It was a black Saturday February 1, 2025 in Fako Division, South West Region of Cameroon as news break out at about 1:30am that the former, Mayor of Tiko Council, and Chief of Ebonji village in Tiko Subdivision, HRH Chief Moukondo Daniel Ngande was dead after a brief malaise.
Family members, Ebonji villagers, former employees of Tiko Council, Media friends among others all shared tears of the passing away of the former opposition run Council Mayor.
Mayor, Moukondo Daniel became Mayor of Tiko Council on October 16, 2013 after the municipal elections of September 30, 2013. He was elected on the ticket of the opposition, Social Democratic Front, SDF party.
He served two consecutive mandates as Mayor of Tiko from 1999 to 2002 and second mandate 2013-2020
Late Mayor, Moukondo Daniel apparently fell out of favour with local leadership of the party in the bill up to the February 9, 2020 municipal elections.
The SDF Chair at that time refused to include his name on the list of candidates who were to run for the municipal elections on the SDF ticket in Tiko. Prelude to the elections he was enthroned Chief of Ebonji village on January 31, 2020.
Meanwhile later in the day at 4pm, Fako got another sad news that the Chief of Mapanja in the Bonjongo court in Buea Subdivision HRH Chief Ngeke Ngando Peter was dead.
According to report KNews gathered, Chief Ngeke Ngando was hospitalised at Limbe Regional Hospital Mile I. He was a retired worker of SONARA security service
Reacting to KNews shortly after the demise of Chief Ngeke Ngando, Gabriel Mbene said “he became very close to me because he was a Councillor under the Banner of the SDF Party in 1996”,
“When chief of Service of the Human Resources of the Limbe Urban Council at the time. So we had a good working Relations”.
BY SIMON NDIVE KALLA
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L-R Late Chief Moukondo Daniel Ngande of Ebonji village and HRH Chief Ngeke Ngando Chief of Mapanja village
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