Since the beginnings of this
month, at least six of such related incidents have been recorded, with the
latest being the death of David Mayebi, former Vice President of the Cameroon
football federation last Sunday.
It all began in Buea on May
4 when a driver working at the construction site of the Molyko Omnisport
Stadium saw life snuffed out of him when a heavy-duty automobile collapsed on
him.
The incident occurred just in front of the stadium with the driver
suffocating under the weight of an excavator. This incident had gone almost
unnoticed as it wasn’t widely reported in the mainstream media.
Just two days later, another
incident hit the headlines. It was in the evening of Friday 6 May when news
broke that one time Indomitable Lions player, Patrick Claude Ekeng Ekeng, had
been pronounced clinically dead two hours after he collapsed during a Romanian
league game.
Ekeng had been on the field
of play just for about seven minutes when he suddenly slumped backwards around
the centre circle.
Players and match officials rushed to his rescue before
ushering in medical staff who opted to transport him by an ambulance service
which was later sanctioned by Romanian officials for lack of appropriate
medical equipment.
Just when Cameroonians were
still struggling to come to terms with the tragic death of Ekeng which evoked
sad memories of the Marc-Vivien Foe incident in 2003, another bombshell broke
just two days later (on May 8).
A female keeper of FC of Ebolowa, Jeanine
Christelle Djomnang, took ill while training with team mates ahead of a women’s
league match but shockingly died while being transported to hospital same day.
Djomnang had reportedly complained of chest pain before the game she had to
play against Louvre MINPROFF of Yaounde. Curiously, she died aged 26, just like
Ekeng.
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