By Sah Terence Animbom
A young man in his late 20s by name Neba Promise and a student pastor at a Bible School in Bambili, residing in Bambui was allegedly shot on the head by an unidentified gunmen said to be an amba fighter. Reports have it that the incident occurred around 4pm on Thursday April 18, 2019 at Bambui Four Corners, some 1.2 kilometers from the University of Bamenda in the North West Region of Cameroon.
All seemed normal when Neba left his house to see off his fiancée, Justine Ndisho who was on her way to a 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 further 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 50 centimeters, 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, leaving 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 the 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, Neba was attended to immediately and he survived the gunshot that narrowly missed his brain.