Amba War in Brief

Ambazonia Camps Destroyed in Bali and Fundong  

Government Troops have destroyed at least three camps in several operations since Thursday November 22, 2018 in Bali village in the Mezam administrative area and Abu village in the Fundong administrative area in the North West region.

                According to Brigadier General Agha Robinson Ndong, Commander of the 5th Joint Military Region, the military seized a huge consignment of guns, ammunition, machetes, motorcycles and drugs. Unconfirmed reports say at least 43 separatist fighters were killed in the operation. 

                The military found the separatist hideouts after tracking one of the gunmen suspected of kidnapping 79 students and three staff members from a school on Nov. 4, Robinson said.

                “We are more than ever before determined to end these attacks on civilians and the destruction of property,” he said. “We count on the collaboration of the population that is fed up with the killings and kidnappings carried out by the armed gangs.”

                North West Governor Deben Tchoffo said there were no military casualties in the latest operations but The Median learnt that armed gangs ambushed a military convoy in Bali village.

Police Officer beheaded in Nkar

A police officer was on Monday November 19 beheaded in Nkar, Bui Division of the North West region by unidentified gunmen, sources have said.

                The officer, Mr. Ephraim Ngafei was pulled out of a vehicle at the weekend by a group of armed men and and taken to an unknown location, sources said.

                A source close to the family said, the kidnappers had demanded a ransom which the family paid in about 150.000FCFA but the men went ahead to behead the policeman and abandon his corpse on the street.

                Mr. Ngafei, who had reportedly worked in Kumbo for the past ten years waas reportedly heading to Yaounde to answer a summons from his hierarchy but met his doom on the way.

                On the other hand, another police officer who was kidnapped in Kumbo on Sunday Noveember 18, Kinkoh Anthony was reportedly released yesterday after paying a ransom which sources close to his family have estimated to be in the region of 3 million Francs CFA.

Kidnapped BHS K’ba Students Freed

Some five students kidnapped by gunmen from Baptist High School Kang Barombi-Kumba, Meme Division of the South West Region of Cameroon have been released.

                The students were released early today, Friday, November 23, 2018, and were taken to the Senior Divisional Officer’s Chambers.

                The students were kidnapped on Thursday, November 22 at the school campus.

                Before their liberation from captivity, some parents of the kidnapped students had doled out ransoms to secure their children’s release, why those who couldn’t afford the demanded ransom were only supplicating for God’s intervention.

                Speaking to The National Times News, one of the parents said: “I have given all that I have and even more to those rebels, if they like they should go ahead and kill my daughter, I will commit suicide so that I can have my peace,” the embattled parent said.

                The aggrieved parents said they were some lapses in the kidnapping story of the students. “Why were parents only alerted three hours after they kidnapped their children from the school by the Principal?, why did the Principal not report the matter to the forces of law and order?” he wondered.

                Meanwhile, after the release of the students, our source said he was elated to have his daughter back with him unharmed.