2024-02-11 12:40:27
While the sub-prefect of Bamenda 2 claims to have escaped a kidnapping, the fate of his driver remains unknown almost a week after the events. Chi Wilson’s family has no news and fears the worst. Atmosphere.
The ordeal dates back to the weekend of February 4, during a tour by the sub-prefect in a troubled area of North-West Cameroon. Ambushed by an armed commando, the latter apparently managed to escape from this traumatic episode. But his driver and paramedic would not have been so lucky.
The sub-prefect evokes an incredible escape
According to the sub-prefect himself, he managed to elude the vigilance of his captors before fleeing. At least this is the unofficial version that circulated in Yaoundé, even evoking an improbable “ release » by the army.
However, it is difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in an episode which clearly turned into a fiasco for the administration, against a backdrop of armed struggle with separatists in the former British Cameroon.
Paramedic Chi Wilson’s fate unknown
But beyond the heroic story of the sub-prefect on his escape, the fate of his driver Chi Wilson remains cruelly uncertain several days after the tragedy.
According to our information, this father who also served as the sub-prefect’s paramedic that day has since given no sign of life, plunging his loved ones into mortal worry.
Fears over a possible sacrifice of the paramedic
Because in this type of brutal operation, the separatists tend to spare officials to use them as bargaining chips, while generally “sacrificing” their subordinates.
A tragic fate which could therefore have been reserved for this official whose very name would never have leaked without the activism of relatives on social networks. Proof of the administration’s shortcomings in protecting its own staff, according to certain observers…
A deleterious climate in the North-West
In any case, this new enforced disappearance serves as a reminder, if necessary, of the deleterious climate which reigns in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon, in the grip of a bloody conflict for more than 5 years.
Despite official statements referring to “normalization”, kidnappings and targeted killings continue, affecting the highest levels of local administration.
Enough to seriously doubt the reality of the much-vaunted return to peace in Yaoundé… disregarding the fate of ordinary citizens like this ambulance driver whose life hardly seems to matter.