Sunday 4 March 2018

Itam 1, Tombel Sub-Division:


Family Fined for Burying Slain School Teacher in K’ba
By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba
The family of recently slain and roasted Head Teacher of GS Etam I village has been fined for burying him in Kumba against the wish of the villagers of Mbomo Koke village in Kupe Muanenguba Division, Tombel Sub-Division, The Median has learnt.
            According to sources close to late Ejolle’s family, his wife and children have been asked to pay fine comprising 30 jugs of palm wine, 3 pigs (each to cost about FCFA 100 000), crakes of beer amongst many others for not respecting the customs and traditions of the people of Mbomo Koke village.  Our source said the family has been warned to provide the aforementioned items on or before March 6-7, 2018 when the family plans to organize a death celebration for their late father.
We further gathered that late Ejolle’s wife has indicated her wish to pay whatever is demanded in the name of tradition in order to avoid any traditional curse inflicted on her children.

            The fine our interlocutor intimated comes from the anger vented out by some extended family members and villagers following the decision of late Ejolle’s wife and children to bury him in their plot in Kumba and not in the late man’s native village.
            However, our source revealed the decision to bury him in Kumba which is now contested was done after due consultation with Ejolle’s younger brother who is the family head, resident in USA.
            It should be recalled that late Ejolle Patrick was buried in Kumba on Thursday February 21, 2018, a day after his lifeless body was found in a bush along the Kumba-Tombel road.
            Ejolle was pulled down from a commercial motorbike and brutally murdered in a rubber farm few metres from Etam I village where he was heading for a staff meeting. His demise came barely a month after his school was burnt to ashes by unidentified persons who had also continued threatening him with death.


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