SDF MP hospitalised after ‘killer’ blow by district chairman

From Leinyuy Marilyn in Bamenda

The SDF member of parliament for Menchum North, Hon. Ndong Larry Hills a.k.a Wum Boy is currently receiving medical attention at the Bamenda general hospital after he was assaulted by the SDF district chairman for Bafmen, Che Ngong Rex.

Talking to The Guardian Post while on his hospital bed yesterday, Hon. Ndong Larry Hills narrated that he was at the Bafmen palace on August 1, 2014 to take part in a meeting which was summoned by the Bafmen Cultural and Development Association president. The meeting, he said, 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, he said, 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. Reports say irate villagers and Bafmen SDF militants invaded the gendarmerie cell and demanded to have Rex released for them to skin him. The Guardian Post gathered that 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.

Hospital officials have however told The Guardian Post that the SDF MP’s battered eye has not been seriously affected as was feared. The SDF national chairman, Menchum SDO, the North West governor and authorities of the national assembly in Yaounde have meanwhile been briefed on the matter.

Pressed on to say if he would take a legal action against his own SDF district chairman, Hon. Ndong Larry Hills retorted: “This matter is not between Larry Hills and Ngong Rex…it is left for the authorities of this land to decide what to do with an individual who takes upon himself to assault an MP”.