It was at around 1pm today 31 May, that His Lordship Jean Marie Benoit Balla's car was found by the Ebebda river bridge.

The Senior Divisional Officer of Mbam and Inoubou, Tchoffo Maurice explains that, a priest of that locality was the one who saw and recognised the Bishop's car by 1pm before calling his attention even though the Shepard of the Bafia diocesan religious flock had gone missing since morning.

When people learnt about the incident, they went there to see for themselves what had happened. Unfortunately for the blood bubbling population, their presence at the scene rather added their confusion as they didn't understand if the Bishop was dead or not.

The reason for the confusion is a piece of paper that was seen in the car, on which was written "I'm in the water", insinuating that Bishop Benoit had jumped into the water.

It's still not clear if the man of God is dead or not. Even if he were dead, it will still not be clear if he commited suicide or not. So investigations are going on to really know what happened.

48-year old Bishop Jean Marie has been the Bishop of Bafia since 2003.