Family Fined
for Burying Slain School Teacher in K’ba
By Doh
Bertrand Nua in Kumba
The family
of recently slain and roasted Head Teacher of GS Etam I village has been fined
for burying him in Kumba against the wish of the villagers of Mbomo Koke
village in Kupe Muanenguba Division, Tombel Sub-Division, The Median has
learnt.
According to sources close to late
Ejolle’s family, his wife and children have been asked to pay fine comprising
30 jugs of palm wine, 3 pigs (each to cost about FCFA 100 000), crakes of beer
amongst many others for not respecting the customs and traditions of the people
of Mbomo Koke village. Our source said
the family has been warned to provide the aforementioned items on or before
March 6-7, 2018 when the family plans to organize a death celebration for their
late father.
We further
gathered that late Ejolle’s wife has indicated her wish to pay whatever is
demanded in the name of tradition in order to avoid any traditional curse
inflicted on her children.
The fine our interlocutor intimated
comes from the anger vented out by some extended family members and villagers
following the decision of late Ejolle’s wife and children to bury him in their
plot in Kumba and not in the late man’s native village.
However, our source revealed the
decision to bury him in Kumba which is now contested was done after due
consultation with Ejolle’s younger brother who is the family head, resident in
USA.
It should be recalled that late
Ejolle Patrick was buried in Kumba on Thursday February 21, 2018, a day after
his lifeless body was found in a bush along the Kumba-Tombel road.
Ejolle was pulled down from a
commercial motorbike and brutally murdered in a rubber farm few metres from
Etam I village where he was heading for a staff meeting. His demise came barely
a month after his school was burnt to ashes by unidentified persons who had
also continued threatening him with death.
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