By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba
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| Remains of burnt GBHS administrative block |
A mysterious fire has completely consumed
the administrative block of Government Bilingual High School, GBHS Kumba in
Meme division of the southwest region though the school is located at the
government residential area with high security concentration. The fire whose
cause is still to be made known ravaged the building completely on the night of
Tuesday July 18.
According
to information that this reporter gathered from a security man on campus the
next morning, the two security men who were on duty on that fateful night of
the incident have been arrested and kept under gendarmerie custody for
questioning as to the cause of the fire.
The
fire completely brought down the administrative block which host the office of
the principal and extended to the secretariat as well as the toilet. Remains of
office equipment such as fans, tables, TV set and office documents burnt beyond
recognition could be spotted at the time this reporter visited the scene of the
accident.
The
presence of a big hole on the wall of the office suggested it might have been
used by the perpetrators of the act. The question which many persons are asking
is where the security agents of the campus were before the act which completely
brought down the school administrative block was done.
It
should be recalled that at the heart of the Anglophone crisis some months back
another attempted burning was done in the same building where some office
documents were burnt.
It
would however be recalled that the fire incident is coming barely two weeks
after similar burnings in the town of Kumba. Fire partly consumed the office of
the Kumba III divisional officer alongside the Hilux vehicle belonging to the
firefighting unit of the Kumba army rescue.
The
fire incident on the administrative block of GBHS Kumba comes on the hills of
heated back to school preparations in the town of Kumba.
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