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| Hon. Njingum Musa Qestor tor the NA MP for Ngoketunjia Nord in White |
*DO Poss
Speaks out “Bamali was planning to attack Bamunka”
*Chenefoua
II Replies & Fires Courts Action against Looting
Revisiting
the Crooks of the Bamali Saga as Far as Peace & Security of Ngoketunjia is concerned:
The 30th
of December 2014 breaking, 2015 leaves a sad page in the History of Ngoketunjia
Division amongst warring 13 villages’ very use to inter-tribal wars.
The
preliminary cause of the matter lies in the hands of the Administration’s raid
to the Bamali Palace, a move termed by the authorities in question to stop,
counter or avert a war situation between Bamali and Bamunka Village haven’t
been notified by an authoritative source of how the Bamali People were
mobilizing arms with the aid of some of their elite to burn down Bamunka,
On the bases
of this premise, the Administration raided the Bamali Palace to meet a
resistant population who were surprised by the allegations and out of temper,
went on rampage, causing chaos in the whole palace blocking the trunk a road
which is the express road linking Bamenda to Bui and Donga-Mantung Division.
Today the
aftermath of the crisis leaves so much a worry and a bundle of accusations and
counter accusations that may cause heads to roll as each of the parties
concerned with their varied reports try as much as possible to clear oneself
and probably implicate the other from what we gathered as respective opinions
sampled. As we report, a handful of military officials are under going
treatment, the SDO Kuela nursing his broken head, Bamali’s present Ruler with a
bandage on the head threatens and fire court actions against DO Poss Alex of
Ndop center for brutalizing him and looting his private belongings.
While
accusing fingers points at the Honourable questor of the National Assembly Hon
Njingum Musa to rub him in the mud by the Administration for having a hand in
the crisis.
Speaking
to the Honourable on the 5th of January 2014 on phone declared, “I
have no hand in the Bamali Crisis which met me in the village on the 30th
of December 2014 visiting my sick father. Informed of the move by the
Administration, and following the wild alarm that went round the village, I
took the pains off to meticulously and tactfully calm and pacify the angry mob from
the village right up to the junction and to inform the governor before leaving
for Yaounde with regards an urgent meeting”.
“My people
by nature are peace loving and law abiding. I know no circumstance or situation
that may influence them to embark or attack Bamunka, a village they share a lot
in common with. A week ago I was in the constituency (Ngoketunjia Nord) to
share CPDM party Cards and in no occasion was it mentioned that there was a
problem between two villages. As a Politician, what I need most in my
Constituency is peace, the rule of law and order and above all, absolute
support to the Party I belong the CPDM”
“I have
always and will always be there to sponsor Political activities and not strain
or antagonize relations. The public on rampage were only decrying certain
actions of the authorities in question which they deemed was motivated and
backed by bias judgments. My logging desire peace, which was finally reinstated
from my continuous appeal to the people, is the only treasure I think should be
preserved in the Sub-Division”
“God
knows, there is nothing I will work for in my village other than peace with the
people and their neighbors as that is the only way I can consolidate my votes
and victory to my Party the CPDM”
The DO Ndop central Poss Alex Francois Speaking out on the matter to this
Reporter, on the 30th December at the scene and on the 4th
of January 2015 in the office respectively: 20 minute
after the SDO for Ngoketunjia Division Kuela Valeri Norbert was attacked by the
angry mob in an attempt to broker for peace, in anger declared “Administration
ordered troops coming from Bamukumbit to reinstate peace, into Bamali and most
especially the Palace to dislodge the plot a hand full of villagers were
hashing or cooking up to attack Bamunka a neighboring village as reliably
informed by an authoritative source”.
“To our
surprise, a move that was well intended to secure the peace that should reign
supreme in our Division was later misinterpreted by misguided individuals who
thought we were coming for the arrest of their Fon who is not recognized by us
since he does not posses all the legal documents authorizing him to rule over a
people from government”.
“Where we
are before the attack of the SDO, we have been subjected to several attacks
from the Palace right up to this spot and very determined to send away the
angry mob from the express high way without any casualties or incident. That is
why I instructed my elements to only fire in the air and not in the crowd to
disperse the rioters. Which is why no major incident has been recorded except
for our SDO’s situation and some five elements who were accidentally caught by
stray stones flung at us who are undergoing medical attention. I regret all
what is happening and know the people are acting out of sensation because they
are trying to interpret government actions wrongly. We succeeded in collecting
five rifles from the Palace and some two others in the village”. So where did
the Administration go wrong! “We are also reliably informed that they have
levied men 3000frs each and Women 1000frs as funds to assemble and buy guns,
not only that, their village administration not recognized, also resorted to
banning individuals from the village who are for the Fon recognized by the
Administration according to reports here in the office, a thing which should
not happen in the 21st century”
A fact
which the present ruler of Bamali Chenefoua II immediately dismissed when
contacted on the 4th of January 2014 in the Palace and on phone,
saying that surely those were arms they brought from warring Bamukumbit and
that dues on the people were levy for development, nobody has been banished
from the village in the name of taking side with the other Fon, my people are
loyal to me. “Rather, they took my TV Set, my brief case containing my
confidential documents with money and my cell phone”
“We were surprised;
seating in our traditional council deliberation meeting, Chenefoua II recounted
a group of soldiers and the Administration attacked and brutalized the Palace
with some of the armed men even slapping me for nothing. Alarm was then send
round the village which brought villagers agitating on account that their Fon
was attacked for no just reason and that they were not hashing any plot to
attack Bamunka a village with whom they have cordial links except for the fact
that I am not in working terms with their Fon”.
“I have
suffered much prejudice from the Administration for no reason, I don’t know
what I have done, my people have no problem with Bamunka, I have a right to my
cell phone, mallet which the DO carried away reasons why I and my Lawyer have
dragged the matter to court so that justice should take its course”
Hear them
(the Villagers), “we have no problem with the Palace administration because
they have been governing us for well over six years without any problem, why should
administration keep hashing motives to provoke chaos in our village? What we
want the government and by extension the
Head of State whom we are strongly behind to know is that we the people of
Bamali will remain peaceful and law abiding provided they leave us the way we
are”.
Cueing up
from two authoritative voices in the constituency the Mayor Ndop Council Mbombo
Abel, Sidiki SDF Chieftain for Ngoketunjia, their reactions expressed remorse
for what happened as they précised that “why has the Administration not also open
the search for guns in the keeping of the notorious Balikumbat village known
reputed for attacking neighboring villages? Were they having a search warrant?
Why should that exercise be conducted during a delicate hour? Yes we admit the
move was for security, are there any palpable proves that the people were
planning to go to war? I know no such problem existing between two villages
rather, what I know is that the people of Bamali have remained loyal and law
abiding to the governing regime and are strongly behind the Head of State
President Paul Biya. “It is really a pity and embarrassing that administration
has been unable to read the hand writing clearly on the walls that the
situation remains as it is and only natural circumstance will seek amends to
the wishes of the Administration”.
From the
above, in a divided view resume, villagers, authorities and Administrators
expressed their varied opinions on the matter as the durst of uncertainty that
almost destabilized public peace settle.
“Administration
at every front is correct and right with the action they took because all
information is useful, most especially security”. “That is why if security
spared no effort in verifying information from an authoritative source, their
actions should be commended and not condemned by the people who are passionate
and sense danger for every action even if it is one to protect their interest,
because if tomorrow a likely information liters and no prompt action is taken
and it ends up occurring Administration will be blamed abundantly”. Says
another pundit, “The actions of the other parties are also correct (because a
man who is subjected to several attacks will even fear his or her shadow and
will normally act before reasoning at the least shout) and should not boil down
to blackmail, character assassination or the implication of innocent elite”
