South West : False Alert Sweeps Through Buea, Limbe

Rumours hit Buea, capital of the South West Region, yesterday (27 October, 2020), and its environs with parents rushing back to school to collect their children. The situation came to a head by 9.30 am when a social media alert came through alarming that there was shooting in one school in Muea, a peripheral agglomeration of Buea. 
On noticing the situation, the Divisional Officer of Buea, Abba Abduraman, went out to instruct the various School Heads and Principals to keep their pupils and students within the campuses and not allow parents to invade the school grounds to collect their progenies. 
Abba Abduraman told Cameroon Tribune yesterday near 11 am that no shooting ever happened in his jurisdiction and not even in Muea. He said it was just a continuation of the propaganda on social media to scare school attendance as known before. “I encourage parents to take their children back to school because we have stepped up security around schools, in the quarters and in the streets to protect good citizens from any attacks”, Abduraman explained. He added that no parent should keep their child at home assuring that nothing would happen to any school in Buea this time around. 
Meanwhile, Cameroon Tribune took a ride down town and observed many parents had collected their children and rushed back home. The streets appeared empty at many points and Molyko, the hustle and bustle of Buea, was very quiet. However, many schools still had their pupils or students within their...