CDC workers attacked by unknown armed assailants!

According to a release issued by Manyanye Ikome the Communication and Public Relations Manager of the Cameroon Development Corporation, seven workers of CDC were on Wednesday October 31, 2018 physically assaulted by armed men while carrying out their professional duties in the Tiko Sub Division. They injuries sustained by the workers were as follows: -amputation of the index fingers of three female workers, -amputation of four fingers (2nd-5th) of a male worker,-wounded buttocks of a worker caused by a gunshot and multiple lacerations of two workers.

Informed about this, CDC Management rapidly conveyed the injured workers to the Corporation's Cottage Hospital in Tiko where they are currently receiving intensive medical attention. 

The release further states that though the giant agro industry is apolitical, her workers and property have unfortunately become the target of dozens of unidentified armed men in the recent past. 

While workers have been advised to be calm and avoid panic while the crime is being investigated, speculations on the possible hands behind the heinous crime have been coming forth from different from different quarters.

Many sources have indicated that armed bandits have been taking advantage of the sociopolitical unrest in the two English Speaking Regions to carry out criminal activities. Meantime many have been prompt to point accusing fingers at pro Ambazonian Separatist fighters.

With the continuous killings not restricted to workers of the Cameroon Development Corporation but to other parts of the two Regions affected, many possibilities speculating the identity of those behind the killings have touched on different possibilities.

Firstly, killings have occurred from stray bullets from confrontations between Regular Cameroonian troops and separatist fighters in different parts of the two regions. Secondly killings have come from sudden attacks typical of guerrilla attacks already seen in other parts of the continent. These attacks have been attributed to separatist fighters albeit without clear cut proofs.

Most recently, Ni John Fru Ndi, Chairman of the Social Democratic Front SDF stated that some groups were being sponsored by Ministers to wreak havoc in the various communities though he didn’t identify the Ministry in question. John Fru Ndi has also called on the separatist fighters to think about the welfare of the people first if they truly have them at heart. He was speaking recently shortly after the destruction of his residence at Baba I.  He frowned at the behaviour of those who were behind these acts of violence.

Still fresh in the memories of Cameroonians is the burning of houses and the shooting of a cripple on his wheel chair in Rom village in Nwa Sub Division in Donga Mantung Division. Insecurity is increasingly on the rise accompanied by a disturbing silence and a quasi absence of efforts towards putting a stop to it. At publication time, the faces behind the crime on CDC workers still remained a matter of conjecture. Investigations however were still going on.