Media reports say the power tussle pits the First Deputy City Mayor, Karen Nora Tanga epse Wouapit against the Secretary-General of the Limbe City Council, Kinge Thompson Molonge.

On the morning of Friday, November 26, 2021, Gilbert Acha Nkweti, Permanent Secretary at the South West Governor’s Office was at the Limbe City Council to douse the flames occasioned by the unending power tussle.

Sources familiar with the story say Nkweti’s Friday closed-door meeting was at the instance of South-West Governor, Okalia Bilai Bernard.

Although very little has filtered out of the meeting, we learned that it was aimed at resolving the stalemate that exists between the First Deputy City Mayor, Karen Nora Tanga against the Secretary-General of the Limbe City Council, Kinge Thompson Molonge.

Friday’s in-camera meeting chaired by the Permanent Secretary at the South West Governor’s Office was attended among others by all the three sub-divisional mayors of Limbe as well as Divisional Officers, the 1st Assistant Senior Divisional Officer for Fako, the 1st and 2nd deputy city mayors and the secretary-general of the Limbe City Council.

It remains to be seen if the learned civil administrator, Gilbert Acha Nkweti succeeded to resolve the power tussle that has since enveloped the Limbe City Council.

Following the August renewal of basic organs of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM), tensions between party members in Limbe have reached palpitating proportions.

Limbe has been engulfed in a fierce political power tussle with plots being hatched to destabilize the city mayor, Motanga Andrew Monjimba, and some of his allies who before now got political protection from Hon. Monjoa Emilia Lifaka of blessed memory.

In a desperate attempt to calm the stormy rocking the CPDM boat in Limbe, Engamba Emmanuel Ledoux, Senior Divisional Officer, SDO, for Fako waded in.

On Tuesday, November 16, 2021, Engamba convened City Councillors of the Limbe City Council, the three mayors of the respective sub-divisional councils along with the Divisional Officers of the same jurisdictions as well as the two deputy City Mayors of Limbe.

Meeting at the Boardroom of the Limbe City Council, the SDO warned against calculated attempts to jeopardize the peace that Limbe has since enjoyed.

In delivering his carefully crafted riot act, Engamba said the rancorous atmosphere tormenting the CPDM party appears to be aimed at destabilizing the City Mayor, Motanga Andrew Monjimba, and his aides.

The SDO said echoes that some City Councillors are spoiling to convene an extraordinary session of the Limbe City Council in the absence of the City Mayor, who is on sick leave, has reached Yaoundé.

The Senior Divisional Officer for Fako said Tuesday’s meeting was convened at the behest of his hierarchy in Yaoundé.

Engamba warned that any attempts to perturb the social peace in Limbe ahead of the January and February Africa Football Cup of Nations (AFCON) will meet with the heavy arm of the law.

His meeting apparently failed to calm the storms, forcing the Permanent Secretary at the South West Governor’s Office to weigh in.