PM’s convoy enters B’da through Kumba-Mamfe
road
By Johnson Batuo in Kumba
While some residents of the Northwest
region mostly youths were busy felling down tress along the Bafousam Santa road
to block the Prime Minister’s convoy from reaching Bamenda, the Prime Minister
and his huge delegation Wednesday 7 December 2016 instead used the Kumba –
Mamfe road to get to Bamenda.
The
Prime Minister and his delegation were heading for Bamenda in the Northwest
region after participating at a low-keyed unity event in Buea, on Tuesday 6
December. The meeting was aimed to
drum-up support for President Paul Biya in the face of the ongoing Anglophone
protests.
The
PM’s convoy was devoid of the usual uniformed security men and the siren that
usually announces the passing and/or entry of a “big man”. The only thing that
attracted the attention of the population was the fleet of posh cars.
Whatever motivated the Prime Minister and his
entourage to take the Kumba – Mamfe road to Bamenda was not immediately known.
While some sources speculated he wanted to use the opportunity to evaluate the
progress of ongoing works on that stretch, others said he could have been
alerted by security reports of a looming danger awaiting him along the
Bafoussam-Bamenda road.
An
eye witness in EyangAtemako village along the road under construction told this
reporter that some of the posh cars barely struggled their way through the
patches of bad spots.
We
further gathered that the Northwesterners like their English speaking brothers
in the Southwest region were angry given that instead of addressing the
Anglophone problem, the CPDM went ahead to dismiss the existence of the problem
by organizing a unity meeting.
To
woo the unsuspecting and poverty-stricken populations to attend the Buea event,
CDC plantations workers were offered free transportation, CPDM T-Shirts, one
thousand frs each and a bottle of beer. They were further threatened with
dismissal if ever they failed to turn up in Buea.
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