By Ning Gaston in Yaounde
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| Mayor Luc Assamba dies |
The Mayor of the Yaounde II Council, Luc Assamba has died.
He gave up the ghost Friday at the Yaounde Emergency Centre after a brief
illness, family sources have confirmed.
Besides
being a well known politician, Mayor Luc Assamba was also a sports promoter.
He
served as member of FECAFOOT executive committee and President of Centre
regional League of the same body.
His
demise Friday comes barely days after his colleague of the Nwa council in Donga
Mantung division was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the North West region.
Mayor
Ngomfe Loma David Moloh was discovered dead last Tuesday.
The
circumstances leading to his demise remain unknown but some sources on the
ground say he was killed by suspected Ambazonia separatist fighters.
We
learnt that the municipal authority was on his way to Bamenda to attend a
meeting when he was targeted and killed by the armed men.
The
Median gathered from sources that he was shot by the militia group for
allegedly cooperating with military to crackdown on separatists in the
locality.
The
killed municipal authority hailed from Luz in the Fumteh Clan in Nwa sub
division.
He
served as chief Medical Officer in many hospitals across the country dabbling
into politics.
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