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34-year-old new mayor for Mamfe Council

2020-03-03
No: 475

34-year-old new mayor for Mamfe Council.

Fresh impetus has been injected into the political fabric of Mamfe with a young and enterprising youth sitting at the helm of its council. He is 34-year-old Ashu Priestly Ojong. On Tuesday February 25, 2020, all the 25 councillors of Mamfe Council, in the Mamfe Council Hall, gave him their votes by acclamation as their new mayor. He will be assisted by Agbor Benson Besong as First Deputy Mayor and Betek John Agbor as Second Deputy Mayor. The elections in the presence of the Senior Divisional Officer for Manyu, Oum II Joseph, unfolded in total serenity.

Ashu Preiestly Ojong assured the population that he will keep to this campaign promises. Working together with his deputies and population as a team, he pledged to revamp all projects abandoned in Mamfe in the face of the sociopolitical upheavals in the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon. In this Light, hygiene and sanitation will be improved. There will be rehabilitation of tarred streets. Files waiting Ashu Priestly on his desk are on making every neigbourhood in Mamfe accessible, extension of electricity to parts of Mamfe Municipality still in darkness, installation of security lights to improve on the security situation in Mamfe Municipality, among others.

Manyu Division with its four municipal councils on February 25, 2020 had three newcomers as mayors with one mayor retained. Mamfe Council welcomed Ashu Priestly Ojong, Etchu Joseph Eyong won the incumbent, Chief Bate Epey Robert in Tinto Council by 15 votes to seven.

The traditional ruler of Eyumojock overpowered the incumbent Julius Nkom. In Akwaya, Ekwalle Martin Ekwalle remains in office as mayor.

Culled from Cameroon Tribune