Sunday 23 July 2017

Mysterious fire guts GBHS Kumba administrative block



By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba
Remains of burnt GBHS administrative block
A mysterious fire has completely consumed the administrative block of Government Bilingual High School, GBHS Kumba in Meme division of the southwest region though the school is located at the government residential area with high security concentration. The fire whose cause is still to be made known ravaged the building completely on the night of Tuesday July 18.
                According to information that this reporter gathered from a security man on campus the next morning, the two security men who were on duty on that fateful night of the incident have been arrested and kept under gendarmerie custody for questioning as to the cause of the fire.
                The fire completely brought down the administrative block which host the office of the principal and extended to the secretariat as well as the toilet. Remains of office equipment such as fans, tables, TV set and office documents burnt beyond recognition could be spotted at the time this reporter visited the scene of the accident.
                The presence of a big hole on the wall of the office suggested it might have been used by the perpetrators of the act. The question which many persons are asking is where the security agents of the campus were before the act which completely brought down the school administrative block was done.

                It should be recalled that at the heart of the Anglophone crisis some months back another attempted burning was done in the same building where some office documents were burnt.
                It would however be recalled that the fire incident is coming barely two weeks after similar burnings in the town of Kumba. Fire partly consumed the office of the Kumba III divisional officer alongside the Hilux vehicle belonging to the firefighting unit of the Kumba army rescue.
                The fire incident on the administrative block of GBHS Kumba comes on the hills of heated back to school preparations in the town of Kumba.


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