By Peterkins Manyong
Several SDSF officials and militants in Balikumbat are undergoing grilling for allegedly burning a DYNA 100 motocarcar belonging to Fon Doh.The militants, among them, James Yega, District Secretary and Nicodemus Langmi, another active militant who has been a vocal opponent of Fon Doh for two years.
The interrogation was carried out by the Brigade Commander for Balikumbat.
Ellie Besinga, Balikumbat Assistant DO told the press that investigations were underway, and that all those fomenting trouble in the village would be severely dealt with.
The Assistant DO banned all demonstrations in Balikumbat.Dr. Pius Lecigah, who spoke to the press after the burning of Fon Doh's car, claimed that the arson and other forms of disturbance were being carried out by Fon Doh’s supporters.
Lecigah argued that Fon Doh's car was burnt at Bonanjo Quarters, which is an opposition stronghold in Balikumbat and consequently a no-go area for Fon Doh and his supporters.
What was Fon Doh's car doing there before it was burnt? His conclusion was that one of the Fon's supporters drove the car there and set it on fire in order to implicate him and his militants.
But Fon Doh's supporters argued that the car, which belonged to Fon Doh's wife, was in a garage for repairs. On conditions of anonymity, some of them told The Post that a motorbike rider was passing by just when late Kohtem’s sympathisers were pulling the car out of the garage to set it on fire.
The motorcyclist begged that the car be spared. Rather than yield to his plea, the pro-SDF Kohtem sympathisers pounced on him and gave him a snake beating.
Lecigah, who left Balikumbat soon after the incident, told The Post that gunmen later stormed his residence and fired sub-machine guns. Interestingly, he said gunmen also stormed the homes of some Fon Doh supporters and fired shots there with the same degree of ferocity.
The Balikumbat SDF Chairman interpreted the latter action to mean that some CPDM supporters, especially at the Balikumbat Council, who benefited from Fon Doh's absence were not happy that that the Fon had been granted bail and was coming back to remove the "juicy morsel" they had begun to enjoy following the Fon's imprisonment.
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I love that caption.
Feli and co, you can go ahead and brand Peterkins a pro MUNA or CPDM coz he has labelled your faction 'SDSF'. It doesn't surprise me that such an action is coming from the hoodlums of that commercial faction who think only of violence as a solution to problems. Fon Doh is illegally out but we have to use other means to get him back to his dungeon and not resort to violence.
More to come.
Posted by: Teribobs | Monday, 04 September 2006 at 03:59 PM
Teribobs,
Violence means different things to different people.
When people hide behind excuses like privatisations to steal our resources with the pen, and enslaved the poor for several generations, they dont call that violence, When people deny us the opportunity to go to school and divide scholarships to their relatives and friends, they argue that we have not been able to study in harvard because we were not up to the task, etc. All these things to the best of my knowledge are more harmful than the burning of Doh's car.
Fon Doh is a criminal and if i find him free here in europe, i will personally attack him verbally or physically.
Fon Doh is also part of the Junta that have instituted fear to the minds of our brothers and sisters so that they cannot fight for their rights publicly. After fear, they divide rice, salt, etc to our poor relatives and force them to wear CPDM robes, and finally, they steal election results. whoever opens his mouth against such actions will be killed by colonial gerndarmes as they are struggling to kill some of us. If these Junta attack and kill some of us, we cannot fold our arms untill they kill us all. We must at some point employ what you will call violence to defend ourselves.
Posted by: rexon | Wednesday, 06 September 2006 at 11:07 AM
The SDF-Ntarikon, needs to be schooled on multiparty politics and tolerance in the political field. SDF started all the political violence which is experienced in the country today. In Bamenda, prior to the legalisation of the SDF-Ntarikon, people where stripped because of the t-shirts they wore. For the SDF-Ntarikon, you either go to war or accept multipartism.
How many of those who made the empty noises that SDF-Ntarikon could have started a war in 1992, can recognise the sound of a gun, or to the least know how to operate a gun. We are talking of guns not the local things taken to burials in parts of the North West and Western provinces.
Though, i condemn the Fon Doh, i think, a more powerful case presented by the persecutor can send him to where he belongs i.e. the Prison. If SDF-Ntarikon leadership is wise enough it should stop all this homicide, it is propagating in the Cameroons today.It may pose a problem, whenever it accends to power ( If at all it will ever), it's going to rule very indiscipline citizens.
Posted by: Eyengue | Friday, 08 September 2006 at 05:17 PM