By Tiku Louisa Ntui in Kumba
A court in the South West Region has accepted to close a
case involving Ngoumbe Mama Njoya and Hamidou Yusuf accused of practicing
homosexuality because Paton Salamato who stood as witness against the accused
has died.
When
the case came up for hearing not long ago, it was revealed that Salamato had
reported to the police way back in 2013 that she caught her boyfriend, by name
Ngoumbe Mama Njoya, born on July 10, 1979 in Kumba, Meme Division of the South
West Region, having anal sex with another man by name Hamidou Yusuf, aged 27
years.
The
State Prosecutor told the presiding magistrate that when Salamato reported the
incident to the security forces, a team of private detectives was sent to track
down the accused who had fled the vicinity of their crime to an unknown
destination.
The
detectives found out that both Ngoumbe and Hamidou had escaped from Buea, in
Fako Division and capital of the South West region and were headed for Kumba,
the Meme Divisional capital and home town of Ngoumbe.
The two
were caught the next day in Kumba and detained pending further investigations.
The duo was later released on bail from police detention by their relatives.
They
have since fled Kumba to unknown destinations. Family sources however revealed
that Ngoumbe should be somewhere in Asia, while Hamidou is in the United States
of America. Ngoumbe was reported as struggling to join his homosexual mate in
the United States of America.
The
same family sources also told police detectives that Paton Salamato died in
December 2014. Without any living witness to sustain the case, and the two
accused out of the country, the state prosecutor had no other choice than to
order for the closure of the case file.
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