Actualités of Friday, 11 July 2014

Source: cameroon-tribune.cm

Desecration of cemetery angers population

A bus station and service station construction project caused a stir in the town of Nkongsamba.

Some cases were recently perpetrated in the municipal cemetery of Nkongsamba 3rd. Graves were ripped and writings demolished. The operation has shocked and moved the population.

The préfet of Mungo, Thomas Hona, after two raids in the field, has set up a commission of inquiry.

Composed of several administrations in the urban community of Nkongsamba - indexed in this case-, which will be responsible for making way on what really happened.

But in the immediate future, he decided the reconstitution of graves (plates, signs) and the decommissioning of the machine that was used for shaving the tombs (the key parts were removed by the central Commissioner).

To the préfet, this is not yet a threat to social peace, although some people have planned to organize a March. However, it is a serious enough situation.

Also, initiatives have been taken to bring peace within the Muslim community in particular, first to have denounced this situation.

It must be said that June 27 during prayers on Friday at the central mosque of Nkongsamba, imam Ousmanou is questioned by some faithful.

This was a result of the destruction of the municipal cemetery for the construction of a bus station and a gas station. The Muslim leader took a few faithful and went to the scene.

Angered by what they did, they alerted the authorities of the city. The warden and his staff immediately descended on the scene, and also discovered with amazement that tombs had been razed.

The first information spoke of a contract that Nkongsamba urban community signed with a company from the square (combined builders). And therefore it was the beginning of that structure that started the earthwork.

The government delegate of the Nkongsamba urban community, Basile Kollo, does not recognize the contract in question.

When Cun boss was met he told CT that he is not aware of anything, what it does is recognized in the case of the cemetery. According to him, the case concerned rather the space which lies opposite the cemetery.

Dr. Kollo went on to say that there is a plan of occupation of soils and in the context of the development of the old city; it comes to build bus stations upstream and downstream, with commercial spaces.