Fon Doh Flees Balikumbat

By Peterkins Manyong & Jeff Ngawe Yufenyu

The controversial Fon Doh Gah Gwanyin III of Balikumbat is reportedly on the run following the arrival of heavily armed troops to Balikumbat, Wednesday, May, 30.

The troops, predominantly gendarmes, are said to have been ferried to Balikumbat in a truck and two Toyota pickup vans after Fon Doh's supporters embarked on a violent demonstration, protesting the ruling party's Central Committee's decision to drop his name from the Parliamentary list.

It was also reported that the troops zoomed in soon after Ngoketunjia SDO, Peter Mbu, signed a Prefectoral order, banning all further demonstrations.The order, a copy of which The Post procured, bans all meetings and processions till when authorised.

It warns that whoever violates the ban would be sanctioned according to the regulations in force. It also calls on the Company Commander of the Gendarmerie and other specialised forces to implement the order.

Undeclared State Of Emergency

The Post was reliably informed that the troops have as mission, to move from house to house, searching for suspects and ammunition likely to be used in case of an insurrection. A good number of the insurgents are said to have already been arrested.

Fon Doh himself is said to have fled Balikumbat on Monday before his supporters went on the rampage on the pretext that he was going to Yaounde.He is said to have been spotted in Bamenda, where he made arrangements for some media organs to cover the event.

Ngoketunjia SDO, who visited Balikumbat on Tuesday, May 29, was reportedly held hostage for more than an hour by Fon Doh's supporters for calling on them to respect the Central Committee's decision dropping Fon Doh's name.

The insurgents threatened to burn the SDO's car. However, The Post was not told how he managed to liberate himself.Fon Doh's supporters have also threatened to eliminate Emmanuel Banmi, whom the Central Committee designated as the CPDM Parliamentary flag bearer.

The Post also learned that Ignatius Dingha Bayin, Balikumbat CPDM Section President, is equally a target of elimination for issuing a communiqué dissociating himself from the activities of Fon Doh's supporters.

When contacted by phone, Dingha said he was aware of the threats, but said he didn't regret signing the communiqué.

Dingha Disowns Fon Doh

Earlier, Dingha had dissociated himself and fellow CPDM adherents from the recent street protests in Balikumbat orchestrated by Fon Doh.The disclaimer is contained in a one-page communiqué in which Dingha noted that following the investiture by the CPDM of its Parliamentary candidates a "handful of misguided individuals have gone on the rampage in Balikumbat, one of the fine villages in the constituency." 

These people, according to the communiqué, disturbed the peace that men and women of goodwill have been fighting hard to win in that community."The Ngoketunjia II Section of the CPDM dissociates itself from and strongly condemns the acts of vandalism and disturbance of general peace as well as disruption of economic and social activities perpetrated in Balikumbat. We enjoin the perpetrators of such acts to immediately desist from their anti-peace activities," the circular reads.

Without naming names, the communiqué continues: "We uphold and respect the verdict of the investiture committee of our party.  We call on the population and especially the militants of the Section to remain calm and adhere to the decision of the hierarchy of our great national party and rally behind our chosen candidates and work relentlessly for the success of the CPDM in the forthcoming twin elections." 

The communiqué further invites all Subsection and branch leaders to educate CPDM militants at the base that the procedure for choosing candidates for elective offices in the country involves not only the basic organs, but also the hierarchy of the party which has the final say. 

Contacted to comment on the communiqué, Fon Doh replied in anger: "Peterkins! The Post! I am not saying anything. Continue writing those things against me. We shall see," he fumed and switched off his phone.

Emmanuel Banmi, the candidate the CPDM invested for Balikumbat, condemned the demonstration and called for peace and reconciliation

The Protest

It will be recalled that supporters of Fon Doh, Monday, May 28, mounted barricades on the highway and took to the streets of Balikumbat to protest the decision by the CPDM Central Committee to disqualify their Fon from the Parliamentary race.   

Huge trunks of trees, branches and leaves could be seen at various points on the streets.
At the Balikumbat Main Market, make-shift bamboo tables and benches were used to block the road.

Fon Doh's supporters carried placards with various slogans that read: "No Fon Doh, No CPDM in Balikumbat", "No Fon Doh, No Elections in Balikumbat", "We Cannot Accept Emmanuel Banmi", amongst other messages.

According to the DO for Balikumbat Subdivision, Jean Claude Owoutou Owoutou, five people, who said they were leaders and organisers of the protest march, presented a memorandum, which, Owoutou Owoutou said he was going to forward to his hierarchy after making his report. 

Owoutou said the protestors stated in their memorandum that Fon Doh was the choice of the people and the CPDM Central Committee had no right to change the will of the people.
The DO said the people questioned him why the Central Committee did not disqualify Fon Doh before the CPDM primaries.

Owoutou said they wanted prompt answers, which, he told them, he was not in a position to provide.The DO cited one Nicholas Dohsamta as coordinator of the demonstration and Augustine Wasum as leader. He also mentioned one Margaret Kemende Kum and two others who made up the committee of five that met with him in his office for negotiations. 

However, Owoutou said, he told them that their protest was illegal because they failed to apply for an authorisation as the law requires. He said he advised them to take their grievances to the CPDM hierarchy rather than to the DO.

The DO observed that, if the present circumstances remained unchanged until the July 22 elections, the socio-political atmosphere in Balikumbat could be further threatened if necessary checks were not promptly put in place. 

According to the DO, Balikumbat needs special structures like a special police unit to quell mob action.It should be noted that Fon Doh was convicted for the murder of late SDF District Chairman for Balikumbat, John Kohtem, and jailed for 15 years by the Ndop High Court.

He was later granted bail apparently for health reasons. The case is currently pending trial at the Northwest Court of Appeal in Bamenda.Fon Doh, however, acquired a certificate of non-conviction which he used to sail through the CPDM primaries before the Central Committee finally put a halt to his ambitions.

Comments

[nahjela]

That Fon Doh is a madman. He hasn't seen anything yet!

[Jimmy Stan]

man no run

[Jimmy Stan]

man no run

[Fon]

Ben Laden was groomed by America; today America is suffering from him. The CPDM thought that grooming Fon Doh to be a tyrant, he will only fight the SDF. The CPDM has not yet seen anything.

I am in total support of Fon Doh´s supporters. Let them fight until Fon Doh´s candidature is restored.
An important question:"The DO said the people questioned him why the Central Committee did not disqualify Fon Doh before the CPDM primaries."

[Fritzane Kiki HK]

Fon Doh, Know thee today that politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.Ask me for directions of this Fon, I'll tell you where to go or where to find him.A frontrunner has become a backrunner.Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.From a prisoner to a terrorist.CPDM ohheee!!Power to the thieves and convicts.....

Fritzane Kiki
Hong Kong

[Aviche]

From the day of Fon Doh's killing of John Kohtem I somehow knew his goose was cooked. Someone's blood is not water to be spilled and then go free though a few people always feel they can do so. Life is really something sacred and we need to respect it.

There is really nothing strange about all of these happenings because this is just the way all tyrants end up. The only strange thing is that many others refuse to learn the lessons.

I wish the people of Balikumbat can understand that it the end of one era and just the beginning of another. There is the saying that "if a monkey continues to play with a gun, the gun will sooner or later kill it". Balikumbat people should stop being monkeys. They should put their village infront of all partisan politics. Together thay can use the CPDM, SDF, and whatever to their advantage.

[A. A. Simplice]

Fon Ndoh is my Man of the year.My ordaining him so isn't any reflection of the appealing nature of his deeds:he's simply proven expressly to be above the law, with the conspiracy of certain government officials who should now be licking their wounds.Fon Ndoh,keep-on,and let no wine,no amount of water quench your taste for Power:Power to the Balikumbat People and Longlive our political actor of the year.

[Y. Maurice Martin]

Fon Doh of Balikumbat is simply doing the job in which the CPDM has train him to be doing for the past decades.

The CPDM thaught they were training Fon Doh to be bombatting and fighting the SDF but they did't know that what ever goes up must come down.

It is the right time now for the CPDM to know that ''Spare the rot and spoil the child''

My only fear in this country is that the CPDM is surely laying a very very bad foundation that the future regimes might be tempted to copy.

God bless CAMEROON

Yuh Maurice Martin

Writing from Tiko - CAmeroon

[Klemenceau-Shalom]

Mr. Warmonger Doh
You can flee armed gendarmes, police or even flee from your shadow. But you will never flee the inevitable. Mr. Doh, (no offence if I address him Mr., it is because I read sometimes ago that a new Fon had been installed in Balikumbat) you are the untouchable. I won't be surprised to read later that the said DO asked the colonial gendarmes to take you into hiding so as to give the impression that they were after you. If they could set you free after you were sentenced for the murder of John Korthem, grant you a certificate of non conviction, it means they are with you. I don't see why they should keep on trying to blindfold Cameroonians. Maybe you are one of those who have been helping to protect Biya.
Hahaha, Mr. Man if you were one of Biya's many male lovers (as it was the story on news organs a few months back) or his chief “juju man”, you should have known by now that Biya has no steady friend. This man Biya only has friends in need not indeed.

Shalom

Klemenceau

[Klemenceau-Shalom]

......But you will never flee the inevitable,death.

Errata

[rexon]

All these CPDM thugs like Fon Doh would live to regret their own actions. In life, you should not take another persons life knowingly and be proud of it even if you have the power to do so. But the CPDM has been protecting its own killers simply because they dont respect the lives of the poor and helpless. After killing us with institutionalised poverty and social problems, they think they still have the power to attack, intimidate and kill people in broad daylight. They are always proud of it, but they wont go free.

[wordweaver]

Isn't Fon Doh the person who murdered an innocent SDF milant a while ago? why is he still wandering freely around the country without justive being served? how long does it take in CAMEROON to persecute a murderer? this must be a joke right?

[wordweaver]

Isn't Fon Doh the person who murdered an innocent SDF milant a while ago? why is he still wandering freely around the country without justive being served? how long does it take in CAMEROON to persecute a murderer? this must be a joke right?