Oku Mayor In Rape & Adultery Scandal

By Shey Wirba

Investigations have almost wrapped-up, over a complaint of adultery and sexual assaults, filed against Ngum Jerome Njioh, Mayor of Elak-Oku, the Prime Minister’s constituency. Last weekend, Chronicle gathered that investigative officials at Oku had forwarded a file to State Counsel in Kumbo, Bui divisional headquarters, for the Oku Mayor to be brought to book, for allegedly committing adultery and having sex with an underage girl.

The complaint, addressed to the Chief of Social Welfare Centre at Elak-Oku, a copy of which Chronicle has, implicates Mayor Ngum Jerome in the acts. Also attached, is the medical/laboratory test of Rahinatu, aged 13 years, whose pregnancy test, had been diagnosed as positive. The matter had since been kept covert, given the scandal it might produce to bring PM Yang to shame.

“Complaint against Mr. Ngum Jerome Njioh, Mayor of Elak Council for Adultery.

I, Gaji Yusufa Uba, holder of the national identity card issued on 17/2/2011, do complain against Mr. Ngum Jerome Njioh, the mayor of Elak council for committing adultery with my wife on Sunday, 10^th April, 2011 at the Elak council office. I caught him having sex with my wife on one of the chairs in the mayor’s office.

This is a criminal and immoral act and I want you to use the laws of this country to penalize him since Cameroon is a state of law.

Let me also inform you that this same man has pregnated one of our small girls called Rahinatu and aged thirteen years when he misled her with five thousand (5000) francs. This time, he gave my wife ten thousand (10.000) francs to commit adultery with her.

My wife’s name is Adama Ahamadu”.

Meanwhile, Mayor Ngum Jerome’s 5 year mandate at the helm of Elak-Oku council has been one of scandals. At some time last year, he abandoned the corpse of one of his wives who died abroad and brought to Oku for burial. The scandal was yet to be over when last July 31, 2012, the Bui SDO summoned him into his office, over his questionable management of the council.

Accused of having siphoned some 49 million FCFA HIPIC funds for the construction of the Tolon-Balu road and the Miih bridge, Ngum Jerome had since not been perturbed. Worse still Mayor Ngum is said to have procured a council vehicle at 3.2 million FCFA, in a trip sponsored by the Elak council to Dubai, yet turned around to sell the same vehicle to the same council at 22.896.000 FCFA.

Within Oku, Mayor Ngum openly boasts how nothing can happen to him given that the Prime Minister will never support any CONAC control of the Elak council to avoid shame. And with elections in the offing, Mayor Ngum guilty of being flushed out is quoted to have threatened to campaign for the opposition SDF; if signs are shown that he will not be reelected mayor.

Oku residents have been wondering why other mayors have been arrested for misappropriation, yet theirs moves on freely. Mayor Ngum even parades self as the power-broker of Oku. It is no more news that he has vowed to replace Soh Patrick with Mkong Nicolas Yong as CPDM section president; while his brother-in-law Ngokse Francis is the one he is grooming to replace Hon Kwei Andrew as member of parliament and Jong Francis as YCPDM section president.