The state broadcaster, CRTV reports that he was found dead in his Alaska Street residence on Monday, September 27, 2021, under unclear circumstances.

The police and state counsel were at Nkelle Ngoh’s residence to assess the situation, CRTV reported.

Victor Nkelle Ngoh was lastly seen on Sunday, September 26, 2021, during the exercise to renew the executives of basic organs of the ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, CPDM. He was at the head of the team reorganizing the basic organs of the CPDM in Meme III, Konye Subdivision.

For eleven years, Victor Nkelle Ngoh served as Government Delegate to the Kumba City Council – from February 2009 to March 2020.

The Guardian Post reports that Nkelle Ngoh was discovered lifeless in his room at his Alaska Street residence of Kumba about 3 pm on Monday. Accounts hold that the former Government Delegate did not step out of his room as he went to bed Sunday night. It is reported that friends and relatives found out something might have gone wrong with him after they rang his phone severally without a response.

Sources say even his wife, who was away in Yaoundé, had also tried reaching him by phone to no avail.

Friends, party allies, and family members were then forced to dash to his residence to find out what was happening. It is reported that they met grown-ups in the house, who, we learned, could not provide answers as to why they did not bother to find out about him, after having not seen him until about 3 pm when the shocking discovery was made.

We gathered that, usually, the late Ngoh Nkelle would get up in the morning, take his breakfast before going about his daily activities. It wasn’t however the case yesterday.

The state prosecutor for Meme, medical doctors, and a team of security forces are said to have stormed the residence of the deceased when news of his death, under unclear circumstances was made public.

As at nightfall yesterday, further investigations are said to have been launched to ascertain the cause of his demise.

Ngoh Nkelle, a native of Kumba was born in 1960 in the South West economic hub. He did his Primary Education at the Bethel Baptist Primary School, Kumba. He later studied at the Cameroon Protestant College, CPC Bali, and the Cameroon College of Science and Technology, CCAST Bambili wherein he obtained the General Certificate of Education, GCE, Advanced and Ordinary Levels respectively.

His quest for knowledge took him to Germany. There, he studied at the University of Marburg, graduating with a BSc in Economics. By 1988, the politician earned an MA in Cooperative Economics from the same institution.

He returned home and picked a job with CIPRE in Bafoussam, West region. In 1998, destiny took Ngoh Nkelle to the South West Farmers’ Cooperative Union, SOWEFCU, where he served as its Director.

It was while serving at SOWEFCU that the President of the Republic appointed him Government Delegate to the Kumba City Council on March 6, 2009.

Ngoh Nkelle battled through elections and succeeded to be voted pioneer city mayor of the Kumba in March 2020. This was shortly after the February 9, 2020 twin polls.

He served in that capacity for barely six months. This was amid legal battles that passed through the South West Administrative Court and later the Supreme Court.

On September 25, 2020, the highest court of the land canceled Ngoh’s election as city mayor citing irregularities.

His arch-rival, Gregory Ntemeyok Mewanu, would later be voted city mayor following a re-run of the election. But Ngoh had on the day of that exercise raised certain issues and reclined from the exercise.

He would be remembered for always smiling and being open to all.