| Killed? How B’da III mayor died |
| Written by Ro-Martin Fefeh |
| Wednesday, 21 April 2010 13:13 |
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BAMENDA—Prince Pius Amandou, the mayor of Bamenda III, was barely speaking when he died in Shishong last Wednesday, two days after arriving at the Catholic-run hospital, relatives said. He was 45.
Black fluids oozed out of his mouth as he heaved his last breath, the relatives said, fanning speculations he had been poisoned even though medics had diagnosed him with a liver infection. Relatives said the SDF mayor, who served for five years as the chairman of the Bamenda council and was once SDF provincial chairman muted what sounded like “Those Banso boys have succeeded” before dying at about 10pm. He was due to undergo surgery the next day, hospital officials said. The death is a great loss for Bamenda III, which was one of the municipalities undergoing intensive transformation, said our correspondent. “Many people are shocked,” he said. Scores of women and youths on motorbikes staged a demonstration around the municipality, including a march to the Kwen palace, alleging that the mayor had been killed and cursing his suspected killers. Police were not treating the case as murder. An officer who was not allowed to speak to the press said the question had not been raised and doubted that there was enough reason to think the mayor had been killed. 
 
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