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Cameroon: Bamenda - Two Bandits Lynched To Death
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Cameroon Tribune (Yaoundé)
1 April 2008
Posted to the web 1 April 2008
Regina Liengu Etaka
Mob justice is once more gaining grounds in the Bamenda Metropolis. Before now this phenomenon was not common, but since bandits are yet to disappear form the streets of Bamenda, the population have also learnt to put them at bay by all cost.
Tuesday 25 saw a yet to be identified young man burnt to death after his gang attack the Infant Welfare Clinic ( PMI) Nkwen. The gang is said to have made away with cell phones, money, drugs and other belongings of patients and inhabitants around the area. When the population set out in search of the thieves, two escaped but one was caught. Despite his gun firing, the population was able to over power him, seize his gun, got him well beaten and set him ablaze. His horrible body laid all day in front of the PMI.
Wednesday 26 was the turn of another young man in his early twenties caught stealing fowls. Fowls indeed, that he ended up not eating. Inhabitants around the " Two Bridge " junction Ndamukong street said Fowl theft was a common phenomenon in this area. As the story goes, the young man ( yet to be identified) jumped over a fence and entered a poultry on hearing the noise , the owner quickly rushed to the scene and asked the thieve to remove the fowls which he had already put in a fertilizer bag. Unfortunately for him the response was serious blows from the thief. After a serious fight, the wife of the owner alerted the neighbours who within a twinkle of an eye fell on the thief like rain. They got him well beaten and snuff life out of him. At press time his body was still lying at the " Two Bridge " junction Ndamukong Street .
This is one of the worst piece of journalistic reporting I have read for a long time. The sentence construction reads like a direct translation from this reporter's dialet. besongfitts
BESONG
THAT IS THE TYPES OF FRUSTRATION, WE OF BRITISH SOUTHERN CAMEROONS HAD BEEN LIVING WITH FOR CLOSE TO 46 YEARS.
THEY CAMEROUNESE ,C ALL IT BILINGUALISM, INSTEAD OF LETTING ENGLISH SOUTHERN CAMEROONS, PRACTISE IT ANGLOSAXON CULTYRE, AND THE FRENCH CAMEROUN PRACTISE IT FRENCH PEACE FULLY. THEY WHO ARE 11M HAD OVER FLOW AND CONTROLLING OUR EDUCATIONAL, ECONOMICAL,ADMISTRATIVE SPHERE, UP TO A POINT WHERE, SECONDARY SCHOOL CLASSROOMS ARE TAUGHT BY THESE FRENCH CAMEROUN INPORTS WHO SPEAKS LITTLE OR NO ENGLISH, SOME TIMES A MIXTURE OF BOTH. NOT TO ... [Read Full Text]
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