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| Justice Benjamin Itoe: New CDC Board chairman |
Itoe
Mutanga is a judge and has on several times been one minister or another in
Cameroon. Born September 23, 1942 in Bombe-Kumba in the South West region,
Benjamin Itoe did his university studies in Lagos before enrolling at the
National School of Administration and Magistracy, ENAM in Yaounde in 1968.
After
leaving ENAM in September 1969, he was appointed deputy to the prosecutor of
Buea judges. Meanwhile as a member of government, he served as minister of
transport (1984) and minister of justice (1985).The CDC, it should be recalled,
is the second employer in the country after the government and the largest
employer in the private sector.
Meanwhile Meme elite have extended a motion of
thanks to the president of the republic for the appointment of one of theirs as
the CDC board chairman. Speaking to The Guardian Post hours after the
appointment of Justice Benjamin Itoe, Ebongo Zacheus Nanje, an elite of Meme
described the appointment as being very timely reason why they have every
reason to celebrate. Hear him: ‘‘ I feel like is the people of Mbonge who have
been honoured because we have robber estate in Mbonge and palms plantation…Our people
will feel a sense of belonging. The head of state has made us in Meme to know
that the post of CDC board chairman is reserved for them .’’
For
his part, the secretary general of the South West Elite Association, Nganda Rudolf said the different ministerial
positions that Justice Benjamin Itoe occupied
would help him ably sit on the Cameroon Development Corperation board
chairman throne.
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