Error or deliberate?

Okie Johnson installed as NW charge de mission

-Okie Johnson Ndoh from Nguti subdivision in KupeMuanenguba Division of the South West region was on Wednesday installed as charge de mission of the NW regional delegation of the CPDM party. Paradoxically, Okie’s native Nguti subdivision has no representative in either the SW regional delegation or the KupeMuanenguba divisional delegation.

By Ojong Steven Ayukogem in Yaounde

Okie Johnson Ndoh: Will he cope

working as a stranger in the NW

At first it was believed to be an error that would be immediately corrected. But following the installation of the regional and divisional delegations of the North West by CPDM Scribe, Jean Kuete, last Wednesday, it is now understood that Okie Johnson Ndoh will serve as charge de mission of the NW permanent regional delegation until President Biya signs another decision replacing him with an indegene of the North West region.

                 Intriguingly, senior public administrator and state inspector will be serving the CPDM in the North West region even as his native Nguti subdivision in the South West has been completely left out in the appointments of regional and divisional delegates of the region.

                Analysts note that this is a cause for real frustration and bitterness for the Nguti people, who have not missed any opportunity to complain about the suppression, humiliation and marginalization they are subjected to, in a Bakossi-dominated KupeMuanenguba division.

                It should be pointed out that ever since KupeMuanenguba division was carved out in 1993 there is no road linking Nguti either to the divisional headquarters Bangem or the metropolitan town of Tombel. This situation makes it such that whenever KupeMuanenguba division is mentioned any where, what first comes to mind is that it is the land of the Bakossi people. And this only leaves the Nguti people more frustrated and emasculated.

                The frustration of the Nguti people is all the more because in the distribution of political positions among the 58 divisions in the country, Yaounde has always given all the lucrative positions meant for KupeMuanenguba division to the majority Bakossi people. The two ministers from KupeMuanenguba, Ngole Philip Ngwese and Elung Paul are both of Bakossi extraction; the Senator Mrs. NtubeNjock is Bakossi; the Coordinator of the CPDM Academy, Prof. Elvis NgolleNgolle is Bakossi, the CPDM politbureau member who doubles as board chair of Sonara, Hon. John EbongNgole is Bakossi, and you can name them on end.

                That is why when president Biya’s decision appointing CPDM permanent delegates was published, informed observers of KupeMuanenguba politics said it was no surprise that Nguti was again completely forgotten.

                The observers wondered if Okie Johnson Ndoh, Hon. Clara Eyabi (the MP for Nguti), Mrs. Sally Vega (the alternate senator), Dr. AtemEbako, Solomon Tatah and many others are not qualified to be in the regional or divisional delegations in the SW.

                Observers suspect the hidden hand of some SW CPDM bigwigs in this sidelining of Nguti. They fear that some enemies of KupeMuanenguba division in the CPDM Central Committee, perhaps out of sheer jealousy and envy for the team spirit and harmony demonstrated by the two ministers of the division, and the privilege attention that president Biya now pays to the division especially with the appointment of two the ministers, apart from the pioneer Coordinator of the CPDM Academy, from the division, worked out an evil plan to leave out Nguti from the list of permanent delegates.

                “They want us to turn our backs against President Biya and vote the opposition in the upcoming elections, but that will not happen”.