Divided Fako chiefs backstabs Nfon Mukete, want him evicted from SWECC

Members of the Fako Divisional Conference of Traditional Rulers, who have been wrecked apart by infighting over who should take over the mantle of leadership of the South West Chiefs Conference (SWECC), are now blackmailing Chief Senator Nfon Victor E. Mukete of undue occupation of the SWECC presidential seat.

In an open letter to the South West Governor titled: Overdue and abusive occupation of the SWECC presidential seat by H.M Senator Nfon Victor E. Mukete of Meme Division, the Fako Chiefs write;

“Your Excellency,

With honour and revered respect, we are, once more, drawing your very high attention to the overdue and abusive occupation of the SWEC Presidential seat by His Majesty Senator Nfon Victor E. Mukete of Meme Division.

The 14^th of May 2017 made exactly one year after the expiration of his mandate on the 14/5/2016. Despite all our efforts through letters and meetings with him, he has deliberately decided to give deaf ears to our several calls for the Elective General Assembly which is supposed to have been long hosted by Fako Division.

Instead of convening the General Assembly, he has rather opted, in complicity with some members of the outgoing executive, to stir confusion and anarchy amongst the ranks of the Fako Chiefs by challenging even decisions taken by our Conference. A vivid example is the case of some three (3) chiefs who were suspended and SWECC came out with famous disclaimer asserting that it’s only they who have the authority and mandate to sanction members when deemed necessary. This is a fallacy!

All of that was a calculated ploy to create the present stalemate while they continue to stay in office under the pretext that “Fako is not yet ready” to host the conference of the South West Chiefs.

Your Excellency,

We want to reiterate in very unequivocal terms that Fako Chiefs and their people cannot continue to be marginalised and trampled upon as if they are fools, by any Tom, Dick and Harry. It is even rumoured that HM Nfon Victor Mukete and his cohorts are planning to propose the hosting of the Elective General Assembly by another Division.

We cannot accept such an agenda and these are the reasons that again warrant us to prayerfully call on your personal intervention in your capacity as head of the Region to cause H.M Senator (Nfon) V.E  Mukete to respect the SWECC Constitution and urgently arrange his handing over of the leadership to Fako Division as stipulated and provided in the Articles of Association.

While looking forward for your positive reactions,

Accept, Your Excellency, our usual respectful considerations to your office and person.”

Meanwhile, despite the above claims by the Fako Chiefs, the Fako Divisional Conference of Traditional Rulers has been in total disarray following the instruction of SWECC for them to provide a successor to Chief Mukete.

Several meetings that have been held in this regards have often ended up in a deadlock. During the first conclave that was held in Limbe, three candidates namely; Chiefs Samuel Epupa Ikom, Etina Monono and Johnson Njombe, expressed their wish to succeed the paramount ruler of the Bafaws.

But these meetings ended in disorder as the chiefs failed to settle for a unique candidates. Several other meetings have been held in this regard, but the chiefs have been unable to come to a compromise as intrigues, machinations, backbiting and witch-hunting have taken over the chiefs campaigns.

It is because of the tense atmosphere and the animosity that have animated the search for Chief Mukete’s successor that the Senator said that Fako is not ready and that it will be plausible for SWECC that a different Division host the Chiefs’ Conference since Fako Chiefs are not ready to bury the hatchet.