2024-10-04 22:34:09
Investigations following the kidnapping and murder of a six-year-old girl while she was returning from school on February 29, 2024 in this locality are blocked…The comrades of the deceased resumed with lessons on September 10 last. But a wind of panic is blowing….
Wednesday September 11, 2024. It is 11:18 a.m. on the Standard School campus in Bangangté. Children cascade out of various classrooms and are massed on the main courtyard of this bilingual primary school. Some head to the toilet to relieve themselves. The others play naively and run in the directions. Some want to leave the closed gate to eat… Impossible action. Because in the absence of the director and the bursar, a mistress ensures compliance with the disciplinary measures imposed since the kidnapping of Shalom Tsemo on February 29, 2024.
She lets us know that pupils from all classes are strictly prohibited from going out during break sequences. To do this, she must ensure that no child leaves school. “Arrangements have been made since the kidnapping and assassination of Shalom Tsemo, then a student enrolled in this establishment during the 2023/2024 school year. No child should leave this gate alone. At end-of-class times, each parent is required to pick up their child from the school grounds,” she explains, speaking anonymously. This teacher believes that the delicacy of this affair has sowed psychosis within the local educational community. “Here in Bangangté everyone is afraid to talk about the Shalom affair. We live in fear. Every person must be careful”she sums up.
This attitude is shared by the motorcycle driver who transports us on the path which respectively towards the home of the Kum couple and that of Shalom Tsemo’s parents, at a place called Grande Barrière in Banganté. “The finger should not be pointed at the house in which the child’s body was found. You have to be wary. The outside is bad »he emphasizes.
Other schools in the city of Bangangté have also strengthened measures relating to the safety of children on the way to school. This is particularly the case at group III public schools. At this very busy educational establishment, many members of the educational community, in particular parents, stopped various activities to come pick up their child from school this Wednesday, September 11, 2024. These parents seem aware of the awareness campaign organized by parents so that children are no longer kidnapped on the way to school. The missionary Odilon Dounya Fendju, the father of Shalom Tsemo, was very active during this operation. He doesn’t want other children to suffer the cruel fate reserved for his daughter. “This has to stop”he proclaims. “The investigations seem to be blocked. I want justice to be done. All those guilty of the crime committed against Shalom will be unmasked”he promises.