As the military vehicles approached, these armed individuals who were busy consuming hard drugs were taken by surprise and immediately opened fire on the elements of the defense forces, who provided an energetic and appropriate response– Says Cameroon Military
Military Communication Boss, Atonfack Guemo Cyrille Serge on behalf of the Cameroon Ministry of Defense, has declared some 4 young boys killed in Bamenda, Capital of Northwest Region as Armed Terrorists for the Ambazonian Movement. A communique he signed to this effect dating January 27th, 2020, indicates that, the population had alerted the 5th Gendarmerie Region about this group operating in the Bamenda II subdivision under the guide of a certain GENERAL TIGER.
It adds that, the boys were planning an assault on the military before their Waterloo on that faithful afternoon.
“As the military vehicles approached, these armed individuals who were busy consuming hard drugs were taken by surprise and immediately opened fire on the elements of the defense forces, who provided an energetic and appropriate response”. Part of the communique reads
Col. Atonfack says some others were injured and are on the run, while tens of “M21 S and FAL type” weapons were retrieved from them. Also, that, local authorities have confirmed that the building used by the boys is a temporal confinement center where kidnapped persons are kept before transportation to their camps for torture and Ransom taking.
Tensions had gone wild on Saturday 23rd January, afternoon, when these four boys amongst, students at the Government Bilingual High School, GBHS Down Town Bamenda, came under the Barrel of military weapons. The incident that happened at the Famous T-Junction, in the heart of the city linking Atua-Azire (Metta Quarter) and Old town, is one of another ugly events in the ongoing crisis that still has many inhabitants taken aback.
The outing by the Cameroon military has not been received genuinely by a cross section of persons interviewed by the STANDARD MIRROR. Some say an independent investigation need be done to ascertain if actually the boys killed were Delinquent School children or members of the Dreaded Ambazonian Separatist movement. Others argue that unlike other cases where the weapons are brandished on the scene of the act, this case was not the same as only drugs and not arms were seen on the boys. Another school of thoughts have drawn inspiration from a similar situation that happened in same kind building in Buea, Southwest region some months ago where about 3 drugs-consuming boys were shot in similar circumstance.
Given the security challenges in the Northwest and Southwest Regions, a good number of inhabitants think youths must desist from indecent lifestyle to avoid the heavy arm of the security. Drug Consumption, Late nights, shabby dressings, unkempt hair and other forms of criminality traits are dangerous especially for young men.
However, as it stands, the communique from the military remains a document to fully be endorsed by many who think it’s not honest enough, that the military may have made an error like the case of NGARBUR, Northwest region, but should be able to admit.
Family members of the Boys killed have not made any official statement yet.
