Frontline All Anglophone Conference actor, Ekontang Elad, dies!.

One of the frontline organisers of the All Anglophone Conference, AAC, and leading activist of the now proscribed Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, Barrister Sam Ekontang Elad, has died at an advanced age, his family confirmed yesterday.

The British-trained lawyer, who fronted the creation of a federal system of government in Cameroon, died in Buea yesterday.

 At press time last night, the circumstances building up to his demise were still sketchy.

However, it was gathered that the now late Barrister Ekontang Elad had been battling with an illness for months. 

He is said to have been hospitalised at the Buea Regional Hospital from where he succumbed to the cold hands of death yesterday. 

A member of the Cameroon Bar Association, Barrister Ekontang, was enjoying his retirement in Buea before he took ill.

Before his demise, Barrister Ekontang had disappeared from public view.

He however made a rare media outing some weeks ago, during which he commented on the ongoing Anglophone crisis.

"I must be clear on this; they said it will be difficult to get the member states to vote for complete independence. But in the corridors of the Uinted Nations, UN, they said to us that if people took up arms, UN might step in," Barrister Ekontang Elad had recounted what he was told at the UN Head Office in New York in the presence of Muna and Foncha.

Meanwhile, following his demise, several persons have taken to social media to pay him tribute. His demise has been described as not only a great loss to his South West Region of origin but Cameroon as a whole.

A social media user, reacting to news of his demise, described the late Ekontang Elad as a soft-spoken, intelligent and elegant lawyer.

He recalled that Barrister Ekontang Elad was “one of the advocates of ‘the force of argument and not the argument of force’ on the Anglophone case which some unscrupulous people have used to spoil this beautiful country”.

Similarly, another social media user said Barrister Ekontang was “a great man who was amongst the architects of the fight for the Anglophone cause in the early 1990s through the All-Anglophone Conferences”.

He said “Barrister Ekontang was an untiring Anglophone nationalist with sterling qualities. Not like some today who are too quick to exchange their cause for a few banknotes”. Barrister Ekontang was trained as a lawyer in the United Kingdom, UK. 

When he returned to Cameroon, he practiced for decades as a lawyer. During his active days as advocate, he occupied several posts of responsibility within the Cameroon Bar Association.

Amongst other responsibilities, he served as representative of the President of the Bar Council for the South West Region. Besides being a lawyer, Barrister Ekontang Elad was also a community mobiliser.  He once served as Chairman of the Opportunities Industrialisation Centre, OIC, Buea.

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