Cameroon: GCE Board Registrar narrowly escapes death from assailants

Dr. Humphrey Ekema Monono, Registrar of the General Certificate of Education (GCE) Board, July 30, narrowly escaped death from yet to be identified assailants.

Dr. Ekema Monono was ambushed while doing sports in the early hours of the day.

Speaking to Cameroon Concord, Monono said “I usually leave my house for jogging around 5.30am. On that fateful day I was jogging on the road from Buea Town down through Bokwai Village to the Buea Central Market, when I realised some young men jogging behind me.  I thought they were also doing sports.  

But when a taxis that was transporting people early that morning to the Muea Market drove past and a passenger shouted from inside: “Na that bad boys them that! When I turned to look at them, the young men all took-off and ran into the valley of the Catholic Church Great Soppo.

I thought of continuing with the sports, but it dawned on me that those boys could return for me so I sped off back home safely,” the GCE Board Registrar recounted.

Monono revealed that recently, one of the examiners at this year’s GCE session was ambushed and robbed of his phones and other valuables.

So far, it cannot be determined whether Dr. Monono’s case was an opportunistic ambush or a pre-meditated one, but conspiracy theorists have already been drawing conclusions and levelling accusations as to who could have been behind the ambush that was foiled, thanks to an observant but unidentified passenger in a taxi.