The secretary general of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, CPDM, Jean Nkuete will today lead a ten man CPDM central committee delegation to Mbonge and then Bai Sombe for the burial of the deceased YCPDM national president, Mbonda Stephen Motia.

The move to pay last respect to late Mbonda and the designation of the delegates is contained in a communiqué signed last Monday by CPDM scribe, Jean Nkuete.

Going by the list, the CPDM central committee delegation will comprise of Yaou Aissatou, Talba Malla Ibrahim, Bidoung Mkpatt, Monkam Nitcheu, Jean Fabien, Ndembiyembe Paul Celestin, Fru Jonathan, Enanga Kebbi, Tagnin Tchidzem Andre and Tono Ebode Claude.

According to the funeral programme, a copy of which The Guardian Post stumbled on, Mbonda’s corpse will be removed from the Kumba district hospital mortuary this Saturday at 6am and conveyed to Mbonge where the funeral ceremony will take place.

Much later, family members, CPDM militants, close friends and sympathisers of the family will accompany the corpse to his native Bai Sombe village in Mbonge sub-division.

Mbonda Stephen Motia died on August 6, 2014 while being rushed to Limbe for medical attention. He had just returned from Brazil for the 2014 World Cup expedition when he fell ill and was admitted at the Kumba district hospital.

Prior to today’s burial, there has been controversy surrounding Mbonda’s marital status. While family members argue their son was not married, we gathered that the supposed wife claims she was legally married. Sources close to the wife pointed out that Mbonda and the woman had a secret wedding in Muyuka because he (Mbonda) needed a marriage certificate to enable him travel to China for a seminar.

The wife whom the family doubts the veracity of her civil status was sent out of their ‘matrimonial house’. The fighting was temporally put on a halt following the intervention of the senior state counsel for Meme who sealed the house in Kumba.

The late Mbonda Stephen died at the age of 45 leaving behind five children.