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Cameroon: Troops Brutalise Kumba Denizens After Strike
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The Post (Buea)
10 March 2008
Posted to the web 10 March 2008
Olive Ejang Tebug Ngoh
More than a week after the transporters strike subsided, fierce troops have not stopped breaking into houses in Fiango, Hausa Quarter and Meta Quarter.
In the course of trying to retrieve items stolen from Les Brasseries Du Cameroun and Transformation Reef Cameroon, TRC (timber company) during the strike, the forces torture and arrest people found with any crates of drinks or computers. Whenever they do not find any stolen items, the troops reportedly destroy TV and radio sets.
The victims of this brutality also accuse the men in uniform of raping and stealing money from the houses.On one of their punitive expeditions, the combined forces attacked women selling at Three Corners Fiango market.
They beat the women mercilessly, accusing them that their children had destroyed Kumba. The troops stopped their assault only when some youths stormed the market and told them to kill them (youths) rather than maltreat their mothers.
Suicide
A 40-year-old man, Nicolas Tah, of Mulango Street Fiango, reportedly jumped to death in a well for fear of being arrested and possibly tortured.
Reports say that on March 6, police discovered 25 crates of drinks at Tah's residence, which he allegedly stole from Les Brasseries Du Cameroun during the strike.When they searched for Tah in vain, the police reportedly carried away his TV set and promised to return for his arrest.
Tah, who was a commercial motorbike rider (bendskin) on discovering that his TV and his FCFA 50,000 was missing, apparently stolen by the police, reportedly told his neighbours that life was not worth living.
It is said that Tah got drunk and returned home late that day and dived into a well in front of his house. His corpse was discovered the next day floating on the surface of the water in the well. Family members removed it and took it for burial to their residence in Ekombe, Mbonge Subdivision.
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Tah was married and a father of seven.Meanwhile, most people who stole drinks have buried them in their backyards. Others have carefully packed the drinks in bags and dumped them in their wells.
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