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Santa Mayor/Pastor drops dead

Mayor Kan Elroy Moses Payne
From Bakah Derick in Bamenda with field reports
The dead of the Mayor of the Santa Council who doubles as leader and Founder of a Bamenda based Church has been announced. Before being rushed to the Holy Family Hospital Mortuary Akum, family sources say Mayor Kan Elroy Moses Payne had just done his usual morning sports when dead stroke. The September 15, 2017 passing on of the Mayor fell like a bombshell with many refusing to believe upon just hearing the information.
The cause of the instant dead of the man who was also President of the regional chapter of the National Mayors gathering known as United Councils and Cities of Cameroon UCCC has not been made public. Immediate reactions have been difficult to get from his colleagues Mayors.
Santa Meteo Radio a Facebook page managed by a radio in close collaboration with the Santa Council   announces the dead adding that he was in Bambui Thursday September 14, 2017, where he attended a Seminar organized by the community driving development initiative PNDP, exclusively for Mayors, Secretary Generals and Treasurers of Councils in the North West Region of Cameroon.
The General Superintendent of the Synagogue House of Prayers for All Nations, (SHOPAN) Kan Elroy Moses Payne is a father of three. Though he lost his first wife in 2015, the Municipal administrator earlier this year got married to another wife.
He is the third councilor to have died in the last two years in the Santa Council including Alomba Alfred and Taniform Neeh Jacqueline who died in 2016/2017.


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