Highway Robbery or Scam?

CDC Workers Ambushed in Kwa Kwa, FCFA 30m, Service Cars Seized

-Four suspects in Gendarmerie custody

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba

Four workers of the Cameroon Development Corporation, CDC, have been arrested and kept under Gendarmerie custody. The workers we learnt were arrested after they reported themselves to the Gendarmerie unit in Mbonge for interrogations following an attack carried out on Friday February 9, 2018 while transporting FCFA 30 million meant to pay CDC workers at the Eluani Estate and Mill in Ndian Division.

                As narrated to us by Mr. Ndasi, a driver of the third vehicle on the convoy void of any security person, they were attacked by armed bandits along the Kumba Ekondo-Titi road particularly at Kwa-Kwa, and the FCFA 30 million they were carrying carted away along with two vehicles.

                He revealed that because he was driving a considerable distance from the first vehicles, he only arrived at the scene of the attack after the two other vehicles had been ambushed at Kwa-Kwa around where a tanker was recently burnt. He disclosed that the bandits beat up his colleagues and rubbed them in the dust before making away with their booty.

                Ndasi told us that he then transported his colleagues to Mbonge where they reported the incident to the Gendarmerie. He further revealed that after the interrogation, one CDC manager, an accountant as well as two junior staffs were detained.

                Ndasi said while on their way back on Saturday, they discovered one of the seized vehicles around the entrance to Mboa village but decided not to take it. He said they allowed the vehicle for it to be taken by either the police or the gendarmerie.

                Many have been quick to attribute the robbery to the Ambazonia soldiers who have been raiding localities in Meme lately. Others speculate it might have been a well calculated act organized by the CDC workers and some accomplices.