What have their children become? (cont'd).

He passed away at the Yaounde General Hospital on March 28, 2012 at the age of 77.

The late politician is survived by several children, all of whom are seemingly doing well in life.

Two of the children are based in the USA. Yaah Tamfu Patience is a US-based medic and politician. She is a trained nursed and also heads the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, CPDM USA Section. Tamfu Emmanuel also based in the USA is a businessman.

The others are Prof Tamfu Wilson Nyako of the University of Bamenda. He has also served in the University of Buea. Another child of the late statesman is Tamfu Eric Yinda who works at the Prime Minister’s office in Yaounde. Tamfu Mercy and Tamfu Mcknight are government teachers and Tamfu Blessing is a business woman in Yaounde.

Sylvester Kilo Kindzeka

Sylvester Kilo Kindzeka, native of Jakiri in Bui Division of the then North West Province became one of the most prominent businessman and politician in Cameroon between 1959 and 1977 when he passed on to eternity.

He lived for 45 years but his success stories are abound. Born in Sob, Jakiri on February 10, 1932, Kilo attended primary school in Shisong and proceeded to do his secondary school studies at St Joseph College Sasse.

He entered the civil service as Government Cooperative Inspector in 1952. He later studied at the Ibadan Cooperative College where he graduated and started work in 1955 as the first qualified Government Cooperative Inspector of Southern Cameroon.

He however resigned from government service in 1959 and started another career in business as a registered building contractor. He managed several businesses which included; the first agency in Cameroon in the sale of Toyota vehicles, sales and distribution of Jute bags.

He was also proprietor of Kilo Comprehensive College in his village of birth. The school is today managed by the Catholics and was renamed Saint Sylvester’s College.

Kilo also opened the first hotel in Bamenda, New City Hotel at Abakwa Old Town.  His company, KILO Brother’s Ltd employed over 300 Cameroonians including expatriate technicians.

As a business magnate, late S.K Kilo contributed immensely to the development of Cameroon. Apart from being a successful businessman, Kilo served Cameroon in several other capacities.

He was Bui Section President of the ruling CPDM for eleven years. Before then, he was member of the Cameroon National Union, CNU, party which was transformed to CPDM.

Kilo was also member of the Cameroon Chamber of Commerce, member of Mutuelle Agricole, an insurance company, and Secretary of Denmark International Seminar where he represented Cameroon in 1966.

We are told that Sylvester Kilo was the first man from the Nso land to be given an official burial, decreed by the then Head of State, President Ahmadou Ahidjo.

This, being that he died while serving as Vice President of the Economic and Social Council. He was that father who ensured that his children had the best of education in other to secure a bright future for them.

He was married to four wives and 16 of his 17 biological children are alive and doing excellently well in various sectors of life. Some are in the education, telecommunications, health, business among other sectors.

One of his daughters, Dr Asheri Kilo is currently serving as Secretary of State in the Ministry of Basic Education.

She had previously lectured at the University of Buea and also held the position of Technical Adviser No.1 in the Ministry of Culture.

His other children, Maureen Kilo Arrotin and Kila Sylvia Kilo, are based in in Belgium and United States of America respectively. Both children are said to be doing well in the healthcare sector.

His other child, Caro Kilo Bara, works for the United Nations Population Fund in Cameroon.

The Kilo brothers; Lawrence Kilo and Benard Kilo, are information and telecommunication experts both based in USA. There is also Evelyn Kilo Tchombe who retired as staff of the National Assembly among several others.

Nerius Namaso Mbile

The late Nerius Namaso Mbile popularly known as N.N Mbile was a key figure in the history of West Cameroon, reunification and post-reunification era.

He played a frontline role in moving towards Cameroon’s reunification. The native of Lipenja in what is today Ndian Division of the South West Region thought of late, is a moving personality in the circles of  those who did their  best to build today’s Cameroon. 

Mbile according to his own account, estimated that he was born sometime in 1923. He attended the Native Authority School in Lipenja, Government School Kumba, and the then Buea Government School  before moving to the Umuahia Government College and Hope Waddel Training Institute in Nigeria.

These were the best schools at that time. He obtained a senior Cambridge Certification in December 1945. He returned to teaching for a year and later and joined the Ziks Group of Newspapers as a reporter in Lagos before being posted to serve as a correspondent in Cameroon.

Mbile later gained influence and was elected General Secretary of Cameron Development Corporation, CDC Workers’ Union to succeed Dr E.M.L Endeley who had moved to the post of President of the union. He later served as president of the same union between 1950 and 1951.

He later got elected as member of the Eastern House of Assembly in Enugu and Nigerian House of Representative in Lagos. From 1957 to 1972, he member of the  Southern Cameroons House of  Assembly, Minister of  Works and  Transport, Southern Cameroon; Secretary of State, Works and Transport  West Cameroon.

He also served as Secretary of State, Land and Surveys and Secretary of State in charge of Primary Education. Mbile also served as Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the CDC from 1992 before he slept in the Lord in August 2003.

Despite his hectic political and professional career as a trade unionist and journalist, N.N Mbile had a successful home. His children are working in different sectors of national life.

The first of his children, Roland Mbile is a retired gendarme. There is Penda Victor Mbile who once worked with the Ministry of Transport. He resigned and is now in the movie industry as an actor. The third of his children was Hon Chief Nobert Mbile who is of late. The late MP was a tutor, politician and traditional ruler.

The fourth of the late statesman children is Charles Bekome Mbile who is a retired treasury inspector. The fifth of his children, Edith Imeri Mbile is a tutor believed to be still in active service.

The Director of Conservation at World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF, Dr Peter Mbile, is the 6th child of the late statesman. There is Natalia Mbile who once worked with the international organisation, Plan International, as a Senior Manager.

The eight of his children is Solomon Tapea Mbile, current General Manager of PAMOL Plantations PLC. Tapea worked for over 24 years as a senior official with the CDC.

Prof Peter Agbor Tabi

He was born on February 24, 1951, in Ndekwai village in Manyu Division of the South West Region. He died on April 26, 2016, at the age of 65. 

Professor Peter Agbor Tabi from a humble background worked and rose through the ranks politically and academically to become of the most powerful Anglophone President Paul Biya ever worked with.

As at the time of his death, he was Deputy Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic. He was also traditional ruler of Ndekwai.   Agbor Tabi studied at Government Bilingual High School, GBS, Molyko.

He later studied at the University of Yaounde obtaining a degree in bilingual letter before moving over to the United States for further studies.

Chief Prof Peter Agbor Tabi returned from the United States with a Masters degree and a PhD obtained from the University of South Carolina.

He later taught at the International Relations Institute of Cameroon, IRIC, rising through the ranks to become Deputy Director General and Director General in 1984 and 1988 respectively.

In July 1994, he was appointed Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research. He occupied the position till September 1997. He had the mandate of operationalizing several state universities that were created during that decade.

He then became Pro Chancellor of the University of Buea and Board chairperson of the University of Yaounde. He was left in the cold for 12 years until in June 2009 when Biya brought him back into government as Deputy Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic.

On April 18, 2015, he suffered a malaise while taking part in the solidary march against Boko Haram in Buea. He will months later, that is in July 2015, he was flown to the American Hospital in Paris for treatment before he died in 2016.

As concerns his children, Agbor Tabi is said to have been married to an American woman with whom he had two kids. One of them, Agbor Tabi Samuel is said to be a businessman in Yaounde while the daughter is said to be in the United States of America with the Mother.

Dr Emmanuel Mbela Lifafa Endeley

Emmanuel Mbela Lifafa Endeley was a celebrated political figure in the history Cameroon’s reunification and independence.  He was first Prime Minister of former British Southern Cameroons [present day North West and South West regions], in 1957. Born April 10, 1916, in Buea, the Bakweri Prince died in June 1988.

After studying medicine on a government scholarship at the Nigerian School of Medicine in Yaba in 1935, he joined the colonial service and took the post of Assistant Medical Officer in 1942, before serving in 1945 as Chief Medical Officer in Buea. He would later move to serve in same capacity in Lagos and Port Harcourt.

Endeley led Southern Cameroonian representatives out of the Eastern Nigerian House of Assembly in Enugu and negotiated the creation of the autonomous region of Southern Cameroons in 1954.

He was concerned with providing a voice for workers in British Southern Cameroons. As a medical student in 1939, he helped form the Cameroon Youth League, CYL, in Lagos and became its General Secretary.

In 1944, he was a founding member of the Bakweri Improvement Union and in 1946, after the United Nation's approved a British trusteeship for Eastern Cameroon. Endeley returned home to join the union organisers of the Cameroon Development Corporation, CDC, and later became its in Secretary in 1949.

Endeley organised and participated in petitioning United Nations delegations and in organising general strikes, founded of the Cameroons National Federation, CNF, in 1949, and later served as its president before it was transformed to Cameroons National Congress, CNC.

Endeley was a delegate to the constitutional conference at Ibadan that introduced a new constitution, permitted elections into legislative seats and approved African nominees to a Council of Ministers.

Endeley-led CNC won the plurality of votes in the area and in 1951, and got elected to the Eastern Nigerian Assembly in Enugu where he was nominated to the Council of Ministers in 1952 as a minister without portfolio, between 1953 and 1954, he was the Minister of Labour.

He worked to have Southern Cameroons granted special regional status apart from Nigeria; when the Southern Cameroons Regional Assembly was formed as one of the founding members.

In 1953, Endeley joined John Ngu Foncha and Solomon Tandeng Muna in breaking from the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons, NCNC, to form the Kamerun National Congress, KNC, which advocated autonomy for Southern Cameroons. In 1954, British Cameroons became a federal territory with its own House of Assembly and executive council.

Endeley later began advocating greater integration of the territory with Nigeria. Endeley allied the KNC with the Kamerun's People Party, KPP, another pro-Nigeria group, but the coalition lost seats to the Kamerun National Democratic Party, KNDP, of Foncha and Muna.

He squeaked out a victory to become the first Prime Minister of Southern Cameroons in 1957 and in May 1960, his KNC merged with the KPP to form the Cameroons Peoples' National Convention, CPNC, to be the main opposition party to Foncha's KNDP.

After reunification with French Cameroun through the February 11, 1961, plebiscite, Endeley in the new federal state of Cameroon, Endeley and the CPNC took the role of Foncha's main opposition in West Cameroon. Endeley supported President Ahmadou Ahidjo's moves to create a one-party system in Cameroon. He served in several more posts in Cameroon before his death.

In 1965, Endeley became leader of government business for West Cameroon. He served as a member of the Cameroon National Union's central committee, and in 1966, he became president of the Fako section, a post he held until 1985. Endeley was also elected to the National Assembly of Cameroon.

The celebrated politician was married and had children. One of his son, the late Dr Herbert Ngando Endeley, was the Deputy Vice Chancellor in charge of Research and Cooperation at the University of Buea.

He was also the pioneer Registrar of the University of Buea, and one of the pillars of that institution since its creation in 1993. Dr Nganjo Endeley held a Bachelor of Science degree with Honours and a PhD in Agriculture from the University of Ibadan in 1975 and 1979 respectively.

He was Graduate Assistant in the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and became Assistant Lecturer at Ecole Nationale Superieure Agronomique, ENSA, in Yaounde, before he was promoted Associate Professor of Animal Science.

He served as Head of the Teaching and Research Farm of ENSA, Deputy Director of ENSA, Director of Institute des Technques Agricole of University of Dschang, and moved to the Ministry of Higher Education where he served as Chief of Service in charge of Higher Technical and Professional Training and Chief of Service in charge of Graduate and Higher Technical Education respectively.

He was pioneer Registrar of University of Buea, and also the Chairperson of Cameroon General Certificate of Education Board, Chairman of Cameroon Mountains Conservation Foundation, CAMCOF, and published a good number of scientific and professional articles, manuals and conference communications.

EML Endeley’s other son, Dr Robert Esuka Mbella Lifafa Endeley V, is now first class traditional ruler and the paramount ruler of Buea.

The 47-year-old assumed full function as the seventh paramount ruler of Buea Saturday March 19, 2022. Another child of the late politician is Ndemba Endeley. Our findings indicates that Ndemba is a businessman.

Chief Samuel Moka Lifafa Endeley

Samuel Moka Lifafa Endeley, who died July 7, 2015, aged 92, was the paramount ruler of Buea in Fako Division of the South West Region.

He was the 10th ruler to occupy the throne. He mounted the throne in 1990, eight years after the demise of his uncle, Chief Mbella Endeley III, in 1982. It should be noted that Chief Endeley was a degree holder in pharmaceutical sciences from Nigeria. Yet many Cameroonians knew him as a lawyer.

In 1959, he obtained a diploma in law in London, England. In 1966, he was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court in the former West Cameroon. He held this position until the reunification of the two Cameroons. He also was the first Anglophone Cameroonian to sit as judge in the Supreme Court.

He was the first president of the Grand Fako Section of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, CPDM. Chief Endeley was a statesman, lawyer, judge, pharmacist, politician, churchman and custodian of tradition.

He was behind several projects aimed at enhancing the development and the empowerment of Bakweri people, such as the Fako Loans Scholarship Scheme, which enabled most of Fako children to be in great positions today.

He was an epitome of ancestral values, a man who defended the sacred principles of the culture. Chief Endeley has been described as a man who was born great, who achieved greatness, had greatness and possessed immense leadership qualities and selflessness.

Chief Endeley is survived by six children, but the most prominent among them are Charles Efungani Endeley and Alexander Ngomba Endeley.

Charles Endeley is a communicator. He worked at Cameroon Develop