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Fako CPDM elite, chiefs split over motion of support
- Some Fako elite joined the chiefs to question why a mtion of support to Biya when the division cannot boast of even a minister, ever since they lost the post of Prime Minister that they kept for 13 years running. The elite blamed the situation on infighting, backstabbing, blackmail, back-biting, one-man-show and dog-eat-dog politics of Fako political elite. 
By Nwo Fuanya in Limbe
Some local chiefs of Fako division on Tuesday 19 August 2015 embarrassed CPDM elite of the Division during a meeting convened to address a motion of support to President Biya following the Head of State’s 12 August decree authorizing the effective take-off of the Limbe Fisheries and Nautical school.
    The Vice President of the National Assembly, Honourable Emilia Monjowa Lifaka chaired the meeting on behalf of the political king-maker of Fako Division, Senator and Grand Chancellor Peter Mafany Musonge, who was held back in Yaounde by other important state duties.
    After Hon. Lifaka made her preliminary remarks and the floor was open for questions from the public, one of the traditional rulers, Chief Ndiko Henry Fonderson of Lower Meveo village immediately took the high table to task, first noting that the Government Delegate to the Limbe City Council, Andrew Motanga Monjimba did not acknowledge the chiefs in his scripted welcome address at the meeting. Chief Fonderson questioned whether the chiefs came to the meeting on their own volition or on the strength of the invitation that was extended to them.
    Though Honourable Emilia Lifaka immediately apologised for the oversight, Fako SDO Zang III, took time off to look through the Government Delegate’s speech to confirm the worry of the chiefs.
    Even when all was thought to be over, some of the chiefs continued fuming over the incident. They regretted that when ever it is election time, their services are sought to stuff ballot boxes, but when it is time to share the political booty, they are always completely left out.         The chiefs said this smacks of bad faith on the part of the political elite, and portrays the disdain that Fako CPDM elite have for the traditional institution in all issues of general interest in the division.

    Reacting to the worry of the chiefs, on the sidelines of the meeting one Fako elite observed that ever since  Fako Chiefs started making big money through the sale of lands surrendered by the CDC, they have become a torn in the flesh of the political elite; “some of the chiefs have become so arrogant, proud, disrespectful and boastful”.
    However, the question and answer session that followed the reading of the motion of support was cut short when one Fako elite, Ngundu Francis Mokumba, South West Regional Delegate for Secondary Education moved a motion for the question and answer session to be called-off. Ngundu said some people were asking embarrassing questions and raising issues that were inimical to the objective of the meeting. Mr. Ngundu’s motion was supported by Senator Mbella Moki Charles.
    That notwithstanding, the aggrieved chiefs were joined by some elite in lamenting that they had been hoodwinked into signing a motion of support document that was prepared in Yaounde and only presented to them to sign. They said their opinion was never sought on whether or not to address the motion of support and what its contents should be.
    “The motion of support was written, typed and printed even before the meeting; it was only brought to us in a most embarrassing manner to put our signatures on it, so as to give it the semblance of a popular and legitimate motion,” noted one of the chiefs, whose names and village we could not immediately get.
    The chiefs also picked holes with Honourable Emilia Lifaka’s opening remarks, when they said she acknowledged only CPDM elite, as if to say all Fako elite are automatically CPDM militants.
                               
Fako Division starving of a minister
    Earlier in his address, the Government Delegate to the Limbe City Council, Motanga Andrew Monjimba regretted that after having two Prime Ministers back-to-back for about 13 years, Fako division cannot boast of a single government minister today. He attributed this to infighting, backstabbing, backbiting and dog-eat-dog politics that is tearing the division apart.
    Motanga noted that while Fako elite spend time fighting each other, strangers have taken advantage of the situation and are carting away the rich natural resources of the division.
    Present at the meeting were prominent Fako elite such as the Vice Chancellor of UB, Professor Egbe Nalova Lyonga, Senators Mbella Moki Charles and Daniel Matute, Hon. Fritz Ngeka Etoke, Hon. Etomby Gladys Ikome, Mayor Patrick Ekema Esunge, Hon. Meoto Paul Njie, traditional chiefs and several others.