TAKE ACTION: Let the Senseless Killings Stop
I have watched with growing dismay, shock and sadness at the recent happenings in my country- Cameroon With each passing day, we hear news of killings and mayhem in the country. The most recent being the cowardly, sickening slaughter of close to 50 youths in Santa. Everytime I think of those youngsters, my eyes well up with tears. You see, I was born and spent a better part of my high school years in Bamenda and it was one of the best experiences of my youth. Life was carefree and innocent and the only things we worried about then were what life will become when we get to the University and being ‘punished’ by seniors for not doing our chores - never the thought that you could be murdered in the middle of the night. I cannot bear to think of the terror the youngsters must have felt, the fear, the pain. Their lives prematurely cut short. They are dead – they will never graduate, get a job, start a business, get married, have their o