Mayor of the Year 2011: Mme Ketcha Courtes |
The Watchdog Tribune 10th anniversary celebration came and passed at Ayaba Hotel conference hall on Saturday April 7, 2012 but tongues are still wagging in Bamenda and its neighbourhood about the highlights of the occasion.
Although Fons, Mayors, Principals and Businessmen who matter were among the laureates, one distinguished Mayor called the shot. This was nobody else but the Mayor of Bangante Council of the Nde Division of West Region, Mme Celestine Ketcha Courtes. Her arrival at the premises of the Ayaba Hotel tickled all and sundry-given the unceasing chanting of the Bangante sons and daughters based in Bamenda.
For those who thought Mayor Ketcha Courtes and her powerful Delegation were to make their entry to the ceremonial hall for the event, they got it all wrong. North-West Fons numbering over a score, invited Mayor Celestine Ketcha and her Delegation to Fon Chafah XI of Bangolan’s Palace at Foncha Street, Bamenda to show case her importance.
After a brave communion with the Fons, the Fons ushered Mayor Ketcha and her entourage among whom was her French-born husband, to the Ayaba Hotel ceremonial hall for the occasion proper.
The triumphant entry into the hall was again greeted by a standing ovation, cheering and chanting most especially by hundreds of her Nde elite in Bamenda who turned out in their numbers to cheer their award winning Mayor.
As if the population was waiting solely for Mayor Ketcha Courtes to kick-start the occasion, the National Anthem commenced when Mayor Ketcha et al, were about to take their seats. Needless to stress here that the long wait by the population after all, did not bother the cream of laureates at the occasion when The Watchdog Tribune Publisher/Editor, Ezikiel Dotta, disclosed the caliber of Mayor, Mme Ketcha Courtes is especially her connections with Cameroon’s First Lady, Chantal Biya. Her introduction was again greeted with another standing ovations and cheers.
Another highlight at the occasion was when Mayor Ketcha Courtes was specially decorated by former Minister, Bochong Francis Nkwain, with a sage carrying the tri-colours, as The All-Round Best Mayor of the year in the West Region.
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