I've read a number of articles on this, and all said that he was tortured and murdered, with one being more specific than the others as to the findings:
1) several arms/legs broken,
2) not a drop of water in his lungs, indicating that he was dead before he hit the water,
3) signs of torture on the body,
4) his genitals hacked off.
Obviously (do I even have to say it?), #4 points directly to "he stood up against homosexuals in the Church and the priesthood."
My God, what courage this Bala and his friend, Monsignor Essomba!
“Come, Lord Jesus, Come.”
Jean Marie Benoit Bala, may you be this day in paradise and pray for us all.