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| The casket of slain Rev. Father .Sop Nougi being conveyed for requiem |
By Christopher Ambe, & Njeck Sylvanus*
Amongst the thousands of mourners who attended the funeral of Rev. Fr. Alexander Sop Nougi, who was murdered last July 20,in Muyuka were his “murderers”, claimed Monseigneur Bushu Immanuel, Bishop of Buea Diocese, in his homily at a requiem organized on Friday August 10 at the Regina Pacis Cathedral, in Small Soppo Buea, for the fallen priest,
Fr. Sop, 45, before
his death was the Parish Priest of Bomaka and a former Catholic Education
Secretary for Buea Diocese.
“Rev Fr. Sop was
brutally murdered and assassinated, "Bishop Bushu, who officiated the requiem
reportedly declared, adding that, “We pray for those wicked people who killed
him, some of whom are amongst us”
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But the Bishop did
not immediately buttress his claim with concrete evidence that some of Fr.Sop
Nougi’s killers were actually present at the funeral.
Mgr.Bushu urged
Christians not to be afraid of death,if they must meet God.
The Bishop dismissed
as fake rumors that Fr.Nougi had gone to Muyuka to visit his parents, noting
that his mother was in Yaounde then.
He used the occasion
to decry the unending killings in Anglophone regions during the ongoing crisis.
A July 21, 2018 autopsy
report of the slain priest was read to the mourners at the funeral mass by the Vicar
General of the Diocese of Buea, Rev. Bernard Asek and it revealed the following:
1.) Father's body
received two bullets on either sides of the chest, just around the nipple of
his breast. This means that the bullets were shot either by one person or by
two persons of the same height.
2.) The bullet on the
left side of the chest passed through his body and came out from the back,
while the bullet on the right side of the chest had no outlet behind.
3.) The point of
entry of bullet on the left side of the chest measured about 20mm in diameter.
The conclusion is that the bullets were shot at a close range of about 50 to
70cm from his chest. In fact, it was a point-blank shot which eliminates the
hypothesis of a stray bullet.
4.) The bullet shot
on the left side of the chest tore through Father's heart leaving a gaping hole
which caused instant death.
5) The nature of the
shot demonstrates that it was fired by a professional who targeted the heart
with the intention to kill. Death was instant from the first bullet.
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| Rev Father Nougi was murdered |
He added: “Finally,
the bullet received from the body, came from the shot on the right chest of
Father. We need the service of a ballistic expert to determine whether the
bullet that passed through the left side of the chest was similar to that
retrieved from the body, so as to determine whether or not it was shot by one
person.
Fr.Asek said “the
church is interested to know the person who killed Father; because of that, a
case has been established”.
But when he added
that “The judicial police have already started the proceedings’, it was greeted
with shouts of rejection by many mourners, who probably doubted if the truth
would ever be known.
Christians, friends
and colleagues while regretting the loss of Fr.Nougi, have described him as a
very refined, intelligent and committed priest.
Southwest Governor
Bernard Okalia Bilia, was represented at the funeral by the Inspector-General
of Services at the Governor’s Office, Buea
He was buried near
Regina Pacis Cathedral,Small Soppo.
Fr. Nougi was born in
1973 in Muyuka; after his high school studies, he enrolled into the Major
Seminary in Bambui in 1993. He was ordained Priest in 2005 in the Diocese of
Obala,in the Centre Region. He recently obtained a Master’s degree in Education
from the University of Buea and was a PhD student.
* Njeck Sylvanus
is a University of Buea Journalism intern.
This report is also published in The Horizon Newspaper, Cameroon August 14,2018
This report is also published in The Horizon Newspaper, Cameroon August 14,2018
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