| From the Eden Newspaper (Link to original post here) |
| By Jerry Manga Williams |
| Wednesday, 22 July 2009 18:35 |
| It is with sheer indignation that I have elected to provide this rejoinder against the last (above Re:) nay amid several correspondences intercepted either as a direct or carbon copy by my father, Crown Prince Jesco Manga Williams regarding the Limbe Paramount Chieftaincy. I should indicate to you that my father has never been kept abreast of the existence of the institution you dubbed Limbe sub-divisional advisory committee and it is beating my wildest imagination that same has ever been mentioned formally anywhere else. It is unwarranted of you to accuse my father as pretending. Someone should be telling you this in the stead. You also said I drove my father to your office where he ‘deposited his letter of candidature for the vacant stool’. I should remind you that all previous audiences my father granted you were in mere conjunction to the endeavour you were electing to ascertain your support for his enthronement, actions I now fathom as depraved, properly so called. Also, it is mentioned in your correspondence to the D.O that “…Because he has not got the support of the family, he went and never came back till date. Having now heard that his nephew, the son to the late Chief has the support of the Manga Williams family, he is now suffering from defeatism and trying to play the role of if ‘I cannot have it no one else should have it’” You should be ashamed of yourselves for writing such a preposterous stretch. Was it not you who came from - God knows where – with documents and relevant information supporting the motion of my father to naturally assume his rightful claim to the vacant stool which documents included inter-alia the historical background of the Manga Williams genealogy of the Limbe Paramount chieftaincy against other claims from other quarters and villages, the verbal dismissals of claims from some family members who were eyeing the throne which persons I shouldn’t mention here, also the conspiracy theories which you confided were being advocated by the administration to circumscribe my father’s cravings due to his erstwhile political affiliations, and the evil hands of the political influence from a member of the family and even the same underlined statement above. You had parroted to my brother having told him Njalla Quan made the statement following the letter by him that my father published in which he said he acknowledged my father’s stance and many more such as the suggestions you had started to count regarding the supplanting of his western garments to traditional regalia. Some of the signatures I find on the document addressed to the D.O also belonged to the very individuals who attended meetings in my house to appraise and support my father. When you realised that your incessant ingratiation did not translate well into legal tenders because my father was not a corrupt and malfeasant gentleman, (though you succeeded in one attempt to exhort FCFA 3.000 from my aunt Ida Williams whom you hoodwinked in saying you had been called by the Governor in respect to my father’s enthronement) you had then turned to my brother Makaka Williams with the same motion of support harnessed by the support of other notables you had quoted and severally beseeched my father to relinquish his claim and waive same for the sake of his son Makaka Williams. Amidst strict interdiction from my father and the obliviousness of my brother to buttress your quest indicatively, you then recoursed to the people who would sell everything to satisfy you vices. Today you said it was in good faith you attempted to chair the pre-consultative meeting!! Sheer irony of situation! You were strongly fulfilling your part of the bargain. You were so blinded by inducement whereof you defied state protocol and usurped the incumbency of the Senior Divisional Office to organise a Paramount Chieftaincy consultative meeting. My father has sued you because you had no competence to organise such a meeting and also mindful of the awareness of how corrupt you had proved to him first hand, this decision is legitimate. You and your conspirators called it ‘defeatism’ whatever that means. You should be lucky that the administration did not sue you for usurpation and impersonation of the SDO, a deed you dared just because you were greeted somewhere with a golden hand. I have stifled myself to say many things here just because I am a gentleman. I should advise that you concentrate in legitimate and fair developmental projects and the challenges that face same rather than trying to break track records in chicanery. Jerry Manga Williams link to the original post here |
