Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Joseph Essama
Published on 2024-04-10 15:01:00
Admired by his family but lonely and withdrawn, Yebel Bateg Emmanuel, the killer of Louisette Ngo Yebel, communication officer at Comifac, remains a mystery.
Public opinion is still horrified by the heinous murder of Louisette Ngo Yebel, the communication officer at Comifac, who was killed last Saturday in Yaoundé by her own son. Comments are rampant on social media, with each person reacting based on their sensitivity. But those who know him try to understand how Yebel Bateg Emmanuel Landry, a seemingly calm young man, turned into the murderer of both his grandmother in December 2023, and his own mother last Saturday.
At first glance, Yebel Bateg doesn’t look like a delinquent. A close relative remembers him as a “kind, innocent, and very polite” boy. His teacher at Saint Benoit College in Yaoundé describes him as a young student who had the demeanor of an adult. His temperament and intelligence commanded the respect of his mentors. “In addition, he was a spoiled child,” much like other students at this prestigious college owned by the missionaries of the Immaculate Conception and built on the lands of the Archdiocese of Yaoundé, just opposite the headquarters of the National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon (CENC).
According to a family member, Yebel Bateg Emmanuel was a withdrawn, solitary man who apparently did not suffer from any pathology. A student in the B cycle of general administration at the National School of Administration and Magistracy, he was a very bright student. “He was really brilliant, but very discreet. He only spoke up during his interventions, which, it must be said, were of a finesse that sometimes exceeded the understanding of the rest of us,” says one of his classmates.
Moreover, during the final exam at Enam, he obtained an average of 15.57/20, ranking 5th ex aequo in his class. With a master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Yaoundé II before joining Enam, the 28-year-old man was among the most talented in his class.
Despite his intelligence, “you could tell he had social problems. He had almost no friends in school, always stayed in his corner, and never participated in extracurricular activities, even if they were mandatory,” says another classmate. “He was also absent a lot, but it didn’t show in his school results,” he adds.
According to a close relative, “his associations in college led him to make strange choices, and that’s when he became addicted to drugs. He consumed them at will, and this was known to many people. He had been examined several times by specialists. He had refused to follow the recommended therapy for this. But really, his whole family was far from imagining him capable of such savagery,” reveals our informant.
During his training at Enam, the 28-year-old young administrator was arrested for cases of repeated theft, but the alleged delinquent was released after strong negotiations by his parents, we learn.
But it was last December that this eldest son of a family of around fifty children committed the worst. “He strangled his own grandmother, and the crime was covered up by his mother, who did everything to prevent him from going to prison.” Since then, he was kept far away from his younger brothers and sisters,” we are told.
Since this crime, his mother had been doing everything possible to get him to undergo both clinical and spiritual therapies. She never failed to visit him at his home in the Damas neighborhood in Yaoundé until last Saturday when she was brutally murdered by her own flesh and blood.
According to the Daily Intelligence Bulletin (BRQ) of the Gendarmerie dated 09/04/2024 with the subject: criminal activities, the named Batek Yebel Landry, arrested following an investigation into the disappearance of Dame Ngo Yebel, confessed directly. The newly graduated administrative secretary from Enam claimed to have killed his mother after an argument in her home in the Damas neighborhood in Yaoundé. The alleged murderer admitted to suffocating his mother. Once she was dead, he dismembered her with a hacksaw in one of his houses. He then packed the parts of her body into 2 suitcases and was helped by his friend Lonti Junior, who is still on the run, to transport the said suitcases to Etoa-Meki. He dumped the remains of his mother in a nearby river. The presumed assassin also admitted to killing his grandmother 3 months ago.
“Mom died in an accident”
Placed in the safety of a friend of their absent father’s home, his 16-year-old younger sister, a first-year student at Vogt College, and his younger brothers know that their mother died in an accident. It was their murderous brother who took the trouble to inform them, as they were worried that their mother, who was the only one taking care of them in their home in the Odza neighborhood, had disappeared since Saturday. “He told his little sister that their mother died in an accident. And the last time he spoke to them was on Sunday. On Monday, he allegedly visited the Odza neighborhood house, but his brothers and sisters were no longer there,” our source reports.
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