Tikela Kemone (born 1950) is a
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...
ian politician. He was Deputy Minister of Finance and Secretary of State for Finance during the 1980s;
["Biographie de M. TlKELA KEMONNE"]
Cameroon government website . currently he is a Technical Adviser at the Presidency of the Republic, heading the Internal Affairs Department.
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Life and career
Born in
Kaélé
Kaélé is a town in Cameroon's Far North Province, on the Diamaré Plain at . It lies near the Chadian border and 104 km south of Maroua. The town has a population of roughly 30,600 and is the capital of the Mayo Kani division. The cottons ...
, Tikela Kemone worked as a teacher in the late 1970s and was then appointed to administrative positions in government ministries. From October 1980 to October 1981, he headed the General Affairs and Legislation Department under the Ministry of National Education's Department of Primary and Nursery Education. He was then moved to the Ministry of Finance, where he worked from October 1981 to November 1982 as Sub-Director of Inventory Accounting and then as Deputy Director of Account Balancing from November 1982 to August 1983.
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After that succession of ministry jobs, Kemone left ]Yaoundé
Yaoundé (; , ) is the capital of Cameroon and, with a population of more than 2.8 million, the second-largest city in the country after the port city Douala. It lies in the Centre Region of the nation at an elevation of about 750 metres (2,50 ...
and headed a school in Kaélé from 22 August 1983[ until he was appointed to the government as Deputy Minister of Finance on 7 July 1984.][ He spent a little more than a year in the latter position before being appointed as Secretary of State for Finance on 24 August 1985.][ Later, on 16 May 1988, he was instead appointed as Secretary of State for Agriculture.
An insufficient level of rainfall in 1990 led Kemone to warn of potential food shortages that could affect 600,000 people in ]Far North Province
The Far North Region, also known as the Extreme North Region (from french: Région de l'Extrême-Nord), is the northernmost constituent province of the Republic of Cameroon. It borders the North Region to the south, Chad to the east, and Nig ...
. He remained in the government until 1992["KEMONNE Tikela", ''CAMEROUN: LES HOMMES DE POUVOIR n°7'']
Africa Intelligence
17 September 2002 . and was subsequently an Adviser at the Presidency. He served as Technical Adviser heading the Presidency's Special Affairs Department for a time[ .] and currently heads the Internal Affairs Department.[
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See also
*Politics of Cameroon
The politics of Cameroon takes place in a framework of a unitary republic, unitary presidential system, presidential republic, whereby the President of Cameroon is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. A prime mi ...
References
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1950 births
Living people
Government ministers of Cameroon