Violence escalates across NW, SW – Nguti, Boa Bakundu, Munyenge, Batibo, Njinikom, Lipenja etc rocked by killings, kidnapping, burnings, looting

By Elah Geofrey M. and Wifah J. Ndeh Hon. Chief Mbile’s palace razed Hon. Chief Mbile Norbert’s palace at Lipenja I Batanga was completely burnt down on Friday, February 23 by presumed separatists. Talking to The SUN, Hon. Chief Mbile recounted that he received a call from his nephew, Efiom Ivo early on that fateful Friday from Mundemba informing him that separatists had taken “my entire family in Lipenja I Batanga, Toko Subdivision, Ndian Division hostage and were asking for FCFA 2,000,000, else they would kill my three cousins and their children staying at my palace and burn down the…