Alfred Jato Mimba

Pa Mimba Jato Alfred was a very committed member of the C.P.D.M. He became prominent in the party when he contested the post of section president in 2002. By then, it was very daring for someone to contest against late SN TAMFU, but he stood the challenge, though he lost the elections. In the re-organization that followed, five years later, he took over from Tamfu Samari as the section secretary, a post he held from April 2007 to the 22nd of August 2014 when the cold hands of death snatched him away. The party will ever remember him for his dynamism as Section Secretary and also remember him as a social worker for Red Cross in Donga Mantung Division.

       We noticed his inactiveness when he started being regular at BBH Kumbo for health reasons. Our fears went higher when he was kept on oxygen late 2013 and highest when we imagined that after all his toils for the C.P.D.M party, he will miss the heated 2013 twin elections in Nkambe, something he has actively been part of for the past two decades.  Truly, Pa has missed the C.P.D.M victory in Nkambe council where his ideas would have been very useful in the domain of education.

Mr. Mimba Jato Alfred was a man of multiple dimensions: the Divisional President of red cross Donga Mantung, one time field Chairman of Baptist Church, one time shey in the Nwarong house a title he abandoned when he joined the church, a politician and educationist. All these categories of people will miss him.

The way we live our lives every day makes our eulogies.  Ask yourself when you die, what shall people say about you? For Pa, I know people will say he was good, friendly and cheerful.

He died at the ripe age of 72, as  a fulfilled and as a happy man.

            Mr. Section Secretary may God forgive your earthly transgressions and receive you into his heavenly kingdom.

  May the bereaved family live in peace and unity after Pa

Pa Mimba Jato Alfred May your soul rest in perfect peace

The Section President (Acting)

NGALA N. GERARD (TA-Nformi)

Uncle I am yet to come to terms with the fact that you have departed this world, and that when I call your phone you will not pick it and say Queenos! The last time we spoke you had your usual impressive and exciting voice and great sense of humour. I will miss all our conversations and how you always made me feel at ease on the phone to converse with you. Memories of you is what we have left and we cherish them. Ohhh how I remember all the third term holidays we spent in Ndu while we were growing up with You, Auntie and Vera. All the I remember my life lessons you thought us and experiences you shared with us. I remember my visit in 2004 when we spent a wonderful time in Bamenda with Vera. Then in 2010 we could not make it to Nkambe because of the roads. Little did I know that I will not see you again when next I visit.
You are gone but we will always have you in our hearts!
Adieu Uncle!!!!
Your daughter
Queen

Papa, I am still to come to terms with the bitter truth that you are out of this world. The last time I saw you was when you came to see me off at the Nsimalen Airport in February 2011.Little did I know you were bidding me farewell for good.

It happened so fast that Friday morning on the 22^nd August 2014. I talked with you on the phone at 7:45am.you told me it was subsiding and that you are fighting on .You were in pains and your voice was not the one I knew. I became nervous and went on my knees and asked God to show mercy. Ten minutes later my phone rang and helas the news of your departure

Well, God alone takes the Glory. I know you are happy with the Angels where you are.

I thank God Almighty because he answered my prayers and spared you some time and made it happen now.
Papa I wanted you to stay a bit longer. I am sure it was really Gods time because we did all humanly possible to keep you alive.

Mama had to cut short her stay in Germany to come take care of you even though you insisted that you are not in a very bad shape.

Thank God she was always there by you and acted very fast whenever you showed signs of pain.

Oh Death, where is thy sting? Where is thy mystery?

These are questions we cannot answer but we know Gods will has been done.

Tuesday 19^th August 2014 when I called you on the phone was the first time I heard you say “Vi, I am very tired even to travel to Kumbo”.

You of all, who inspite your fragile health will not sit down on one spot because you still wanted to render services to people. You were a man who loved people, a great fighter who worked all his life for people in his community. After that call I knew it was becoming serious.

I will miss your excited voice on the phone every time I called. You were always addressing me “Mama ya oooh”. My Mother! Waoh I love you Dad.

You are gone, gone forever. It’s Difficult but it’s true

We will always remember you and I pray God should receive your soul so that we will meet again on the last day in Glory.

Nyubong, Meyenyu, your grandchildren will never see you but I will always tell them about their grandfather who was a great man in his time. We will celebrate your life and death.

Farewell Papa, You will be forever missed!

Vera Mimba Tamfu (Daughter)

Your departure has created a vacuum, which is hard to fill. Your unbending optimism will forever be remembered. We thank God for the life that you shared with us. You did confess during our wedding, in 2010 that if you were now to die, you would die a happy man. Indeed, I know you died  a happy man!!! I will miss your impressing voice and an extreme sense of humour. I remember calling you this time last year to inform you that Vera and I  are expecting a second son and you responded with joy by saying “This is what we call rapid results”. We laughed together and thanked God for all his deeds. Now that he has called you to join our ancestors, I have nothing else to say than “Thank you Lord”.      Oliver Tamfu (Son-in-law)

My deepest condolences.  May these few words from the Holy Scriptures bring you comfort in your time of grief...

John 11:32-45

32 And so Mary, when she arrived where Jesus was and caught sight of him, fell at his feet, saying to him: “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” 33 Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping and the Jews that came with her weeping, groaned in the spirit and became troubled; 34 and he said: “Where have YOU laid him?” They said to him: “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus gave way to tears. 36 Therefore the Jews began to say: “See, what affection he used to have for him!” 37 But some of them said: “Was not this [man] that opened the eyes of the blind man able to prevent this one from dying?”

38 Hence Jesus, after groaning again within himself, came to the memorial tomb. It was, in fact, a cave, and a stone was lying against it.39 Jesus said: “TAKE the stone away.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to him: “Lord, by now he must smell, for it is four days.”40 Jesus said to her: “Did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” 41 Therefore they took the stone away. Now Jesus raised his eyes heavenward and said: “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 True, I knew that you always hear me; but on account of the crowd standing around I spoke, in order that they might believe that you sent me forth.” 43 And when he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice: “Laz´a·rus, come on out!” 44The [man] that had been dead came out with his feet and hands bound with wrappings, and his countenance was bound about with a cloth. Jesus said to them: “Loose him and let him go.”

45 Therefore many of the Jews that had come to Mary and that beheld what he did put faith in him;

Please go to the following link for more information regarding the Hope expressed in this passage

http://www.jw.org 

 God gives, God takes, Pa will never accept boys or men to rough talk to women. I quite remember I was being distrub my one student, a boy and Pa was coming behind us and over hear how rough he was. He went ballistic and gave him a big porton of the football field to cut of the grass. Big lesson. Pa May your soul rest in perfect peace. You have done your job.

 "“But the souls of the just are in the hands of the God and no torment shall touch them. They seemed, in the view of the foolish, to be dead; and their passing away was thought an affliction and their going forth from us utter destruction but they are in peace.” Wisdom 3: 1-3
REQUIEM AETERNAM DONA EIS, DOMINE: ET LUX PERPETUA LUCEAT EIS"

Vera; may you and your family be consoled. Any loss is very painful but we are grateful to God that you have been blessed with the opportunity to lay dad to rest and not vice versa. 68 years is wuite young but we rejoice first because you have one more  angel watching over you for he will take care of you better in the heavenly realm. Only the physical is gone for his spirt lives.
Adieu pa Mimba; If I have to satrt only one story of how you impacted my life as a young girl; I will not stop.

My prayer is that our Good God gives you a good resting place with the saints.

Pa Mimba,
              A teacher and father worth emulating. They say it is not how long a man lives but how many lives he impacted while living. Your virtues as teacher and father left a positive impact in the lives of many, a typical example being myself. I just want to bid you fare well to the land of no return and I strongly believe you are in God's bossom. To Vera and the entire family, accept my sincere condolence. A Dieu Pa Mimba 

Pa, it was so long ago but I remember it as vividly as if it was yesterday; you calling me aside and asking me to take care of Vera, who was coming to the dormitory in GHs Nkambe. She was so young, so fragile and so precious that I was humbled and priviledged, yet terrified that you had entrusted this precious being to my care. I never did know what you saw in me or indeed how you got to know about me since you never taught me. Yet somehow you trusted me and hand-picked me to be Vera's 'Big'! I am forever grateful for that priviledge and still feel proud each time Vera calls me mommy Lilian. I am sad that I never got to meet you again since I left GHS Nkambe in the late 80s. I always thought I would get the chance to ask you to grade me on my perfomance as Vera's Big, especially since I reconnected with her. But alas, man plans and God disposes!

Vera, I know how you feel having been there myself but I also know that it will hurt like hell now, but it will also get better. The kids did not meet him but he knew about their existence and saw their pictures; that is plenty. They will get to know him through you. To mama, please accept my condolences on the loss of your life long partner but please be comforted in the knowledge that he lives through Vera and the kids. Mama, Vera. Oliver and the extended family, you are all in my thoughts.

Good Bye Pa Mimba. You were indeed a father to us all, as evidenced by the fact that no one called you Mr Mimba! Rest in peace Pa.