Mbonge, Meme Division:

Chief kills 25-yr old boy in MofakoButu

By  JohnsonBatuo in Kumba

The chief of Mofakobutu, a village in Mbonge subdivision, Meme division of the South West region is under Gendarme custody after he shot and killed a 25-year old boy with a gun.

                The chief whose name The Median got  only as  chief Cosmas, in the night of Friday 21 October 2016, shot and killed the  boy  whose name  we  could not get at press time yesterday.

                We gathered that the boy was in the bush that fateful night in search of cane when the Chief who was out on a hunting expedition mistook him for an animal and fired the gun at him. The Chief only realized it was a human being when he went closer. Realizing his macabre act, Chief Cosmas is said to have rushed home without telling anyone, changed his clothes and went and reported himself to the Gendarmerie Brigade in Mbonge where he is presently locked up pending investigations.

                Reports from the village say the Chief’s younger brother is still in the Kumba prison after he was jailed for killing a man using a broken bottle over a woman.

                The Chief had since been struggling to get his brother set free. But after Friday’s act, it is speculated that he might have been bewitched to commit the act so he can also join his brother in jail for trying to free a murderer.

                By the time of filing this report, the youths of the village had refused to help the Gendarmes in bringing the corpse home.