According to open sources, the one who led his peers to fight for a breakaway state called Ambazonia was crushed by soldiers in Mkpot village, a precinct in Eyumojock Subdivision.

“General Obi Wilfred Obi of Mkpot Village, Commander of Manyu Ghost Warriors, was hit by a CARINA E vehicle belonging to soldiers on Friday, June 19, 2020,” Cameroon News Agency reported. “He was being followed after he attended a funeral. He left on a motorbike; eight of the soldiers were inside two of the cars. One car hit him around a hill called Eyang, Ashum village in Manyu division. They stepped down and hit him severally before he gave up the ghost. His bike was set on fire. There was no exchange of gunshots.”

Obi is said to be the second Ambazonia “General” killed after attending a funeral ceremony, the first being “General” Amigo in Boyo Division neutralised on his way from a funeral.

Obi is believed to have been behind the killing of one of the drivers of late Mamfe Mayor Ashu Prisley Ojong. The driver was shot and killed at Eyang by armed men, Wednesday May 6, 2020.

On May 10, armed separatists shot a bullet through the head of Mamfe Mayor Ojong. Authorities said he was “murdered in cold blood by a group of secessionist terrorists in an ambush laid by these criminals, surprisingly at a time when they are rather expected to be laying down their weapons as it has been announced persistently by numerous facilitators.”

“Indeed, the now late Mayor was on his way to a scheduled meeting at Eshobi village, some eight kilometers from Mamfe town. He received a bullet on the head fired by the enemy using an automatic weapon of the AK47 brand and died on the spot. In the same vein, two elements of the defense forces who were escorting the Mayor were also severely wounded and immediately rushed to the Mamfe District Hospital for emergency medical assistance,” said Bernard Okalia Bilai, Governor of the South-West region.

It is not known if Obi was the one who led the assassination. But in the wake of the murder of the Mayor, traditionalists in the area activated their magical powers against the armed groups. They warned that armed separatists and their accomplices were going to die if they failed to repent.