By Doh Bertrand Nua
The Governor of the North West region has urged women in the region to denounce separatist fighters and collaborate with security forces as their own contribution to the return of peace and normalcy in the North West and South West Regions.
Adolphe Lele LAfrique was speaking as he joined hundreds of women who stormed the esplanade of his office to denounce the brutal killing of seven students on the campus of Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy in Fiango, Kumba, Meme Division.
"The actions in Kumba is not the first but we should ensure that it is the last," Lele said while appealing to women to collaborate and stop hiding separatist militias who have refused to heed to the call of the President for them to leave the bushes, drop their guns and join the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) Centres.
The administrator urged women to rather be true ambassadors of the same peace they are seeking from the state at their family levels by confusing their sons and daughters to drop their guns.
He assured them that the “Operation Bamenda Clean” thatbwas carried out to by security elements to push back separatist fighters from the city will be extended to other parts of the region to ensure total return to calm.
On his part, the DO for Bamenda II, Nicholas Nkongho Mancha who earlier received the protesters joined the women in condemning the incident in Kumba.
"What has happened to our children is unacceptable. Education is key to life. Children cannot be killed because they want to go to school," Mancha said, adding that all will be done to ensure the horror doesn’t extend to the region if women to denounce separatist activities and report them to security officers.
The protesters on their part told the administrators they were tired of crying and needed an end to the killings and bloodshed. They brandish placard with varied messages all calling for a solution to the crisis.
“Our children need to go to school without fear or favour, we are tired of the gunshots, our hearts are heavy and like our sisters in Kumba, the pain is too much,” partly read some of the messages of the women who marched through major streets across Bamenda III, II and I.
The women stormed security stations, passing through the Finance Junction, Commercial Avenue. They sang dirges, cried and appealed to the Yaounde regime to listen to their plea and end the war.
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