Bamenda: Gunmen Kill Breadwinner While He Struggles To Provide For Family

Elyse Kamta When He Was Alive By Raymond Dingana As Elyse Kamta left his home that fateful morning, he embraced his family tightly, promising to return by evening. Little did he know that those would be the last warm moments shared together. At La Chance Bridge, where he sought to earn a meager living as an excavator operator, disaster struck. Gunmen descended upon the area, ruthlessly taking his life in a brutal act of violence. "He begged and begged, but the gunmen turned a deaf ear. His only crime was striving to provide for his family. When did working hard become a reason to die? Those who kill for simply trying to make a living—what have they ever done to create jobs for our people?" an anguished commercial biker lamented. Kamta lay lifeless on the ground, while the assailants fled into the shadows. Bystanders could do nothing but capture images, perhaps to remember the stark reality of violence that had claimed another innocent life in the context of the Anglophone ...