It can be qualified as an escape story. Gun men pulled their triggers everally, just as Prof. Elvis Ngolle Ngolle stepped out of his home and was about boarding his car to go and vote in Tombel. Then, from nowhere, unseen gun men opened fire. They sprayed bullets for about three minutes. Even Prof. Ngolle’s own driver dived for cover. All other persons in the former forestry minister’s home scampered into safe corners as bullets flew to from unknown directions.
Thanks to the very tall walls enclosing the Ngolle home, some blood would have been spilled in the compound.
“We praise God for our survival. But it is thanks to the walls of the fence that the bullets failed to hit us,” said a survivor who spoke to TheVoice newspaper last night from Tombel.
“This must be a targeted attack”, another man concurred. “Generally, there were no reports of gun shots today in Tombe. But someone is actually targeting Minister Ngolle Ngolle. Some people are settling scores”.
“Look”, he added. “We had been warned a few days ago that the Prof. should be extremely careful because there is a plot to hit him in a terrible way. In fact the security source actually said there a “petite montage”, said. “Now I believe the informant.”
Asked of what was the reaction of the men and women who were inside the compound at the time of the attack a lady eyewitness said “everyone had to take cover, even the minister.”
“The bullets could not get into the compound because of the long tall wall surounding the property. We could have been casualties today” she said.
Many are asking, was there a security breach somehow? How could the gun men come so close to the former minister’s home with the well publicised extra security measures that had reported been put in place? Perhaps an investigation into the drama could pluck the answers from the wind.
