NEC endorses expulsion of SDF district chairman who beat up MP

From Leinyuy Marilyn in Bamenda

 

The National Executive Committee, NEC, has endorsed the expulsion of the SDF district chairman for Bafmen, in Menchum division, Che Ngong Rex who is currently detained in Wum for assaulting the member of parliament for Menchum North, Hon. Ndong Larry Hills a.k.a Wum Boy.

Meeting in Bamenda Saturday, NEC simply endorsed an earlier decision that was taken by the North West SDF provincial bureau; slamming the party’s dreaded Article 8.2 on Che Ngong Rex. Meanwhile, sources within the SDF hinted The Guardian Post that Saturday’s NEC meeting tackled the Ngong Rex-Wum Boy matter seriously. Apparently to spare the party the disgrace of being tagged a movement that harbours terrorists, Che Ngong Rex’s Article 8.2 earlier served him by the North West SDF provincial bureau was endorsed. It should be recalled that Article 8.2 expels wayward SDF militants.   

 Meanwhile a military source hinted The Guardian Post recently that Che Ngong Rex may be transferred to the Kondengui maximum security prison in Yaounde, to await trial. His continuous detention in Wum, the source said, poses a lot of security concerns in the entire Menchum division. Said the senior military official: “ There are increasing reports that Ngong’s supporters are threatening to break into the cell and have him released and so the state cannot take any more chances”. Besides, he added, Ngong’s transfer to Yaounde would serve as a deterrent to people who think they can beat up the people’s representatives and go free.

Asked what would become of the venue of the crime should the SDF district chairman be transferred to Yaounde, the military source clarified that Ngong might just be taken to Yaounde temporarily to permit the tension to die down. “ He would be taken back to Wum for effective trial when gendarmes would have been through with investigation”, he added.

It should be recalled that Hon. Ndong Larry Hills was assaulted in Bafmen palace on August 1, 2014 where he was invited to take part in a meeting which was summoned by the Bafmen Cultural and Development Association president. The meeting was summoned to discuss issues related to the Bafmen water project extension. In attendance were also the fon, mayor and traditional council authorities of Bafmen,

The SDF MP narrated that when he took the floor to give directives on how a follow-up committee be put in place to monitor the work of the contractor carrying out the water project that is being sponsored by a Dutch family, Che Ngong Rex not only ordered him to sit down but accused him of doing nothing for Bafmen with his micro-projects grants. He added that the SDF district chairman rained insults on him in total disregard of the fon of Bafmen who had ordered the SDF official to behave himself.

The meeting was brought to an abrupt end following the tension that was created in the palace by Che Ngong Rex. Other accounts have it that the Bafmen SDF district chairman was before the premature end of the gathering slammed a fine of ten goats by the fon and traditional council of Bafmen.

Narrated Hon. Ndong Larry Hills: “When I left the palace, Ngong Rex kept following me from behind and calling me the highest crook in the world and a thief…I responded that he is the highest crook in Bafmen who has been selling election results since 1992. At this juncture, he gave me a devastating blow on my left eye…”

He said while he lost consciousness and fell on the ground, Ngong Rex took to his heels but was later arrested by gendarmes in Bafmen. Irate villagers and Bafmen SDF militants had invaded the gendarmerie cell and demanded to have Rex released for them to skin him. It took the timely intervention and wits of the Bafmen gendarmerie brigade commander for Che Ngong Rex to be whisked off to Wum where he is currently detained.

Following the assault, Hon. Larry Hills was hospitalized at the Bamenda general hospital for four days. Hon. Larry Hills, The Guardian Post gathered, has requested the national assembly to provide him a security guard; citing mounting threats to his life by Che Ngong Rex’s supporters.