Senator Nfor Tabetando George Ndiep-Nso last week in Mamfe stunned the Manyu public when he descended on both knees crying and begging the armed separatists in the bushes to drop their guns and give peace a chance.
By Essan-Ekoninyam in Mamfe
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| Senator Nfor Tabetando on his knees begging amba boys |
“I took their numbers, I called them to drop their weapons and leave the bushes for peace to return… but they would not listen to me…,” said Tabetando on his knees and who suddenly burst out crying.
The Senator’s theatricals were captured in a video that went viral on social media.
Nfor Tabetando who is also the traditional ruler of Bachuo-Ntai village in Mamfe Central subdivision of Manyu division, invoked the ancestors of Manyu, including E.T. Egbe, Pa Effiom, S.A George, A.D Mengot, Nfor Arrey etc urging them to rise up from their graves and talk their sons in the bushes not to destroy Manyu.
Whilst still on his knees and crying, Nfor Tabetando was joined on stage by the paramount chief of Mamfe, Dr Godson Oben and the Mayor of Mamfe, Ayuk Takunchong, who later helped the Senator up on his feet again.
Commentators wasted no time to wonder what might have pushed His Royal Highness the Senator to go down on his knees before his own subjects talk less of crying and shedding tears in public like a woman.
“The theatrics would have been hilarious were it not so ludicrous, farcical and laughable,” remarked Ekinneh Agbaw-Ebai in a reaction on Facebook, after the video of the drama went viral on social media. Ekinneh wondered if it was the ‘cry die’ of the ‘slaughtered’ Manyu sons and daughters that Nfor Tabetando was presiding over in Mamfe.
To Ekinneh, the town hall theatrics by Nfor Tabetando, Nfor Godson Oben and ‘the suit-wearing Mayor Takunchung’ was a ‘cheap publicity stunt’ and a defamation of royalty by the traditional Kings of Bachuo and Mamfe.
“Rather than kneel down in public to beg the ambazonia fighters to come out of the bushes, the trio should go to their paymaster, Paul Biya and beg him to withdraw his soldiers from ambazonia, instead of wasting precious time pretending that they are concerned about the welfare of Manyu people……”
“Where have they been these past three years when Yaounde launched the most grotesque campaign of human savagery and barbarism against Manyu people?” Ekinneh questioned further, at once extrapolating that “now that elections have been announced, they want to make us believe that they love Manyu people…It is sheer hypocrisy which stinks to the high heavens.”
In another reaction on Facebook, Ossing London regretted that “we don’t have chiefs anymore in Manyu.”
Recalling the days of Chief Mbeng Besong of Mamfe and Chief S.A Arrey of Ossing, London noted that what Manyu has today as chiefs are ‘clowns’.
“We don’t need their tears. We can handle our issues,” he said.
In yet another reaction, Peter Eta Ita noted “What ignominy! This is no time for humorless drama and unfunny theatrics. These people represent everything that is wrong with Manyu people and they are the incarnation of the Anglophone problem…”
Eta described the three actors as “old spineless lickspittle that will not yield to change and give way to a more forward-thinking leadership…”
To Thimothy Keyaka, the drama simply ‘ludicrous’, while for Manyo Bernard Besong it was ‘incredible’
As for Tabe Kingsley, the actors should have taken the stage to the Mamfe Park junction where they would have attracted a bigger audience.
Meanwhile, Ayukachuo Takor described the drama as “a poorly rehearsed comedy,” noting that the actors had simply inscribed their names in the history books of shame.
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