"They [the killers] forced their way into the house… shot my baby who was sleeping while I was in the kitchen. I begged them not to… they did that… I place a curse on them for doing this to my child… these tears am shedding will not go in vain," a woman believed to be the baby's mother could be heard saying in video snippets viral on social media.

Cameroon's renowned lawyer and political leader,  Barrister Akere Muna has joined others to condemn the atrocious act of killing an innocent child "in a country where some lives do not matter".

He laments: "Can the shooting of a 4-month-old baby make any sense? That just happened some hours ago in Muyuka today May 20. That is what we have become, a country where some lives do not matter. A country in which a baby receives capital punishment for a live it still has to live. BARBARIC!"

Frontline opposition leader,  Edith Kah Walla has been inconsolable since the news broke.

"It is beyond all comprehension. A baby? A baby? What possible threat could the baby have posed? How do you mistake a baby for anything other than a baby? Under what circumstances does a person, even in the height of madness, shoot a baby? It is too much," Kah Walla sobs.

Prince Michael Ngwese Ekosso, National President of the United Socialist Democratic Party (USDP) has not been indifferent to the killing and calls on all Cameroonians to stand up against such evil.

"We cannot keep silent anymore!" he thundered.

"Shooting at a baby of four-month-old in Muyuka today, 20th May, 2019 is the worst part of this senseless war," Ekosso says.

The opposition leader calls on Cameroonians all over the world to stand up to condemn the violence going on in the North West and South West regions, describing it as "barbaric".

Councillor at the Buea Council and member of the Cameroon Bar Association, Barrister Sichui John Kameni says the "gruesome act is sacrilegious. The proponents of such acts should suffer from divine disaster."

The whaling has been general. Sports Journalist Njie Enow took to twitter to pour out his tears. "No! No! No! No child, talk less of a baby, should be  killed no matter what especially not on this day! Every life matters!"

"May the ghost of that 4-month-old baby shot in Muyuka yesterday haunt its killers for eternity. Sheer wickedness," journalist Mundi Herman weeps.

Muyuka subdivision has been a laboratory for violence since the Anglophone crisis turned into an armed conflict. Rev. Fr. Nougi Alexander Sob is known to have been brutally shot dead in the area. Several other gruesome images of killings have emerged from the town that sandwiches Buea and Kumba, respectively the political and economic capitals of the English-speaking South West region.

Cameroon's security forces in the area have since been battling armed men fighting for the restoration of the independence of a country they call Ambazonia.

Human Rights groups have urged both belligerent parties to sue for a bilateral ceasefire and engage in peace talks.