BaretaNews can now confirm that the Southern Cameroons has an interim president in the person of Sessekou AYUK Julius Tabe. We are told the SCACUF conclave took the decision against popular thoughts of an election considering changes in the ground game and the recent dynamics of the struggle. As such the much talk about the previous roadmap was dashed into the dust bin, so as to reach out to recent expectations. Mr. Tassang Wilfred will be his Deputy President, BaretaNews learned. Details of the Southern Cameroons Interim Government, as well as other resolutions from the SCACUF conclave, is yet to be made known to the public. BaretaNews shall bring this as they become available. Meanwhile below is a brief summary of who Ayuk Julius Tambe is

Julius Ayuk Tabe (Chief Information Officer). In 2011 he made a career move from Cisco Systems and came to the American University of Nigeria as its pioneer Chief Information Officer. Here he supervises the university’s technology deployment, use and maintenance. He leads a team with three Departments: – the Department of Information Technology (DIT) which is in charge of the IT Infrastructure, the Department of Information Systems (DIS) in charge of the ERP applications, learning management and information systems, and the Department of Auxiliary Services (DAS) in charge of the professional and certification-training amongst other things.

Julius has over 22 years’ experience in the ICT industry, more than twelve of which have been in senior management. His career started in 1992 in utility distribution (electricity) where he worked as a Software developer. He wrote applications for Billing Systems & Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resources, Bank reconciliation management and Technical Maintenance and Evaluation. He was amongst the company’s first network Administrators in the early ‘90s. In 2002, he was promoted into Management as one of the regional executives of the company.

Ayuk Julius Tabe

As part of his voluntary work, during his time as a software developer, Julius designed and implemented a complete examinations management system for the General Certificate Examination (GCE) board in his native Cameroon at both the ordinary and Advanced level. This application managed the registration of students, production of individual and school time-tables as well as production of results and result-slips.

In 2006 he moved to Nigeria to work for Cisco Systems and managed the company’s Networking Academies for the 23 countries of West & Central Africa, from Mauritania in the North to the Democratic Republic of Congo in the South. In this capacity, he supervised Cisco certifications training programmes such as CCNA, CCNP, Wireless, Video, Security, etc.

Julius obtained a Master’s degree in Control Engineering from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom in 1989, a year after his joint honors BSc degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Keele University in the United Kingdom.

Julius is married to his lovely wife Lilian. They have five children (one adopted), comprising of four daughters, amongst them a set of twins, and a son

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