Court Jails Aspirant to Limbe 1st Class Chieftaincy

By Ticha Melanis in Limbe

The Limbe Court of First Instance has on Tuesday, 3 July 2018, sentenced one of the aspirants to the Paramount chieftaincy of Limbe to 17 months in prison. David Nanjia Carr was charged and found guilty in a dispute over land. The dispute pitted him against the chiefs of Livanda and Bonadikimbo, two villages in Limbe.

            The judgement came barely three days to the date scheduled for the fourth consultative talks to designate the First Class Chief of Limbe (formerly Victoria).

            The consultations that were to take place on Friday, 6 July 2018, under the auspices of the SDO for Fako, Engamba Emmanuel ledoux, were therefore postponed to Wednesday 11 July 2018.

            David Nanjia Carr is presently at the Limbe central police station pending his transfer to the Buea Central Prison that is, if his lawyers do not appeal the judgment.

            The consultative talks on Wednesday 11 July is expected to produce a candidate from among the candidates presented by the three families contending for the coveted throne namely; the Carrs, the Mokebas and the Manga Williams families. The choice of the kingmakers will be the eventual successor of the late Chief Ferguson Manga Williams, who died 12 years ago.

            During the last consultative talks, some members of the different families suggested that the SDO should consider giving each of the three sub-divisions a separate Paramount Chief since Limbe is now divided into three.

            It should be recalled that at one of the consultative talks held in October 2017, Prince John Elufa Manga Williams was endorsed by six of the king makers as their candidate for the paramount chieftaincy stool. The kingmakers that supported Prince Johny Manga included Chief Samuel Ekum of Dikolo, Pastor Monjimbo of Bonagombe, Issac Nanjia carr, the representative of the Mukeba Family and others.

            But it emerged that David Nanjia Carr contested the choice of Prince Johny Manga, arguing that the Manga Williams family has never been a royal family and so cannot be allowed to contest for the chieftaincy of Victoria, now Limbe.

            According to David Nanjia Carr, the late Chief Johannes Manga Williams was imposed on the people of Victoria by the Germans because he was literate and so it will be unfair to let his descendants to continue to usurp a position that belongs to the royal families.