By TALLA AGHAA CHRISTOPHER
Denizens of Mbalangi, a village along the Kumba-Buea highway in Mbonge Sub Division, Meme Division, South West Region have taken the bull by the horn, to say ‘No’ to the atrocities being carried out by “amba boys” on the population. The SUN Newspaper gathered that they are lamenting on the frequent harassments on them by “amba boys” and have thus, like one man, decided to rise up against such wanton activities.
Reports hold that the few inhabitants, who have mustered courage to go back to the village after several months of hiding in the bushes, took the firm commitment to chase out the “amba boys” in the locality recently.
The SUN gathered that, on that fateful Tuesday, known to be their market day, the courageous denizens had gone to the market to sell and buy food items and other goods of basic necessity. Unfortunately for them, some unidentified boys supposedly “amba boys” arrived the market and started asking for “support”. It is alleged that the news of their presence filtered out and got to the military base at Ediki village, few meters away from the market, who immediately rushed there to fish out the alleged “amba boys”. The unidentified boys The SUN gathered had already disappeared, but the presence of the military caused total panic to those who had gone there for business.
It is at this juncture that the inhabitants in that locality took the firm commitment to henceforth chase out any suppose “amba boy” in the area.
This firm commitment by the denizens of Mbalangi is coming barely few months after the same decision was taken by the population of Dieka-Bafaw, and Koke-mbomo, all villages of Mbonge Sub Division, to chase out alleged “amba boys” from their various villages.
It should be noted that the Traditional Ruler of Dieka Bafaw was painfully tortured to death by alleged “amba boys” in broad day-light months back in the presence of his kiths and kins, and this act didn’t go down well with the villagers, as they carried placards round the village condemning what they concluded as barbaric.
Ever since the outburst of the Anglophone crisis, villages in Mbonge Sub Division have witnessed great atrocities with many people now considered as Internally Displaced Persons, IDP’s