By Peterkins Manyong
The third of the four suspect bandits dragged out of the police cell in Bali and beaten by a mob, has died. Eric Che Zama, of Mankon extraction, died on Saturday, April 23, four days after he received his own share of the beatings. Sources at the hospital told The Post that Zama, an ex-convict at the Bamenda Central Prison, was suspected to
be the biological father of the baby recently brought forth by Caroline Lambif, the woman sentenced to death by firing squad in connection with the murder of Alkali Garoua, former GMI Bamenda Commissioner.
A nurse at the male casualty ward told The Post that Crispus Tetuh, the last of the four bandits still alive, is very conscious but pretends to be in a comma.
During the day, he pretends to be unconscious, but late at night he eats his meals with an appetite quite unbecoming of a sick man, the nurse said.
Our source was convinced that Tetuh is feigning consciousness hoping that hospital staff and the police would comply with his mother's request that he be evacuated to Batibo, his area of origin for better medical attention.
But the police are reported to have rejected the request to have him evacuated. Patients sharing the same ward with Tetuh said he demonstrates visible signs of consciousness by scratching himself where he feels itches but refuses to respond when spoken to.
All attempts by his mother, the nurse and this reporter to get him to talk were fruitless. The jungle justice that resulted in the torture of the four took place on Wednesday, April 20, after an angry mob chanting war songs stormed the Bali Police Post and dragged them out.
Festus Fru and Nelson Anjeh died on the spot after being beaten. While their corpses were being conveyed to the hospital mortuary, Tetuh and Zama were admitted in the casualty ward.
The four were linked to the gruesome murder of a motorcycle (benskin) driver in Bali on April 8, whose corpse was only discovered a week after in an advanced state of decomposition.
That fateful Wednesday, the four suspects ran short of fuel after a robbery using a stolen car at Ngien-Muwa on the Bamenda-Batibo road. They then forced to continue the journey on foot to Bali where they spent the night at the Grand Stand.
The following day they offered FCFA 10.000 to a taxi driver to convey them to town. But the driver was suspicious and rejected the offer.
The second driver they contacted accepted the offer but became suspicious along the way and alerted the police who intercepted the car, searched it and discovered two guns.
The bandits were arrested and detained at the police post in Bali.
The news that the bandits had been caught spread like wild fire among the populace, which was still very enraged by the death of the benskin man.
Within minutes the Bali population mobilised and marched to the Bali Police Post war songs on their lips. A policeman of Bali origin, who knew what was in the air, notified his Francophone colleague of the approaching danger and escaped.
The Francophone cop realised the danger when the mob arrived, overpowered him and invaded the cell and dragged out the bandits for mob justice.
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