Increasing banditry in Kumba: Meme SDO accuses uniform officers

From Maxcel Fokwen in Kumba

The SDO for Meme division, David Koulbout Aman has put responsibility for the increasing banditry in Kumba and Meme division in general at the door steps of uniform officers. To this effect, he has vowed to report suspected cases to the delegate general for national security to mete out severe sanctions on them.

Koulbout told The Guardian Post in a recent chat that he is confident the move would stamp out dishonest security officers  within  his area of command especially in Kumba; as the administration steam up to guarantee public peace and security.

According to the Meme boss, despite constant security meetings to ensure that banditry activities are stamped out in Kumba, it has come to the fore that some  security officers  work hand  in hand   with bandits especially elements of the ESIR  force.

The SDO explained that the romance between uniform officers and bandits has attained a level of frequent alerts given that the officers keep close contact with thieves through the mobile phone to outfox any operation launched.

 “The special operation caught thieves with guns, pistols, marijuana and the checkpoint has been shifted from Barombi Kang to Mabonji because we have discovered that most of the thieves enter the town through the railway station and Mbonge Road but we have a little problem with the legal department particularly the judges…. our elements are indiscipline and I will send a special report to the delegate general for national security so they can be sanctioned”. Koulbout averred.

Harping on the issue of land sold at Barombi Kang according to newspaper reports, Koulbout explained that by law, it is only the SDO who has the right to sell land not for his private pocket but for the state. The administrator expatiated that the issue at Barombi Kang concerns a special allotment set aside by the government to speed up development which he is charged with sharing rationally to the population but not to everybody who applies for a plot.

Koulbout declared that there is nothing like 200 plots and prayed that those who have not been given land should be patient for another period rather than go to the press to mislead the public.

On Lapiro’s case, the Meme boss said he has never met Lapiro physically or have any transaction with him except some time ago when Lapiro came to Kumba and entered the market trying to pick out pirated compact disks (CD)   without authorisation .The SDO maintained that on that day he was attending a seminar in Douala and so cannot tell how he threatened the life of the music icon.