The reasons why Nguelemedouga was posted to Couseri as sub district officer

The news about Nguelemedouga’s brand new Mercedes car stationed at a strategic corner of the campus of his former school, spread like wild fire amongst the teaching body of the School of Administration and Magistracy and also amongst his former school mates of who were handling prestigious posts in prestigious towns and cities in the country. The sub district officer of Couseri who was now making waves had as full names: Nguelemedouga Ntangan. He was the father of Risdoh and the husband of Mrs Noako Ntangan. Normally or in respect to the rules of the School of Administration and Magistracy of Cameroon, its administrators did not have to be post Nguelemedouga to Couseri, a low profile town that was doubling as sub district, located in the Far North of Cameroon. Why? For the rules of the School of Administration and Magistracy, which is French-speaking Cameroon’s own answer to France’s Ecole Normale D’administration (ENA), were crystal clear. It stipulated that, the most excellent students, upon graduation, must be posted to high profile functions within the administration or hold strategic posts in provincial administration and it must be in strategic towns or cities. But in spite the fact that, Nguelemedouga was a brilliant student, when he graduated, his teachers and the administration of the school, decided that, he should be posted to the Far North province and not in the provincial capital, but in a newly created sub district. It was their own punishment to a brilliant student who had stepped on the toes of his tutors.

As far as the teachers and administration of the School of administration and Magistracy of Cameroon were concern, the town and also the newly created sub district of Couseri, where they had decided to post Nguelemedouga to, was Sahara desert. Sahara desert is a metaphor used in Cameroon for supposed barren or useless part of the country. Why was Nguelemedouga posted to Couseri in violation of the rules of his school? It was simple, it was a salacious affair. To make it abundantly clear, it was because of women. Nguelemedouga was paradoxically adored by his lecturers because he was bright, but those same lecturers hated him because, he was always interested in the same girls that they were either in love with or wanted to date them. And because he (Nguelemedouga) began going out with a girl that, Turbin Boakov, the Director of studies, was already dating, he crossed the Rubicon that he did not deserved to. It was at that moment, that, Boakov took seriously all complains that, lecturers had brought to him about Nguelemedouga. At first, Boakov used to minimise the complains he received concerning Nguelemedouga. Why? Simply because, he admired Nguelemedouga’s brilliance in school, but when the brilliant insolent student, did to him what he had already done to other lecturers, Boakov said: the game was over.