Allies of Henry Njalla Quang

The ruling party and government officials began assessing how useful he (Henry Njalla Quang) could be. Some within the government even wanted him to be appointed Prime minister. While Mr Quang had a lot of potentials, some government elites nonetheless resolved to propose for the post of prime minister, the name Peter Mafany Musonge. And in 1996, Mr Musonge, General Manager of Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC) was appointed Prime minister. It was a political battle fought between the Bakweris of Victoria-Limbe against those of Buea. The latter won because of reasons I had already mentioned and also because, even though Mr Quang is a native of Victoria-Limbe, his ancestry on his paternal side posed a problem to a government that, had earlier ignited the flame of tribal and ethnic xenophobia, in a bid to win and secure power in Cameroon in general and Anglophone Cameroon in particular. Even though Henry Njalla Quang had lost out to Musonge, he was later on appointed General Manager of CDC. Mr Quang also had his political allies within the ruling party in Anglophone Cameroon and also in Francophone Cameroon, but they weren’t as strong as those of Mr Musonge. Top amongst them were Chief Inoni Ephraim, who had respectively held the post of Secretary General at the ministry of Finance and the first deputy Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic and is currently Prime minister.

His other allies were: late Moussa Tchouta Mbatam, former ruling party MP of the Nde division in the West province and former Director General of the National Ports Authority of Cameroon, with headquarters in Douala and Thomas Tobbo Eyoum MP who was the former lord mayor of the Greater Douala city council. Henry Njalla Quang who became the darling of the ruling party, the presidency of the Republic and members of government seemed to have achieved a lot , but his promotions and potentials was notwithstanding short or not enough to meet or fulfil his aspirations for the post of Prime minister. He may have thought that, his activism in sports and also the fact that, he resisted the onslaughts of Mrs Victoria Tomedi Ndando MP and John Ebai Tang MP, who were both hyperactive members of the opposition Social Democratic Front (SDF) and the second doubling as mayor of Victoria-Limbe, made him a suitable candidate for the post of prime minister . But as already mentioned, he lost and perhaps he will be appointed Prime minister during the next appointment in 2011. While Mr Quang was struggling to be appointed prime minister, his friend (Thomas) was squaring off with another political animal called John Epee Mandengue. In that battle, blood was bound to flow, for Thomas Tobbo Eyoum knew that, if he doesn’t destroy John Epee Mandengue, he (Thomas) will be the one to be destroyed politically.