The government assured the population that investigations are on course and more security measures will be taken.
Reasonable calm has returned to Buea, South West Region, following last week’s gun smoking in Muea. Security Forces are still staging a manhunt to track down the suspected separatist fighters that broke the peace of persons in the area, killing at least two persons and burning down a private car. The locality of Muea in Buea, lived a mourning morning last 7 September, 2023. Early gunshots before 6 a.m. greeted residents. The Regional Governor, Bernard Okalia Bilai, explained to Cameroon Tribune that the gunmen targeted the Muea Police Station without success and were quickly confronted by the forces of law and order pushing them to retreat. Though short-lived, the gunshots scared a cross section of the population from their day’s plans in Buea. The gunmen who are still on the run, succeeded to burn down a car the driver popularly known as Suliman. Another man was shot and killed and thrown in a gutter, still in Muea.
It has become phenomenal for years now, that during school resumption, gunmen rain terror in strategic localities to discourage school reopening. No doubt social media this time was used by proponents of non-school ideology to declare a two-week lockdown in Anglophone Cameron. The administration of Buea has described such attackers as terrorists and angels of darkness because their action targets schools and education.
A similar incident was reported in Lebialem in the South West Region where a military lorry was targeted and hit with an artisanal explosive on the road...
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