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WUM IN TURMOIL AGAIN


    
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A couple of weeks before the Major  National Dialogue, the populations of Wum in Menchum Division, had been savouring a relative calm with the hope that things may  return to normalcy since the activities of the non-state armed groups had reduced in intensity.
    The intercommunity upheavals of the Hausa/Fulani and the Natives had also been buried and the culprits were filled with remorse. Truth, reconcilliation, forgiveness and healing were the ingredients used by the Chef, Mr. Kamga Charles, as he put in place an Ad-hoc commission, charged with the mission to evaluate the level of damages caused at Upkwa, a lake nyos resettlement camp that was attacked by non-state armed groups. This attack let to the atrocious and inhumane treatment meted on innocent populations of Naikom II and Kecha, as well as the burning of the Naikom and Waindo Palaces by the angry Hausa/Fulani boys.
    After the attack and the military backed-retaliation, the Hausa/Fulani and the Natives, burried the hatchet of war and animosity, and sought peace so as to live in harmony. One of the ways of a harmonious living together, was through the number 1 unifying factor; Footbal. A mini tournament dubbed peace and unity tournament, brought on the same pitch, security forces, the natives and the Hausa/Fulani.
    The sport jamboree was a consolidation of the relative calm that the populations of Wum were enjoying. Businesses had started blossoming, social life was also regaining steam. New businesses sprawled as a result of the new found haven of peace.
    The Major National Dialogue came and faded away, leaving behind, the taste that one has after chewing colanut; a gleamer of hope loomed at the horizon as 333 detained persons in connection with the ongoing Anglophone Crisis, and the granting of a special status to the two affected regions as per Article 62 of the Cameroon Constitution.
    The glimer of hope brought about by the Major National Dialogue, was blasted this 11th day of October 2019, as the populations of Wum woke up to a macabre butchering of Mr Wildlfred A. TENNING,

GRAPHIC IMAGES PLEASE WATCH OUT. 


To many of these people, the non-state armed groups are like the spartan that never surrenders. Their quietude was seen by many as a stategic step back. While others consider them as a phoenix that will always rise from ashes. This other barbaric and gruesome crime, taking place at a time when the peace loving Senior Divisional Officer, Mr. Kamga Charles, has been called to other duties, is also a sign that the newly appointed SDO for Menchum..., will have to fit squarely into the shoes of the peace crusader so as to maintain the much cherished peace, a necessary ingredient for development.
    The gruesome act is also a sign that the days ahead are pregnant with uncertainty. Vigilance is and should remain the watch word.
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