prosecutor, Essabio was forwarded to court for trial.

In July 2016, Nji Fonbdah Gédéon went to the locality of Yangadou, Cabosse where he bought leopard skins and pangolin scales. On his return to Souanke, he associated himself with Gadjere Ibrahim who assisted in buying more leopard skins. That’s how both were arrested and brought before the state prosecutor.

During the year 2016 at Pokola, Gbeli Jordan with a war weapon in his possession, decided to form a hunting team composed of Ehoulabi Lazard and Bassin Jean in other to hunt elephants.

In May 2019, Golom Raphael was approached by one known as Didier who offered to sell him three ivory tusks. He then bought one tusk for XAF 300,000, after which investigations were opened against him and the file fowarded to the state prosecutor’s chambers and later to the court for trial.