The group was paraded in Yaounde on Monday on the instructions of the Commissioner of the Central Police Station N°4, Irène Christine Mindjom.
A gang of criminals accused of killing a snack bar worker in the Titi Garage neighborhood in Yaounde on May 4, 2023 has been presented to the public. The gang was paraded after it reenacted how its actions led to the death of their victim, Bekada Philibert. The gang that includes a penitentiary officer currently on the run, acted out the crime at the scene of the incident in Yaounde yesterday on the instructions of the Commissioner of the Central Police Station N°4, Irène Christine Mindjomunder the watchful eyes of State Counsel of the Mfoundi High Court, Ndi Ndi Luc.
The main suspect in the case, Tsila told the State Counsel while reenacting the crime, Tsila Archange that he had indeed committed the crime but stated that it was an accident. He said he stabbed the deceased in retaliation to an attack that had been launched on him by the late Bekada after he walked to the scene where they had been fighting in a group brawl. Tsila said he had been called to the snack bar by his friend Belle Aaron who told him on the phone that he had been attacked at the leisure spot and needed his help to fight back.
Although investigations from the police states that the assassin was called to the scene by Belle Aaron on the pretext that his girlfriend, Ngassang Florette had been attacked. Ngassang told the police on Monday that she is rather the one that was attacked and that the person that was killed was not the one that had assaulted her.
Police says killing premeditated
The Commissioner of the Central Police Station number four Mindjom Irène Christine told the press in an interview at the scene that the killing was a premeditated action and not an accident as claimed by the accused assassin and his multiple accomplices. She said investigations launched by the police have proven that the criminals had properly planned out their movement and were out to kill at all cost.
“During the reconstitution of the actions, Tsila was making us to understand that he simply came to fight and not to kill. I think he was saying the opposite. They came they to kill. The fact that Tsila came there with his dagger is the first act that we are condemning. We also condemn the fact that he blocked the entrance into the snack bar,” the commissioner said. The commissioner urged the population to continue working with the police as they seek to come to the root of the disturbing case.
“We understand the fact that when issues like this come up, family members try to protect their children but when you get to understand the pain of the victims’ families like that of the deceased Bekada, you have to react,” the commissioner said. “He was an only child who had lost both of his parents and was brought up by his grandmother who had taken over him as her own child. It is saddening because this gang of criminal includes a penitentiary official. He was supposed to talk them out of the plan. But he instead carried them to the scene and stayed there to fight with them,” she added.
