By Joe Mbomsegah
January 19, 2024, clocked 18 years, since the burning to death of His Royal Highness Fon Simon Vugah II of Kejom Keku ( Big Babanki). The traditional authority who ruled the village for decades was killed and his remains were set on fire by a faction of the village’s population on January 19, 2006. The incident has remained fresh in the minds of the children, with some of them orphans who have been saying enough justice was never done regarding the killing of their father. The children claimed that the present traditional authority and some Elites needed to be adequately investigated.
Talking to CNA on the phone, Vugah Eugene one of the sons of the late ruler has continued to contest the legitimacy of the present traditional ruler, HRH Vunbangsi Benjamin.
‘Although some people were sentenced for the killing of our dad, the actual perpetrators were never punished or found guilty. The killing of our father was a well-calculated plan and hatched with the complicity of the man on the throne’
Vugah Eugene said.
The children of late Fon Vugah had offered prayer sessions wherever they found themselves every January 19, for the repose soul of their dad.
Fon Vugah Simon in an attempt to regain his throne in Big Babanki on January 19, 2006, met stiff resistance from a section of the villagers who lynched him and later on set the corpse on fire giving a bad image to the village.
Recently, there have been some wagging tongues against HRH Vubangsi Benjamin Vutsiboung, following his controversial stands and decisions he took in the village. The recent, was the request for a military post in Big Babanki after separatists flogged women who were against their imposed tax policies in the village.
Recently the Fon’s palace was attacked by separatists where the Fon was rescued by soldiers from being killed. The next day government troops reportedly took him out of the village and he went back to Yaoundé.
Source: Cameroon News Agency
The National Council for Persons Living with Disabilities has called on persons with disabilities [PWDs] to register online and get disability certificates from eCitizen.
In a notice to the general public, the council noted that disability cards will no longer be issued or required as proof of disability going forward.
‘Accessing or registering through eCitizen is easier because earlier people used to send us national identity cards, which really took a long time to reach us but right now, once you are registered, we give you something like a waiting card that can be printed on the cyber,’ Magdalene Mboke, an officer in charge of people with disabilities in the Nakuru regional office, said.
The government, she added, provided assistive devices such as wheelchairs, white canes and sunscreen cream to PWDs, as well as monthly stipends, but the council mostly depends on donors for additional support on such gadgets.
In addition, she said, the government had extended bursaries to PWD students who are enrollin
g to junior secondary and form one and that it would continue to offer support for the children who excel to continue to higher levels of education.
Source: Kenya News Agency
