By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba
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| Stranded Vehicles along Kumba-Buea highway |
Some passengers travelling across the Kumba-Buea highway
axis recently suffered severe flogging in the hands of suspected separatist
fighters after mounting road blocks on certain portions of the road. The
incident occurred during the early hours of Tuesday May 21, 2019.
Some of
the stranded passengers who spoke to this reporter after been ordered to return
to Kumba revealed they were beaten for violating a separatist imposed ghost
town on Tuesday, a day incarcerated separatist leaders were expected to appear
at the Yaoundé military court.
Vehicles
were also feared destroyed in the course of the road block. Many other vehicles
were forced to make a U-turn to their towns of origin without completing the
journey. Several busses loaded with passengers headed for Buea were ordered
back into the Kumba. The passengers were left stranded at the Buea Road motor park.
One of
the passengers told this reporter that they were interrupted around the
locality of Mabonji in Mbonge Sub-Division by gunmen. Circulation along the
road later became fluid in the afternoon after security forces restored order
and chased back the gunmen to the bushes.
Despite
the interruption of movement along the major highway, circulation within Kumba
was fluid as commercial motorbikes, taxis and businesses were all open. This
recent development along Kumba-Buea road comes after months of relative calm
witnessed in the said road that had once been considered a dead track by
commuters.
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