Same Day SDF Chieftain Receives New Year Wishes, His Herdsman Gruesomely Butchered To Dead

By Ignatius Nji

While Chairman Ni John Fru Ndi leader of the main opposition party in the country was last Saturday February 28 at his Ntarinkon palace receiving 2015 new year wishes from militants and sympathizers, news of the gruesome murder of one of his trusted herdsman fell like thunder sending shockwaves across the entire palace. The assailant notorious for rape and arm robbery was gunned down by the Police and clubbed to dead by an angry population of the area.

The incidence took place in Ngoo village after Befang in Menchum Division where the late herdsman whose name is Buba Abdou was catering for Fru Ndi’s cows. Reports on the ground states that what might have led to the gory incident was unbelievably that Buba Abdou’s chicken had scattered dirt on the path leading to house of Mua Joseph Aba the assassin. Mua Joseph was coming back from the market after haven sold ginger and saw Buba Abdou in his compound about to go the market. He picked up a quarrel as to why Abdou’s chicken had to scatter dirt on his path. According to the victim’s wife who was returning from fetching water, her late husband tried to apologize but the assassin made swift use of his machete and before she reached the compound her husband had already slumped in a pool of his own blood dead. She says they don’t share any boundary talk less of having any issues nor that did her late husband owe him any money.

The widow Karimou Fulera from Ndu was lamenting that the assassin though jointly killed by the population and the forces of law and order, it has dealt with her. She is with eight children and her late husband was the sole bread winner given that she is a patient. The assassin death is said to be relief to the people in that community stating that he was in the habit of raping and stealing. His own mother escaped to the South West Region after a failed attempt of rape by her son Mua Joseph. Before this act he was just released from an uncompleted jail term at the Wum prison where was incarcerated for rape and theft. Many wondered aloud what had become of the justice system that lets loose criminals to terrorize free people.  The population later on buried his mortal remains on the outskirts of the community saying that he was an outcast by his action. The victim’s remains was taken and buried at a Moslem cemetery without his boss Fru Ndi though informed, was busy receiving new years wishes back in Bamenda.

Present at the scene were the Divisional Officer’s assistant, the Senior State Counsel for Menchum, MP for Menchum North Hon. Ndong Larry Hills, a college of Gendarmerie officers and the Police. Chairman Fru Ndi’s body guards are reported to have taken the widow and her eight children away.