By Kini Nsom
The Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation, Marafa Hamidou Yaya, has enjoined former Governors, Abrams Enow Egbe and Thomas Ejake Mbonda, to contribute their own quota in the fight against corruption in the country.He made the call on August 30 in Yaounde while installing the duo into their new functions in the Ministry.
The Minister was executing a recent Presidential decree that appointed Enow Egbe as Inspector in charge of Territorial Administration and Ejake Mbonda as Inspector in charge of Local Councils in the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation.
Before the appointment, Enow was Governor of the South Province, while Ejake Mbonda was Governor of the Southwest Province. The Minister was optimistic that the duo, having worked long in the field of administration in the various units of the country as Divisional Officers, Senior Divisional Officers and in other capacities, would deliver the goods.
While instructing Enow to ensure a hitch-free flow of administration in the country, the Minister urged Mbonda to ensure that decentralisation is fully implemented.Family members and friends attended the installation ceremony that took place in the conference hall of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation.
Observers hold that a sheer conspiracy of circumstances might have caused the two men to quit the stage as Governors. For one thing, they claim that the former Southwest Governor left with a stigma following his alleged poor handling of the Varsity of Buea crisis that claimed the lives of two students and a taxi driver.
Enow is reported to have quit his gubernatorial seat in the South Province on a clean state. But he has bitter memories of how the elites of the Province specialised in writing petitions to the high quarters against him.
He will also remember how a mad man pelted him with a stone that almost broke his head when he was on an official tour in the Province.
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