Mayor of Cameroon visits Hays, signs friendship resolution

Mayor Fongu Cletus Tanwe is the Mayor of the English-speaking region of the country of Cameroon. He is Mayor of Bamenda III Council, NKWEN region. A meeting with City of Hays Mayor Mason Ruder and Mayor Fongu Cletus Tanwe was held Thursday afternoon at 3 p.m. at City Hall. It was agreed that they would sign a friendship resolution on Friday before Mayor Fongu departs. Mayor Fongu met Cindy Elliott and Mehran Shahidi through Sister Cities International (SCI) about 10 years ago, when he attended one of SCI’s annual meetings in Virginia Beach. He attended subsequent meetings in Aurora, CO and Houston, TX and in Houston, he signed a Memorandum of Intent to recruit students to come to FHSU.
Source: Hays Daily News