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Cameroon: Director of COGESET Printing Press Murdered
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Cameroon Tribune (Yaoundé)
5 May 2008
Posted to the web 5 May 2008
Elizabeth Mosima
A prominent owner of a printing press in down town Yaounde, Jonathan Mbacham, (44), was shot and killed in his home on Saturday morning at about 2:00 a.m. by four unidentified armed robbers. When Cameroon Tribune arrived at the home of the victim who was the Director of COGESET Printing Press, it found out that the main entrance to his residence in the Mendong neighbourhood was filled by neighbours, relatives and friends who stood wondering why the man was murdered in cold blood in his own family home.
At the home of late Jonathan Mbacham, tears and consternation had taken residence. Groups of mourners streamed in to condole with the bereaved family.
Family sources disclosed that the four bandits broke into the home of the Mbachams after cutting the window protectors from one of the windows. They climbed into the room of the victim, shot him on his left lap and asked the couple to give them money. According to Mrs Clara Mbacham, widow of the deceased, the burglars took away big sums of money. The exact amount she could not say as her husband was forced to remove whatever money he had in the house and give them. She herself handed the sum of FCFA 160,000 to them.
She said her husband who was bleeding profusely asked to be taken to hospital but the armed robbers instead threatened her. When the bandits later left, neighbours and friends came and carried the victim to the nearest hospital at Biyem-Assi. When attention was not immediately forthcoming, they moved to the University Teaching Hospital (CHU) and again finding that the there was no space, they moved further to the Emergency ward of the Yaounde Central Hospital, where he finally bled to death before being attended to. Sources close to the family told Cameroon Tribune that a suspect, who lives in the same neighbourhood, has been arrested.
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Earlier that same night, another young man whose names were got as Martin was equally attacked by unidentified armed robbers in front of his home at about 11:00 p.m. in the same area. Reports say he was returning from the motor park to see off a relative who was travelling to Bamenda when he was attacked by bandits. The victim was seriously wounded on the head and missed gunshots on the leg and the head. He was immediately rushed to the hospital by neighbours and was administered treatment. Investigations on the matters are presently going on.
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