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| Waffo Jean Paul |
A wave of pandemonium swept across the City of Bamenda last Tuesday 3 June 2014 when gun-totting Gendarmes whisked off a popular newspaper vendor at the Bamenda City Chemist Round About over what turned out to be trumped up charges. The vendor, Wafo Jean Paul, 49, was shown a warrant of arrest said to issued by the State Prosecutor for Mezam, asking him to appear before the Ntarinkon Brigade commander.
Immediately Waffo arrived at the Brigade, he was pushed into the guard room and locked up. He spent the night behind bars.
Before his arrest, Wafo Jean Paul was recovering from injuries inflicted on him last May 26, 2014 by tugs believed to have been hired by his former LandLord, Ndifor Ngwafor George, a Pharmacist and businessman.
Worse still, Jean PAUL complained bitterly that when he went to that Pharmacy to buy drugs prescribed by the Dr. who consulted him, Dr. Ndiffor ordered his nurses not to attend to him. Jean Paul has since reported the matter to the Judicial Police and human rights organizations who have referred the matter to the State Counsel.
Wafo Jean Paul, a native of the West Region, arrived in Bamenda in 1990 and has been selling newspapers for the past 24 years. He believes that the recent wave of attacks on his person were tribally-motivated especially giving the hatred usually animated between Bamelike’s of the West Region and Cameroonians of other tribes. He was recently in court with a native of Mankon over an access road to his residence.
Waffo Jean Paul who owns one of the largest Newspaper Kiosks in Bamenda City had disagreed with his LandLord over the constant and unjustified increase in rents even when business is on the dark side. He decided to move to the road pavement some six meters away from the boundary pillar of the Landlord. In anger, the Landlord, whom he had regularly paid rents to for the past 20 years, asked him to quit that roadside spot on grounds that he was blocking his new tenants from the road.
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