Yaounde: Three Men Arraigned For Assaulting Policeman

The Police Constable was seriously wounded on September 5, 2016 after being attacked in the Petit Marché area of Odza.

Three armed robbery suspects were on Friday, September 23, 2016, handed over to the State Counsel to the Yaounde Military Tribunal for assaulting, seriously wounding and seizing the service pistol of a Constable. The victim is of the Mobile Police Unit Number One, Yaounde. According to the Commander of the Yaounde I Gendarmerie Company, Captain Ndongo Jean Alain, the incident occurred early in the morning of September 5, 2016, in the Petit Marché area of Odza, Yaounde.

The supposed gang leader, Kang Edima, alias “Commandant Zabra,” Ndoe Ndoe Ulrich Raymond, alias “Mascote Ndolé,” and Molioum Mohammed, alias “Mohammed,” who were on a motorbike, assaulted and ordered the policeman to hand over all what he had on him. Not ready to give in so easily, the Constable quickly drew his service pistol to defend himself, but received a deep machete cut on his shoulder, causing the pistol to drop on the ground. The robbers thereafter fled on the bike, collecting the pistol. A concerned passerby later took the wounded policeman to hospital, Captain Ndongo Jean narrated.

Informed, gendarmes immediately swung into action...