By David Atangana
Militants of the Ambazonia separatist struggle have burnt down a bulldozer that has been working on the Tugi-Bamenda road in Momo Division of the North West Region. The incident occurred Monday April, 29, 2024.
A commercial motorcycle was also seized and set ablaze by the fighters for violating the Monday ghost town observed weekly in most parts of the conflict-hit Cameroon Anglophone regions.
A viral video obtained by MMI shows the men who identified themselves as Separatist fighters, commanded by a certain ‘General Danger’, setting fire on the road works machine.
“This is ‘General Danger’ and the squad live today Monday, April 29, 2024. Here is the caterpillar working on Tugi-Bamenda road,” a voice that identified as ‘General Danger’ is overheard in the one-minute-30-second video as other fighters pour petrol on the caterpillar.
Directing his fighters to set fire on the road works machine, the self-styled General said, “We came to destroy it. The caterpillar was under the care of La Republique and we promised to destroy it. That is it on fire. We have burnt it.”
The action of the fighters has been described as an impediment to development in the affected community.
Since the escalation of the Anglophone Crisis, armed separatist Ambazonia fighters have targeted any development endeavour carried out by the government in most localities in the Region.
Development in the two regions has been sliding down the hill due to security challenges posed by armed separatists.
In January this year, two heavy duty road equipment were burnt down in Ndu, Donga-Mantung Division of the North West, by men who identified as Separatist fighters. Meanwhile, the other vehicles had their tyres, windshields and engines shattered by bullets.
The machines belonging to a road construction company were working on the Kumbo-Ndu stretch of the Bamenda Ring Road.
