Former SDF mayor arrested for swindling Council funds

Stanislaus Sofa, former SDF mayor for Tubah council was on Tuesday, November 4, arrested for alleged embezzlement of council funds. He was arrested alongside the council engineer, Chick Jeh Emmanuel. The two were by press time Thursday detained at the Bamenda central prison where they are awaiting trial.

Both men will have to face charges on the embezzlement of 46MFCFA during Sofa’s tenure as Tubah Mayor. The money, reports say, was building permit levies not paid into the council’s coffers.

“We, the Councilors, set up a committee and investigated the amount the council engineer and former mayor, Stanislaus Sofa, raised from the building permit fee and it stands at over 46MFCFA,” a councilor told the Journal.

Besides the 46MFCFA racket, the duo are currently being interrogated over another missing 26MFCFA which the mayor claimed was used to transfer furniture from the former council base to the new chambers.

In the last Tubah council evaluation meeting, the councilors were flabbergasted when Nguele Nguele Felix, Mezam SDO, suspended the committee from investigating the 26MFCFA scandal. To this day, councilors in Tubah are still wondering how files and a few items could be moved for 26 MFCFA over a distance of less than a kilometer.

It’s worth noting that the SDF investiture committee was rather in favour of Stanislaus Sofa who was floored by the incumbent mayor. SDF councilors had overwhelmingly voted Martin Tanjong as Tubah mayor in defiance of orders from Fru Ndi and the SDF investiture committee that Sofa be retained.