Life is such
that once in a while as we live it, we cross boundaries. However, if the status
quo were to be maintained, then we would normally make fines payable with money
and reserve beer for socializing.
Nonetheless,
a Traditional Council in Cameroon has made a name for itself by imposing three crates
of beer as a fine on a woman who is said to have fought with an alleged “mistress”
of her husband`s. The Council in
question is the Kurume Traditional Council in Konye Sub Division of Meme
Division.
According to
the report which was carried in The Post
newspaper, Women of the Council were the ones who imposed the fine on the woman
for fighting the other woman. Her husband is said to have been fined seven
crates of beer, making it a total of 17 crates.
Our source
points out that such fines had been registered elsewhere in the same Sub Division,
one of them being that of a young man who was fined 10 crates of beer for
stealing a cat. The young man, the paper said, bailed himself with his cocoa
farm. According to the account, the fine imposed on the latter was an implementation
of a decision elders of Dikomi village had earlier taken with a view to
stamping out stealing in the village. According to the decision, anyone caught
stealing was to be fined ten crates of beer.
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