By Walter Wilson Nana
The students, teachers and management staff of Bilingual Grammar School, BGS, Molyko, Buea started the second term of the 2012/2013 academic year on a sad note.
On day one of the second term, Thursday, January 3 2013, the remains of a Form 3D student, Lovet Fongoh Doh, number 21 on the class register was found in his own pool of blood in the classroom Form 3A.
According to Lois Ebenye Ikome, Principal, BGS, the corpse of Fongoh was discovered around 7:15 am when the Discipline Master was on his rounds to get all the classrooms opened for the take off of classes for the second term. “An uncomfortable smell around Form 3A, the door locked but a window open moved the Discipline Master to look around.
Lovet Fongoh Doh to the motuary after examinations from the Police and the Director of the Buea Regional Hospital
When he moved to the opened window, stretched his neck, he saw a lifeless man lying on the floor. He called my attention and subsequently, I alerted the nearest Police Post at Molyko, Buea, the Regional Delegate of Secondary Education, Francis Ngundu Mokumba, the Judicial Police and the Director of the Buea Regional Hospital, Dr. George Enow Orock, who all came to the scene,” she said.
While the BGS Principal hesitated to draw conclusions on the circumstances of the death of the student, cursory observations of the remains suggested that they might have been a scuffle between the deceased and his assailants. His mouth appeared to have been punched as it looked swollen.
After examining the corpse, Dr. Enow Orock and the Police Officers found a pocket size and a blue Testament Bible in the trouser of the deceased. Written on a little paper in the Bible was the name Lovet Fongoh.
In this uncomfortable atmosphere in the BGS campus, Ngundu ordered the rest of the student body to go home and get back to school on Friday, January 4 2013. “Some of the students were in a state of shock, others in confusion, the corpse already decomposing, I sought the permission of the Minister of Secondary Education to allow the students go home,” he said.
While acknowledging that some parts of the BGS campus is porous, giving room for unidentified people to get in and out of the campus, Ngundu pledged to get the campus effectively guarded and the fence round the school completed.
However, details on the identification of the deceased will emerge as the information spread across the Buea municipality.
On hearing the news of a corpse found in the campus of BGS, Mercy Agem, Inspector in the Southwest Regional Delegation of Basic Education, who has been looking out for the elder brother’s son, for about four days, who stays with her and said to have deserted the home for allegedly stealing FCFA 150,000, came to the campus to check. From the BGS campus to the Buea mortuary where the remains were taken to, Agem will discover that the deceased is the Lovet Fongoh Doh, aged 16 and a Form 3D student of BGS she has been looking for. She added Fongoh went missing from the house since Monday, December 31 2012, when he was accused of stealing FCFA 150,000 from Agem’s handbag in the house.
At press time, the exact cause of Fongoh’s death was yet to be established as well as the burial programme.
