The infamous Mile 29 descent, near Ekona has, this time, snuffed life out of Colonel-Magistrate Emmanuel Ndiffor.

Another road mishap has killed two Military Officers of the South West Mobile Military Court. Forty eight-year-old Colonel-Magistrate Emmanuel Ndiffor, Commissioner for the Government Military Tribunal in Buea, and Staff-Sergeant Samuel Eno, all died at 7 pm, on September 9, 2009 at Mile 29 near Ekona, some 10 kilometers from Muea.

Staff-Sergeant Eno (military-driver) and Colonel-Magistrate Ndiffor were traveling to Kumba for a military court session scheduled for yesterday. They drove into a moving lorry at the negatively famous Mile 29 descent that has taken several lives over the years. Hardly does a year run out without a ghastly accident occurring on that particular hill, whose descent begins with a blind corner.

The staff of the Mobile Military Court in Buea remained distressed on Thursday. Cameroon Tribune met Colonel-Magistrate Michael Njuno, President of the Buea Military Court , in their Great-Soppo-Buea Office on Thursday. He said the late Colonel's office will remain under lock and key till a commission set up by hierarchy will come to open it to separate office property from personal belongings of the deceased. The Buea Military Court shuttles within Mamfe, Mundemba, Kumba and its seat in Buea, to handle military cases according to schedule. That fateful Wednesday, the late commissioner for government was traveling to Kumba and the Court's President Colonel-Magistrate Njumo had gone ahead for the next day's court session. The Court President, who had reached Kumba, had no choice but to return to Buea with the entire court team. " No Military Court would sit without the Commissioner for Government. Colonel Ndiffor was alone with us here in the South West after his assistant left for Canada for further training.", he explained.

The top personnel of the military are fast perishing in Buea under tragic circumstances. Less than three months ago, Colonel Pagou Paul was found dead in his car at Bonakanda, in looming suspicion of suicide.

Colonel Ndiffor, native of Nkwen in Bamenda, leaves behind a widow, Sheila and two teenage offsprings.