Chronicle publisher loses wife!

The Publisher/Editor of Cameroon’s authoritative and leading English language newspaper; Motomu Eric Mbah is bereaved. He lost his beautiful and charming wife, Motomu Mbah Stella, last Friday, after an illness.

Before the cool hands of death snatched Stella at the Jamot Hospital last Friday, she had battled with on and off ill-health for several years. “If money could buy life, my daughter Stella would not have died because the husband, Motomu Eric was ever ready to cough out any amount the doctors demanded”, her crest-fallen mother told The Guardian Post in Yaounde just minutes after she gave up the ghost.

Her mortal remains were immediately conveyed to the Bamenda Regional Hospital mortuary while removal and eventual burial in Batibo (the home town of the husband) will take place on Saturday September 6, 2012.

Until her death, Stella was an ELECAM cadre in Mbengwi. She died at the age of 36 years; leaving behind her mother, husband and two children to mourn her untimely departure to the world beyond.

It should be recalled; regrettably, that the death, last Friday, of Mbah Motomu Stella brings to three, just within two months the wives of English Language newspaper publishers.

The Publisher/Editor of The Standard Tribune, Nforngwa Eugene Ndiboti lost the wife in August 2012, while Peterkins Manyong, Publisher/Editor of The Independent Observer buried his just last Tuesday. Just like Motomu, Peterkins’ wife died after an unsuccessful battle with protracted ill-health.