NEC Meeting convened for the 16th December, 2015
Fon Shey Barnabas Mbunwe II of Mbot village has declared his intention to run as President of the North West Fon's Unon - NOWEFU. His declaration comes at the heel of heightened tension generated by intrigue, manipulation of the constitution, treachery, bad blood and the refusal of the current leadership to convene an elective convention after the expiration of its mandate some months back. He made the declarations in an interview granted Ngah Benjamin in Bamenda.
Referring to the wobbly and inopportune condition in which Senator Fon Teche, the current President of NOWEFU has placed the Union; the Fon of Mbot declared, "The Fons of Donga Mantung Division are not docile and would not accept anything less than having thier turn at the helm of NOWEFU which is a right and not a privilege." According to him, the non respect of the NOWEFU Constitution and the rotary arrangement written or verbal as the case may be would face a very stiff resistance not only from the Fons of Donga Mantung Division, but from other Fons across the Region.
Accusing the current President of manipulation and the misuse of traditional power, he said, "The current President has his intentions and wants to lobby for an extension of his mandate. This is something we would not accept. We want the traditional rulers of this Region to regain the respect they had and to remain apolitical." He went further to reveal that the Governor on several accounts has asked for the total respect of the NOWEFU Constitution by the present President who has been adamant. "Momo Division was given the chance after Menchum, now it is the turn of Donga Mantung and he should destroy this union" "And if the Union's Constitution were to be amended," the fon of Mbot said, "it must only be when Donga Mantung Division and Boyo would have had their turns."
The 16th of December, he said, will be a decisive date for NOWEFU. "Though the place where the meeting has been billed is known only by the President and his clique, I as one of the beleaguered Exco members will come to know. On that day, the lone agenda must be to fix a date for elections into the Exectuive Bureau of the Union.
His first priority when he takes over NOWEFU, he said, would be to make sure the Fon's Secretariat located in Nkwen is completed. He regretted that millions of FCFA offered to the Union by some elite of the Region destined for completion of the secretariat has been embezzled. His second priority would be to put sanity in the way the Union is run and to restore the dignity and culture of the North West Region which has been rubbished by the present leadership of NOWEFU.
Ngah BenjaminAccusing the current President of manipulation and the misuse of traditional power, he said, "The current President has his intentions and wants to lobby for an extension of his mandate. This is something we would not accept. We want the traditional rulers of this Region to regain the respect they had and to remain apolitical." He went further to reveal that the Governor on several accounts has asked for the total respect of the NOWEFU Constitution by the present President who has been adamant. "Momo Division was given the chance after Menchum, now it is the turn of Donga Mantung and he should destroy this union" "And if the Union's Constitution were to be amended," the fon of Mbot said, "it must only be when Donga Mantung Division and Boyo would have had their turns."
The 16th of December, he said, will be a decisive date for NOWEFU. "Though the place where the meeting has been billed is known only by the President and his clique, I as one of the beleaguered Exco members will come to know. On that day, the lone agenda must be to fix a date for elections into the Exectuive Bureau of the Union.
His first priority when he takes over NOWEFU, he said, would be to make sure the Fon's Secretariat located in Nkwen is completed. He regretted that millions of FCFA offered to the Union by some elite of the Region destined for completion of the secretariat has been embezzled. His second priority would be to put sanity in the way the Union is run and to restore the dignity and culture of the North West Region which has been rubbished by the present leadership of NOWEFU.
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