Ministers Fire Fight in Burning
Story, Randy Joe Sa’ah Two top cabinet ministers helicoptered into Wum Wednesday to dig into the bloody weekend violence that gripped the Menchum divisional head quarter. The incident that claimed one life and left several soldiers with broken heads and swollen eyes could not have Paul Biya indifferent. He despatched the defence and interior ministers to assess the razing of the military barracks and vehicles, and of course what triggered the showdown between the population and the military. Ministers Rene Emmanuel Sadi and Joseph Beti Assomo went to Wum Up Station and came away visibly disturbed. They saw the charred remains of over 50 war guns and the burnt out colonial buildings once occupied and owned by the Wum Council. The men settled down for a crisis meeting at the Town Hall to assess the murder and mayhem that followed. Through Rene Sadi’s lips, President Biya condemned the slaying of the motorcyclist as well as the fracas between the population and the soldiers and destr...