The installation of Nguelemedouga as sub district officer of Nyanon

The ethnic mixture of Nyanon was synonymous to a gift to the electoral fraud strategists of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and also the ruling CPDM party and disaster to the opposition. Cappolytree was now sure to be gratified with a parliamentary seat by the government for supporting her during the 1992 presidential elections. Cappolytree will get the vital Eton votes in Nyanon during the 1997 municipal/legislative elections. And member of the electoral fraud think tank of the ruling party and those of the ministry of territorial administration were convinced. His victory which was certain even before the elections were called, will assure the ruling party at least a member of parliament from the Sanaga maritime division that most thought that, in spite the perfections in electoral frauds, envisaged and put in place by the ruling party and the ministry of territorial administration, the division was lost. While waiting for the electoral body to be called to the polls, the installation date of Nguelemedouga, the pioneer sub district officer of Nyanon was set. And on that day and date, a convoy of Japanese made air conditioned four wheel drives, carrying the divisional officer and other top local ruling party dignitaries as well as those from Yaoundé drove from Edea, divisional capital of the Sanaga maritime to Nyanon, headquarters of the newly created sub district that also bore the same name.

The delegation was accompanied by team of journalists from Douala, seat of the provincial service of the state owned Cameroon Radio Television Corporation (CRTV). According to records of such a motorcade kept by the oldest man in Nyanon called Bakot, the last time a similar motorcade drove into Nyanon was in 1958. That year, the motorcade was not civilian, but a military conveyor of French Forces in search of Ruben Um Nyobe, the leader of the Union of the Population of Cameroon, who was thought to be hiding in the area. The installation ceremony of Nguelemedouga as pioneer sub district officer of Nyanon took place on a hilly part of the town but was snubbed by the population. The only natives who turn up were a group of nationalist Bassa youths, who came to show their displeasure at the government’s continuous plans of partitioning Bassaland. They carried placards on which they wrote: we want the reunification of all Bassalands, while others wrote: we want the creation of a province that will be called: luminous province. It will be a province that will include the Nkam, Nyong and Kelle, parts of the Wouri divisions and parts of the South province, where there exist indigenous Bassas. The demonstrators also promised to drive away the Etons nationals or tribes from Nyanon.