The oldest senate died this Saturday, April 10, 2021 following illness at the Yaoundé general hospital.
After Prof. Gervais Mendo Ze, Cameroon mourns another of its children in the person of Chief Fon Victor Mukete, the Senior Citizen of the Senate. He died this Saturday, April 10, 2021 from illness, at Yaoundé General Hospital. The information was made public by CRTV, in the 7 o’clock newspaper edition. We remember that it was the Senior Citizen of the Senate who chaired the work leading to the re-election of Marcel Niat Njifenji as head of the upper house.
In short, it should be noted that the Senior Citizen of the Senate was the supreme leader of the Bafaw in the Southwest region. In 2020 he ceded his throne to his son Ekoko IV Mukete within his community. In the field of politics, He was a major player in reunification in the 1960s, and was one of the country’s memory keepers and author of the book “My Odyssey: History of Cameroon’s Reunification”.
He is considered until today as one of the country’s memory keepers. He is the author of the book “My Odyssey: History of the Reunification of Cameroon”.
He also chaired the board of directors of Cameroon Telemunications (CAMTEL), and had resigned from this post in March 2018, the year of his centenary on earth.
The former supreme leader of the Bafaw in the South-West region, although physically weakened, had chaired the opening plenary of the parliamentary session of March 2021 in the Senate in his capacity as senior citizen of the Senate.
The black series continues in the Republic, mourned in the space of ten days by the disappearances of Alim Hayatou Garga, the Secretary of State to the Minister of Public Health, the former Minister of Public Works, Martin Aristide Okouda, Princess Rabiatou Njoya, sister of Sultan Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya, or the former Director General of Cameroon Radio Television, Professor Gervais Mendo Ze.
