Commonwealth of Nations: CPA Scribe Visits South West

The Governor’s Office and the Government Bilingual High School Limbe played host to the august guest.

Following the eventful homecoming, last 21 January in Bonjongo, of the Cameroon-born Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Chairperson, Honourable Emilia Monjowa Lifaka, who is indigenous of Bonjongo-Buea, last Friday was the turn of CPA’s chief scribe, Akbar Khan, to visit Buea (South West Regional Capital) and Limbe (Fako Divisional headquarters).

While in South West, Friday, Akbar Khan made a courtesy call at the Governor’s Office where the Secretary-General, Mr Lawrence Forwang, received him amid local authorities.

After a five-minute tete-a-tete, Mr Khan left for Limbe where he and Honourable Monjowa Lifaka were guests of hounour at a roadshow party in the campus of the Government Bilingual High School Limbe. The roadshow was an event where the personalities of the Commonwealth explained the core values and opportunities of the Commonwealth to the students. 

Akbar Khan told the press in Buea he was delighted with the warm welcome given him and company by the South West Secretary General in place of the Regional Governor.

“We are here because we want to deliver a very important activity on behalf of the CPA which is called the CPA roadshow. It is about engaging young people so we are speaking to about 200 youth in Government Bilingual High School in Limbe. We are talking to them about the values of the commonwealth which are human rights, rule of law, democracy, and gender equality.

All these are values which matter to all of us in our world and...