Youth At large After Fleeing From Amba Captivity

 

By Romeo Ako

A young man who was taken as captive by Ambazonian fighters whose names we got as, Clopas Fonkeng Anyangim, is reported to have escaped from Captivity and is reported to have left his locality to an unknown destination.

According to reports from Muyuka, a strong zone of the separatist’s fighters, In July 2018, a camp of the Ambazonian Fighters was attacked by military operatives.

During this attack, many Amba Boys were killed, many of the sons of the local residents were Amba Boys and many of them were killed in the attack.

When Clopas Fonkeng Anyangim and his father arrived their compound, the were confronted by a crowd of Amba Fighters who accused his father of being a spy for the military and that he was responsible for indicating to the military where their hideout was.

His father was brutally murdered in his presence their family, his family was warned not to step foot on their family land and their house was burnt to ashes by the separatist’s fighters as payback for the death of their members.

Clopas Fonkeng Anyangim was then taken in as a captive by the separatists’ fighters to their new camp according to eyewitnesses.

After spending close to two years in Captivity, Clopas Fonkeng Anyangim is said to have escaped through a yet to be understood means to an unknown destination.

The news of his escape was made known by separatist fighters who stormed the community in search for him few days after he ran away from their camp.

When security officers got wind of the news that he had escaped, they came looking for him in the community so that he could help them in investigating the new hideout of the fighters but he was nowhere to be found.

It should be recalled that prior to the July 2018 attack, In May 2018, there had been serious gun exchanges between fighters and the military in the same locality of Ekona which made Clopas Fonkeng Anyangim and the family to take refuge in the forests for fear of their lives only to return to meet more trouble in July of that same year.

Like many other young Cameroonians fleeing either from Amba fighters or the military, it is assumed that Clopas Fonkeng Anyangim may have left to an unknown destination for safety and fear for the unknown.

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