From
Michael Ndi in Bamenda
The former SDF mayor of Tubah
council, Stanislaus Sofa and the council engineer, Chick Jeh Emmanuel, were on
Tuesday, November 4, arrested for alleged embezzlement of council funds. The
two were by press time yesterday detained at the Bamenda central prison where
they are awaiting trial.
Both men would have to face
charges of embezzling the sum of 46 MFCFA during Sofa’s reign as Tubah council
mayor. The money, reports say, was building permit fee that was not paid into
the council’s coffers. “We, the councillors, set up a committee and
investigated the amount the council engineer and former mayor, Stanislaus Sofa,
raised from the building permit fee which stands at over 46MFCFA,” a councillor
told The Guardian Post.
Beside the 46MFCFA racket, the
duo are currently being interrogated over another missing 26 MFCFA which he claimed was used to
transfer furniture from the former council to the new chambers. In the last
Tubah council evaluation meeting, the councillors were surprised when the SDO
for Mezam, Nguele Nguele Felix, suspended the committee from investigating the
26 MFCFA scandal. To this day, councillors in Tubah are still wondering how
files and a few items could be transferred for 26 MFCFA over a distance of less
than a kilometre.
It’s worth noting that the SDF
investiture committee was rather in favour of Stanislaus Sofa who was floored
by the incumbent mayor. SDF councillors had overwhelmingly voted Martin Tanjong
as Tubah mayor in defiance of orders from Fru Ndi and the SDF investiture
committee that Sofa be retained.
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