Mutengene: Woman survives gunshots from armed bandits

By Sarah Nkongho Ojong in Mutengene

Tuesday February 4, 2014 barely some few minutes after 7pm, a woman selling fruits whose name we got as Bodeh Marceline was ambushed by some two armed bandits while she was returning from the market, at quarter four b in Mutengene.
    Found in their middle and facing directly one of the armed bandits, Marceline was asked to hand over the waist band she was carrying, but before she could do so, she was shot in the stomach. According to report from the victim, she fell on the ground helplessly and watched the bad guys struggle to remove the waist band they had asked for as they also asked her to roll down her trousers. Faced with death, she could only indicate with groans that everything was in the waist band as she pleaded for help from the same guys who removed the band and disappeared into thin air.

    Hearing the sound of a gunshot, inhabitants of the neighborhood came out and discovered her shot on the ground. She was rushed to the hospital where she underwent an operation and the bullets removed.

                                              Bodeh Marceline recovering at her residence

     Speculations have it that the gun used might have been the calybidos that is typically used for hunting animals and whose bullets spread out once the catridge hits its victim.
    Doctors’ reports said the bullets did not touch Bodeh’s intestines reason why she survived the gunshots. Talking to her husband, Ernest Bodeh, he told The Median that he heard a gunshot from inside his house but could not imagine the victim was his wife.
    It is worth noting that the incident occurred just two days after the new police commissioner of public security, Ndumbe Lazare, who did so much to reduce crime wave in Mutengene was transferred to Buea. People are worried if the peace and tranquility plus the security they enjoyed during Ndumbe’s era would continue with the new police boss. 
    Already, there are hints that the swindlers, money doublers or dealers in ‘cham’ are reappearing in Mutengene. Many of them can already be seen stationed along the streets and main road of the town. At the time of going to press The Median was informed of another incident where a girl was stabbed with a bottle in her stomach.