Yaounde: man killed for urinating in public

By Vera Fon

A business man was killed on Sunday May 7 at the Nkolmesseng Neighborhood in Yaounde for urinating in the wrong place.

The man whose name we got as Sylvester Banfila Nfonbuwi, who hails from Njoungo quarter in Lasin village, Noni subdivision was hit with a stick by a man who claims he urinated on his land.

According to Mr Denis, Coordinator of all the Njoungo people in Yaounde, it is heartbreaking that someone would be killed for answering the call of nature in a place where there was no signboard to indicate that no one should urinate there.

“It is disheartening to know that Cameroon has become so unsafe that someone will be killed for the mere fact that he urinated in a place, supposedly a wrong one. We have reported to the security and they have gone to the scene and picked a couple of people and are questioning them. They are yet to tell us what they have learned,” he said.

“There should be sensitization of the population so they avoid taking the laws into their hands. This is a case of jungle justice. I believe that even if it’s in a case where you have a signboard and someone violates, the person should be arrested and pay a fine but not be killed. We should learn to value one another,” he continued.

The Coordinator went further to reprimand the Yaounde General Hospital staff for neglecting the young man who was believed to be alive when he was rushed to the hospital.

“Another thing I want to complain about is the negligence of this hospital. I strongly believe this boy was still alive when he was brought here. After 4-5 hours of the incident he was still bleeding and no one checked on him since he was brought here.”

Investigations are ongoing.