Too soon to die:

Nfon V.E Mukete cheats death at 99

Nfon V.E Mukete

The Traditional leader and veteran politician (Senator) suffered a malaise whilst participating at a workshop in a Limbe Hotel, on Thursday 14 October 2017. It took the prompt intervention of a seasoned medic to resuscitate the Patriarch.

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba

Senator Nfon Victor Esseminsongo Mukete, Paramount Ruler of the Bafaws will certainly live to celebrate his 100th birthday before quitting the stage. This seems to be what God has planned for the senior statesman and patriarch.

            This was the conclusion drawn by eyewitnesses of the scene that occurred at a popular Hotel in Limbe on Thursday, when they watched how Nfon Mukete slowly but surely regained his consciousness, after suffering an otherwise fatal malaise.

            The Patriarch was participating at a seminar-workshop on Land Use Management, jointly organized by SWELA and the Limbe Urban Council, when suddenly he slumped and started bleeding profusely. It took the prompt and masterly intervention of Veteran Medic, Chief Dr. Godson Oben, to save the life of the Nfon.

            Eyewitnesses said Dr. Oben performed with success, mouth-to-mouth cardio-vascular resuscitation on Pa Mukete, whom some bystanders at the scene had already written off, at least in their minds.

            Pa Mukete was later moved to the reanimation unit of the Limbe regional Hospital, we learned.

            It was not immediately clear what caused the malaise, but observers suspected it might have been due to a vain rupture, giving the profuse bleeding.

            Pa Mukete returned from the USA only recently, where he had gone for routine medical check.

Paramount ruler of the Bafaw people of Meme division,         Nfon V. E. Mukete is a former Minister of the NigerianFederation, a former Board Chairman of the CDC, sole owner of the Mukete Plantations PLC and the eldest sitting member at the Cameroon Senate.

            A father of uniquely boy children, several of them successful and outstanding, Senator Nfon V.E. Mukete is considered today somewhat of a living encyclopedia on the history of Cameroon’s political evolution. He was not only an eyewitness but also a front row actor of the Reunification process and especially the Foumban Conference.

            Pa Mukete will turn 100 next year (a full century years), and many including we of this newspaper, are praying hard and waiting anxiously for that historic day when his centenary birthday will be celebrated.

            For now, we can only join all others in intense prayers for a speedy recovery of Senator Nfon Victor Esseminsongo Mukete.