BY REGINA NGIE
The military has reportedly launched a fresh manhunt for a lady, Mary Ambo, who was years back accused of being an informant and sympathizer of the Ambazonia separatist fighters.
It should be recalled that some years back, Ambo had been accused by the military of being an informant and collaborating and sympathizing with separatist fighters. This was after the military had met her in a forest around Mundum in Mezam Division of the North West Region. Separatist fighters are said to have had one of their camps in the said forest.
Meanwhile, after the military had tried to track down Ambo after she fled from Bamenda, in order to extract information from her concerning her alleged links with the separatist fighters, she is said to have vamoosed.
However, recently, Ambo is reported to have resurfaced. Nonetheless, the military is said to have spotted her in a shop in Limbe, Fako Division of the South West Region. But before the soldiers could make a move to arrest her, Ambo mounted a commercial motorbike, which sped away.
Since then the soldiers have been on the lookout for her.
If arrested by the military, Mary Ambo will be tried in a military tribunal, under the 2014 anti-terrorism law, whose maximum punishment is the death sentence. That is if she is not killed outright, like many others who have been victims of extra-judicial killings within the context of the armed conflict in the North West and South West Regions.