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Retired Bamenda Court of Appeal Senior Clerk Pa Nkeng Anucha Jeremiah Teneng “Nfor-Mentin” Finally Laid to Rest in Pinyin

Colbert Gwain | The Muteff Factor

A massive crowd of mourners gathered in Pinyin last Friday September 25, 2026, to bid a final farewell to Pa Nkeng Anucha Jeremiah Teneng, fondly known as “Nfor-Mentin,” and who died on August 30, 2026 in Bamenda. Following a wake service on Thursday and co**se removal ceremony in Bamenda on Friday morning, family, friends, colleagues and well-wishers accompanied him home for burial in the Pinyin family cemetery. There, mourners remembered how his kindness and wisdom touched many lives. Yet, perhaps his most enduring legacy is not what he left behind in material things, but what he planted in his children—the values, memories and love that will continue to speak for him long after his final journey.

In Muteff, when an elder departs, the village does not ask only how long he lived. It asks what he planted, whom he sheltered and what he left behind for those coming after him. For the shade of an elder’s tree may outlive the man who planted it. The life of Nfor-Mentin offers a fitting answer to that timeless question.

Born on December 10, 1957, in Pinyin to the late Pa Anucha Peter Nkeng and Princess Anucha Christina Fongwi, Pa Nkeng grew up in a family that valued education, responsibility and service. He attended Presbyterian School, Ntoh Pinyin, CCC Mankon and GBHS Mbengwi before proceeding to the University of Yaoundé, Faculty of Law and Economics. Still hungry for knowledge, he later attended ENAM in Yaoundé from 2011 to 2013.

His professional journey began in the classroom at CCC Mankon. In 1984, he entered the judicial service and was posted to the Court of Appeal in Bamenda. Through commitment and discipline, he rose to become a Chief and later served in Batibo in the same capacity. Following his ENAM studies, he returned to the Court of Appeal in Bamenda, where he continued until retirement.

But Nfor-Mentin was much more than the offices he occupied. Baptized on April 4, 1959, at the Basel Mission Church in Pinyin, he remained attached to the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon and carried his Christian identity throughout his life.

He was equally a community man. From the Pinyin Youth Organization for Rural Development and Pinyin Development Organization to the Mentin Family Meeting in Bamenda, his age-mates' group and Ntankah Know-Your-Neighbour social groups, he invested himself in relationships, fellowship and community life.

Yet the deepest measure of his life comes from those who called him Papa. His daughter Melanie Teneng's tribute paints perhaps the most intimate portrait of Nfor-Mentin. She remembers a calm, sweet and patient father who taught her what love looked like. Even in the hospital, while suffering, he concealed his pain, telling her he was getting better and cracking jokes to keep her from worrying. She did not know that those moments would become their last.

His children remember a father, teacher and protector. His grandchildren remember his wisdom, humour and tenderness. One granddaughter recalled the trees he planted, knowing he might never sit beneath their shade. Today, his children and grandchildren are living beneath it.

As successor in the Talam Telong family line, Pa Nkeng also carried the weight of ancestral responsibility. Married to two wives and blessed with ten children and thirteen grandchildren, his fatherhood extended far beyond his immediate household.

Nfor-Mentin has gone ahead. But the trees remain. Their shade is his family, his infectious smile, his friendships, his community and the memories of a life that mattered.

May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace.

Tom Mishi: A Lifetime of Protecting Fundong’s Community Forest and Voluntarily Serving His People

Colbert Gwain | The Muteff Factor

The eyes of the conservation world turn to Fundong this weekend, October 3–4, 2026, as concerned sons and daughters of Abassakom in the Fundong Subdivision of the Boyo Division of Cameroon's North West Region, gather to recognize Bobe Tom Mishi, a foremost environmental protector and traditional forest conservationist, who although lacked the opportunity people elsewhere take for granted to attend elementary school, offered selfless service for close to five decades to the Fundong Council Forest and wider community without material or financial reward.

For those of us who grew up in Muteff, perched on the Ijim hills near Abuh, the memory of Mishi is inseparable from his uniform. This was because our parents had given us to understanding that anyone wearing a uniform was a security officer.

So whenever Jick Sylvanus and I travelled to Fundong for May 20 celebrations and encountered Mishi in his Forest Guard uniform, sometimes adorned with Boys Brigade insignia, we assumed we were looking at a serious security officer.

That belief was reinforced whenever we moved towards the Council Forest beneath the Government Primary School and saw him chasing away people destroying trees or collecting fuelwood. To our young eyes, nobody would do that unless someone was paying him. Only much later did we understand that this was a man protecting a community resource because he believed it was his duty.

In a dedicated online platform christianed "Recognition of Thomas Mishi", Chiamoh Paul’s testimony takes that story back to the 1970s. He recalls Mishi questioning young boys in Fundong Market about their money when he saw them spending it on akra and groundnuts. When Chiamoh and Ngolah Cyprian tried to brush him aside, Mishi followed them until they vanished from his spying glass.

Fuchi Emmanuel, an acclaimed environmentalist and Fundong elite, remembers another dimension around 2000. Mishi joined Nchisindo from Kom Palace and Forestry officials in operations against poaching and illegal timber exploitation in the Kom/Wum Forest Reserve around Mughom, Mbengkas and Mbueni, helping apprehend 14 offenders.

But perhaps the most remarkable part of Mishi’s story is what he did without being paid.

He could spend an entire day protecting the forest and return home on foot with nothing to feed himself. The following morning, he could eat whatever was available from his parents’ kitchen and return to continue the same voluntary service. And that is where his story becomes an uncomfortable mirror for the present.

Today, environmental protection has become a profession, with institutions, salaries, projects and official mandates. Yet what Mishi did freely for decades is a standard that some paid environmental actors today appear unable to approach by even a fraction.

Mishi understood something society often forgets. A forest is not simply government property. Wildlife, soil, springs and trees are part of a living inheritance passed from one generation to another. To destroy them is not merely to steal from government. It is to steal from ourselves, our children and generations yet unborn.

For nearly 50 years, Mishi stood in that gap between what society owned and what society was willing to protect. He did not wait for applause, salary or recognition. He simply stood guard.

But as concerned sons and daughters of Abassakom turn their eyes to Mishi this weekend, perhaps the bigger question is what has become of his legacy.

What has become of that forest now that the man who spent decades guarding it is worn out? What condition is the Fundong Council Forest in today? And what happens now that the Fundong Council is in total control, with paid staff responsible for watching over the resource Mishi once protected without a salary?

If Mishi could protect that forest for almost half a century without a salary, what should Fundong expect from those now paid to protect it?

The finest tribute may be ensuring that the forest he guarded remains standing when his strength is gone.

Born in 1953 to Tohnain Nengbi, successor to Foynazi, and Wehngang, Tom Mishi is a husband, father of six and a loyal servant who never learned to read or write. He believes his illiteracy cost him much of the land his uncle left him at Isaibal. In one bitter dispute, he says a D.O. persuaded him to sign a document, claiming it would strengthen his objection to a neighbour’s claim. Instead, his adversary eventually obtained a land title. For Mishi, it remains a painful lesson in how illiteracy can turn trust into vulnerability.

Concerned sons and daughters of Abassakom have ignited the momentum for Mishi's hall of fame. Let people of goodwill from the North West, Cameroon and across the world come forward with generous support for Bobe Tom Mishi—not as charity alone, but as an investment in selflessness and community service. At his old age, such support can help him care for his family while enabling him to continue promoting authentic Kom culture through the traditional juju he now lodges in his compound in Fundong.

Such generosity would honour an old servant of Fundong while teaching younger generations that service, sacrifice and cultural stewardship can still command respect beyond celebration and public applause. This is because Mishi’s legacy should not merely be remembered but should be sustained.

You can reach out to him in appreciation using the following number 670396181

When Cameroon and Ambazonia Become Dystopian: Grizzled Ambazonian Activist Christmas Ebini's Uncomfortable Verdict

Colbert Gwain | The Muteff Factor

In Muteff village, perched on the Ijim hills off the jaws of Abuh in Fundong Subdivision of Cameroon’s North West Region, wisdom has never needed a podium. Sometimes it comes from an uncle, a teasing remark, or a simple observation that suddenly exposes the folly of a much bigger quarrel.

That wisdom now offers an intriguing lens through which to read veteran Ambazonian activist Christmas Ebini’s latest reflection: both Cameroon and Ambazonia, he argues, have become dystopian.

In his essay, The Dystopia Problem: Ambazonia, La République du Cameroun, and the Collapse of the Human Future, Ebini describes the two sides as “two halves of a single tragedy,” trapped in different wings of the same burning house.

It is an uncomfortable proposition because Ebini does not simply point his finger at Yaounde. He turns the same critical gaze toward the movement with which he has long been associated.

His diagnosis of Cameroon is blunt. He argues that decades of centralized power and institutional decay have weakened civic trust, producing a society in which institutions can become ornamental while citizens feel increasingly like subjects rather than stakeholders.

Ebini’s assessment of Ambazonia is equally troubling. He argues that a struggle born from profound grievances has been weakened by fragmented leadership, competing narratives, internal hostility and what he describes as the glorification of violence. In his view, a movement seeking liberation risks losing its moral compass when it begins reproducing behaviours that resemble the oppression it originally condemned. That is the heart of his dystopia argument.

A political cause cannot preserve its moral authority merely by reminding the world why it began. How it treats civilians matters. How it handles dissent matters. How its leaders exercise power matters. And whether its pursuit of justice preserves human dignity matters even more.

Ebini therefore shifts the conversation from the familiar question of who is right to a more uncomfortable question: what kind of human future is being created?

For him, dystopia is not simply poverty, violence or political dysfunction. It is a deeper collapse of meaning, where truth becomes negotiable, justice selective, leadership performative and ordinary people expendable.

Cameroon’s dystopia, in his analysis, is associated with state power and institutional dysfunction. Ambazonia’s is associated with fragmented authority and revolutionary disorder. Different pathways, but potentially similar human consequences.

The displaced mother does not sleep better because one side has produced a more convincing political argument. The child whose education is interrupted does not benefit from another factional quarrel. The struggling farmer does not eat a political manifesto.

The people, as Muteff wisdom might put it, cannot eat explanations.

Yet Ebini does not leave his reflection in despair. He identifies the absence of love as one of the deepest roots of the dystopian condition: leaders stop loving their people, citizens stop loving one another, and communities stop loving their own future.

And this is where Ebini unexpectedly joins the renewed campaign of Sir Dr Ntumfor Barrister Nico Halle for what Halle calls the “Rule of Love."

Halle has argued publicly in 2026 that the rule of law alone is insufficient when its moral foundations are weakened, and that it must be accompanied by a rule of love. He has described love as what binds humanity and helps guarantee lasting peace.

Ebini arrives at a strikingly similar philosophical point from a different direction: societies become dystopian when love of truth, justice, community and humanity disappears.

The convergence is significant. Ebini is reflecting on the moral collapse he perceives on both sides of the Cameroon-Ambazonia divide, while Halle is advocating a moral principle to accompany law, governance and peacebuilding. Yet both place human dignity at the centre.

That makes the Rule of Love more than a sentimental slogan.

It means pursuing justice without abandoning humanity; confronting wrongdoing without dehumanizing opponents; defending one’s community without denying another community’s humanity.

Muteff understands this instinctively. Yesterday’s opponent may become tomorrow’s neighbour, farming companion or in-law. The person insulted today may be the one whose help is needed tomorrow when the rains wash away a roof.

Ebini’s conclusion is therefore not that Cameroon and Ambazonia are doomed. His message is that dystopia is not destiny.

Escaping it will require more than another slogan, faction, speech or political victory. It will require courage to admit when institutions have failed, when movements have lost their way, and when political certainty has become an excuse for cruelty.

Perhaps the real question is no longer simply who is right. Perhaps it is whether those claiming to fight for a people can still love the people enough to stop hurting them.

That is where Ebini meets Halle.

Different roads, but a strikingly similar destination: a future in which justice, truth, humility and humanity matter more than the triumph of one side over another.

And perhaps Muteff has already supplied the final question: after all the shouting, who is still human enough to fetch water when both houses catch fire?

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Dr. Mal Fobi Praises Nico Halle’s Integrity, Calls for End to Anglophone Conflict to Bring Diaspora Investment Home

Colbert Gwain | The Muteff Factor

When Dr. Mal Fobi crossed the Atlantic from the United States to Douala, he came to receive recognition. But on Saturday, September 19, 2026, at the annual Cameroon English Language Newspaper Publishers Association Awards at the GeCAM André Siaka Hall in Bonanjo, the Cameroonian-born U.S.-based surgeon to the stars used his moment in the spotlight to deliver a message reaching far beyond applause: Cameroon must create conditions that encourage its sons and daughters abroad to return with their knowledge, experience and resources.

In Muteff, when a son of the soil returned from beyond the hills, nobody was impressed merely because he had travelled far. The village wanted to know what he had learnt, what he had achieved and, above all, what he had brought home. What is the use of crossing the hills if everything gathered beyond them must remain there?

That old village wisdom came alive last Saturday when the crowd that gathered at the auditorium of the GeCAM hall in Douala discovered Dr. Fobi did not come home merely for an award but with a strong message about one of Cameroon’s most important untapped resources: its diaspora.

He was recognized for what the organizers described as his “transformative leadership, youth motivation and dedicated civic engagement aimed at building stronger, fairer and more self-reliant communities in the North West and South West Regions,” as well as his efforts to encourage Cameroonians abroad to consider investing back home despite the difficult environment.

Yet the most interesting part of the evening was the exchange between Dr. Fobi and Sir Dr. Ntumfor Barrister Nico Halle.

Earlier, Halle had praised Fobi as one Cameroonian whom everyone should look up to for his integrity, hard work, service to the nation and, above all, his uprightness.

Halle specifically highlighted what he described as Fobi’s refusal to become involved in influencing election results in Cameroon even as he had the wherewithal of doing so. He also praised him for staying clear of corruption and mismanagement.

Dr Mal Fobi, in turn, praised Halle’s exemplary integrity. Both praises touched a fundamental question about diaspora investment: trust.

The diaspora may have the money, expertise and desire to invest, but there is one question that can stop a project before it leaves the drawing board:

Who can I trust with my money when I am thousands of kilometres away?

That is where integrity stops being merely a virtue and becomes an economic asset.

Cameroon has countless honest, hardworking and dependable citizens. But experiences involving alleged fraud, diverted funds, inflated project costs, poor workmanship, broken promises or mismanagement can create a wider crisis of confidence among potential investors abroad.

A Cameroonian in the diaspora may want to build a house, establish a company, develop farmland or support a community project. But if previous experiences have weakened confidence in those entrusted with such projects, the next investment may simply go somewhere else.

This is why the integrity praised by Halle and Fobi matters beyond their individual reputations. Peace can make Cameroon investable. Security can make Cameroon accessible. But integrity and accountability can make Cameroon trustworthy.

Dr. Fobi connected these issues when he called for an immediate end to the conflict and continuing insecurity in the North West and South West Regions.

According to him, more Cameroonians who have established themselves in the diaspora are eager to return with their knowledge, skills, experience and financial resources. But insecurity, he said, is pushing some towards other peaceful African countries.

He cited Ghana, Kenya, Namibia and, above all, Rwanda, and said he personally knew Cameroonians who had bought plots and settled in some of those countries.

According to Fobi, some of these decisions were driven more by frustration than by an original plan never to invest in Cameroon.

When diaspora capital moves elsewhere, Cameroon loses more than money. It can also lose jobs, expertise, innovation, mentorship and international networks that could contribute to development at home.

But why did Dr. Fobi personally make the journey when his nephew, Hon. Nchinda Fobi, had already been designated to receive the award for him? The answer was not hard to find.

Dr. Fobi had just been inducted into the Inaugural American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Hall of Fame. He asked himself: “Why accept recognition abroad and turn down one at home?" So he came home.

The timing was remarkable. If Dr Fobi was not someone who had the heart of gold for Cameroon, he could have taken the pretext of the elaborate birthday his children were preparing for him not to travel out of the United States. He turned 80 last Sunday, September 20, 2026. In an interesting twist, and to fill the vacuum, Sir Dr Ntumfor Barrister Nico Halle opted for an impromptu birthday song in honor of Dr Mal Fobi.

This further electrified the gathering and made the day memorable especially as Dr Fobi was accompanied by
Professor Theresa Nkuo-Akenji, Vice Chancellor of The University of Bamenda; Princess Adah Mbah; Hon. Nchinda Fobi, alongside friends and family.

As Muteff might put it: the issue is not whether its sons and daughters who crossed the hills may still want to come home. It is whether home is ready to receive what they have brought back and whether they can trust someone to keep the suitcase safe.

That is why the venue of the event mattered: Andre Siaka GeCAM Hall, the meeting place of who's who in the business world in Cameroon. It is where Cameroon entrepreneurs meet regularly to make proposals to the government on how the business environment can be made more friendly. Peace, security, integrity and trust are usually key items on the agenda.

At 80, Dr. Fobi did more than receive an award there. He made the journey home not only to collect an award - he has received more than 100 prestigious awards - but to remind Cameroon that bringing the diaspora home requires more than patriotism.

Edison Fru Ndi Wins 2026 North West Development Pillar Award for a Six-Word Mantra: “See Beyond the Invoice"

Colbert Gwain | The Muteff Factor

Dreamland Connect PLC CEO honoured by CENPA as 2026 Most Development-Oriented Contractor in the North West.

Abuh, adjacent to Muteff village perched on the Ijim Hills in Fundong Subdivision of Boyo Division in Cameroon's North West Region, never lacked memorable anecdotes.

There was a certain Ivo Nyua, whose peculiar talent was poking fun at even the most serious conversations.

One day, Ivo Nyua took on an Abuh indigene who managed the Fundong Coffee Farmers Cooperative. Whenever the manager returned to the village, he reportedly became the centre of attention in local drinking spots, talking expansively about his wealth and generously buying drinks for villagers.

After consuming his fair share of the refreshments, Ivo Nyua confronted him with a question that reportedly brought the boasting to an abrupt halt: how could he be so proud of his wealth when villagers believed it had been accumulated at the expense of the poor farmers whose interests the cooperative was supposed to serve?

The story endured because Ivo Nyua had touched a nerve. Whether every detail of the allegation was true or not, the anecdote captured a sentiment familiar in many communities: what appears to one person as wealth and success can look very different to those who live with the consequences of how that wealth was acquired.

It is perhaps this contrast that helps illuminate the philosophy of Edison Fru Ndi, Chief Executive Officer of Dreamland Connect PLC, who has for years preached to contractors and business people by example as he would want them to always look beyond the cheque and invoice to the value they create.

That philosophy earned Edison Fru Ndi the 2026 North West Development Pillar Award on Saturday, September 19, 2026, in Douala, during the Cameroon English Language Newspaper Publishers Association (CENPA) Award Night for Nation Builders.

CENPA singled him out as the 2026 Most Development-Oriented Contractor in the North West Region.

At the heart of his philosophy are six memorable words:

“See beyond the invoice. See the impact.”

For years, Edison Fru Ndi has been defined by a philosophy of doing things differently, whether in public contracts or private business. In his work, there is a deliberate concern for quality, functionality, durability and a touch for the good and the beautiful.

His record offers telling examples.

There is the rehabilitation of the now imposing Finance Building in Bamenda, once abandoned by the government, and the rehabilitation of the annex building at Upstation hosting the North West Governor's services.

His private ventures have equally carried his distinctive touch—from the once high-flying restaurant and cabaret around Bamenda's Central Business District, including Commercial Avenue and Fon's Street, to the Mile 2 Nkwen Snack Bar/Cabaret, as well as his quarry operations in the Mankon hinterlands.

Across these ventures, the message remains consistent: there is more to business than the voucher and the bulging bank account.

The Invoice Is Not the Legacy

For Edison Fru Ndi, a contract is more than a financial transaction between a client and a company because although the invoice tells you what you are being paid the well realized project tells you what you have actually delivered.

What problem did you solve? Who will use the infrastructure? How long should it serve them? Is it safe and functional? Does the quality justify the investment?

These questions should accompany every serious contract.

There's no gainsaying the fact that profit matters and that businesses must remain viable with contractors protecting legitimate margins. But any profit that becomes the sole definition of success at the expense of quality and durability creates societal challenges rather than resolve them. What matters at the end and going by Edison Fru Ndi's mantra is community impact.

A contractor who cuts corners to protect a margin may make money today, but defects, repairs, disputes and reputational damage can prove far more expensive tomorrow.

Every road, building, bridge, market or facility carries the contractor's reputation long after the final payment has been received. This ensures characters like Nyua never ever embarrass them because the work continues to speak when the invoice has been settled.

From Contracts to Community Value

This is where Edison Fru Ndi's philosophy acquires its broader development significance.

A contract can create employment, open opportunities for local suppliers, transfer skills, stimulate businesses, improve infrastructure and solve problems affecting communities.

The contractor consequently becomes more than an executor of a project. He becomes a participant in the development process.

For the North West, where infrastructure, investment and economic opportunities remain essential, this approach carries particular resonance.

The CENPA recognition therefore celebrates more than a successful businessman. It highlights a philosophy of enterprise in which commercial success and community value can reinforce each other.

Edison Fru Ndi's message to contractors is ultimately and simple: Do not only chase invoices. Chase excellence and impact. Build with the end user in mind. Deliver something functional, durable and worthy of the investment.

Because when clients see value, communities experience impact and reputations grow, a contractor moves beyond merely completing jobs to building a legacy. He/she chases away characters like Simon Njua from him because s/he can move around the community with his/her chase high.

Although the cheque tells you what you received and the invoice records what you billed, the community remembers what you delivered. Therefore ppl Edison Fru Ndi's mantra: see Beyond the Invoice. See the Impact.

Bony Dashaco Bets Big on Cameroon’s Energy Future

The media mogul’s entry into petroleum distribution begins with one Douala station—and a target of 100 outlets nationwide by September 2028.

Colbert Gwain | The Muteff Factor

In Muteff situated off the jaws of Abuh in Fundong Subdivision of the Boyo Division of Cameroon's North West Region, the hills have a way of teaching ambition. From one ridge, the next may appear close enough to touch. But those who know the winding paths understand that every destination requires a journey. The lesson is simple: great dreams may begin in the mind, but they acquire meaning when the dreamer dares to climb.

That spirit of daring was on full display in Douala on Saturday, September 12, 2026, as foremost Cameroonian media mogul and businessman Bony Dashaco officially launched DASH Energies with the inauguration of its first filling station at Akwa Do**he.

The ceremony was more than the opening of another fuel station. It was the public unveiling of an ambitious Cameroonian enterprise entering a sector that powers transportation, industry, commerce and everyday life.

And the calibre of personalities who turned up gave the occasion an added significance.

Among the distinguished guests was Minister Felix Mbayu, Minister Delegate to the Minister of External Relations in charge of Cooperation with the Commonwealth. For a senior government official with a demanding schedule to take time off to attend the inauguration sends a powerful message: this is not business as usual.

It signals recognition of the significance of the venture and the confidence surrounding a project that seeks to place a distinctly Cameroonian footprint on the country's energy landscape.

Also present were Centre Region Governor Naseri Paul Bea, Telcar Cocoa CEO Kate Fotso, ten traditional rulers from Canton Akwa and other senior stakeholders from the energy, business and public sectors. Littoral Governor Samuel Dieudonné Ivaha presided over the ceremony and performed the symbolic ribbon-cutting.

Governor Ivaha commended Dashaco for translating the Head of State's political vision of industrialisation and youth empowerment into concrete action. He described DASH Energies as a completely Cameroonian project capable of contributing to national growth while creating opportunities for young people.

For Dashaco, the launch represents the beginning of a new era in access to energy products in Cameroon.

DASH Energies is positioned to operate across the importation, retail and exploration of petroleum products, responding to the needs of industries, businesses and ordinary consumers.

But the ambition does not stop at Akwa Do**he. Bony Dashaco has committed to establishing 100 filling stations across Cameroon by September 2028, transforming the first station into the foundation of a nationwide network.

The Deputy Director General Olivier Sabock provided a glimpse of the rapid expansion ahead. The next DASH Energies station is expected to open in Limbe, Fako Division, within three weeks, followed by Kumba within two months and Muyuka before the end of 2026.

The Akwa Do**he facility itself is designed to offer more than fuel. Customers can access lubrication services, wheel alignment and a shop stocked with food items, beverages and vehicle and motorcycle maintenance products, including gear oils, brake fluids and coolants.

Experienced attendants and store clerks, Sabock said, will ensure customers receive professional service.

Douala City Mayor Dr Roger Mbassa Ndine equally welcomed the investment, describing Dashaco's entrepreneurial drive as a source of encouragement for the economic capital. As Douala expands and its population grows, he noted, investments of this nature are increasingly important to meet the city's energy needs.

For Dashaco, however, the ultimate ambition goes beyond building filling stations. It is about creating jobs, strengthening local supply chains, improving customer service and demonstrating that Cameroonians can build enterprises capable of competing in strategic sectors of the national economy.

He thanked the government, President Paul Biya and national stakeholders for the support and confidence extended to the initiative.

The message from the launch was unmistakable: DASH Energies has arrived with ambition.

From one station in Douala to a planned network of 100 outlets nationwide, Bony Dashaco is betting big on Cameroon’s energy future.

A dream becomes powerful when someone is willing to build it. DASH Energies has taken that first major step. One station is now open. Limbe, Kumba and Muyuka are on the horizonn.

And by September 2028, the vision is to have 100 stations serving communities across Cameroon. Bony Dashaco has dared to dream. Now, DASH Energies is putting that dream on the road.