Kumba, Meme Division:

Amba General Stoned to Death, others Surrender

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Yaounde

Meme SDO talks to former Ambazonia combattants

At least 20 ex-separatist combatants operating in Kumba, Chief Town of Meme Division have surrendered to the Meme administration. The ex-fighters dropped their weapons and peaceful handed themselves to the administration Tuesday 17 December 2019.

                The ex-combatants were received by the SDO, Chamberlin Ntou’ou Ndong, who saluted them for gladly accepting President Paul Biya’s olive branch to give peace a chance for the return to normalcy as especially as government is bent on implementing the recommendations of the Major National Dialogue that was convened to seek lasting solutions to the over three year crisis.  

                The fighters confessed revealed they were from camps located at Mile One, Kosala and Three Corners. They were immediately ferried to the Southwest regional Centre for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration, DDR. 

                The group of 20 surrendered few days after another fighter who confessed to have been operating in Nguti Subdivision presented himself and surrendered to the Meme SDO. The Kumba-based fighters surrendered barely a week after one of theirs on a ‘revenue collection’ mission to Barumbi Kang was stoned to death by the population. Locals in the area are said to have dished out stern warnings to the activities of the fighters in the area.

                The number of surrendered fighters comes to add to those who have so far surrendered in Kumba and other parts of Meme. To recall is the fact that during the visit of the Prime Minister to the Southwest region, a total of 21 fighters dropped their weapons and willingly handed themselves to the administration.

                The 20 fighters add to the list of 251 ex-fighters who have surrendered in the two Anglophone regions and the Far North region, according to the National Coordinator of the DDR Centre, Fai Yengo Francis.