Kumba City Council Crisis : Elite, Administration Restore Peace

The two warring factions have decided to bury their differences, end all court cases and work for the development of the City of Kumba.

For more than a year now, the Kumba City Council has been plagued by internal wrangling emanated from electoral petitions and court suits between Victor Nkelle Ngoh and Gregory Ntemoyok Mewanu. The differences between the two have created a fraction in the political setup in Kumba, with elite divided into two.
It all started last year 2020, when Victor Nkelle Ngoh defeated Gregory Mewanu in the March City Mayor elections. The later failed to accepted defeat and filed a petition at the South West Administrative Court in Buea. The case was dismissed.
He later petitioned the Supreme Court that order for a rerun. The rerun was conducted on October 22, 2020, in which he, Mewanu won. Ngoh Nkelle failed to accept the outcome claiming that Mewanu is a convict and can't hold any public office by law. The Administrative Court found the petition admissible and declared a verdict. 
To effect the Administrative Court verdict, the Kumba1 Council summoned her Councillors in a session to evict Gregory Mewanu as Councillor but the move flopped. All these resulted to a stalemate, with activities grounded at the level of the City Council.
It is from this backdrop that the Senior Divisional Officer for Meme, Ntou'ou Ndong Chamberlin, decided to summon the political elite of Meme and the warring parties to seek a lasting solution. Senator Otte Andrew Mofa, Hon. Lawson Tabot Bakia, Justice Benjamin Mutanga Itoe, Bertha Ndoh Bakata, Dr. Zacheus ...

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