Cameroon: Gendarmerie officer kills colleague, commits suicide

The people of Mbalmayo of the Nyong and So’o Division of the Centre Region are still to come to terms following the bloody incident that occurred over the weekend, where a Gendarmerie officer killed his colleague and thereafter committed suicide. The Senior Divisional Officer for Nyong and So’o said the incident took place deep inside the Gendarmerie office in Mbalmayo.

40year old Emile Valere author of the homicide, before the incident has for some months back inculcated an unusual behaviour at his jobsite. No further information was released as to why such an abnormal behaviour but the climax of it all was a bloody incident that claimed the lives of two including the author.

38 year old Chief Marshall of the Mbalmayo Brigade received two gun shots from 40 year old Emille Valleur who later on killed himself at the Gendarmerie office at Mbalmayo. The remains of both men were taken to the Mbalmayo Hospital Mortuary. Judicial and administrative investigations have been opened as to what actually provoked such an act.Civil society groups have suggested the need for recruiting more military chaplains to help combat emotional problems among military men.