Otto Joseph Wilson Laid To Rest

The late Governor of the Centre Region was elevated posthumously to the rank of Commander of the National Order of Valour by the representative of the Head of State.

Otto Joseph Wilson, Governor of the Centre Region, who died last  October 24, in Paris was buried in his home town of Isangele, Bakassi, in Ndian Divsion of the South West Region, on Sunday, December 11, 2016. The deceased was elevated posthumously to the Commander of the National Order of Valour and his entombment followed an official burial ceremony chaired by Rene Emmanuel Sadi, Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation and personal representative of the Head of State.

The ceremony opened with Funeral Mass led by the Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Kumba, Agapitus Fon, amid a college of Priests, and was witnessed by various cabinet ministers, Parliamentarians, the elite of the South West and a host of visiting Governors, personalities and friends.

The mourning family among whom the deceased’s widow, Otto Marie Paule, sat through the ceremony in the departed’s house yard in Bateka-Isangele. Minister Sadi delivered a pathetic eulogy in which he said Otto died at the prime of his age and career when much was still being expected from him for his family and for the State. The Minister explained that Otto who died at 52, was an accomplished ad...