Man to Face Trial Over Gas Bottle

Twenty-five years old Massoda Ma Yon Jean Marcel is currently being grilled by Ndog-bati gendarme officers after being found possessing a gas bottle said to have been stolen.

According to Friday's interrogation, Massoda is liable to be charged as the case is due for court this week.

It was on July 25, 2012, about 10:30 a.m. that Jacqueline N., a widow at Cacao-Barry neighbourhood in Douala, found that the bottle of gas she bought two days ago had been taken away. A source revealed that she had just cooked the soup and had retreated to her sitting room to get ready some rice to complement her "Mbongo'o" soup. The swift and terrifying episode ensued just before her grandchildren she instructed to cleanse up the kitchen (internal) could go to work. In a seemingly well calculated move, Massoda reportedly sneaked in, cut off the tube and quietly made away with the bottle.

"It was just about 8 minutes I left the kitchen that my grandchildren discovered that the gas bottle was taken away," the widow fumed.

As was still lamenting her cause, a passer-by reported having just seen a young man with a bucket on his head with something tall standing in it but covered with a piece of cloth. Following his description and direction, they soon found the booty in one of the corners of Massoda's residence. Both the quarter head and gendarmes picked up Massoda, whose later testimony is the cause of his being transferred to court.