The governor of the South West Region has urged all actors to remain calm, following today’s deadly attack by suspected separatists in Ekondo Titi, South West Region.
Governor Bernard Okalia Bilai made the call hours after the Mayor of Ekondo Titi Nanji Kenneth, and Divisional Officer Timothée Aboloa died from an explosion this afternoon.
The two men, alongside a CPDM Section President, and two bodyguards were blown off by an explosive device planted on the road in the Ndian Division, South West Region.
Speaking on CRTV, the governor said the attackers detonated four explosive devices, then opened fire on the administrators’ cars, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries.
However, governor Okalia Bilai maintains that everything is under government’s care.
Locals, he said, “should remain calm and vigilant. Ekondo Titi sub division is under control,” he stated.
No separatist faction has claimed responsibility for the assassination of the Mayor and the Divisional Officer of Ndian.
The two men have become the latest from a list of other Administrators that have died in the course of the crisis.
The most recent of them is deceased SDF Senator Henry Kemende, Assassinated over a month ago by armed men in Bamenda.
Governor Bilai’s call makes innumerable similar words from government since the Anglophone crisis escalated into an armed conflict, with thousands of lives lost already.
It should be recalled that till date, government is yet to make any concrete statement on the abduction and feared death of five delegates still from the Ndian decision months back.
