Augustine Ngom Jua (24 November 1924 – 30 December 1977) [1] [2] was the prime minister of the state of West Cameroon (formerly Southern Cameroons) in the Federal Republic of Cameroon from 13 May 1965 to 11 January 1968. [3] [4]
Augustine Ngom Jua (24 November 1924 – 30 December 1977) [1] [2] was the prime minister of the state of West Cameroon (formerly Southern Cameroons) in the Federal Republic of Cameroon from 13 May 1965 to 11 January 1968. [3] [4]
Jua was born on 24 November 1924 at Wum in Cameroon. He went to local schools and worked as a teacher in the Bamenda area. He became a member of Wum Native Authority Council under the British Trusteeship administration in 1952. [5]
When the British Southern Cameroons was separated from Eastern Nigeria in 1954, Jua was elected as a member of Southern Cameroon's House of assembly. In 1955 he helped Mr J.N Foncha found the Kamerun National Democratic Party (KNDP), a party which favors reunification with the French Cameroon. Jua was elected vice president of KNDP in 1963 in a contest with Mr Solomon Tandeng Muna. In 1965, after a constitutional amendment, President Ahmadou Ahidjo appointed Jua as prime minister. He was the head of that government for less than three years and after the elections in December 1967, Jua was replaced as prime minister by Mr Solomon Tandeng Muna. [5] [3]
After he was replaced as prime minister, Jua then retired and lived to see a unitory state created. He died on 30 December 1977, aged 53. [5]
Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo was a Cameroonian politician who was the first president of Cameroon, holding the office from 1960 until 1982. Ahidjo played a major role in the establishment of Cameroon as a Neo-imperial state after the assassination of The Union Des Populations Camerounaise (UPC) by imperial France as well as integrating the French and English-speaking parts of the country. During Ahidjo's time in office, he established a centralized political system. Ahidjo established a single-party state under the Cameroon National Union (CNU) in 1966. In 1972, Ahidjo abolished the federation in favor of a unitary state. Ahidjo resigned from the presidency in 1982, and Paul Biya assumed the presidency. This was an action that was surprising to Cameroonians. Accused of being behind a coup plot against Biya in 1984, Ahidjo was sentenced to death in absentia, but he died of natural causes in 1989.
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