Hon. Lifaka Interred In Bonjongo

 
Sixty two-year old Honourable Emilia Monjowa Lifaka who passed unto glory last 20 April, 2021, in Buea has been laid to rest eternally in her native Bonjongo village in Buea Subdivision. The deceased was one of the Deputy Speakers of the Cameroon National Assembly, and Member of Parliament from the Buea Rural constituency since 2002. Out of Cameroon, she was Chairperson of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), Late Monjowa Lifaka was given last public honour last Saturday, 22 May, 2021, at the Buea ceremonial ground in Clerks quarters. 
On hand to officiate at the funeral was Honourable Hilarion Etong, Senior Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly who represented the Speaker and was flanked by South West Governor Bernard Okalia Bilai. The deceased’s two sons namely Adolphe Stephin Mbonjo Mbaho Jr and Kenneth Vekima Edube Mbaho as well as adopted children were present amidst a crowd of deeply aggrieved admirers, friends, colleagues of Parliament and ruling CPDM party, family, and observers. They turned out to bid farewell to the vibrant humanist and benefactor to many needy persons in Buea community and beyond.
A Catholic funeral Mass that opened the ceremony of farewell to late Lifaka featured the Bamenda metropolitan Arch-Bishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya as spiritual director of the deceased and chief celebrant among four other Bishops including the Buea Ordinary, Bishop Michael
Miabesue Bibi. In his homily, Arch-Bishop Nkea employed his applauded oratory to drive home the realities of life such as vanity of position, power and wealth and the nothingness of human life. The prelate described the late Lifaka as having been the political pillar of Fako administrative Division, illustrious citizen of...