STRANGE CAR LOSS IN KUMBA

The sudden fear that seizes someone when he or she realizes that their cell phone is missing is something that cannot be described. It is best appreciated through experience, personal experience. But it is an abrupt and thorough sensation that gives one the false impression that life has stopped short. It is very near to having a heart attack as one makes frantic movements in that moment of frenzy.

Although a car is not a phone, one can still imagine what it is like when one “misplaces” one`s car. I use the word, “misplace” advisedly because a car is a much bigger object than a phone and so would normally not be “lost” as such. What is more likely to happen is that someone parks a car somewhere and goes somewhere else and on returning, finds that the car is gone.

That is exactly what happened to the First Deputy Mayor of Kumba I Council, in Neme Division of Cameroon`s South West Region, Raphael Tanyi, recently, as reported by The Post. The paper reports that the theft happened when Councilor Tanyi parked the vehicle in the premises of St. Anthony`s Catholic Church, Buea Road and was in the church “fellowshipping”.

According to the account: “Tanyi`s vehicle was reportedly parked in the midst of three other vehicles at the esplanade of the church yard. At the end of First Mass that Sunday, when he came out he discovered that the car was nowhere to be found.”