Actualité mise à jour le 18 Juin 2020
-Publié initialement le 17 Juin 2020
The
shocking news of the death of Dr NKEM
David ATENCHONG was received in the early
hours on Wednesday morning June 17, 2020 after a brief illness.
The news broke up as a surprise this morning, and spread
like wildfire to all PNDP South- west personnel in particular and the National Coordination
in Yaounde as a whole. One could see sadness on the faces of all who knew Dr.
Nkem David Atenchong.
The Regional Coordinator of PNDP/SW, Dr NKEM David was
last seen on the 16th of June 2020 in the corridors of the National
Coordination Unit of PNDP in Yaounde, in abid to follow up the different files
and other related documents of the Regional Coordination Unit for the
South-west.
The news of his death came as a shock to all his
colleagues all over the PNDP network, friends, family members and partners. The
soft spoken and reserve person as we knew him, was the Regional Coordinator of
PNDP south west since April 2010.
He was an Agricultural Engineer by profession who
began his carrier at the then Provincial Delegation of Agriculture in the
North-West from 1984 to 1988 and was later on attached to the North-West
Development Authority for a Trial period and Demonstrations Officer. He was a holder
of a PhD in Development Studies awarded by the Commonwealth Open University of
Bremen. He died at the age of 57, was married and a father of four children and
many grandchildren. He leaves behind a wife, colleagues, friends and family to
mourn him.