Some Notable Historic Achievement of the Recent Fons

I. Fon Gantar:

He successfully occupied the western mountainous limits of the village. Under his reign a lion was caught in the village

Fon Nganjo 1

He successfully liberated the highlands of the village from graziers. Through his influence antiquities that were left in the wangsi cave during the Fulani raids were brought to the palace in 1980. He worked hard to restore the tradition of the Rong village. The nwarong which had been abandoned in the Wangsi cave during the Fulani invasion was brought to the palace in 1980. The ngiri society was restored.

2) He opened up to western civilization by welcoming the Cameroon Baptist Mission on his land, thus creating the pioneer CBM church in the Mbuntzi area in 1933.

3) He gained the confidence of the colonial administration to the extent of becoming one of their closest collaborators in the delimitation of village boundaries in the area. He worked collaboratively with the British colonial administrator Dr Jeffreys to delimit the boundaries of most of the villages in Wimbum land.

4) He introduced rice (1971) farming in the Mbaw plains of his village leading to the creation of the first village farmers’ cooperative in the area.

5) It was under his reign that the village acquired the Government School Mbawrong.

6) His most significant achievement could arguably be that he got the village and its Fondom to be recognized officially by Government in 1965.This recognition was concretized in the West Cameroon Gazette No.24, Vol.5, and page 98 of 5th June 1965. A Prime Minister’s Certificate was issued to this effect on Nov. 4th; 1966.It is therefore a grave mistake that in the transition from the classification of Fons from the West Cameroon to the current status the Njirong Fondom was left out from the 2nd class ranking that was by right attributed to all gazetted Fons.

His mother (Mambong) was from Njitang Ntumbaw. He had three sisters: Kuya, Goh and Kwipsa. He was married to thirteen wives and fathered more than a hundred children with many grand and great grandkids.

III. Fon Nganjo II

1) It could be said that as an educationist he is paying particular attention to the education of his people. His efforts have so far been rewarded with the creation of Government schools at Njirong and Shokop, and a Government Secondary School at Mbawrong. It was through his influence that Government Secondary School Ntumbaw was created. He led a delegation to Yaoundé in company of Fai Bamtoo of Ntumbaw and other notables which culminated in the creation of the GSS Ntumbaw. He has awarded scholarships to deserving students from the village studying in different secondary institutions of learning. He has donated footballs and jerseys to different institutions of learning in his area of jurisdiction.

2) In the health field a fully functional Health Centre has been created in Mbawrong and equipped with aid from US donors, thanks to the Fon’s energy. 

3) In the area of communication infrastructure, the Mbawrong farm lands were disenclaved by a modern laterite road thanks to financing from the EU. The village development committee through their self-help efforts built 4 bridges to facilitate access and inter quarter communication. The bridge linking Ntumbaw and Njirong villages has been constructed.

4) By collaborating fully and peacefully with the Administration through The Divisional Land Commission he successfully put an end to the long standing land dispute at Mbawrong by a Decision of Prefectural Order No 004/2004 of 1^st June 2004..

5) He has institutionalized the Village Development Committee to render it more effective as a collaborative arm of the Administration at the Sub Divisional level.

6) His quest for higher education has taken him away from the village for post graduate studies. The entire population of the village considers this a double blessing as he continues to lure development to the village from the Diaspora.

Fon Nganjo II and Wintoh

Fon Nganjo II making a speech