Meme SDO Dismantles Ambazonia Tax Counters Along K’ba-Buea
Road
The entire artillery of Cameroon’s security forces and
compartments alongside administrative authorities in Meme Division, South West
Region of Cameroon stormed a notorious spot on the Kumba-Buea road corridor at
Ediki Village, Thursday, December 13, filling potholes that made it easy for
Ambazonia fighters to stop vehicles and
collect money from passengers and drivers.
The
spot had become a natural speed brake which the gunmen used to easily stop
vehicles and collect money before vanishing into thin air.
The
area of the road had developed potholes even before the Anglophone Crisis
sparked-off in late 2016.
The
potholes have now developed into gullies making the passage of vehicles
difficult. Drivers were forced to reduce their speed each time they got to the
spot.
In a
bid to frustrate the fighters, the Prefect for Meme, Chamberlin Ntou’ou Ndong,
mobilised all sectors of state security, caterpillars, tippers and some workers
of the Kumba City council to fill laterite on the potholes along the road.
Talking
to reporters the prefect said “as you know I am just from Ediki…. Talking about
Ediki, all of us can remember what used to happen there. It was a place where
those Amba boys used to kidnap innocent people, seize their property, kill some
and so on and so forth. That is why I thought that it was time for me to stop
it even if there is no money. I cannot continue to wait forever. That is why I
decided to go there myself and put laterite there to be sure that thes place is
completely done so that my population can travel freely particularly accross
Ediki”.
Quizzed
on how really secured the area could become after the repair works, the SDO
retorted: “I can testify today that vehicles can now move hitch free; there is
no problem there again.”
At the
moment, the fear of the population is that the gunmen may not recline from
digging the road again after the temporary rehabilitation work that has been
done.
It is
unlikely that the repair works will stop the amba boys from battling to collect
money from travelers and drivers on the said road.
Besides
Ediki, the separatists fighters had dug another ditch around Mabonji still on
the Kumba-Buea highway thus frustrating traffic for weeks. The military
engineering corps has been battling for weeks to restore traffic along the
stretch.
Pic
Council cartepillars refilling gullies along the Kumba-Buea
Highway
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