Dr. FontemNeba:

Consortium SG loses car in mysterious fire

Dr. FontemNeba’s car burnt beyond recover

As could be predicted members of the Anglophone Consortium have started facing persecution and victimization. Dr. FontemAfontekahNeba, Secretary General of both the University of Buea Chapter of the National Union of Teachers of Higher Education,SYNES UB, and the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium, was victim of arson, when he discovered at the weekend that his car had been burnt to ashes by fire allegedly set by yet unknown hoodlums.

                Dr. Fontem who was attending a meeting of the Ghogomu ad-hoc committee in Bamenda, had parked his car inside the University of Buea campus, few meters to the campus security post, before leaving for Bamenda.

                Returning from a tiring sojourn in Bamenda, Dr. Neba was welcome home with the news that his car was consumed by a mysterious fire at about 4am on Sunday 15 January 2017.

                Security agents on Campus said they could not immediately determine the cause of the fire. They said after noticing the raging flames they immediately rushed to the scene but their effort to put off the flames were futile.

                Many cars were parked at the vicinity but only Dr. Fontem’s car was torched.

                Police have opened investigations to determine whether the fire resulted from an accident or was the handiwork of some yet to be identified persons.

                Despite the incident, FontemNeba still wrote on social media Sunday afternoon appealing to West Cameroonians not to use the opportunity of impending Ghost Towns on Monday to go out of their confines and commit acts of violence.

                “My fellow West Cameroonians, a few hours to the start of our “Civil Disobedience,” the weapon we have been  divinely instructed to use against the forces of oppression that wreak havoc and cause bloodshed, I wish to remind you again that: Our struggle is a peaceful resistance, not a violent one. No citizen, worthy of West Cameroon should take part in any form of violence or take part in any bloodshed. Teachers will not go to school, so children, don’t bother to go to school. The indigenes of West Cameroon are heroically and collectively resolved to resist until their demands are met.”

                He added: “Anyone who dreams of enjoying the citizenship of West Cameroon should do well to keep their children at home so that State provocateurs will not use them to inflict violence on our community again. We have known shame, lack, abuse and all.