Buea Mayor accuses SW elites for ‘terrorist’ attack on
his home
-Says SW elites are a band of inhumane, self-seeking
ingrates who cannot be counted on
By Boris Esono in Buea
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| Mayor Patrick Ekema |
The Mayor of Buea has said that he now knows the people
who hatched the plot for his home and property to be attacked on 22 September
2017. Patrick Esunge Ekema says he will
name and shame these evildoers when the time is right.
“What
happened at my house on 22 September 2017 was commandeered by some SW elites
and I know all of them,” Ekema said, noting that “they include two elites from
Fako and one from Manyu. I know them but I will not call their names now
because investigations are still going on”.
Mayor
Patrick Ekema made the revelation in his unscripted preliminary remarks during
an extraordinary session of the Buea council convened to validate the Land Use
Plan for Buea Municipality and the Sectorial Plan for Molyko.
According
to the fire-eating Buea Mayor, the population of SW cannot count on those who
pass for elites of the region because “they are people who serve only their own
interests and never the interest of their people.”
“Once
these people get to positions of power they immediately forget the people on
whose behalf they were raised and they start pursuing only their selfish
interests,” Ekema opined, concluding that he cannot consider the so called SW
elite as his brothers because they constitute a bunch of ingrates who have no
respect for the human person.
In a
rather emotional tone, the Mayor narrated the gruesome incident that occurred
in his Molyko mansion on 22 September and how it has affected his family both
psychologically and emotionally.
“I was at home with one of my councilors and a
friend when the demonstrators were mobilizing. I later left for the office with
the councilor but before I could reach there, my wife called me saying I should
hurry and come back because they are dying in the house. When I reached there
my property had been destroyed,” he recounted.
Noting
that not even one of the so called elite of Fako or the SW region has ever
called him to express their sympathy, Mayor Ekema used the occasion to thank the
delegation of Mayors of Douala led by the Government Delegate of Douala, Dr.
Fritz Ntone Ntone, and the Mayors, MPs, Senators and Chiefs from the South
Region, who drove to Buea in separate occasions to comfort him and show
solidarity with him during the very trying moments.
“Barely
few days after the incident on September 22, SW elites held a meeting in Buea
but to my greatest dismay and surprise, no mention was made about my situation.
I inteprete to mean if ever there is a vacancy somewhere, none of these people
will even think of me. So I now know I am standing alone; I have no brother in
the committee of SW elite,” Mayor Ekema regretted.
In spite
of the lack of solidarity from his SW brothers, a committee put in place at the
Buea council to review the events of 22 September and the damage caused,
condemned the acts of vandalism orchestrated in the town and on the mayor’s
private property. It went ahead and recommended that the sum of FCFA 10 million
be paid the mayor to enable him to cover the cost of repairs.
It
should be recalled that when otherwise peaceful demonstrations on 22 September
2017 later turned violent in Buea, some irate vandals forced their way into the
Molyko mansion of the Buea Mayor, shattering just any breakable thing in sight.
Several of the mayor’s luxury cars were vandalized, apart from the glass
windows, doors, balconies and other parts of his residence.
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