The Guy who took an Amba bullet for his fiancee in Bamenda
By Sah Terence Animbom
It was some 15 minutes to 4pm on
Thursday April 18, 2019 at Bambui Four Corners, some 1.2 kilo meters from the
University of Bamenda in the North West Region of Cameroon. All was timidly
booming as it now does on an averagely normal day in the war torn North West
and South West Regions of the country. Shops were open and traffic normal as
township taxis and motor bikes that indicate the presence of relative calm
could be seen moving around the town of Bambui, though in uncertainty of the
next moment.
To confirm the worst fears, A
young man in his late 20s, - say 28 by name Neba Promise and a student pastor
at a Bible School in Bambili, residing in Bambui had just left his house to see
off his fiancée Justine Ndisho who was on her way to a Full Gospel Bible
Convention in Bamenda town.
“On our arrival at Bambui 4 Corners, we
decided to move and stand in front of the mosque in Bambui so as to easily have
a taxi for me to move to the bible convention in town. Just as we stood there,
a bike stood before us with two occupants on it, one being the rider and the
other a young fierce looking guy with perilously red and wild eyes like those
of one who had smoked half a kilogram of Indian herm. They beckoned on us to
come closer which we did.” Justine narrated.
“As we got closer, the fierce
looking guy told us they were ‘Our Brothers in the Bush’ and asked me where I
worked and what I did for a living and immediately my fiancée answered on my
behalf telling them that I worked in town and that he was the one working here
in Bambui. The next thing they said was that I should pass and climb on the
bike and go with them. My fiancée immediately realized that I was about to be
kidnapped and told me not to climb on the bike, holding me back. This
infuriated the guy behind who then brandished a gun and came down from the bike
threatening to blow off my fiancée’s brain if he did not allow me to climb on
the bike and go with them. Promise did not talk to him but kept holding me back
from the guy who wanted to seize me at all cost.” The young lady explained,
sobbing too heavily to continue the interview at this point.
This reporter at the moment of
the tussle between the Amba boy and the young man over the lady was in a taxi
moving from Bambili to Bamenda II. He saw a dirty and rough looking young man
brandishing a gun in his right hand and pointing it to another decent looking
guy’s head beckoning on a young lady in a nonnegotiable manner to pass to his
side while the decent young man was visibly protecting the young lady. The
tussle went on for about two minutes and out of a sudden and at a range of less
than 50centimeters, the Amba boy pulled the trigger on the student pastor’s
head bringing him to the ground immediately.
Letting go the girl he wanted to
kidnap, he ran off to his waiting bike and they disappeared in to the quarter,
living the desperate young lady there wailing for help and running up and down
but having no one come to her aid among the onlookers who witnessed the action.
This was out of fear as everyone started shutting down their shops and people
started dispersing. It was the daring move of this reporter and the driver of
the taxi he boarded, that came to the rescue of the guy. The two gentlemen
rushed to the girl’s aid immediately and beckoned on a bike that came to where
to young man had been gunned down and the gentlemen aided the lady to place him
on a bike that rushed him to the hospital immediately. At the Hospital, he was
attended to immediately and he survived the gunshot that narrowly missed his
brain.
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