NW paramount fons create council to check NOWEFU excesses

Following the waywardness and excesses of some fons of the North West region who are using the Fons’ Union, NOWEFU, to get rich by night, dragging the region’s traditional institution into mud, all the five paramount fons of the region have unprecedentedly launched a council to check the excesses of the union’s leaders.

The Council for the Consolidation of National Unity, CCNU, received the administrative blessings of the governor of the North West region, Adolf Lele Lafrique, last Monday November 3 at Ayaba hotel.

During the launching ceremony, the program director of CCNU, Emmanuel Neba Fuh said the CCNU which has as members the council of elders of NOWEFU, will help check the alarming excesses of some NOWEFU members who have continued to drag North West traditional institutions into the mud unperturbed.

He equally stated that the initiative is aimed at helping Cameroonians to start seeing the good intentions of the architects of reunification so that together they can overcome colonial mental enslavement which has kept them divided between Francophones and Anglophones.

In a country surrounded by unbridled turbulence and with emergence hoped for 2035, Emmanuel Neba explained that CCNU strongly believes that lingering secessionist threats in Anglophone Cameroon “is a public health problem which is not different from the harm of tuberculosis, malaria or HIV/AIDS.” He opined that if the process or the pattern which leads to conflicts and fragility is identifiable, then it has to be prevented and as such Cameroonians have a moral responsibility to invest in prevention.

For their part, the fons observed that in contributing to Cameroon’s march towards the 2035 emergence status, CCNU has carried out a high level independent inquiry into the root causes of the Anglophone problem in Cameroon. This was in a bid to assist the government access strong independent analysis in order to facilitate better informed and more evidence-based policy decisions towards national integration.

The five-man executive of the council comprises the five paramount (first class) fons of the region. They are: Fon Angwafor II of Mankon, vice president; Fon Doh Gahnyongha of Bali, Secretary General; Fon Abumbi of Bafut, Treasurer; Fon Sehm Mbinglo I of Nso and Financial Secretary; Fon Yuh Vincent of Kom.