The Head of the Momo Permanent Divisional Delegation Awanga Ayangwo Zacharia died in hospital last Tuesday May 24, in Yaounde.
Family sources said elite of Momo division in the North West region died at the Yaounde General Hospital after a brief illness. The member of the Central Committee from Momo divison was among the first batch appointed by the National President of the CPDM Paul Biya to head the central Committee permanent divisional delegations in 2013. Late Awanga thus became the Head of the Momo permanent divisional delegation. With consideration for his health situation, the party hierarchy asked the Minister Delegate at the Presidency in Charge of the Supreme State Audit Mbah Acha Rose to run the affairs of the permanent delegation.
The soft spoken politician was among the first wave of senators, elected in 2013, when the Upper House of Cameroon’s parliament was instated.
Awanga burst into the limelight of politics when he funded the re-election of President Paul Biya in 2011, with over FCFA 30 million, meant to support campaigns in his native North West region.
The business mogul has remained a top financier of the CPDM at the national level as he was always a member of the Logistics committee when the Party was to carry out any major activity. He bankrolled party activities from his village Oshie, up to the regional level.
Aside politics, Awanga was a successful business magnate. He was the Founding member and majority shareholder of one of Cameroon’s few indigenous banks – National Financial Credit, NFC.
The tycoon is also midwived the Samaritan Insurance Company. Away from the finance market Awanga staked in the education and hospitality industry. He was the proprietor of AZAM Hotel, one of Bamenda’s finest lodging facilities. Born October 31, 1951, Awanga after primary and secondary education in Cameroon, flew to the Unites States of America, where studied Business Administration for an undergraduate degree at the Morgan State University. By 1985 he bagged a Master of Science in Transportation in 1985 and added an MBA in the same field a year later.
He leaves behind a wife and children.
Jude VIBAN
