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Cameroon: Fru Ndi Barred From Speaking At Ngwasiri's Burial
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The Post (Buea)
1 May 2008
Posted to the web 1 May 2008
Peterkins Manyong
Buea
SDF National Chairman, John Fru Ndi, was Friday, April 25, prevented from speaking at the burial of Professor Clement Ngwasiri.
Equally barred from speaking was Margaret Nyah, representative of the Alliance of Progressive Forces, APF.Barrister Ben Muna, AFP Chairman, was reportedly out of the country on the day of the burial.
All current MPs of The Social Democratic Front (SDF) were absent, but for former MPs like Paulinus Jua, Lucas Tasi Ntang and Aaron Neba. The Post gathered that the decision to bar Fru Ndi from making a speech was taken due to the conflict that exists between the SDF, APF, and a press report predicting a clash between Fru Ndi and Muna during the late professor's funeral.
To avoid any further misunderstanding, even Rtd. Justice Nyo Wakai, a Co-SDF founding father, decided not to speak. He mandated someone else to talk on his behalf.This restriction notwithstanding, Professor Ephraim Ngwafor, Ngwasiri's schoolmate in London, described his late mate as a genius.
'So intelligent was he that he was able to do, in four days, an assignment scheduled for two weeks,' he said. After their studies, continued Ngwafor, it was Ngwasiri who advised that they return and work for their country. Ngwasiri, he said, was a patriot.
As though to mock Ngwasiri's political enemies, Ngwafor advised the departed Ngwasiri, jokingly, neither to shy away from politics nor be founder of any political party when he gets to Heaven.
Fru Ndi, whom the press later spoke to, recalled that Ngwasiri reconciled with him long before his death. He described Ngwasiri's death as a great loss to Cameroon politics and to his Bamendankwe village in particular in Mezam Division.
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Late Ngwasiri joined the university corps in 1980. Before his death he had resigned from politics after the controversy that surrounded his declared takeover of the SDF, the two conventions that held in Bamenda and Yaounde on May 26, 2006, resulting to clashes between the two SDF factions that left one dead.
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