Cameroon: Military officer kills businessman in Babessi

A businessman whose name we got as Nah Pascal is said to have been shot to death by the military, today July 6, 2022.

The businessman was shot to death in a neighbourhood known as Meshasha quarter, in Babessi, Ngohketunjia Division of the North West Region.

Sources revealed to MMI that the business was transporting his market items when he was gunned down.

“He was shot by the military while flagging down a car to go to Babessi Market,” the source stated.

In a video, the man, lying in his pool of blood could be seen, transported by some locals in a wheelbarrow.

The real motives behind Nah Pascal’s shooting however remain unknown at the moment.

This, however, is just one of the hundreds of other civilians who have been killed by soldiers, since the Cameroon government choose to use the military option as its response to the demands for reforms by the people of the North West and South West Regions of the country.

There has so far, been not accountability for the victims, some of who were killed in mass shootings by the Cameroon armed forces.

By Amina Hilda.