Nguelemedouga, in Nyanon with a clear mission

But the ceremony went on after a detachment of the Gendarmerie was called in to disperse the demonstrators using tear gas, batons and firing live bullets in the air. The pioneer sub district officer of Nyanon, Mr Nguelemedouga, spent his first night in Nyanon with a warning. For he was bitten while at sleep by a serpent and was taken that same night to the Edea General Hospital, he recovered and he promised that, he would rather become jobless than be killed in Nyanon. He left Nyanon for Yaoundé, where he reported what had happened to him to his boss and he was given a month leave to spend with his family. Risdoh, her brothers and their mother were happy to see their father back home. Since Nyanon sub district was created in 1996, the only top civil servant sent there to represent the government was Mr Suh Tony. He stayed there for three weeks and was forced to take a leave and never came back. Mr Tony left not because he had any problems with the locals, but because, Cappolytree suspected that, since he was from Anglophone Cameroon, he might be sympathetic to the opposition and at such, might want to organise free and faire elections. Hence Cappolytree used his connections at ministry of territorial administration to make that, the leave of Mr Tony be transformed into an indefinite one.

This simply meant that, Nguelemedouga might be the first sub district officer who was officially installed but he was not the first civil servant to be posted to Nyanon. After Nguelemedouga’s blunder in Couseri, he was posted to Nyanon with firm instructions to make Cappolytree, the ruling party’s candidate in the up coming elections twin municipal and legislative to win. In Cameroon, divisional, sub divisional and district and sub district officers are not only representatives of the governments, they also double as de facto members of the ruling party and are required to carryout electoral frauds. While Nguelemedouga had his instructions, Mr Lawson who was the prime minister, knew from intelligence reports that, he (Nguelemedouga) was a brilliant administrator who could also perfectly carryout electoral frauds. But he also knew that, it won’t be easy in the Sanaga Maritime division and he may be assassinated. Hence he suggested to Abdulkadir who was the speaker of parliament that, Nguelemedouga be transferred from Nyanon after three months to any of the two Anglophone provinces. But honourable Abdulkadir who is rancorous and believed the act of Nguelemedouga to support Muslims in Couseri and Makari to install the Islamic holy law was a calculated attempt by his political enemies with the tacit approval of Nguelemedouga to ruin his political career, did accept Lawson proposals. He wanted Nguelemedouga punished in whatever manner.