Ndom, Cameroons: the dilemma of a Bassa witchdoctor

“For what I am going to do will return and affect you, if ever, it turns out that, you were just speculating or was just out right lying. I will therefore advice you to go back and examine the facts and also talk things out with your wife. She is your wife and you can win her back”. The witchdoctor told the headmaster and concluded his presentation. But it seems the last speech or explanations from the witchdoctor, ignited inspiration within the headmaster and he replied to the witchdoctor: “my wife doesn’t even allow me talk to her any more, since she started going out with Nguelemedouga. And now, you are asking me to go and talk with her”. “How will I start?” The primary school headmaster asked the witchdoctor. “Whom are you really talking about?” The witchdoctor asked and he continued: “Is it the Sub District Officer of Nyanon that, I know and who is causing you all this anguish and pains?” The witchdoctor asked the headmaster in utter surprised. For the witchdoctor knew Nguelemedouga very well, because, he had for a short while officiated as one of the Nguelemedouga’s many witchdoctors.

Nguelemedouga has the habit of consulting many witchdoctors and spirit mediums in his search of mystical powers. But he never knew and could never I margined that Nguelemedouga who seem to love and admired his wife and do pummelled him throughout his many passages for demonic spiritual powers, with stories of his family and God, would get into an extra marital affair that may cause his life. Nguelemedouga besides his obsession for magical powers, seem an ideal husband. He always spoke about his wife and his children in particular about Risdoh. The witchdoctor of Ndom, whose father was also a witchdoctor, claimed to have prepared the amulets that helped Um Nyobe Ruben, the political and military leader of the Union of the People of Cameroon or UPC to elude the French and late President Ahamadou Ahidjo’s military campaigns, until he was betrayed by late Bishop Mongo, was now in a dilemma. What will he do to Nguelemedouga who was his former client, should the headmaster of Nyanon, his current client, asks him to kill him (Nguelemedouga)?

How an adulterous proud French expatriate ended his life in Cameroon

But the proud French expatriate, who had been forewarned by the witch doctor to steer-clear from his wife, did not enjoy his conquest. For the day that, he took his car, in which, there was the wife of the witch doctor, it was the beginning of his brutal end. He took the wife of the witch doctor for a romantic weekend trip to the coastal holyday resort town of Kribi, and on the way, the French expatriate had a fatal accident along the Edea– Kribi section of the highway. But mysteriously, the wife of the witch doctor, who was the mistress of the White French expatriate, was extracted from the mangled car alive. The accident was the handy work of the witch doctor. And this happened because, in Bassaland, you can do anything or everything, but you don’t play with a married woman. When the headmaster of the primary school of Nyanon explained his ordeal to the witch doctor, they all understood the pains, the frustration and above all, the humiliations that happened to any man whose wife had left him for another man or a man who had a wife who was boldly cheating on him with another man. But the witch doctor asked the headmaster: “are you sure that what you are telling me is not just the fruit of jealousy or speculations, that is caused by jealousy?” “Yes, I am sure of what I am telling you”. The headmaster replied. “And what do you want me to do, to the man who is causing you pains?” The witch doctor asked. And he continued: “I am asking you this question because, I am working with the devil. And all what I do ask him; positive of negative, he does deliver. He is not like the God of Christians”. The witch doctor added. The headmaster was startled and was out of words. He paused and lifted his head up vaguely, as though he wanted to count the number of stars in the sky. As the headmaster was still thinking what to offer the witch doctor as response, the witch doctor added: “the devil is like God, he doesn’t entertain lie telling”.

The revenge of the Primary school head master

What happened to Nguelemedouga at the party organised by Cappolytree to celebrate his parliamentary victory was a warning that he ignored. He kept going out with the wife of the headmaster of the primary school of Nyanon. The cheated headmaster could not do anything to stop his wife from continuing her amorous affair with Nguelemedouga. And the headmaster decided that, the ultimate solution to end the humiliation was to kill Nguelemedouga, the insolent representative of the state. But how will the headmaster carry out his revenge? Will he use his machete or will he use his hunting gun to gun down Nguelemedouga in broad daylight like a game? Or will he employ mystical means? If yes, will it work on Nguelemedouga, a man who had many amulets and who also consulted regularly a number of juju priests and witch doctors? The headmaster had made up his mind and he decided to go and consult a witch doctor who was residing at Ndom. He and the witch doctor had the same problem. The witch doctor had a very beautiful wife, who was loved and admired by several top ranking civil servants posted to work in Ndom. But his wife left him for white French agricultural technician posted to the Sanaga maritime division and had a stint in Ndom and the only thing he could take away as souvenir was the wife of the witch doctor.