Destituted “Nwerong” Guards Under Gendarme Probe After Clash With Nso Fon

By Shey Wirba

At least eight (8) care-takers of the house hosting the dreaded “Nwerong” secret society in Nso-land are in trouble. Last weekend, Chronicle gathered that the Nso population had been at odds with the postulations of these secret cult sentinels. Chronicle was told that Nso people took sides with Fon Sehm Mbinglo, following a decision to distant self from the “Nwerong” house guardians. According to a source, because the destituted could not come to terms with the Fon’s rebuke, they issued a communiqué. Its implications, Chronicle has been told, have been manifold, igniting the intervention of the State Counsel for Kumbo and gendarmerie security officials.

By press time, Chronicle gathered that the 8 alleged to have threatened the life of the Fon had been summoned for questioning at the gendarmerie. Accordingly, the manner in which they protested the Fon’s caution was seen as an aberration.

A source at the Nso Fon’s palace hinted Chronicle that Fon Sehm Mbinglo had just been realistic to state that it was amiss for those guarding the “Nwerong” house to come to the palace on a daily basis and spend all day long there. Accordingly, Fon Sehm Mbinglo is quoted to have been categoric that the guardians instead go do farm work and report to the “Nwerong” house only when there is a serious situation.

Irked by the Fon’s frankness, Chronicle gathered that some eight (8) of them wrote a disclaimer, in which they claimed their Fon had driven them. Accordingly, they posited that because their Fon had allegedly joined the CPDM, accounts for why he has now become funny.

When information about the strain in the relationship between the Nso fon and his supposed Nwerong protectors reached security officials, Chronicle learnt that it became an issue; that following instructions from the State Counsel, the eight had been summoned to report to the gendarmerie brigade for interrogations. Chronicle learnt that they have to be quizzed for threats to react violently and disrupt public order. It is even common knowledge in Kumbo that those affected have threatened fire and brimstone as a strategy to resist/detest their destitution as Nwerong palace guards.

The waywardness of the Nwerong guards is what Chronicle has been told the Nso population is bent to defend their Fon. Varied questions as to whether Nwerong guards belong/own the palace have been raised.

One of the Nwerong guards confided in Chronicle on grounds of anonymity that having made Fon Sehm Mbinglo what he is today as great they cannot quit uncompensated. Chronicle further learnt that the destituted are actually those who command traditional values/norms of Nso. That having catapulted Fon Sehm Mbinglo to that acme it becomes an aberration for him to disown them.

Fon Sehm Mbinglo appears to be the most clairvoyant Fon, Nso ever had. Chronicle is aware that he mingles with all sheds. He leads the Nwerong and Nguri secret societies in Nso land. It is believed that having had a mastery of Nso culture and tradition, he is aware and shies away from the traps that led his predecessors to their graves.

Within Nso-land, Fon Sehm Mbinglo is hailed for his level-headedness and leadership trappings. He stands as the best Fon Nso people ever had, despite his present unconvincing adherence to the ruling CPDM. For those who know him, they qualify his stand as purely strategic. He is considered as a man who acclaims merits; reason why though Njong Donatus is SDF Mayor, the Fon has seldom been heard castigating his trappings.