Bamenda not a town for the dead-City Mayor.

This was after visiting the health facility and its mortuary to get details from health officials on the number of persons killed in the gun attack of Sunday July 16, at Nacho Junction.

Achobong condemned the attacks and killings across Bamenda in recent days, indicating that people of bad fate cannot transform the North West Regional capital into a land of the dead. 

According to him, it is wrong to terminate the life of another human being. He urged those who have been engaged in such deadly activities that leave the innocent population in pains to stop.

While expressing condolences to the families of those killed, the City Mayor urged the population to remain steadfast. 

He told denizens of Bamenda not to give in to fear and attempts by some people to ruin the metropolis. Achobong said everyone should go about their businesses and keep the town alive.

Before his declarations, the Director of the Bamenda Regional Hospital, Dr Nsame Denis, had indicated that the number of corpses received at the health facility, following Sunday’s shootings, were 10. Two other persons, Dr Nsame said, were on treatment. One of the two, he indicated, had been discharged.

As at Tuesday July 18, some of those killed had been buried. Meanwhile, authorities, among them the Governor of the North West Region, Adolphe Lele L’Afrique and the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Defense, Navy Captain Cyril Atonfack, had accused separatist fighters of carrying out the killings.

There has been widespread condemnation of the killing across the board with civil society leaders and organisations calling for independent investigations. 

To note that the killings at Nacho Junction Sunday, came a day after five youngsters were killed in the Abangoh neighbourhood, not far from Nacho Junction. Bamenda is among the hardest-hit since the crisis in the two English-speaking went deadly in 2017.