Joseph Heals is more. The constitutionalist died on January 6 following illness. The announcement was made public by his son Mathias Eric The Best Of Mathias Eric on his Facebook account: “The big man is gone. Our beloved father and respected patriarch, Professor Joseph Owona left us this January 6, 2024. Peace to his soul », Wrote the vice-rector of the University of Yaoundé II. Since January 2, 2024, a rumor announced the former Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic dead, but the man was simply ill, and the situation was no longer really reassuring, we learn. Sick, the high state official was evacuated to France where the Bordeaux medical-surgical center was unable to prevent him from swallowing his birth certificate.
Cameroon loses one of its most famous and recognized intellectuals. University professor, specialist in constitutional law, public law associate Professor Joseph Owona was known for his participation in the drafting of the Constitution of January 18, 1996. The man also lent his expertise to several countries within the framework of similar exercises.
Probationary
Several times a member of the government, Joseph Owona had particularly marked his time at the Ministry of National Education. The man was fiercely opposed to the removal of the probationary period from official exams, as provided for by a resolution of the General Assembly of Education held in 1995. ” I told the French who supported this project that as long as I am Minister of Education, the probationary period will never be abolished, because it is an essential sieve for the final year», Confided the man with legendary rigor, during an exchange. Thus fighting for the preservation of a quality baccalaureate. It turns out that the man had to explain himself to Paul Biya on this stubbornness, brought before the hierarchical tribunal by supporters of suppression. To date, probation has not been removed.
After leaving the government in 1997, Joseph Owona who had been Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic from April 9, 1992 to July 21, 1994, spent a long period away from official public affairs, before landing at the Presidency of the Council of administration of the Cameroon Debt Recovery Company (SRC) between 2015 and 2020. Following the death of Jean Foumane Akame, the native of Mvengue in the South region, was appointed on April 15, 2020 as a member of the Constitutional Council. Before that, Joseph Owona made a detour through the Cameroon Football Federation (Fécafoot) where the former Minister of Youth and Sport headed the Standardization Committee between 2013 and 2015. The man who was director of the Institute of International Relations of Cameroon is leaving the scene at 79 years old.
