Ngomgham Neighborhood In Shock As Two Sisters Are Gunned Down By Heavily Armed Men Dressed In Military Uniform.
By Raymond Dingana
“We Were Shot After We Said We Were Anglophones”. Said Melisa, One Of The Victims.
Recounting
what she and her sister went through in the hands of their shooters, Fru Melisa
said, when people were running away, they ran and hid themselves in their house
hoping they were going to be safe there.
“We Saw people running
away from their homes but we thought the best place to run to was our house and
that was what we did. We
ran into the house and locked the doors and stayed there then later on the
military came and we heard gunshots. Soon they started breaking doors then got
to our door and smashed it open and forced their way in. They saw Carine in the
parlor and asked her to kneel down. I heard them ask her are you Anglophones?
And she said yes. They accused her of haven seen when the ‘Amba boys’ shot the
military officer living just opposite our compound but did not report to them.
I heard her crying and saying she knows nothing and the next thing I heard was
three gunshots then heard her shout and her voice started dying down. They came
into the room and met me on the bed and shot me three times on three different
spots and took my android phone away. I felt my throat drying off when they had
left and managed to creep to the kitchen where I got enough water and drank
then took a smaller phone to call my mother and tell her what had happened.”
Reports also
indicate that, after mid day on Thursday July 04th 2019, some
suspected pro independence fighters stormed the residence of a military officer
around the former council at the Ngomgham neighborhood shooting him dead before
disappearing into the bushes. The sound of the gun sent shock waves running
down the spines of inhabitants of that neighborhood whose only option was to
evacuate the area with immediate effect when they further realized that, the
victim was a military officer.
An
inhabitant of Ngomgham whom DRAY INFO met on his was out of the area said he
was running away because he did not need a soothsayer to tell him what was
coming their way.''I don’t need any supernatural force or a soothsayer to tell
me to pack out of my house because I am not new to the brutality of the
military when it comes to matters like this. We were home when we heard a very loud a something that
looks like a gun. Some neighbors ran to me telling me there was a corpse lying
just some meters away from my house here. They said the ‘Amba boys’ had shot
and killed a military man who was leaving in an apartment just in the next
compound. Everyone started moving out from the quarter and I ran into my house
with my family and we stayed quiet until at about 1 pm or so, when the military
arrived and met their colleague in his own pool of blood. The next thing we
heard were heavy gunshots and military breaking into these houses, (pointing at
the door where Carine and kid sister stayed with their Family) we heard Carine
crying and begging that they did not know anything and that they should not
shoot them. As the crying was still going on, we heard about six gunshots
coming from the house and heard her wail in pain. We immediately concluded that
all was not well for her and her kid sister."
Fru
Christopher the father to the victims. “My wife called me to tell me she was
called from the quarter and asked not to come back that there was serious
shooting in the quarter and the military had entered our house. Later she
called to say our daughters had been shot. I immediately rushed home to see
what had happened and this was about two hours and thirty minutes after they
were shot. I was shocked to get into the house and see my precious daughter
Carine lying down in her pool of blood already dead. She had been shot on the
neck, close to the left breast and around her stomach on the right. I moved
inside and was shocked that Melisa her second follower had been shot almost
exactly the same way as a bullet narrowly missed her neck and hit her on the
joint between the shoulder and the neck and the one aimed at her left breast
rather hit below the breast towards her ribs and the one aimed at her stomach like
her sister hit her further to the right end of her stomach. It is a miracle
that she is alive. I immediately called doctors without borders and went up to
the road to show them the way to the house and that is how we rushed my girls
to the hospital where it my wildest imagination of Carine’s death was
confirmed. If Carine had not helped the junior brother Collins to hide in the
ceiling, he too would have been shot especially as he is a young boy of about
19. They thought they were girls and that it was not necessary for them to hide
much since it is often thought that the target is boys. It hurts me badly to
lose my first child under such circumstances. I pray her blood goes to seek
justice and bring an end to this carnage''. We also gathered on the ground that,
the victim’s mother had always prayed that nothing of that magnitude should
ever happen to her children giving the way things have been happening to youths
as far as the ongoing war is concern. Little did she know what she was praying
against was already at her door steeps as barely a day or two after, disaster stroke.
Fru
Melisa who survived the shooting is yet to be told what has happen to her elder
sister. There are fears that, if the sad news is delivered to her, it might
slow down her healing process and even force her to follow her elder sister to
the world beyond. Fru Carine’s remains now lie in a mortuary in Bamenda pending
removal and burial.
It
should be recalled that, the health sector in the North West Region of Cameroon
has been badly hit by the ongoing war. Many health personels have been shot and
killed in the war and Carine’s case is just the latest.
Fru Carine Yuo,Shot Dead At Ngomgham,Thursday July 04th,2019.
Jong Padisco And Wife,Azah Nancy,All State Registered Nurses killed In Mbengwi,Saturday 11 August 2018
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