About five hundred meters from where she was acquitted, about a year ago, by the military tribunal in the North West Regional capital of Bamenda, Ms. Aso’o Belinda was transported by the Ambulance service of Doctors Without Borders to St. Mary’s hospital opposite Sacred Heart College Mankon.
The Voice gathered that the same lawyer, who was responsible for Ms. Aso’o’s acquittal from the charges of terrorism, arson and destruction of the Women’s Empowerment Center of Bamenda, was the same conscientious Good Samaritan Citizen who called the attention of Doctors without Borders to the plight of this vulnerable and handicapped Cameroonian. This lawyer is Barrister Joseph Fru.
Contacted by telephone, Barrister Joseph Fru lamented despondently:
I was transfixed by the skeletal phantom silhouette of Ms. Aso’o. The system in all its facets failed Ms. Aso’o woefully – the Justice system, the Educational system and the Health system. Every society is judged by the care or lack thereof of its vulnerable population, the old handicapped, women, children and the poor.
I am eternally grateful to the humanitarian and supremely professional response, behavior and concrete actions of the wonderful staff of Doctors Without Borders. I really wish that the authorities that be will follow up with Ms. Aso’o and not allow her to fall through the cracks again.
On lookers at the scene at Up station Custom’s check point told The Voice that, Belinda was in Limbe and had returned just that morning alighting off a bus that dropped her off at customs in the terrible mood in which Barrister Fru found her.
Nobody could identify any family member, domestic partners or close friends who could be contacted to escort Ms. Aso’o in the Ambulance to the Hospital. Doctors Without Borders had to break their own procedures and protocol to transport Ms. Aso’o to the Hospital.
It is not farfetched to conclude that Ms. Aso’o is addicted to substances, and that she is a victim of sexual and physical violence and abuse.
All inquiries pointed undoubtedly to the fact that Ms. Aso’o is homeless, unemployed and hanging out around the military barracks at Up station.
Ancestral Mbomwei in Bamenda.