Taking to social media Tuesday afternoon, Tataw said Bui Warriors, a group of gunmen loyal to U.S.-based Samuel Ikome Sako stormed P.S. Kumbo and took at least 11 teachers into captivity. Sako is President of a faction of the Ambazonia Interim Government, one of the many groups handling armed men in Cameroon's North West and South West Regions.

“The attack on one of our Presbyterian schools in Kumbo today is unacceptable,” said Eric Tataw. “Kidnapping pupils, students, and teachers isn’t an Independence Agenda.”

Tataw said following the incident Tuesday morning, he reached out to members of the Bui Warriors armed group who confirmed holding the teachers in captivity.

He said: “I’ve talked with Sako-led Bui Warriors and they confirmed keeping the teachers. I’ve asked for their immediate release. #SakoMustStop.”

“I can now confirm that the Amba boys did it. They came from a village in Kumbo called Mbulov, which happens to be one of their hideouts. They are the same group recently chased out of one of the villages after they killed an innocent man for telling them that the people do not need protection from armed separatists,” a local familiar with the incident said on grounds of anonymity, fearing reprisals.

On February 16, 2019, gunmen entered the campus of Saint Augustine's College Nso, seized 170 students, two security guards, a teacher, and three of his children, and took them into captivity. They were only freed two days later following negotiations with church officials.

Cameroon-Info.Net remembers that on November 4, 2018, armed separatists stormed Presbyterian Secondary School, P.S.S., Nkwen, and seized 79 students, the principal, a teacher, and a driver.

Tuesday’s incident at P.S. Kumbo comes exactly ten days after armed men attacked Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy Fiango, Kumba killing seven schoolchildren. At least a dozen other students were injured in the Kumba school attack.

Following the October 24 Kumba horrific school shooting, the government said it had ramped up security around schools to wade off any attack from armed separatists who have vowed to frustrate effective schooling for thousands of schoolchildren in the country’s North West and South West Regions.

Militias who want to create an independent state called Ambazonia – a geographical allusion to Cameroon’s North West and South West Regions, began to emerge in 2017 after security forces responded violently to Common Law Lawyers and Anglophone Teachers’ protests.

Ni John Fru Ndi, National Chairman of the opposition Social Democratic Front, SDF, party estimates that at least 18-armed groups are operating in the two regions.