Head Teacher who was Abducted and Roasted Buried in K’ba

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba

Late Ejolle Patrick, Head Teacher GS Etam I

The mortal remains of the recently abducted, killed and roasted head teacher of Government Primary School Group I, Etam I village, Ejolle Patrick has been buried by family members in Kumba. The burial took place on Thursday February 21, 2018, one day after his lifeless body was found in a bush along the Kumba-Tombel Reunification stretch of road.

            We gathered from investigations that his remains was found in a rubber farm few metres into Etam I village where he was heading for a staff pedagogic meeting on Wednesday February 21. Reports have it that late EjollePartrick was forced off a commercial motorbike he had board on his way to Etam I along the way to an unknown destination into the bush. The assailants are said to have informed Ejolle’s wife through a phone call shortly after his abduction, threatening they might end up killing him.

            In an attempt to search for abducted Ejolle, we learnt from family sources that they only stumbled on his mutilated and burnt remains in the bush. It was revealed that Ejolle’s corpse was discovered alongside that of another person whose identity we couldn’t confirm.

            Our family sources also revealed they made calls to the Divisional Officer for Tombel when they got news of his abduction and he promised sending military officers to the area for immediate intervention. It however disclosed that the two bodies were later transferred and displayed and the EtamI Chief’s palace.

            Ejolle’s demise comes barely a month after his school was burnt to ashes by unidentified persons. Family sources revealed that ever since the school was burnt their Ejolle had being under serious death threats from unknown persons. Ejolle’s murder also comes barely days after the Etam I one Chief’s palace was burnt down to ashes by irate youths after reported hostilities in the area earlier on in the week between military officers and separatists fighters.

Ejolle defies family caution

            According to family sources, Ejolle was cautioned to absent from the pedagogic meeting or better still but he vehemently refused to listen. He was as well advised to use the Kumba railway line that goes to Mbanya before travelling to Loum and then Tombel to Etam I but it appears he wave away all the advised. Such caution is said to have been given following a terrible dream members of the family had on Tuesday breaking Wednesday that he was supposed to travel.

            It is still unclear why Ejolle later ignored all the advice and decided to hit the road on a motorbike. It is speculated however that the assailants must have traced his movement from Kumba before forcing him off the motorbike along the road into a rubber farm where he was murdered.

            Late Ejolle Patrick who is said to have been close to his retirement from service was transferred to GS Etam I after serving in the same capacity in Kumba at GS KumbaMbeng. He leaves behind a wife, six children, relatives, colleagues and friends to mourn him.