Olive Ejang Tebug Ngoh
16 June 2008
The 1st Deputy Mayor of Kumba I Council, Gerald Otang Taku, and the publisher of Chronicle newspaper, Eric Motumbu, will soon answer charges of defamation.
The Divisional Delegate for Secondary Education, Meme, Stephen Sube Keme, has sued both for what he considered damaging reports against his person.The Post learnt that Otang had, in a 15-page petition to the Minister of Secondary Education in 2007, accused the Delegate of embezzling FCFA 1 million being PTA funds of the newly created GSS Kumba Mbeng.
Otang and 17 others, including three councillors of the Kumba I Council, Joseph Ebai Ashu, Hans Ebai Agbor and Christopher Ayuk Ebai, faulted Sube for what they termed tribalism.
The signatories called for the immediate investigation and sanction of the Delegate.
According to Sube, besides the petition, he has evidence that Otang masterminded several blasphemy publications in Chronicle, a local tabloid, against his personality."He even went as far as calling my wife an ugly wife. This is most terrible," the Delegate exclaimed.
The Post learnt that the Delegate has also sued the Chronicle publisher for publishing the said articles.Going by Sube, in spite of the damaging petition and newspaper publications, he gave Otang enough time to apologise, but Otang snubbed him.
He equally stated that if Otang had written a rejoinder on the malicious articles, he would have dropped the case.
Meantime, The Post has learnt that the Mayor of Kumba I Council, Prince Ekale Mukete, has also dragged Otang and the publisher of The Detective, Francis Ndengu Epie, to court for defamation.
According to Ekale, Otang used The Detective and made declarations to sully his image.
Ekale said the faulty declarations were meant to cause chaos amongst party militants and council personnel.
Although Otang did not refute the charges, he, however, said they are a ploy against his political image.He said Sube has not opened the forum or created an enabling environment for dialogue. He declared that he wanted to sue Sube, but he was advised against it.
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