Cameroon Tribune, Friday, March 11, 1988
In his hey-day, Mr. Epee "was a young man with hot blood," and even at middle-age the blood was still full of steam. So was it at Kuke-Mbono in Mbonge are of Meme Division at about 3 a.m. early February when Mr. Epee was still asleep.
He was probably passing through a wet-dream when the hot blood caused his penis to come on, and he turned on his bed and went back to sleep but for how long could he sleep again when a famished male cat perceived up-and-down movements. Hop 1, the cat, pounced on Mr. Epee's sex organ, with uncanny precision.
The cat was going to pluck off the man's penis, when Mr. Epee awoke in pain, but the damage had been done the man's scrotum containing two oval testes were already crushed and the penis seriously injured. He died shortly afterwards.
The following evening found a town crier moving around the village with a gong warning all males against sleeping naked, in spite of the intense heat.
Elsewhere in the same Mbonge area, a labourer chopped off his master's sex organ over non-payment of wages.
The man had worked in his master's farm and even though he repeatedly asked to be paid his due, there was no satisfactory response.
Sharpening his cutless well, he awaited an opportunity to kill his master, which came on evening early February.
Pa was going to a stream to have a bath at about 5 p.m. and the killer stalked him. He had rubbed soap lather on his body and as he stooped to throw water on his old frame, his swinging sex organ was grabbed and immediately cut off by the worker.
"As you no wan pay me, take your thing chop." And he threw it to the man's face. The farmer was alive for about 30 minutes to narrate the horror, but the worker after telling the story to a former neighbor, melted into thin air.
NDENGU Francis