THE D.O WHO PRESIDED OVER THE BEHEADING OF SAMSOYA IN 2018 KICKS THE BUCKET

It was the first gruesome ISIS-style execution of a human being in French Cameroun military custody in the Anglophone Cameroon Civil war in 2018. The silence of the global community to this beheading salvo ushered in the savage killings in the now nine-year-old genocidal war. Mr. Nicolas Nkongho Machang was Assistant/acting Divisional officer for Belo Sub-Division at the time. According to a witness participant to the murder and beheading of Late Mr. Chiabah Samuel, popularly known for his jovial nature as Sam Soya, Father of 5, on February 3, 2018, Mr. Manchang ordered the execution and beheading.

“Mr. Chiabi’s confession, of ignorance, before his public execution did not go unnoticed. Some Participants to the gruesome murder truly saw his innocence, but were coerced into murdering the handicap, who could barely stand. According to one of the unwilling participants, to the ISIS-style beheading of Samsoya (name still in a time capsule), their boss was the French Cameroun’s appointed Divisional Officer (D.O) for Belo Mr. NICHOLAS NKONGHO MANCHANG. As an Assistant D.O for Fundong , interim for Belo and later D.O for Belo, Mr. NICHOLAS NKONGHO MANCHANG, knew Samsoya very well. Mr. Sam Soya was a regular supplier of Weed to most of the colonial Gerdames in Belo, under Mr. NICHOLAS NKONGHO MANCHANG. It was no secret to Belo indigenes that the Gerdames, together with some of the youths they later murdered usually enjoy their “nkuh” or marijuana under a Kola tree, well known to inhabitants of Belo and the D.O.

In order to please his masters, and the few BetiBulu militias who had descended on Belo following the killings of the colonial Gerdame, the DO Manchang did not fail to do his job as a quisling. He personally interviewed Samsoya, asking the questions that only an anglophone, familiar with the locality could. After the interrogation, and like Pontus Pilate, the D.O – a son of Kembong in the Southern Zone of British Cameroon /Ambazonia visaed the elimination of Samsoya and his friends with no remorse.

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According to our source, “if the D.O had not ordered for Samsoya’s beheading, we wouldn’t have done it. He was the top administrator of the sub-divison. He said. In a baffling mood he said, “il était anglophone et nous a donné l’ordre de les tuer. C’est terrible. (He was an anglophone and gave us orders to kill them. It’s terrible). I know maybe he was scared of a revenge if they would have been set free”. He continued. “But to take away their lives in such gruesome ways, is sickening. It drains me daily”. He wept. “I feel saddened till date about the murders. I saw innocence in Sam soya’s confessions, but he made us kill him for nothing. If I can apologize to the victims, I will”. The disturbed witness lamented. Our source’s testimony is confirmed by Samsoya’s torture video. The D.O’s power is evident when he ordered Samsoya’s assassins to “wait first” (Attendez d’abord…) during the torturing process, as evident by this torture video.(click here to read more about Samsoya and friend’s killing)

Mr. Manchang’s Passing: A Bite from the Ancestors or Natural?

Mr. Manchang was reportedly shot at closed range by unidentified gun men in Limbe on the night of 17 July 2025. He was rushed to a hospital in Douala, French Cameroun where he died on 29 July 2025. Prior to his death, he was the 2nd Assistan DO for Bamenda, where he continued to torment anglophones.

 Following the gruesome murder of at least 7 innocent children by French Cameroun soldiers at  Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy in Kumba, British Cameroons on 24 October, 2020, the women who bore the pain of pregnancy took to the streets of British Southern Cameroons on Tuesday, 27 October, 2020, to denounce the French Cameroun killing of their children. In Bamenda, the grieving mothers confronted the colonial administrators to air their frustration, but as usual, the arrogance of the colonial officers were astounding. At the premises of the Colonial Divisional Officer for Bamenda II, the women were reminded that their lives and pain was nothing to the killers of their children. The D.O, of anglophone origin, Mr. Manchang Nicolas, minced no word to defend the execution of the innocent civilians in the territory. Apart from describing the tears of the grieving mothers as hypocritical, he promised more killings, ” “Most of them who are out here today know where the boys ….are hiding, but they pretend. If we keep on pretending, we are going to register more of these incidents”. For some of the women, the genocide is a long way from abating. “This is true that for these people we are really dogs and cockroaches”, One protester confided.(click here for details)

Mr, Manchang Nicolas N, was getting ready to be the new DO of Baham in French Cameroun.

You can read and watch Samsoya’s killings here