TWO FIRST-TIME MAYORS

TWO FIRST-TIME MAYORS Among The Council mayors who were elected in the September 30 municipal elections are two first-time mayors worthy of special note. They are Francis Wache who is mayor of Nkor Council and Caroline Bongwa who is mayor of Bamenda I Council. Prior to his election as mayor, Wache was a lecturer at the Local Government Training School in Buea, headquarters of the South West Region, where he put in a total of 23 years. Behind all of that he had a keen interest in journalism and was actually one of the brains behind the highly successful but short-lived Cameroon Time magazine of some decades ago. Wache was co-presenter of the critical and incisive CRTV television programme, CRTV Club, of which Kenneth Asobo was in charge. However, the new mayor will be remembered most for his pioneering role in The Post, ongoing newspaper for which he was publisher and Executive Editor. Caroline Bih Bongwa has gone on record as the first female mayor to be installed in the cluster of the three councils: Bamenda I, Bamenda II and Bameda III. She is of course, mayor of Bamenda I. Running as a candidate for the ruling CPDM party, Bongwa has taken the Council from the opposition SDF team that was led by outgone Mayor Simon Acho. She has a rich track record as a High School administrator and a Regional Chief within the Regional Delegation for Women`s Empowerment and the Family. Over and above that, she is widely viewed as a person who is caring and willing to listen.