Though the identity of the killers is shrouded in doubts, reports suggest that the armed men set houses on fire, killing babies, pregnant women and the elderly in Ngarbuh, a locality in Ntumbaw, Ndu Subdivision, Donga Mantung Division of Cameroon’s North West Region.

Hours after the incident, government is yet to make an official statement. Cameroon-info.net understands that Cameroon’s defense and security forces have since 2017 been battling armed men who seek to make of the country’s North West and South West regions an independent state christened Ambazonia.

Even as either of the armed parties – the State Forces and the Non-State Armed Groups – is yet to shed light on Friday’s killings, many are those who have laid blame at the doorstep of Government.

In fact, Barrister Nkongho Felix Agbor Anyior alias Agbor Balla, President/Executive Director of the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa, CHRDA, says at least 27 civilians were “murdered by state defense forces” last Friday.

Taking to Facebook Sunday morning, the human rights lawyer writes: “The gruesome murder of 27 civilians including women and children by the State Defense Forces on 14 February 2020 in Ngarbuh, Donga Mantung Division of the North West Region in Cameroon must be investigated and the perpetrators of such egregious crimes brought to justice.”

Akere Muna, Candidate to the 2018 presidential election and former President of the Cameroon Bar Association regrets that killings have become the new normal in the North West and South West regions.

“Ngar village, Donga Mantung - Suffering, death and killing are now the new normal. How did we get here were human life no longer has any value? We must all, now, genuinely seek for peace before this country loses its soul. I pray for all those innocent victims,” Akere tweeted Saturday.

Enter Dr. Nick Ngwanyam

Apparently overtaken by tears, Dr. Nick Ngwanyam, MD, CEO of St. Louis University Institute Douala and Bamenda posits that “God is not with us in this nation any more”.

The entrepreneur, political figure and elite of Donga-Mantung told Cameroon-info-net that: “As you would have noticed I have been away from the TV for about a month now because I did not want to make any public statement of some sort during these sensitive elections.

“If you remember the 'Probem Tree', you will notice that I like to deal with root causes and the stem. I kept on singing that the true solution to our Anglophone problems was the Confederation.

“I condemned Special Status as best as I could when we all knew the empty contents. It is obvious that when we run AWAY from the truth and Love; and choose to be dealing with the leaky part of solving problems nothing will work. It is a principle and a natural law. I did not make it. Wisdom taught me so.

“Besides I have said the 'country' and the government should seek to win the peace and not the war. The logic of war on the part of the government and the logic of Odeshi on the part of the fighters are all leading unto death.

“God is not with us in this nation any more.

“The sooner we do what is Right Just and Good in the sight of the Lord we shall see Peace. We are under the yoke of Satan and what we see are his results. Until we all turn to God in this nation, we shall have more trauma in all shades and colours because where there is no wisdom death resides.

“It is the question of taking turns and in this 'dogs of war' era' sometimes the hunter becomes the hunted. Human wisdom and jungle justice is deceitful and those that live by the sword die by the sword.”