Befitting
Epitaph for Fon Doh Gah Gwanyin of Balikumbat Village in Ngoketunjia Division
in the Republic of Cameroon
Here is a collection of reactions from Cameroonians at home and in the diaspora
in the wake of the death of Fon Doh Gah Gwanyin, Mayor, CPDM Section President
and Member of Parliament. These pieces were culled from The Eye Newspaper, social networks, including Cameroon
Online, Camnews,
Campolitics, CameroonPostline, CCDHR
Press Release, AFOA-KOM
and more. I have the conviction that this outburst of emotions would constitute
interesting material for the inscription of a befitting epitaph on the
tombstone of the fallen Fon of Balikumbat.
HRH Fon Doh Gah Gwanyin of
Balikumbat is no more. According to information filtering into our office from
Balikumbat, he collapsed and died this morning, September 1, 2012. Famously
known as the lion man, the Fon of Balikumbat it should be noted was Member of
Parliament, Mayor and he died as a member of the Central Committee of the CPDM.His
political career witnessed a dramatic twist when he was cited in the alleged
killing of SDF District Chairman John Kohtem. Fon Doh was arrested, detained
and was later granted bail. His immunity was lifted for him to appear in Court.
In 2007, he contested and won CPDM primaries to go back to Parliament but his
candidature was rejected by the Central Committee of the CPDM. In the early
days of multi-party politics in Cameroon, Fon Doh was the lone CPDM
Parliamentarian from the North West Region. At a point in time, he assumed the
positions of MP and Mayor at the same time. Sources in Balikumbat hinted that
following the Balikumbat tradition, the corps of a fon is never kept and thus
he would be buried today.
By Joseph Nsom
No information has filtered on the
cause of his death as close sources said he was active a few days earlier. On
the throne since 1977, Fon Doh is closely associated with the heights and
depths of the fondom. He takes credit as the former Mayor of Balikumbat Council
and CPDM Member of Parliament of the Balikumbat Special constituency who served
two terms up to 2007.In effect, His Majesty, Fon Doh Gah Gwanyin III has been
on virtually every lip on the political map of Balikumbat Special Constituency.
CPDM party comrades say he is remembered for a visionary approach to politics,
defending the ruling party against all odds. Sons and daughters of Balikumbat
fondom also say that he was the political bedrock of the area which became
known as one of the bastions of the CPDM in the North West Region. CPDM Section
President for Balikumbat II, Bayin Ignatius says that as the Mayor, His
Majesty, Fon Doh Gah Gwanyin initiated road projects that linked Balikumbat
Sub-division to neighboring Awing village in Santa Sub-division. He is also
associated with the creation of the Balikumbat Development Organization (BADO)
which emerges as the unifying instrument for Balikumbat sons and daughters.
Balikumbat is one of the 13 villages of Ngoketungia Division. Earlier on August
28, 2012, another illustrious son of the North West Region, Rt. Chief Justice
Nyo’Wakai died. He is remembered as one of the finest icons of the nation’s
Magistrates in the then West Cameroon who later served in the Supreme Court of
Cameroon. He also served as the Chief Justice of the North West Region.
By Hebert
Boh
Dear All,
The late Fon of Balikumbat was a
ruthless savage, armed, blessed and set free to visit death upon whomever he
chose by the CPDM. He was the incarnation of Cameroon's "party of flames"
and violent misrule. He was a perpetrator of the worst forms of human rights
violations.
It would seem that the hobby of the
Fon of Balikumbat was murder. He preferred massacres, the scorching of entire
villages and farmlands, doubled with the rape of victims. The CPDM sponsored
him and enslaved his people to a Fon who may be best described as a "blood
drinkard". He never seemed to have enough of the red stuff.
Yes, I said it!
The Fon of Balikumbat gave all Fons
a bad name. And it did not start with politics although it was certainly made
worse by the immunity both the Fondom and parliament gave him. As a reporter, I
traveled into and reported the tragedies he visited on neighboring villages for
the French language paper La Nouvelle Expression, narrowly escaping lynching
after I ventured too close to the foot of the hill atop of which the Fon's
palace sits in Balikumbat.
I saw him at work several years
before, as the President General of Cammark Football Club. As the Head of
Sports at CRTV, I witnessed firsthand and up close as he threatened to take the
club to its grave if he were to lose leadership. I shrugged away his threats to
me as a reporter (made in his residence in the Nkwen neighborhood of Bamenda)
as I recorded him for a special edition of Sports Panorama. I remember the
threats to his successor at the top of the club, Mr. Ngafor.
Looking back and by comparison to
his many victims, I guess we were lucky not to have been killed.
Our people do not generally speak
ill of the dead. However, our people rarely have to bury someone on whose grave
so many would like to spit. Our people consider Fons lost/disappeared when they
die, but for a Fon who disappeared so many people and summarily executed others
or commanded the troops that did the killings, this Fon is not lost. Unlike our
other Fons, he does not deserve to be found. Unlike our other Fons, he is
simply dead. It is Rt. Justice Nyoh Wakai who is lost here. He is the
illustrious one.
After the reign of death, the Fondom
of Balikumbat has a chance to start again. The family of the Fon can
rehabilitate their name by distancing themselves from the evil that he erected
by preventing that evil to live after him. They can truly find a new Fon who
takes reconciliation and peace with neighboring Fondoms seriously. The family
can seek God's forgiveness by confessing those many, many publicly known sins
and by turning their backs on the devilish path the late Fon blazed in his
drunken quest for ever more blood.
Our people do not evoke evil spirits
when they seek blessings or when they pour libation. Evoking the spirit of the
late Fon of Balikumbat is like calling Lucifer to your help. Like that fallen
angel, this fallen Fon cannot do, in death, the good he so clearly abhorred in
life.We know that God will deliver justice but it is our duty to ensure that
sites like Cameroon Online do not distort reporting on the facts that
journalists have a sacred duty to bring to our people and document for history.
By
Michael Ndi
CameroonPostline.com -- The Fon of
Balikumbat, Doh Gah Gwanyin III, is no more. The Fon who was last seen on
Friday August 31 in Bamenda, dropped dead the following day Saturday, September
1.Although the cause of the death has not yet been ascertained, his close aides
speculate that he died of a heart attack. His untimely death comes two months
after lightening struck and killed his wife in Balikumbat. Before his death,
Fon Doh was a contractor, CPDM central committee and the President General of
the North West Fons Conference (NOWEFCO)
The talk about Fon Doh’s passing away is echoed all over his Ngoketunjia Division and the entire North-West Region. Although the tradition here is not to talk ill about the dead, many people openly expressed happiness that the traditional ruler and politician, accused on many occasions of war-mongering and murder, was never going to walk the surface of the earth again.
A couple of years ago, Fon Doh’s Balikumbat subjects attacked Bambalang village and destroyed 251 houses, looted homes and the health center. The case is still pending in the High Court of Ngoketunjia. Earlier, Fon Balikumbat carried out another attack against Bafanji village in which several people were killed. Animals and property were equally looted. The upholstery chairs belonging to a Bafanji tycoon, Peter Ngufor were carted away to Fon Doh’s palace which he displayed in his parlor. An ardent ruling CPDM militant, Fon Doh was charged and convicted for the murder of the opposition SDF Balikumbat district chairman, John Kohtem, on August 24, 2004. He appealed the ruling and was set free by the authorities on health grounds. Coincidentally, Fon Doh dropped dead on September 1, 2012, six days after the date when John Kohtem was beaten to date on August 24, 2004.
The talk about Fon Doh’s passing away is echoed all over his Ngoketunjia Division and the entire North-West Region. Although the tradition here is not to talk ill about the dead, many people openly expressed happiness that the traditional ruler and politician, accused on many occasions of war-mongering and murder, was never going to walk the surface of the earth again.
A couple of years ago, Fon Doh’s Balikumbat subjects attacked Bambalang village and destroyed 251 houses, looted homes and the health center. The case is still pending in the High Court of Ngoketunjia. Earlier, Fon Balikumbat carried out another attack against Bafanji village in which several people were killed. Animals and property were equally looted. The upholstery chairs belonging to a Bafanji tycoon, Peter Ngufor were carted away to Fon Doh’s palace which he displayed in his parlor. An ardent ruling CPDM militant, Fon Doh was charged and convicted for the murder of the opposition SDF Balikumbat district chairman, John Kohtem, on August 24, 2004. He appealed the ruling and was set free by the authorities on health grounds. Coincidentally, Fon Doh dropped dead on September 1, 2012, six days after the date when John Kohtem was beaten to date on August 24, 2004.
Even within his own party, Balikumbat CPDM bigwigs were not at peace with Fon Doh. They accused him of greed as he concurrently held the major offices including MP, mayor and CPDM section president. Those who attempted to challenge him were branded traitors and severely dealt with. Before his death, he was again gunning for the post of mayor and the local parliamentary seat, positions he lost after widespread consternation following the murder of John Kohtem in 2004.
By
Abraham Tangwe
By Victor Tarkeh
Fon
Doh sowed terror in Ndop as a whole through killings, sponsoring wars (Bamunkumbit-Balighansen,
Bafanji-Balikumbat, Bambalang-Balikumbat). These wars took many lives and left
thousands homeless. I hope he meets with SDF district chair, Kohntem he
murdered and was later found guilty and set free by the same court. Whoever
said when people do bad things we should gloss over their misdeeds once they
die? There was real joy for many and shock for a few in Balikumbat village this
morning.HRH Fon Doh was getting ready to attend a crucial meeting on peace in
Ngoketunjia Division today. His death is said to be a beginning of a long
lasting peace in my division. His peers at the meeting were all bewildered but
had a more serene meeting.
By Moses Taku-Ayuk
By Moses Taku-Ayuk
My people,
You have read my contribution to the
death of our NW Fon who is/was believed to be wicked as Nebuchadnezzar was. The
scriptures will always be fulfilled when such situations crop up to confirm or
to see the wisdom and or ordinances of God being fulfilled to the latter.
Who is that son or daughter that
will dishonor his father or mother including even his uncles/aunts and elders
of the village and succeed in life? Talk less of living long here on earth.
This is the case with young Galabe of Marketing Board Victoria now Fon. As he
ascended to the Throne of Warriors Balikumbat elements or villagers, his name
was changed to that of Fon Doh Gwanyi 111 whose reign and or name might be that
of blood thirsty, wild native illiterate who must have been always looking for
trouble (war) with his neighbors. Whenever you name your child to bear the name
of your uncle or aunt, (that was wicked) that child will bear the spirit that
goes with that name. The bible says as his name is, so he is. I am writing to
assess the reason this young boy whom I knew with his senior brother-Allosius
Galabe in Victoria, was automatically transformed from good to bad after
ascending to the Throne and bearing a new name. The name and or demonic coronation
attached to the graffi thrones has done all the wicked transformations in the
life of this young boy of yesterday. If I did not know him with brother
A.Galabe, I would not be in a position to assess his change in attitude from
good to bad. People always change from bad to good and even to excellence, but
he changed from good to very bad and also wicked and disrespectful to the honor
and glorification of Satan the ruler of graffi thrones. He was disrespectful
even to the king makers who installed him as Fon in their village which hither
to his enthronement, was peaceful. It is the same assessment to Biya who was
regarded as a Saint before taking over office as President. As he took over
that office and was immediately introduced to Amorc society by (now in prison)
Dr.Titus Edzoa, his character of a Saint was quickly corrupted and was
transformed to bear the nature and or lifestyle of Satan (John 10:10a) who
became his master and no longer God through His Son Jesus who gave him that
exalted office. The Word of God states that-Promotion cometh not from any
cardinal point but from above-that is from Heaven as He is the Owner of the
whole world.(Psa.75:6-7 and Psa.24:1.)
His disrespectful and wicked
attitude to his mother and elders of the village had automatically opened an
emergency door for untimely death as bad or negative wishes were streaming from
various motherly/fatherly and elderly negative pronouncements against his
welfare and or longevity of life. You all should note that there is power in
the Tongue as life and death are in the power of the tongue says the word of
God (Prov.18:21). This is the only scripture that welcomes the answer to
that decision of death or life from any tongue, be it righteous or an
unrighteous. It is worse if pronounced from an anointed tongue of a man of God
as it will not take time to manifest. You will agree with me that, the mother of
King Solomon was the one through whom his brothers were channeling their
requests to their brother who was now king as they could not go to him as
frequently as before. As the mother, she was always free to go see her son whom
she gave suck without appointment or audience. But in the case of Fon Doh, he
had slapped the mother who came to give him counsel but was rewarded with a
dirty slap which the 2 kingdom computers (Hell & Heaven) registered fast
against his name. The computers in the 2 kingdoms are so fast in registering
all that we do here on earth. But when you repent and ask for forgiveness, the
entry is automatically wiped off from your record in the computers.
This sincere write-up of mine is to
warn they that will be willing to take such offices both in public and or
traditional in nature. They should surrender such promotions to the Lord who is
the Promoter of persons to new positions in life. If you turn as Fon Doh and or
Biya have turned to Satan, you will receive only worst and unacceptable administration
to your people and the results will always be seen in the lives of your
people-WRETCHED and in AGONY. God bless our people as they turn to God in all
that they do. Traditional rites have no place in the 21st century as most of
the rulers now know the Truth about life-that God is the Giver of life and not
Satan. In Nigeria, most of the traditional rulers are now members of
Pentecostal Holy Ghost filled anointed churches. They go to the church and know
the Truth about how the Kings of old ruled their kingdoms with successes and
always victorious in their wars.eg King Jehoshaphat and David. They no
longer do the demonic traditions that their forefathers did that were not
giving glory to God. The servants of God from these NW villages that are still
very demonically inclined should be soliciting their Fons/Chiefs to drop those
old traditions.
Gideon had to destroy the shrine of
his father's house before he went to war with his enemies-Amen. A learned and
most adored King of Bali Nyongha is a man who should be able to change the
demonic aspects of their inherited cultures that do not give glory to God the
Creator. He is expected to cleanse that tribe and her village from all the
bloodshed that they inherited from their numerous wars with their neighbors-Meta
tribe. This write-up is an eye opener to them that think that old demonic
cultures are still relevant in the 21st century. Born Again deliverance prayers
that are being offered by the sons/daughters of such villages that are
Believers, are daily weakening such demonic powers. I know how many numbers in
quantity rating, spiritual prayers that are being forwarded to Heaven by our
anointed Prophetess sister (S. Immanuel) from Bali. She knows what her village
or city is passing through in the realm of the spirit and she has to go angrily
in warfare to redeem her people in demonic traditions that do not bring glory
and progress to her people both in and out of the village. God help us to turn
to you-Amen. God bless our Kings and King-makers including politicians-Amen.
Yours sincere Servant of God,
Rev (Papa) Taku-Ayuk Moses-alias
Daniel to his people of S.Cs.
By
SAF
What mercy? Who told you there is an
almighty beyond what we have in our physical world? Have you seen this
almighty? His body (the wicked king that is) may rest in peace here on earth
but not somewhere else. Why do you affirm the existence of something beyond
your human senses? The only almighty that makes sense to a living mortal is one
that is right here on earth. Beyond our physical environment is void.
By Eric Ngonji Njungwe
This man lived as a thug, and in death should be treated as a
thug. Same goes to other criminals with the CPDM cult and their sympathizers at
home and abroad. You will be judged by what you stand for, and what you
advocated for your people. If you hope for respect in death, now is the time to
turn away from your misdeeds and your support for evil against the people of
Cameroon.
To what extent are we going to continue to pretend? When are we
going to face the demons amongst us and call them out by the names most
reflective of their actions? Why should we avoid talking about the brutality of
the evil ones who lived amongst us and the untold suffering they caused to
human kind simply because they are now deceased? The last time I checked, Death
is not synonymous to Baptism, nor is it Penitence. This man had ample
opportunities to make peace with the people he hurt throughout his oppressive
reign in Balikumbat; instead he continued to crush them. He had ample
opportunities to dissociate himself from the CPDM cult; instead he continued to
militate with it and used the repressive machinery of the CPDM cult to rig
elections, intimidate his people, and threaten their lives. You cannot belong
to an evil cult and claim to be a good person. That is a contradiction in terms
and practice. As a prominent and practical member of the CPDM cult, this man
exhibited the worse forms of cruelty on his own people of Balibumbat, his
neighbors, and the people of Cameroon. My concern and prayer are with his
victims, not his carcass. I know God will take care of his soul, because if I
am delegated that task with all the anger in me, I will ….
By
Herbert Boh
Our people do not
generally speak ill of the dead. However, our people rarely have to bury someone
on whose grave so many would like to spit. Our people consider Fons
lost/disappeared when they die, but for a Fon who disappeared so many people
and summarily executed others or commanded the troops that did the killings,
this Fon is not lost. Unlike our other Fons, he does not deserve to be found.
Unlike our other Fons, he is simply dead. It is Rt. Justice Nyoh Wakai who is
lost here. He is the illustrious one.
After the reign of death, the Fondom of Balikumbat has a chance to start again. The family of the Fon can rehabilitate their name by distancing themselves from the evil that he erected by preventing that evil to live after him. They can truly find a new Fon who takes reconciliation and peace with neighboring Fondoms seriously. The family can seek God's forgiveness by confessing those many, many publicly known sins and by turning their backs on the devilish path the late Fon blazed in his drunken quest for ever more blood.
Our people do not evoke evil spirits when they seek blessings or when they pour libation. Evoking the spirit of the late Fon of Balikumbat is like calling Lucifer to your help. Like that fallen angel, this fallen Fon cannot do, in death, the good he so clearly abhorred in life. We know that God will deliver justice but it is our duty to ensure that sites like Cameroon Online do not distort reporting on the facts that journalists have a sacred duty to bring to our people and document for history.
After the reign of death, the Fondom of Balikumbat has a chance to start again. The family of the Fon can rehabilitate their name by distancing themselves from the evil that he erected by preventing that evil to live after him. They can truly find a new Fon who takes reconciliation and peace with neighboring Fondoms seriously. The family can seek God's forgiveness by confessing those many, many publicly known sins and by turning their backs on the devilish path the late Fon blazed in his drunken quest for ever more blood.
Our people do not evoke evil spirits when they seek blessings or when they pour libation. Evoking the spirit of the late Fon of Balikumbat is like calling Lucifer to your help. Like that fallen angel, this fallen Fon cannot do, in death, the good he so clearly abhorred in life. We know that God will deliver justice but it is our duty to ensure that sites like Cameroon Online do not distort reporting on the facts that journalists have a sacred duty to bring to our people and document for history.
By
Rexon
Dead of anyone should
be a time of reflection for the living. It doesn’t matter what our impression
is of the Fon who has passed away, but as we remember him for whatever reason,
we should reflect on our own lives. How are we living? Are we respecting
humanity, so that when we die, we are going to leave a better world? Are our actions,
words and works contributing towards humanity? Are we what we wanted Fon Doh
and others that have died before him to be? Fon Doh is gone.
By Mishe Fon
By Mishe Fon
My only memory of the man
"sorry the Fon" was in Yaounde. This guy had a series of girl
friends. This particular one was a 3rd year English student (Ngoa Ekelle) at
Mini-CitéDjomo. The Chief had equipped the room with all modern paraphernalia:
Flat screen colored TV, Parabolic antenna (in a mini-cité), Vono bed with
12" Dunlop Mattress, Refrigerator, Gas Cooker, black & white
"carpet", Radio/cassette/DVD player, cushion chair, complete cupboard
full of steady supplies of cabin biscuits, blue band margarine, Kumba bread,
pinyin biscuits...and other goodies that small Ngoa chicks adored. She was the
star and envy of all the "Branchées, Jeunes Talents, Rhumtas" of the
Djomo Cité "University of Yaoundé Factory".
One day
as Pa Chief was driving around Ngoa, he remembered he had a "Smol
Ting" in the vicinity and decided to go "Freshen Up himself 4
dey" B4 his "Parliamentary Paul Biya’s CPDM sessions". Lo and
behold, on opening "HIS" Mini-Cité Djomo room (since he had his own
keys), he surprised one stupid yeye young "Ngoa" guy totally in Adam’s
attire on (not even inside) his "wife". For one brief moment, Pa
Chief forgot that he was a Bamendrous "King", a "Député
Parlementaire", a millionaire and an "Old Pa". He pounced on the
poor kid (the guy, not the girl) and beat the daylight out of the poor fool. He
went outside, called his doungouru Balikumbat body guards and they came and
emptied all the furniture including the girl’s clothes, shoes, timakassas,
ngwashis, baby pancakes, Nku-Creams, Corsets, the two rope dross they now call
STRINGS...in short everything....and went outside and set everything ablaze.
Can you imagine this level of barbarity? Morality: I really don’t know what to
say. The Man was a REAL MANAWA...but as they say: We should never speak evil or
ill of the Dead as all of us will one day DIE.
By Bonaventure Tchucham
Really nasty and terrifying! I
hadn't heard of this man and his heroic acts of war before. It's incredible! I
have been terrified and devastated by the report by our Elder one Ntemfac Ofege
and the comments of the people of the region who were aware of the wrongdoings
of the man. That he was covered by the CPDM-government is no surprise to me
though! The Lamido of Rey Bouba enjoys the same privilege! He is allowed to
build a state within the State.
I better understand the reaction of
Boh Herbert after reading these reports! That such things can be possible and
that men intended to protect their people and render justice to them can
instead wage war on everyone is a subject of meditation to everyone involved in
politics in our country and willing to bring about a Cameroon where the rule of
law is the guarantee of every man’s security, where every Cameroonian is at
home everywhere in the country and where fairness in politics propels our
country out of the reign of darkness the Yaoundé regime has plunged us into! Our
generation has to work for the advent of that Cameroon!
By Rev Jonathan
Awasom
It does not matter what you say.
What matters is what you have learned about dead as it will visit you one day. Let
him wake up from the golden coffin and golden grave and bite us again?
Demi-gods who are still helpless before the true and awesome God never learn
any lesson of humility and humanity. When given power they think power was
meant to kill and exploit the people as they like it without consequences. Then
not long they are dead like a rat. Frail and vain!
Yes, we can big mouth and feel
really relieved because we were thinking that tyrants, dictators, killers and
murderers were above dead. So, when they, too become helpless when dead comes
knocking, then we are left scratching our heads and wondering why they were
killing and destroying lives and property in the first place? This is what you
should be rationalizing on if you think that you can reason over some
unreasonable things in life! Take the big mouth as a warning to those of you
who are NARROW-MINDED! Your turn is coming soon whether you rise up to the moon
and back, dead is waiting everyone who is "from dust you were made and to
dust you shall return" Mortal men never ever can give in to defeat when
the truth resurrects
You are trying to be rationale with
evil? Is it everything that you have to rationalize? What about humanization of
humanity so that reason should not overcome your conscience and compassion for
the living. The people big mouthed when he was alive and they are still big
mouthing but Konde can you CPDM folks commit these crimes again? You did in
those days and you know that this cannot happen again at this moment in
history. So, you can lament all you want! He is not our Fon. We just care about
the victims and not about his office.
By SAF
This
man, Doh, was a criminal. Forget party affiliation. It doesn't matter to me.
Graffi culture is very resolute when it comes to abuse of power by a king. They
will get rid of him in a heart-beat. How can his "soul" if there is
any such thing, rest in peace? There are many of his victims whose
"souls" are not resting in peace. In ancient times, this criminal
would have been summarily executed by his kwifo.
By Sam
By Sam
I
do not disagree with you. But for the sake of the living and the Fon's loved
ones who committed no crimes against humanity, we are called upon to respect
the culture of the Bali people. After seven days or so, we can in anger, exhume
the body, burn it and take the ashes to lake Oku, for disposal. Then legend and
posterity will spell out what a scumbag the dude
was.
By Barrister Sichui John Kameni
was.
By Barrister Sichui John Kameni
By Sam Esale
What
does the Bali culture teach us about the dead? Which one of you has been to a
funeral and told the mourners that the one lying in the casket, CPDM or SDF,
deserved to die? Where is the common decency and respect for the Bali culture
and tradition? There is time for everything under the sun. A time to mourn and
a time for judgment and condemnation.
Vengeance is mine", said the Lord God of Host.*My peace I leave with you.
By Emmanuel Konde
Vengeance is mine", said the Lord God of Host.*My peace I leave with you.
By Emmanuel Konde
We
have a bunch of Cameroonians who are as hateful as the people they condemn. How
does one undertake the useless task of insulting a dead man? And for what
purpose? Just to inflame the passions of the living and further the vicious
cycle of hate? Circumspection and the goodness that inhabits rational humans
dictate that we desist from speaking ill of the dead, for they are no longer
here to defend themselves. Let their evil deeds depart with them, and the good
ones be proclaimed, if any. Otherwise, simply maintain a guarded silence.
Circumspection!
By Manu
We must
all be witnessing the rebirth of the Guru. With all the insults and negative
scrutiny that have been brought against Muna and Foncha, I'm truly flattered that
our Guru is coming out openly in defense of a Graffi Fon. We must desist from
speaking about any atrocities committed by a despotic Fon or leader from the
Northwest as long as it is done in the name of CPDM. Uhmm!!! How about that? I
can't wait to read that objective Text Book on the political history of LRC
written by our very own.
By Ni Kehbuma-Mo-Tachuh
A giant
has fallen!! When the rumor first went round here, I we could not believe it
because people like that do not die easily. Whenever my memories take me back
to when HRH Gahgwanyin was enthroned as King, I always shouted “Long Live
Gwanyinyi” When he was enthroned; he used violence (the whip) to scare away
most of his notables and “Nchinted” from the palace. In the end he needed the
assistance of the administration to rally them back. Indeed that name
“Gahgwanyin” seems to conjure up a lot of violence and dictatorship. When he
started behaving in that manner, an elder informed me that “Gagwanyin I” also
behaved in the same manner during the German Era and had a lot of difficulties
with the German Administration. Why should anybody called “Gwanyinyi” not
behave like one? The Hyena or what the Bali call “Gwanyinyi” is a redoubtable
carnivorous animal that seizes its prey from Lions and Leopards. Leopards
sometimes get out of their way by carrying their booty up the tree. Lions have
nothing to do but to surrender to them since they always attack in a band.
“Gwanyinyi” is therefore an animal that is feared by even the King of the
Forest. The name is a very perfect name for a Chamba King since it befits
them!! We should not therefore blame our friend Galabe for behaving the way he
did. It is the name that was controlling him. The King is dead. Long live the
King!!
About
the author
