Serious Man-Hunt in Douala to Inherite & Marry Late
Father’s Three (3) Wives
News reaching our news room today Oct 28, 2015 noon from the
3rd Police district Douala, holds that a 42 years carpenter by name Kamdem
Tokguem Marcel born on the 9th of March 1976 in Douala, son of late
Tokguem Antoine a then driver from Bahouan is wanted for haven’t eloped eve to
the date slated for the late father’s succession rites, nine years after his
death (that is in 2005) for fear of all the unorthodox traditional practices
that accompany the said exercise.
As the news keeps making rounds in the Akwa neighborhood, search
drive continues for Kamdem Marcel drawing the attention of human right
organizations who condemn in strict terms traditional procedures for sucessions
and unorthodox traditional rites that accompany such exercise.
Acts of forceful inniciation to succession is very often,
common placed and fast becoming a
routine exercise in each family circle around villages and is fast becoming a
call for concern.
The case of Kamdem Marcel, is what beats the imagination of
this Reporter in the Human interest story (“Man Hunt to Succeed and remarry
late Father’s 3 Wives”) from the Bahouan clan where villagers are after the
late man’s son and family for diserting the village and denying to succeed the
late father for fear of inheriting the father’s three wives and key village
posts in the sacred house.
The said Kamdem, as tradition demands is by right to
succession, suppose to remarry and breed forth children with the late fathers
wives. Assume responsibility over his five wives and sixteen brothers, shall
control all his estates, and belong to all secret societies his father was
initiated into while alive.
As we report the said Marcel is at large and no where to be
found, certainly for fear of sucession rituals which takes weeks and look
ocultic. The unfortunate truth is that family members and close aids are now
victims of attack to produce or make available Marcel.
This case is just one amongst many others and is calling for
serious concern as ritual rites to succession which are so scaring and
demanding is causing many youths to flee the villages and country to unknown
destinations while leaving their immediate spouse to suffer prejudice in the
hands of villagers and authorities.
We of this media house advocating for human rights and not
very comfortable with the situation in play, join our voice with that of other
human right organizations to decry on such unorthodox tradition practice which
abuse human rights grossly while calling on the Cameroon government to
intervene and call for the review of such traditional excesses.
By;
Tamukong Roland Angong
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