Business persons in Bamenda have witnessed a strange afternoon as gunshots have forced them to flee home
In the early afternoon hours of Tuesday September 1, 2020 a police inspector popularly known as Petit Bikolo was shut dead by armed men who attacked them from a building and made away through the back door at Small Mankon Bamenda while on a regular control, an element of the 3rd district police station has confirmed
The officer was rushed to the GMI hospital were he gave up the ghost
The assassination of the police inspector angered his colleagues who have been fighting armed separatists in the North West since 2017
Voice notes circulating on social media holds that at least two persons have sustained gunshots wounds. One at the Bamenda food market and another at small Mankon
Gunshots in the central business district of Bamenda has forced business operators and their customers to spend the greater part of the afternoon on the floor
Those who could make it out of the tense areas quickly did so to Nkwen that has been relatively calm
Nkwen in Bamenda III subdivision has not recorded gunshots as at the time of this report
The police inspector had spent relatively five months in Bamenda
By
Ndi Tsembom Elvis
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