Two suspected thieves whose names we got as Aduadzem Charles Fonkanyuy and Gabriel Bong Amayir have been nabbed by the Kumbo gendarmes in connection with the suspected murder of one Mbogho Walters aged 18 of Baba I origin and stolen motor cycles.

More than 400 angry motor cycle riders drawn from Baba I, Jakiri and Kumbo on the 22nd of September 2010 converged at the Kumbo Gendarmerie Brigade where the two suspects were detained trying to coerce the gendarmes to release to them the two suspects to lynch in revenge for the death of their colleague. But for the tactful manner and the dexterous way the Company Commander of the Bui Gendarmerie Major Nyemeck Samuel handled the situation it would have exploded as the angry crowed kept on surging and threatening to break loose and get hold of the two suspected bandits and do away with them. The soothing words of Major Nyemeck Samuel however calmed down rising tempers as he finally gave an authorization to the father of the deceased by name Mr. Nkwemime Tarkeh Moh to collect the remains of his son from the Jakiri mortuary and bury at Baba I.

According to Major Nyemeck Samuel who briefed the Press, he was on the 19th of September 2010 alerted of a stolen motor cycle found somewhere and he opened an investigation. He revealed that on that same 19th of September 2010, one of the two suspects by name Aduadzem Charles Fonkanyuy was arrested at Kikaikelaki, on his way to Tatum on a motorcycle said to have been used by late Mbogho Walters. He said while investigations of the motor cycle were still going on, he was informed on the 20th of September 2010 that an unidentified corpse which later on was identified as that of Mbogho Walters was found in Government School Gwartang Jakiri. He said the stolen motor cycle was linked to the death of the bendskin rider Mbogho Walters. He revealed that as a result of the investigations carried out six stolen motor cycles have been recovered. He stated that the second suspect Gabriel Bong Amayir was arrested by the gendarmes on the morning of the 22nd of September 2010. According to the facts of the story gathered the two suspects are said to have hired late Mbogho with an undisclosed huge sum of money at Baba I in Ngoketngia division to drop them somewhere in Jakiri. The bandits seemed to have directed him to drop them somewhere at Gwartang Government School where for reasons only known to them he was killed.

The deceased a bendskin rider is said to have been working for a friend of his by name Pibuo Nelson a class five student of G.S.S. Baba I. According to the father of Pibuo Nelson during the long holidays Pibuo went to Douala where he worked and was paid some money. On his way back to the village he got more money from other sources and added to it and bought the motorcycle. The deceased aged 18 according to the father is the third child in a family of six children. He completed his Primary School in 2008 at Baba I and took up the job of a bendskin transporter that has earned his life.

The arrest of the two culprits is just the beginning to dig deep into the mystery of stolen motor cycles in Bui division that has been going on for long.