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Authorities were yesterday at the site where Major Jeannine Ndjock was stabbed to death on Sunday night.

The gendarme-major Jeannine Ndjockin service with the group of squadrons n°2 in Mboppi, was fatally stabbed on the night of Sunday 11 to Monday 12 June in the Kotto district (district of Douala V), place called ” Carrefour Briquiny “. According to initial information obtained by CT, the young woman was the victim of attackers operating on a motorcycle. The governor of the Littoral region, who descended on the scene yesterday, in the company of the prefect of Wouri and the commander of the 2nd Gendarmerie Region, will provide details: she was returning, accompanied by her neighbor, when she “was surprised by three people on motorbikes, who snatch the bag from him”.

The governor adds that the gendarme, who was in civilian clothes, will work to recover her property. What she will succeed in doing “by overthrowing her captor”. But as she prepares to master him, the thug takes out a knife and sticks it in the eye of the policeman. Residents of neighboring buildings will give the alert, and gendarmes on patrol near Bonamoussadi will be redirected to the place of the attack.

The thugs, after their crime, fled. Arrived on the spot, the pandores begin
research and within the framework of this combing, bring to order motorbike taxis having begun to “get agitated”, according to the expression used by the governor. This undermines the idea that circulated via social networks, according to which the gendarmes were doing justice after the death of one of their own.

“In their stampede, the motorcycle taxi drivers, some of whom often have no papers, broke vehicles while passing in front of a bakery. But this is not the fact of our police forces”, underlined the governor. Before adding that calm has returned to the field, that “the investigations to catch up with the assassins of the gendarme-major are engaged”, and that this crime will not go “unpunished”.

The SDF deputy came out of his reserve.

Among the most anticipated reactions after the death of Ni John Fru Ndi, there was his own. Jean Michel NINCTHEU did not need to be asked.

On his Facebook account, the deputy SDF from Wouri Est to Douala said: “Fru Ndi was a great man despite his serious mistakes in recent years! RIP”.

The former regional president of the SDF in the littoral now excluded from the party does not hide the tensions he had with Ni John Fru Ndi. At the height of his lifetime, the now deceased president of the balance party had a very open conflict with Jean Michel NINCTHEU. If the tear was consumed with the recent exclusion of Jean Michel NINCTHEU as well as other dozens of party executives, relations between the two gradually crumbled from the presidential election of 2018.

If Jean Michel NINCTHEU does not say it openly, he badly digested the party’s choice of Joshua Osih as presidential candidate of October 7, 2018. Jean Michel NINCTHEU indeed found the native of Kumba much too close to the power of Yaoundé . Just as he accuses him of having spoiled the electoral campaign by very arrogant methods vis-à-vis the other opposition candidates.

These reproaches take a new turn towards the end of 2018 when Joshua Osih acknowledges in his own name in a press release the victory of Paul BIYA in the presidential election while a few weeks earlier the SDF had in a declaration issued important reservations on the victory of Paul BIYA.

The least by not the last. In 2019 Jean Michel NINCTHEU reveals that his party comrade took money from the civil cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic to refuse an opposition coalition.

Tensions are growing. And all this feeds by the silence and even clearly the complicity of Ni John Fru Ndi. Which in 2022 calls on SDF activists to take part in the February 11 parade ignoring trampling on a party executive committee resolution that had suspended the political formation’s participation in parades “until the Anglophone crisis is resolved”

The latest developments of these dissensions were the exclusions of Jean Michel NINCTHEU, Parfait MBVOUM, Lavoisier TSAPY, Jean Robert WAFO, Me Moustapha NGOUANA among others For anti-party activities. With the death of Ni John Fru, the battle for the succession of Ni John Fru should experience new twists. Because in his last moments of life, Ni John Fru Ndi had very clearly taken a position in favor of Joshua Osih to succeed him at the head of the party. The elective congress next July promises…

Victims of the accident which occurred on May 26, they were buried last Saturday.

Explosion of cries at the opening of room B of the morgue of the Laquintinie hospital in Douala. It’s 7:50 a.m. On the ground, eleven coffins are arranged. The names of those who lost their lives in the traffic accident that occurred in Edéa on May 26 while on their way to the burial of one of their own, Ngo Nsii Jeanne, are inscribed on each of the eleven coffins. At the sight of the remains of these people, cries and sadness.

Difficult to hold back. Men and women are crying out loud. The members of the large Ngock family in the district of Ndom rush to the coffins placed on the ground on which some women literally lie down. Calling the names of those loved ones. “Helen, why did you do this to me?” Why such a sudden departure? We should meet again in the village for your mom’s funeral, and they only call me to tell me that you had the accident and died. Today, here you are lying in a coffin”, laments a lady.

Some women, at the end of fainting, collapse. Three in total. One after the other. They are immediately rescued by men present in the room. Almost identical scene in the courtyard of the morgue of this health facility, Friday, June 09, 2023, on the occasion of the lifting of the bodies of the victims of the Edéa accident of May 26. Women who have lost their strength are supported on both sides. Some men, eyes red with pain, wonder. “How do we cry like this? Who are you going to mourn and leave who? Eleven bodies, Lord. I am in pain. My heart is bleeding, ”says a man who lets tears flow. Gradually, visitors are directed out of the morgue enclosure to allow the transport of the bodies to be prepared.

Traditional rituals

Outside the morgue, three Hiace-type vehicles are parked. While everyone is wondering about the transport of these bodies, a first truck in the colors of the army arrives, then a second. It is 8h20min. One after another, they enter the morgue and come out with the coffins. Six coffins are placed in the first truck, and five in the second. Wreaths of flowers are placed there.

A few family members sit in front of the trucks. In the back, others sit on the coffins. And a few minutes later, the two trucks loaded with coffins leave the morgue, with signs of goodbye from people sitting in the back.

It’s 8:55 a.m.

The three coaster type vehicles will follow later with members of this family inside, towards the Ngock village. According to the funeral program, traditional rites are planned. “These rites aim to break with these accidents. It is a question of putting an end to this tragedy which has affected our family. And so, rites will be performed before their burial. This blood that has flowed must stop. And if we don’t do these rites, sooner or later blood can flow again. It is tradition. And we have to do it,” says a family member.

On site in Ndom, the ceremony attracted an impressive crowd of people. “The ceremony in the village drained a lot of people, like in Douala. We arrived at the village a little late because we experienced some complications with the vehicles on the way. But the bodies were already there. The burial took place around 4 a.m. Everything went well. I had already informed the authorities of what was to happen”, notes Etienne Killeng, the president of the Ngock family in Douala. Among the authorities present, the sub-prefect, the mayor of Ndom, the municipal councilors and several other people from neighboring towns and villages.

On the reasons which led to the burial of the remains in the middle of the night, the head of the family explains. “It was about taking our bodies and keeping them. We will prepare to grieve properly later. It was not a bereavement like the others”, explains Etienne Killeng who thanks the State for the support they have received since the occurrence of this accident. “The state has accompanied us a lot in this mourning. We had through the governor of the Littoral region and Professor Noel Emmanuel Essomba, director of the Laquintinie hospital, free access to the morgue. We benefited from the free transport of the bodies. It is important. We were quite supported, ”he says, grateful.