Babanki: Gendarme Beaten To Death



Choves LOH
[24/02/2006]


Uneasy calm in the village as gendarmes look for 15
suspected killers of the Late Fon.

At press time Big Babanki men were leaving the village
as some of them were being hunted for carrying out
another barbaric act the murder of a gendarme officer,
Sub Lt.

Nya Geras on an official mission in the village. He
was stoned and beaten to death by the population which
resisted the arrest of the suspected murderers of late
for Simon Vugah II who was buried in the land of his
ancestors 24 hours earlier.

Mezam gendarmerie company and traveller sources told
Cameroon Tribune that on the instructions of the Mezam
State Counsel, Sub Lt. Nya Geras among others were in
Babanki in search of some 15 suspect killers of late
Fon Vugah II. They had effectively arrested three
suspects and moved on to arrest the alleged gang
leader, one Aleysus Gengeg who resisted preferring to
"commit suicide than submit to the forces of law and
order."

In the event, he alerted villagers with a whistle who
were quick to rally, caught Sub Lt. Nya Geras and beat
him until he died a few hours later at the Bamenda
General hospital while three other policeman and a
gendarme officer were seriously injured. Aleysus
Gengeg was however arrested by the forces who
exercised a lot of discipline and sangfroid in the
face of the violence until Mezam SDO, Ndjaga Jules
Marcellin arrived Babanki where he calmed the
population.

Yesterday little filtered out of a security meeting
summoned by governor Koumpa Issa in Bamenda. Following
the meeting, governor Koumpa Issa also received SDF
National Chairman, Ni John Fru Ndi straight from Big
Babanki with an update from the field. Cameroon
Tribune also watched Fru Ndi hand over some arms
recovered from the field to the Legion Commander of
the North West Gendarmerie. Sub Lt. Nya Geras of
Bangante has been at the service of the national
gendarmerie in Bamenda for less than a month when the
wrath of Kejem keku caught up with him. In effect; Big
Babanki has not known peace since they dethroned their
Fon, Simon Vugah II in 2004 and later tortured and
roasted him to death on January 19, 2006. They accused
him of virtually all the evil that befell the village
in over 20 years of his reign. But the gruesome murder
of the Fon was condemned by other Fons of the North
West, the administration and elite.