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February 5, 2022
February 5, 2022
Continue to Rest In Peace dear Uncle! You were always there for us and we miss you!
February 4, 2022
February 4, 2022
Continue to rest in peace dear uncle.
January 15, 2021
January 15, 2021
Never forgotten. Always in our hearts. Love and miss you dearly ❤
January 15, 2021
January 15, 2021
Continue to rest in peace dearest uncle. Forever in our hearts and fond memories.
January 15, 2020
January 15, 2020
Keep on shining in glory my dearest! You are forever missed! Your charisma, your personality cannot be compared to another. Love you loads Papa. #RIP
January 5, 2020
January 5, 2020
An excerpt from Invest In Limbe:

C.P.N. Vewessee
Limbe's Charismatic Firebrand Trade Unionist

From the 70s to the 90s, the most-awaited moment by all Fako workers gathered annually in Limbe for Labour Day (May 1) celebration was the speech of a certain man called Cornelius Patrick Ngamteh (C.P.N.) Vewessee. He was the event. As President of the Fako Agricultural Workers Union (FAWU) as well as the CDC Workers' Union (CDCWU), CPN Vewessee spoke candidly and boldly about the plight of workers. His poignant and no-nonsense delivery became his trademark.

He played a key role in negotiations that led to the creation of the "National Collective Agreement" for the agricultural sector in 1976, and the subsequent revision in 2003. From 1984, he served as the Workers' Assessor on Labour Matters both at the Appellate Court in Buea and the South West Regional Social Insurance Fund Dispute Commission, defending workers' rights and advocating for justice and fairness. In 1997 during the 50th anniversary celebration, the CDC awarded him the medal of "Commander" with the National Order of Valour for his invaluable service and accomplishment.

CPN Vewessee had arrived Moliwe, Victoria back in 1955 after completing his primary education in Babanki Tungo, North West Region, where he was born in 1938. In 1956, he secured his first job at the CDC Motor Transport Garage in Moliwe and became a member of the CDC Workers' Union (CDCWU) in September 1957.

CPN rose rapidly to the position of Moliwe Sectional Union Representative in 1959, then to Bota Area Secretary, and later in 1968 was elected CDCWU General President at the age of 30. When the Fako Agricultural Workers' Union (FAWU) was formed in 1972, CPN became the first President, a position he held until his demise on Tuesday morning, January 15, 2013.

(***Culled from late CPN Vewessee's memorial booklet, courtesy of Ebenezer Ndumbe Haddison.)

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January 5, 2020
January 5, 2020
My dearest daddy, my own Papa, it's been a very eventful year just gone. All I kept thinking was how your presence would have been very impactful. I miss you very much and always think about you every step of the way and every decision I make! I love you beyond words. I miss you so deeply. Don't know when these tears will ever stop flowing. I love you.❤
January 15, 2019
January 15, 2019
Dearest Uncle you must have seen your brother, Pa Menang by now... May you two stars shine brightly in Heaven among the other stars that God created and upon us!! Love always. Rest in the Peace of Christ
January 15, 2019
January 15, 2019
You're always on my mind Papa. Every single day I think of your daily routine and what you possibly would have been doing at the moment. I can't put in writing how much I miss you and wish I could have just a few more moments with you. All I can say is you are always, and will always be in my heart, my mind and my thoughts.
Love you so much, and miss you so much.
Till we meet again
January 15, 2016
January 15, 2016
May your gentle soul rest in perfect peace. Adieu papa.
January 15, 2016
January 15, 2016
Papa I love you and I miss you terribly. Always laughing to myself, with tears in my eyes, reminiscing of time gone by. You are forever in my heart. You will always be the best father ever. May your soul rest in perfect peace in the Lord's bossom.
Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him.
January 15, 2015
January 15, 2015
My dearest, my daddy, my role model; I miss you so much words cannot describe. Rest in peace papa. Till we meet to part no more
January 15, 2015
January 15, 2015
Daddy today marks 2years since you passing away from mother earth.I pray continuously dat the good Lord should grant you eternal rest. RIP daddy I promise to make u proud n kip up ur legacy u whr a great man an a good father to all I miss u alot
April 3, 2014
April 3, 2014
Dad I cnt stop thinkx o u ever since ur dead is lk im alone in this wide world bt I stil survive cuz I blv ur spirit stil guides andd protect me im sorry 4 e many times ive wrongd u dad pls alwayz b by me.daddy why did u leave in dis lonely world I miss u daddy.......
January 16, 2014
January 16, 2014
A year is gone no doubt but the feeling of your presence is still fresh as you used to call names with a tone that expresses command. We know you are still up to your principles as well as we are consoled that you are in the lords bosom for you are the lords bosom buddy.
We will forever miss you.
January 16, 2014
January 16, 2014
Everyday in some small way
Memories of you come our way.
Though absent, you are always near
Still missed, loved and always dear
January 15, 2014
January 15, 2014
A special uncle is hard to find,
You uncle I'm keeping in my mind,
I wished you could have stayed forever,
But I will never forget you oh not ever.

If dreams weren't dreams and dreams came true,
I wouldn't be here I'd be with you.
Distance is one thing that keeps us apart,
But uncle you will always remain in my heart.

A special smile, a special face, a special someone I can't replace,
I love you and I always will,
You filled a space that no one will ever replace.
January 15, 2014
January 15, 2014
A year went so fast. It seem just like yesterday. Today I remember a great man who touched so many people. A man who opened his home to so many. A man who was a father to many and a man who was truly a family man. A man who instilled values into his children and a man who brought happiness and love into my life in a way he did not even know. You maybe gone but will always be alive in my heart.
January 15, 2014
January 15, 2014
Papa I miss u. U will never be forgotten. Forever in my heart, always remember u when something goes wrong. May your gentle soul rest in perfect peace.
January 15, 2014
January 15, 2014
Dear Dad,

I had a conversation with you today that felt so real...it almost seemed like you were right here in the room with me. I can't tell you enough how much you are my greatest inspiration! We will carry on with your mantle and your grand children and the generations after will all know that they are the descendants of a true man of valor! Journey on dad to your place of rest; we are at peace now for we truly believe your mission here was accomplished! We love you and you will forever inhabit a special place in our hearts...
January 15, 2014
January 15, 2014
Papa, it's a year gone now that I haven't heard your voice. A year gone. I pray that the Lord keep you in His bossom till we meet again. Love you always. Li
April 5, 2013
April 5, 2013
Grandpa,i was shocked when i heard you were no more.Where shall we take another grandpa like you because you were so precious to us.You will forever be remembered.May your soul rest in perfect peace.Your grand daughter.
February 21, 2013
February 21, 2013
I have been devastated from the day of Pa' s and do not know if how to recover, but we all have a lesson to learn from the life he lived while visiting with us on earth ; if everyone of us has'nt learnt anything from the time he was with us and tomorrow is last day..look within your hearts , stop all the hating & celebrate the life of a great man who has touched everyone's life in every
February 21, 2013
February 21, 2013
Mbah was a very kind, generous and caring person. Your death creates a very large vacuum within our local community. You were patient to listen to complaints and provide helpful solutions. You made significant sacrifices to help me get a job. Thank you.
May the almighty God guide and protect you as you travel to the regions beyond. RIP
February 21, 2013
February 21, 2013
It's hard to imagine you are gone forever. Like a shepherd you watch us all grow. Your unigue voice still echoing in my head as you call me "Alefoin". Pa you left a huge vacuum in our hearts no can ever fill. You shall forever be missed. All we can say now is farewell as tears roll down our cheeks.
February 19, 2013
February 19, 2013
You will always be remember with love and never forgotten! Your brothers, sisters, children and the entire Vewessee family will for ever miss you. Be our guardian angel and watch over all of us and know that we'll meet some day in Heaven. Je'eh ta kain a Ba...
February 18, 2013
February 18, 2013
Is hard to believe.Uncle,pa,grand pa,great grand pa and great great grand pa.In the begining was pa Vewessee Peter Akuli,a wise man that every name he gave his children,reflected in his or her practical live.Vuloyien,Akembom,Ghondoh and pa Coli,Ngaimte.Pa you did your best to handle all issues tabled infront of you.Everybody feld your love.I miss you.May the good Lord grant you peace4ever
February 18, 2013
February 18, 2013
The cold hands of death again! We thank God for your life Uncle Coli. May your soul rest in perfect peace. May God have mercy on us. As you join with all the others who have gone ahead, intercede on our behalf as we still continue the journey here on earth.
February 17, 2013
February 17, 2013
Dad your were always the 1st thing i thought of when i was in difficulties, the closest friend i ever had. you know the bond we had together was very strong for i was always by you when you needed me but God had decided to call you to his kingdom; Adieu papa. I'll always be praying for you till we meet again. i know your dead physically but spiritually your still there.RIP by Malcolm. V
February 16, 2013
February 16, 2013
yes papa! its becoming real. as we get ready to travel down to Victoria as you would have preferred to call it. this time not to enjoy and spend good time with you, but to convey your remains in tears to your final resting place. we give God the glory for His Mighty works. we will forever miss you. but we pray others learn to live as you did. adieu!!!
February 16, 2013
February 16, 2013
MAY YOU FINE PEACE AND HAPPINESS IN THE ARMS OF THE LORD.
R.I.P
February 16, 2013
February 16, 2013
papa, I can hear you say": take my life and let it be, not a mite would I withhold" and saying it is well with my soul! papa goodbye... |we' 'll try to live up to your expectations" it is good to do good" as you told us ten years ago in our family meeting in kejom.Thanks for being there papa to help us give our father a befitting burial. RIP
February 14, 2013
February 14, 2013
finally the music is cut off after 74yrs the lord decided to call you home soo you can have some rest.you did every thing you were send here to do and wanted to do more at the age of 74 lord have mercy.you left us all with a piece of you we are very thankful.for those who did'nt take advantage of you may you ask the lord to send them another c.p.n for things will never be thesame. R.I.P
February 14, 2013
February 14, 2013
Pa i still not believe you are no more,when i think of how you use to call Christian,'' come and take me to town' i still wait to here you calling again but i will here no more.I know you are still went the family b/c you where a caring father for 74 years of living and your name shall last forever and forever.May you have peace wall ever you are Pa.I MISSED U FOREVER love u.R.I.P.
February 14, 2013
February 14, 2013
I cant believe that you are dead because everytime I close my eyes I see you. Even while sitting in the office it always seems to me that u are standing at the secretariats door calling me Luwain. You were a wonderful person always taking peoples problems as yours. I miss your comfort when ever I complain of anything. Papa I missed u so much. Adieu Papa.
February 12, 2013
February 12, 2013
Papa, death is inevitable. I remember your last hours how you were in pains and could not talk to me. Tragedy has knocked on our door once again and in a very untimely fashion. In moments like this, we are consumed with a lot of anger and are predisposed to question the fairness of the Almighty, but only Him knows why. We promise to live by your excample. Daughter, Martha Vebain Vewessee.
February 12, 2013
February 12, 2013
My dearest papa, death came too soon. I received the greatest shock in my life ever was when I got the news of your death. What a vacuum you have left in my life. At this moment in life I a so devastated. No one else can feel my pain but God. Why have you left us so soon? You will be remembered forever. May the Almighty grant you a place in heaven.   Daughter, Cornelia Anembuom Ngamteh.
February 12, 2013
February 12, 2013
Grandpa, we are very sad. It is heartbreaking to hear that you are dead. We are going to miss you. To whom shall we come for holidays in Limbe? we will miss you forever. You are always in our hearts. Goodbye. Emmanuella, Roy and Pascal.
February 12, 2013
February 12, 2013
Grandpa, no words to tell you just what I feel inside. The shock, the hurt, the emptiness and sad tears which will not subside too soon. A million times I will need you, a million times I will cry. I will miss you forever for sure. You will always be in my thoughts no matter my endeavours. Farewell, Adeline A. Ngiamteh
February 12, 2013
February 12, 2013
Dear father, under the stormy weather you prepared a banquet for me. I saw much blood in your sweat. You are the symbol to my future, the light to my future. Giver of my wealth, I will always pray for you, never to forget you. Always to dance to our song of joy, proud I am. My life flows like a great harmonic chord.     I LOVE YOU ALWAYS PAPA.      YOUR LAST SON,     MALCOLM.
February 12, 2013
February 12, 2013
Your thundering voice is still echoing in my ears, ''aleh Njikebeng''. The night prior to your demise, you assured me everything will be fine.At 4:00am the next morning, I was up, took you to the hospital where your doctor's response was prompt. Surprisingly by 8:00am you had gone. Daddy, I wish to ask if everything is alright as you promised. ADIEU PAPA,    YOUR SON;   SHITI CLETUS.
February 10, 2013
February 10, 2013
hmm. Itz hard to but I must bid thee it. Fare thee well grandpa.
February 10, 2013
February 10, 2013
Toi et ma sœur Nogho Marie Gisele étiez tout pour moi. Elle t’a devancé en Juillet 2002, toi aussi le 15 Janvier 2013 tu nous as abandonné; tous ceux qui t’onc connu et aimé.Ta disparition laisse un grand vide une fosse incomblable dans ma vie. Je t’ai aime et je vous aimerai encore toi et ma sœur Gisele jusqu’au jour où le Seigneur m’appellera aussi puisque c’est un passage obligé.Adieu Papa.
February 3, 2013
February 3, 2013
Papa!!!! happy birthday to you!!!! because i know you are celebrating this one in grand style, right beside your creator and the entertainment done by the Heavenly choir, and your special birthday gift is sparkling on your head" A CROWN OF GOLD MIXED with other Heavenly Material just for You" Your suit is too bright for my eyes.... relax and enjoy yourself, for you worked so hard. Adieu Pa
January 31, 2013
January 31, 2013
The days following his earthly departure it rained as if the heavens joined us in mourning such a loss. Someone once said "When you were born you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." ....And although Pa Vewessee is rejoicing at a life well lived, the world cries. Our prayers go out to the Vewessee family.
January 29, 2013
January 29, 2013
Dearest Grand Pa,who'll call me "Ma Moh" again?You showered me with so much love and care that I always hoped it lasts forever.Grand Pa your death was the greatest shock ever had.I do love you so much but God loves you most.May that virtue of love and concern which you had be transposed into all those who had a taste of it,for you've done your part.It's hard to say it but ADIEU Grand Pa!!
January 29, 2013
January 29, 2013
Oh life, Grand Pa has “redustified” in the twinkle of an eye! Yes, I thank God for letting you attain the tail end of life’s sigmoid curve though your sudden demise is traumatizing.“Shiteh, I’ve got this newspaper for you,” were the words you once told me. You’ve always searched and advocated for those who love to win, and in their absence, went for those who hate losing.Farewell Great Dad
January 29, 2013
January 29, 2013
My beloved Papa, it’s still like a dream.Your departure has left a great vacuum in our lives. I’ll always remember your voice,smile and even the fun times we had together.You were a loving,caring,dynamic and an intelligent father,uncle and grand father.You’ll forever remain in our memories.The Bible says:“A humble,kind and loving person finds favour in God.”RIP Papa till we meet again.
January 29, 2013
January 29, 2013
Our Beloved Father,how can I believe your exit to eternity when I still see you doing what you loved most;writing & listening to the underprivileged narrate their horrors in the hands of draconian employers.I still hear your thundering voice echoing:“Alé’eh Njikebeng?”Your swift departure that faithful morning keeps me wondering the emptiness of life.What a great loss,this wonderful leader
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CPN Vewessee - Big Champion of Small People

January 31, 2013

By Julius Wamey - Editor & Writer, Former CRTV Journalist

If the late and much lamented Mr. CPN Vewesse, who died on Martin Luther King’s birthday, January 15, had a nickname among his peers, none of us youngsters who knew of him and later knew him had ever heard it. He did not sound like the sort of person who’d stand for such frivolities as nicknames. He was a serious-sounding CPN Vewesse, as he signed his newspaper columns and usually indignant letters to the editor.

As a kid fresh out of secondary school, with an avid interest in news, I learnt about CPN Vewesse when I started reading the old Cameroon Post and the Cameroon Times of those days. First, his incendiary rhetoric, rendered in flawless English captured my interest and held it. Then the passion behind his ideas on social justice and equity for the poor began to resonate in me and have inspired my thinking to this day. Such was the faith of my peers and I in the sincerity of his fierce passion for good that I never hesitated to believe an apocryphal tale whereby he stared down a squadron of gendarmes armed to the teeth and forced them to dismantle a roadblock during one of the numerous confrontations he had with our Cameroonian evil forces of so-called law and order.

When I did finally meet him in person in the eighties, my long-held views of him shifted only slightly. He was not the perpetually angry man I’d envisaged, but an engaging personality with the ability to dominate a roomful of ‘big people,’ with a piercing gaze and passionate but reasoned discourse. He wore his attitude of a man comfortable in his perceived mission to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable" with amazing ease. When I met him in any one of the watering holes favored by the Anglophone elite of the day, be it the Mountain Club, the Victoria Club or Club 58, he’d be ensconced on the bar counter, trading friendly insults with the other bar patrons, most of whom were residents of the local Senior Service quarters. Many of them would also be less qualified for their positions than he was.

A Harvard man, by way of Makerere University, Vewesse could have easily outpaced most of his peers up the corporate or public service ladders, such as they were. But he chose to stand firmly by the side of the working poor, probably seeing in them his own hardscrabble upbringing in Babanki and the struggles of his parents. Thus he took up the cudgels of the labor movement and proceeded to do battle with the corporate and government grandees who have presided over the massive abuse of workers’ rights in Cameroon from independence to this day with near impunity. Nowhere was Vewesse’s combativeness and passion for justice more evident than when he took up the crusade for an autonomous GCE Board and his militancy in the nascent SDF party. Nor was his altruism more apparent than in his determination to stay out of the unseemly scramble for lofty positions in both institutions. In both instances his primary concern was the rights of the downtrodden and the commonwealth of the Anglophone community.

There is little doubt that in the ‘matutu’ houses around the CDC camps and club houses of Sonel and other industrial corporations in the Limbe area, talk would now turn nostalgically to the heroics of CPN Vewesse as he fought for the rights of workers to fair wages through contract negotiations and safer working conditions, organizing industrial actions and strikes. These workers and fellow travelers on the hard road to a more equitable workplace will fondly remember his courage the court battles he undertook on their behalf and the hard-fought victories they gained with Vewesse fighting the government and corporations to a standstill.

Above all, workers all over Cameroon will remember, as they wait for Cornelius Patrick Vewesse to be returned to the land of his forefathers, that he was a great champion of the little guy, who died fighting so that the least among us should be able to live a life of dignity. A devout Christian, he lived his Catholic faith in deed on a daily basis, translating the church’s numerous nostrums on selflessness, charity and humility into urgent action. CPN Vewesse may not receive a state funeral with a 21 gun salute, but the depth and sincerity of feeling at his funeral shall surpass anything a head of state could hope for. Many more tears shall be shed for him than for any prince, prime minister or president.

Cameroon Post Online Orbituary

January 20, 2013

By Francis Tim Mbom

Renowned human and workers’ rights crusader, Cornelius Patrick Ngamteh Vewessee, is dead. The labour leader who was also at the forefront of the struggle for the “restoration of the Southern Cameroons statehood” died in the early hours of Tuesday, January 15, in Limbe, aka Victoria.
Vewessee, 75, reportedly died at the Yufanyi Clinic, New Town, Limbe, barely minutes after he was rushed there for medical attention.
A veteran Trade Unionist, he was the serving President of the Confederation of the Cameroon Autonomous Trade Unions, CCATU and also the leader of the Fako Agricultural Workers Trade Union, FAWU.
Charles Mbide, his immediate Assistant at FAWU,, told The Post that he had reported on duty at his Bota office, on Monday, but returned home 30 minutes afterwards, after complaining that he was “not feeling too well.”
Mbide said, after work, he had gone to Pa’s Aloha Cub residence in Limbe and stayed with him from 7: 00 pm to about 8:30 pm. “He was still not well, but told me that I should not worry and that he will be okay by the next day and hoped to be in the office then.”
But Pa’s situation is said to have worsened by the hour and by 4:00 am, he was rushed to the Yufanyi Clinic, where he passed away, even as preparations were being made to ferry him to Douala.
Vewessee is said to have taken active part at the innaugural of the new General Manager of the Cameroon Development Corporation, CDC, on Saturday, January 12, looking hale and hearty. Howeverm he was a known diabetic and had planned to travel to the United States by the end of January, for medical attention, after having secured a visa for that purpose.
According to Mbide, Vewessee started off as a CDC worker at Moliwe in the 1950s. He said his trade union activities began as far back as then, as a Staff Representative. The doggedness with which he defended workers’ rights led to his being elected President of the CDC Workers Union as early as 1966. When Trade Union activities were re-organized in 1972 and limited to the Provinces, Vewessee became President of the Fako Workers Agricultural Union, a position he held till Tuesday.
In between his union activities, he attended the Makerere University in Uganda and the University of Harvard in the USA.
Vewessee believed strongly that until there is good governance, justice, accountability and equitable distribution of wealth, the Cameroonian worker, especially the youths would be doomed to suffering. His speeches during successive May Day Celebrations were uncompromising and provocative, even at a time free speech in Cameroon was synonymous with suicide.
When The Post visited him after his last May Day address, Vewessee had this message to put across:
“Government should take the necessary and appropriate steps and request the governments of France, Switzerland, Canada, and the USA, to facilitate the repatriation of our nation’s wealth, looted from the public treasury and stashed in banks in these countries.

C.P.N!

January 22, 2013

My friends have this nickname for me, they call me CPN. This is due to the effect papa had on people. Oh my God, I cannot believe I am now using the past tense. May your soul rest in the bossom of the Lord. Papa, you were a very powerful force, and an examplary leader whom every body loved to follow. When you believe in a course, you did not care how long it took for you to realize it. All you care about is for it to be realized.
The case of the late Mr. Molua was a very clear example. I lived it and saw you fought your life, with tooth and nail for that worker. You were very inspirational, and thus led him to believe and hope and know his right.
And as much as you were rigourous and very keen on doing right and good on the outside, that was how your heart was very warm on the inside. You are the saint of this family. Always bearing and forbearing, forgiving and ever ready to help. Not just ready, but very willing.
You always ensured you know the people around you, and strived to always leave a good and positive impact which they could emulate.
I thank you for always buying the massive Albert Camus, Salman Rushdie, Charlotte Bronte and other novelists' books, which I read and read, which made me grow in vocabulary, eloquence and knowledge.
I have loads of stories grafted onto my mind from far back when I was still in my nursery school days. 
I will remember you buying 'The Post' newspaper, and asking me to read one of the articles for your hearing pleasure with your friends. It made me full of so much joy to see, live and remember how proud you are of me
I remember your love for Don Williams in my very early age when you we behind the steering.
I remember all our fun stuff we used to do when I close from nursery school.
How you used to always have my back when I was in trouble. 
The bond we have is inexplicaple. I thank you for bringing to my knowledge the fact that you took care of me as a baby when mami travelled for work. I guess that is why I was so attached to you, and no matter what situation, I would always still love staying around you, and we will never want to part from each other.
I remember when I wanted to go abroad after my O'levels, and you said 'no way! she will stay here and marry a Babanki man!' hahahahaha Oh my God! I couldn't be mad. Your passion brought more laughter and amusement to my lips and mind than anger or pain.
I love you papa. More stories are coming, just that they are so painful to write, for it is like me remembering you are no more-when i have not still come to terms with, lest to talk of remembering it. God bless you. Num6:24-26 

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