Tori Limangana, Biya’s former minister is dead

Tori Limangana is no more! One of the strong men of the early years of Biya’s government died Saturday, May 2 from an illness. He passed away in Maroua, chief city of the Far North region.

When in 1982 Paul Biya succeeded Ahmadou Ahidjo as President of the Republic, Tori Limangana, son of the north entered the good graces of Biya’s government. Thus, between 1982 and 2000, he was appointed Minister of Economy and Planning, Minister of Trade, Minister of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries and general manager of the expansion Society Yagoua Rice modernization (SEMRY).

After 13 years of no government post, he returned to the spotlight in 2013 as Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

"The recent election of Tori Limangana the Deputy Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (BCC) agrees with those who think that in politics, especially in Cameroon, there is definitely no end point. Since his hectic beginning as DG in SEMRY in March 2000, Tori Limangana had the case to say, disappeared from circulation. A start caused by people who challenged his raging management at agribusiness already mired in inextricable financial problems due to both the international economic situation which has not spared Cameroon and questionable managerial choices. He was born in 1946 to Goulfey in the Logone and Chari. After an uneventful school, he earned a Bachelor degree which enables him to successfully defy the assistance of the National School of Agronomy (ENSA) Nkolbisson in Yaounde. On his release in 1972, the young engineer will try his hand at SODECOTON SEMRY before joining in 1975. He will leave the rice company to be part of the first government of the Biya era", reads an article devoted to the deceased two years ago by Robert Bihina.