Mayor Ekema Calls PhD Pigs

The stage was the Buea Town Hall. The date June 16, 2017. The unfolding drama was the first ordinary session of the Buea Council for 2017.Councillors had answered present and the business of the day was supposed to be commence at 9:00am. But they had to wait for the Supervisory Authority, the SDO for Fako.It was not until 12-noon that the SDO, Zang III, cruised in. The Councillors heaved a sigh of relief. The Mayor then took the boss to his (Mayor’s) office. They would spend close to an hour. The Councillors waited as if for the white smoke during the election of Pope.
When the two authorities emerged from the inner chamber, the aroma of the finest blends of hot drinks trailed the Mayor as he sauntered to the high table to take his seat, after his boss.

After the cosmetic salutations and the traditional payment of homage to fatherland, the Mayor opened his 32-page speech, in which he had engraved following his name, his latest title harvested at last May 20: “Knight of the Cameroon Order of Valour” (the ‘Knight’ is spelled by Mayor Ekema as ‘Night’ (darkness).When the speech was given out, someone observed that, may be he does not know the spelling of his new pet title, which he compels people to pronounce to beget his mayoral service or attention. For instance, if one wanted some documents signed, one must address him “Please, Lord Mayor, Knight (or night) of the Cameroon Order of Valour, Mr. Patrick blah blah-blah-blah.

” Night of Valour’s Nightingale Song”

The speech, which he apparently enjoyed like a song of Nightingale, lasted close to an hour. In it, he refereed to supporters of the Anglophone Crises as “prophets of doom” and accused some councillors who, he averred, “have opted to relinquish the missions they owe their constituencies and seem to be rubbishing shoulders with supposed external elites who actually fuel in the crises, being enemies of the state in disguise.As part of his achievements he stated that; “we hatched and executed plans to frustrate the move of the SDF Members of Parliament …to stage a match in Buea in support of the Common Law lawyers and Anglophone Teachers’ cause. He also mentioned how he bought taxis to frustrate the ghost town operation.

He lambasted some workers who have been carrying on protest after protest for non payment of their salaries due to the fact that they belong to “The Mbella Moki Camp”.After the Council session, the Mayor described some of the Councillors and elites who are PhD holders, that their doctorate degrees are golden rings on the noses of pigs. He also referred to an elite as an occultist and to an MP as a menopausal inconsequential. Meanwhile, some Councillors and local politicians, a week after that, reportedly filed a motion for vote of no confidence on Ekema to the Secretary General of the CPDM in Yaounde.

The Post Newspaper