« Sad Good Friday this morning. The eldest Madeleine Mitlassou has just left us for eternity. This morning“. The news is received like a cleaver from Amadou Bello, in the COM-PMA forum, a whatsapp forum for journalists. Shortly after 6 a.m. The web panics as the news spreads. Questions arise, unanswered. It will take about thirty minutes for Jean Baptiste Biaye to say a lot: “ According to one of his children that I just reached on the phone, Mado had a fever yesterday Thursday. Transported to the hospital, she was placed on an infusion. She spoke well. Back home, everything changed around 11 p.m. when she began to lose her language. And everything went quickly. Before dawn, she gave up her soul ».
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So it’s done! Madeleine Mitlassou is no longer of this world. The former journalist from the national post of the Crtv that many colleagues have had on the phone in recent days, even in recent hours, succumbed to a short illness. ” Just malaria? I thought that this disease is no longer one since it is part of our daily lives. Everyone knows roughly how to treat malaria», philosopher Mathieu Kemgo. « A ball of joy is gone“, cries Alain Denis Mbezele who rubbed shoulders with the deceased since the classical high school of Garoua, then the School of Journalism of Yaoundé, before finding her on the professional field. The dean weans her colleagues from this warmth that she knew how to bring them in her own way, transgressing generational barriers to always put herself at the service of others. ” Madeline! Mado! My sister love! My generation! I am devastated!», feels dejected Marie Francoise Ewolo, presenter of the 1 p.m. on the national station of the national radio. ” This is the last heart you sent me. Devastated, outraged, shocked. This life… life female dog», regret Carole Yelemong.
Inconsolable, Georges Alain Boyomo, director of publication, remembers an elder whom he met in the corridors of FM 94 when he started out in the profession: ” Embodied simplicity, proven otherness, fertile, flexible and free spirit, strong maternal character, that was MADO (MITLASSOU née DAÏTSAWE Madeleine), whom I met at CRTV YAOUNDÉ FM 94 in 1997. This Colonel’s wife, trained journalist at the right school, sparkling with general culture, great voice of CRTV, had almost everything not to rub shoulders with the plebs. But this gazelle from the North was “a woman of all walks of life”, to quote a famous forest artist. No one was immediately disqualified in her eyes and she welcomed everyone, with open arms, a smile on her face. “, he declaims almost. “In his string of experiences, as happy as they were painful, as far as I remember, MADO passed for the legendary cat with seven lives. It was without reckoning with the Grim Reaper who brutally took it away from us on Good Friday, the culminating day of Christ’s Passion. Quite a symbol! Rest in peace MADO! “, he underlines.
Madeleine Mitlassou, born Daïtsawe, will have honed her skills all her professional life at Crtv, particularly at the national post, which saw her be promoted to Director of Programs, after having directed the Audiovisual Professional Training Center (CFPA) of Ekounou, which formerly trained the technical-artists of the Cameroonian public audiovisual sector. Since 2019, the native of the Far North was allowed to assert his retirement rights. Leaving the Maison de la radio, Mado had become the accomplice of the listeners of CRTV my companion, the big morning entertainment program on the antennas of the national station.
