Peterkins Manyong
23 November 2008
The General Assembly of the Northwest Fons' Union, NOWEFU, has been scheduled to take place on November 29, amidst a heated controversy.The controversy has been sparked by allegations that particular Fons have already been chosen to occupy strategic posts.
The Post learnt that a majority of the Fons have been manipulated to support the chosen few. The strategic positions are those of the President General, First Vice President, Secretary General and Treasurer.
Fon Teche Njei II of Ngien-Muwa Village in Batibo, First Vice President in the current NOWEFU executive and president of Momo Fons Union told The Post in Bamenda that the Fon of Bafmen will be President General and he was sure to retain the post he is holding. According to him, the Secretary General will be Fon Akam of Kai Village, Momo Division, who is a University of Buea lecturer.
The Treasurer, he said, will be the Fon of Nkambe, a former executive member of the defunct Northwest Fons' Conference, NOWEFCO, headed by Doh Gah Gwanyin of Balikumbat.
Asked why he sounded so sure, he boasted that out of the 260 votes to be cast, Momo Division would give 100 votes. With about 60 votes from Menchum and about 70 from Donga-Mantung, making a total of 230, the chosen candidates would carry the day.
To him, Fon Gwan Mbanyamsig of Guzang and Fon Han Anagho of Ngwo, his opponents, lacked the ability to turn the scale against him in Momo. Fon Teche, a diehard Fon Chafah supporter, vaunted that it was thanks to Momo that Fon Chafah had a landslide victory of Fon Fosi Yakumtaw during the last NOWEFU elections in 2005.
Reacting to Fon Teche's boast, a NOWEFU executive member who refused to be named, said Fon Teche's jubilation before the feast was not only based on false hopes, but was provocative. He said it was undemocratic to zone posts and worse still, announce results before elections were held. It was this attitude, he said, that has discredited Cameroon's "advanced democracy" in the eyes of the civilised world.
Commenting on the November 29 event, he predicted that it is likely to be disrupted by its very organisers who would want to impose a lone item agenda. This agenda will be elections, meaning that there will be no room for a financial report and that the suspension of Ntumfor Nico Halle as Northwest Fon's Ambassador by Fon Chafah X1, current NOWEFU President General, would not be discussed.
Our informant took exception to the manner in which the invitation to the meeting is being done. He said the Secretary General has been left out completely in the organisation and the issuing of invitation cards is raising eye brows.
Despite these shortcomings, our informant said the November 29 meeting must hold "The meeting was supposed to hold last July. It was postponed to November 8 and then to November 29.A third postponement would do irreparable damage to the image of NOWEFU," he explained.
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