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| A Warrant Of arrest For The Ombaku family |
The rate of killings taking place in
the Anglophone part of the country due to the escalating conflict because of
the Anglophone crisis has remained alarming. According to one Mbah Austin, a
native of hard hit Momo Division, as in previous narrations, says the
Anglophone crisis has dealt a severe blow on many families, in Momo Division.
Many families are being targeted and some killed while many others are said to
have fled to other parts of the country and to neighboring Nigeria. The number
of internally displaced persons (IDPs) has continue to push on to ceiling level
as the situation got worse by the just ended presidential election that saw
Paul Biya reelected President of Cameroon. It should be noted that Paul
Biya during campaigns for reelection and during his inaugural speech had
promised order that those separatist fighters who fail to lay down their arms
would be neutralized. The Amba fighters had also vowed to enforce a boycott of
the election in Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) and it came to pass.
With the unending gun battles
between the military and separatist fighters, the armless population in those
hot zones like in Ngie, Njikwa, Andek, Widikum and Batibo are caught between.
The Ombaku’s family is among the many caught in this drama. As reported in the
previous write up, Nestor Nyambi Ombaku, a staff at the Inspectorate of Basic
Education for Njikwa, who is presently on the run and his whereabouts are
unknown, was accused of facilitating sponsorship from abroad to fund activities
of the Ambazonia freedom fighters in Njikwa, Ngie and Andek area where he hails
from.
According to close sources the
security operatives had launched a search for Nestor Nyambi Ombaku to no avail,
his family became the target. A warrant for the arrest and detention of him and
all other Ombaku’s family members including women and minors was issued on 13th
August 2018. The said family that has been noted to be too vocal in the
opposition party activities in the area was accused of now siding and sponsoring
the Ambazonia freedom fighters. Their being targeted could be evident as
deduced from a public statement, made by Mayor Ekema Patrick of Buea thus
openly calling for the kidnapping of families of Ambazonia leaders and
suspected sponsors resident abroad. The Mayor made this statement in the
presence of the Governor of the South West Region and other panelists over CRTV
radio Buea. This was during their infamous called for back to school program given
that schools to a larger extend have been shutdown across Northwest and
Southwest Regions..
As if heeding to this call by Mayor
Ekema, the local administration in Momo picked the Ombaku’s family that has
relations abroad, to set an example. They were accused of inciting unrest,
rebellion against the state, withholding useful information for an ongoing
investigation and wiring financial support for separatist movements. This
accusation sent most of the Ombaku’s family members to escape from Momo division,
Njikwa sub-Division to seek refuge elsewhere.
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| Late Anjiangwe Gerard In his Own Pool Of Blood |
As if to add salt to injury, the
Ombaku's are yet to come to terms with the brutal killing of one of theirs,
Akiata Gerard Anjiangwe, aged 19, a pupil seminarian of the archdiocese of
Bamenda. Anjiangwe Gerard was a maternal cousin to the Ombaku's, from Konda, a
mission station of the Njindom parish. While on Seminary works he fell victim
and was targeted and killed by the military in Bamessing - Ndop on the 4th of
October 2018. According to an eye witness account as testified during his
burial, Gerard was standing in front of the parish house after morning mass
with other Christians. A military truck drove in from the direction of Bamunka,
those standing with Gerard noticed the oncoming military truck and quickly ran
into the Parish house. Before Gerard could sense danger of the approaching
military towards the church, it was too late and the door to the parish house
had been locked. The military then asked Gerard who introduced himself to them
as a seminarian and presented his national Identity Card. The military ordered
him to kneel down with his hands up, he respected them and obeyed. Later on the
other Christians who were inside the Parish house heard gun shots and when they
opened the door after the military had left, they discovered the lifeless body
of Gerard in front of the parish house. He had been shot multiple times in the
chest, It was purely execution style by professionals. During the funeral and
burial of Gerard at Big Mankon Cathedral cemetery Bamenda, military operatives
came searching for any member of those families earmarked for arrest but found
none.
