Robert Tumasang
7 August 2008
The Deputy Commander of the Dimako Gendarmerie, Adjoudant Ndoko Boul, reportedly killed his wife's father at midnight, Monday July 21.
The story goes that he also wounded his wife and his brother-in-law.Ndoko reportedly pounced on his wife and in-laws after suspecting that his wife, Kakouan Thérese, was cheating on him.
The gendarme officer is said to have jilted his first wife for Therése. For one year, they had been living together but their love turned sour on Sunday, July 20, when he threw Therése out of the house.
"Last Sunday, we had some misunderstanding and he chased me out of the house. I packed my belongings and went back to my father's house," Therése told The Post in her hospital bed at the Bertoua Provincial Hospital.
She narrated that her husband came back the following day to beg her to return home.
Therése said she would go back on condition that Ndoko discussed first with her father - a condition she said Ndoko did not accept.
At 7 pm, Ndoko reportedly invited his wife and younger brother to a drinking spot at a junction in Dimako, in an apparent gesture of peace. It is said that he bought them drinks and left.
After taking their drinks, Therése said they went back home, convinced that peace had been made.But at 10 pm, Ndoko knocked at their door and came in quarrelling and hurling accusations.
"He accused my brother of having taken me to another man, claiming that he had been looking for us at every drinking spot," she said."My father then asked him to go home and come back the following day to ensure all the misunderstandings between us could be thrashed," Therése added.
On hearing that he should go home, the gendarme reportedly instead said that "since you want me to leave your house, I will cause a scandal... before I go, everyone in this house has to die."
Thérése recalled that "Ndoko's first shot shattered the lamp on the table, before he fired three bullets at my father who died while calling on neighbours to help him." Ndoko then turned his gun on his wife and her brother, wounding them seriously.
Therése and her brother are receiving emergency treatment at the Bertoua Provincial Hospital, while the corpse of their father has been kept in the mortuary of the same hospital.
Meanwhile, Ndoko Boul is on the run.
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