UPDATES ON THE MAMFE HOSPITAL ARSON

• Interim Government Updates
• June 15, 2022

THE MAMFE HOSPITAL ARSON 

According to Ebai-Soter Tarh, editor-in-chief of Cameroon Concord News;

The truth about the burning of the Mamfe Hospital might never be known, as no group has taken responsibility for the disaster which has left many ill people desperate, and residents of the Division frustrated. It baffles me how Ebai-Soter Tarh expects a group to say a word. Why should they? The La République du Cameroun be in the video on the day of the saga was more than enough to draw honest conclusions. He still calls counties in his report divisions. The one Cameroon mentality. And this is a man who indiscriminately operates with Sisiku Julius Ayuk-Tabe.

Ebai thinks that Mamfe is gradually losing everything, and it is obvious that the town’s infrastructure is dwindling very fast and could face another disaster soon as Amba fighters are now threatening to burn the central market and any government offices which may be open for business. Mamfe has no electricity, no water and now, no hospital. Residents of the town are scared that a health disaster such as cholera outbreak could hit the town soon, and this could result in thousands of deaths. Even Médecins Sans Frontières has packed out of the town and banks and financial institutions have also wrapped up operations, making it hard for retirees to earn their pension while many people now move around with large sums of money for lack of a secure place to keep their earnings.

What I don't seem to get is the fact that Ebai insinuated that; Threats by Amba fighters to burn more public goods are making them guilty in the court of public opinion for the razing of the hospital which has been serving some 70,000 people. Following the razing of the hospital, the Cameroon Concord News Group claims that they have deployed undercover reporters to Mamfe for the organization to shed more light on an incident which is splitting the country. The first findings clearly indicted the military while the second investigations conducted by speaking to victims and some members of the public which saw how the operation unfolded clearly accused Amba fighters, as some Mamfe boys were identified by nurses and some of these nurses have now left the town for fear of being killed by the fighters they identified.

Our eyewitnesses say and see something different. The Cameroon Concord News Group is not passing any judgment but is simply reporting what it has uncovered. It would appear Mimi Mefo isn't alone. I am beginning to think so too. According to sources our correspondents talked to, the Mamfe boys who had been identified were those who had earlier surrendered and are part of the government’s DDR. They are being used by the military to track and kill Amba fighters. The boys are now being taken to various locations to enforce the military’s decisions on how to destroy Amba camps or health facilities that are treating Amba fighters who have been shot by the military.

The military has, for years, been monitoring the Mamfe hospital and it had even taken away some patients they suspected were ill because they had been living in the bushes for too long. Those who had gunshot wounds were immediately arrested and later killed and buried by the military in unmarked graves. When you surrender and join the enemy by carrying out dirty games. It is just but right to conclude that you are an integral part of the enemy, and therefore the enemy did the dirty job. Threats by Amba fighters to burn more public goods are making them guilty in the court of public opinion for the razing of the hospital which has been serving some 70,000 people.

Ebai's reports further that The first findings clearly indicated the military while the second investigations conducted by speaking to victims and some members of the public which saw how the operation unfolded clearly accused Amba fighters, as some Mamfe boys were identified by nurses and some of these nurses have now left the town for fear of being killed by the fighters they identified. In Spite of the media calculated mixup, Manyu County is planning to respond bigly. The County coordinator has this to say.