Fomuki Appears From The Bavarian Woods

In the traditions of the Meta of the North West of Cameroon, a Fon (chief) never dies, he travels. Such was the case with the 77 years old, HRH Patrick Nji Fomuki who embarked on a journey to his ancestral mountains on 27 January 2015.

Sons and daughters of Guneku assembled on the palace grounds of the village on 27 February 2015 for the return of HRH Fomuki in younger and energetic clothing.

HRH Fomuki Walters Ticha Fomujang ascended to the throne of Guneku early afternoon of 27 January 2015 looking energetic and revitalized.

He was led for the public presentation by HRH Fon Fominyen Fometa, who reserves the traditional crowning right as the genitor of the Guneku ruling family. He had earlier reconciled with his son HRH Fomuki Patrick Nji who despised his father for 50 years.

After 50 years of royal chaos and conflict, sanity seems to return to Meta with the return of HRH Fomuki Ticha Walters Fomujang from the Bavarian forests where he apprenticed and practiced under German medical gurus as an urologist.

With a floral necklace, and a long wound n'dap (long African wrapper) as his only dress items, HRH Fomuki Walters was given a Christian enthronement with his father, HRH Fomiyen anointing him with olive oil. He was advised to despise witchdoctors and find wisdom in the power of God.

Speaker after speaker condemned the attempts by the local administration of Mbengwi to divide and rule Meta by creating new villages and new chiefs. HRH Senator Fon Teche Njei of Ngyenmuwa frowned at Divisional officers who believed it was their role to create chiefs.

The farmer-grazer conflicts also featured as one of the areas to be addressed by the new monarch. The Mbororo herdsmen had enjoyed of complicity with the former chieftain who shielded them from prosecution. The legal floodgates would open with long forgotten crimes by the herdsmen being prosecuted.

Friends and colleagues of the former chief trouped in from neighboring villages to sympathize the passing of the former chief and the return of his successor. The late HRH Fomuki was born in 1938 and he ascended to the throne of Guneku in 1965.

Fon Christopher Achobang
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