dimanche 29 décembre 2013
HOW PROF. VICTOR ANOMAH NGU WAS SENT PACKING
HOW PROF. VICTOR ANOMAH NGU WAS SENT PACKING
Some time ago – and I think it was in 1988 – when Prof Victor Anomah Ngu was in Lonbdon and called my wife and I in Luton to announce his arrival, I left for London with my then two-year old daughter AZI AZONGA to see him. We met him at his hotel.
During that visit, Prof put on his stethoscope and while he was simulating an examination of Azi, I used his camera to snap the scene. Prof`s father, Pa Nazarius Ngu, was a renowned photographer and one of the first in Bamenda. In fact when an agro-pastoral show was held in the Grand north some decades ago, Prof. Anomah Ngu was the only minister who to his camera to the event and used it!
We chatted about a number of issues including how he was appointed Public Health Minister and how the day he was removed, his junior brother John Niba Ngu was appointed Minister of Agriculture. He gave me his view point. I asked him whether it was true that when someone once asked him why s a minister he had a gendarme behind him, he said the officer was there “to prevent him from escaping” (Lol). He also said it laughing. He said it was untrue.
Asked whether he had any embarrassing moments in his political career, he said: “Yes!” This he said was an incident while he was on trip to the USA with the Head of State, Paul Biya. One day some of the very top people at the Presidency who were also in the US and told him the president wanted him to return to Cameroon at once. “Alone?” he asked and the answer was a resounding “yes”. So he packed his bags and headed for the airport.
Hardly had he got there than the same people came rushing after him to say the president was looking for him. Prof said he realized that the people had tricked him for selfish reasons. Of course, when he was sent for no one told the president that they had asked him to leave. In order not to rock the boat, he also did not reveal the plan to the president.
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HOW PROF. VICTOR ANOMAH NGU WAS SENT PACKING
RépondreSupprimerSome time ago – and I think it was in 1988 – when Prof Victor Anomah Ngu was in Lonbdon and called my wife and I in Luton to announce his arrival, I left for London with my then two-year old daughter AZI AZONGA to see him. We met him at his hotel.
During that visit, Prof put on his stethoscope and while he was simulating an examination of Azi, I used his camera to snap the scene. Prof`s father, Pa Nazarius Ngu, was a renowned photographer and one of the first in Bamenda. In fact when an agro-pastoral show was held in the Grand north some decades ago, Prof. Anomah Ngu was the only minister who to his camera to the event and used it!
We chatted about a number of issues including how he was appointed Public Health Minister and how the day he was removed, his junior brother John Niba Ngu was appointed Minister of Agriculture. He gave me his view point. I asked him whether it was true that when someone once asked him why s a minister he had a gendarme behind him, he said the officer was there “to prevent him from escaping” (Lol). He also said it laughing. He said it was untrue.
Asked whether he had any embarrassing moments in his political career, he said: “Yes!” This he said was an incident while he was on trip to the USA with the Head of State, Paul Biya. One day some of the very top people at the Presidency who were also in the US and told him the president wanted him to return to Cameroon at once. “Alone?” he asked and the answer was a resounding “yes”. So he packed his bags and headed for the airport.
Hardly had he got there than the same people came rushing after him to say the president was looking for him. Prof said he realized that the people had tricked him for selfish reasons. Of course, when he was sent for no one told the president that they had asked him to leave. In order not to rock the boat, he also did not reveal the plan to the president.