Ernest Sumelong
23 November 2008
Tension is presently mounting in Douala, Littoral Region, following the shooting to death of a Police Inspector, Samuel Mapuri.The death of the Inspector is alleged to have stemmed from an adulterous affair with the wife of a Gendarme Commander.
Mapuri was killed in the night of Thursday, November 13, at Camp Mbopi, allegedly by a Gendarme Major, Herve Mbankoui.At the Douala Laquintinie Hospital, where the corpse of the deceased is lying at the mortuary, doctors found seven bullet holes in the body of the Inspector, according to sources.
Our sources also say the body of the late Inspector was also found to have been battered.The Major in question, according to unconfirmed reports, admitted to judicial police officers that he mistakenly killed the Police Inspector, but maintained that his act was out of self-defence.
According to the story, on the eventful night, the Gendarme Major met the Inspector in his house, with his wife. A scuffle ensued during which he reportedly shot the Inspector, who died soon after in hospital.
The Post learnt that the Inspector worked alongside the Major's wife at the Douala International Airport and, as colleagues, they knew each other and it was possible they could have had dealings together besides being amorous. But The Post was told that the Gendarme Commander had, all along, suspected that the Inspector had an affair with his wife.
The Post learnt that on Saturday, November 15, the Douala Legion Commander and a Magistrate visited the site of the incident as part of investigations into the murder.
Meanwhile, members of the late Inspector's family protested the murder of their relation to the Littoral Governor, Francis Fai Yengo. The Governor is said to have expressed disgust at the macabre act.
Mbankoui, The Post was reliably informed, recently graduated from the War College in Yaounde and is the personal confidant of the Douala Legion Commander, Emmanuel Meka Meka. Mbankoui, The Post also learnt, who is reportedly ripe for the rank of colonel next year, replaced a certain Anathole Banen as the Commander of the Groupement Gendarmerie Territorial du Wouri after Banen had been involved in the torture of a detainee who later died in 2005.
Anathole was sent on disciplinary to the General Secretariat and was later sent on peace keeping in Congo.
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