Sunday 11 March 2018

Unfortunate coincidence:


Gendarme Woman Kills Bike Rider on Women’s Day in K’ba 
By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba
A bike rider was shot dead by a lady gendarme in Kumba as women celebrated international women’s day on Thursday 8 March 2018. The macabre incident occurred at about 5pm in the evening, in front of the gendarme post situated along the Buea road street. 
            Eye-witness reports said the biker, whose name we couldn’t get, was gunned down as he tried to force his way through in disrespect of a temporal halt ordered by the Gendarmes as they brought down the national flag.
            It is understood that circulation of traffic and persons along the highway bordering the gendarmerie post is halted temporally whenever the flag is hoisted or lowered.
            But we gathered that the rider forced his way and tried to run past in spite of the temporal holdup. Several shots were fired in the air before the one that picked him, we learnt.
            Eyewitnesses said the rider struggled and moved on a few meters with the bullet wounds before he finally succumbed.
An angry mob that was gathering and steaming to protest in front of the brigade soon after the incident was brought under control.

            The population of Kumba is now in a state of fear and uncertainty as no one knows what will definitely happen next.
The lifeless body of the said motorbike rider was taken to the Kumba hospital mortuary. 
            After the incident, some inhabitants who spoke to this reporter said the town of Kumba is a sleeping volcano that should not be provoked. They said gendarme officers should not force the populations to bring out the ugly side of themselves by carrying out the kind of provocation shown by their lady colleague.
            “Kumba has known some calm ever since the coming of the sitting commissioner of the central police station. Let gendarmes not try to compromise the peace that the commissioner is trying to instill in town,” a denizen warned, questioning rhetorically “how can you shoot and kill somebody just like that?”

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