His final journey from Yaounde begins on July 7 with coffining and he will be buried in his native Oshie village in North West on Friday July 8.
In the copy of his funeral programme that L’Action has seen, the corpse of the member of the Central committee will be removed from the Yaounde General Hospital Mortuary on Thursday July 7. The Head of the Momo Permanent Divisional Delegation Awanga Ayangwo Zacharias died at the Yaounde General Hospital on May 24, in Yaounde 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.
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 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 he 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
