WEST REGION : DEATH INEXPLICABLY HOLDS A YOUNG STUDENT

In Bafang, in the Haut Nkam department of the West region of Cameroon, a young student died suspiciously on  Saturday 27th January. The young student, whose name has not been revealed, fell to her death while working in an office secretariat opposite the Bafang town hall, writing a complaint to the police following a scam.

According to testimonies gathered on the spot and reported by sources, the young girl fell into the traps of the swindlers. “She received a false deposit message on her phone and then received a call telling her that she had received the deposit by mistake and that she should send the money back. The young woman naively sent the money back, only to realize that it was her own money that had gone and that she hadn’t actually received anything from the scammers. Very angry, she went to the Bafang police station to lodge a complaint. She was met by a policeman who asked her to go and write her complaint in the secretariat opposite and come back. When she arrived at the secretariat, still very angry, while the lady was writing up the complaint, she collapsed and started drooling”, so we learn from sources.

That’s when the secretary went to the police station and was told that it must have been an epileptic seizure and that it would pass. “Unfortunately, her anger had reached an unbearable level and she went into cardiorespiratory arrest. The paramedics were called immediately and were only able to pronounce her dead”, said a witness.

Unfortunately, the young woman fell into the trap of these swindlers who sow terror in Cameroon’s towns and cities, claiming victims every day. According to several sources, most of them are incarcerated in Cameroon’s prisons. It is from there that they are said to carry out most of their attacks. A few years ago, a prisoner held in the Kondengui central prison almost caused a diplomatic incident between Cameroon and an African country. The prisoner called the presidency of that country, pretending to be the Cameroonian authorities.

These scammers need to be tracked and stopped for their crimes and trauma to their victims.

Delia Nyadi