As the tourism beauty queen for the next two years, the 19-year-old varsity student is going to promote and sell Cameroon’s rich tourism attractions. The native from the South West province took home 500,000 FCFA and other material gifts as prizes
There are two kinds of tears humans shed to express emotions- tears of joy and tears of sorrow. The tears that ran down the cheeks of 19-year-old Eposi Ekome Christina when she was declared winner of the coveted Miss Tourism 2008 beauty contest last Saturday, 27 September, were those of elation.
Nothing good comes easy. Eposi Ekome, of Bakweri origin in the South West province, had to display her beauty, her eloquent biligualism and her dazzling knowledge of Cameroon’s tourism potentials to defeat the other nine equally challenging contenders at the Yaounde Mont Fébé Hotel.
The varsity student is going to keep the Miss Tourism 2008 beauty crown for the next two years, that is until 2010. She succeeds another Anglophone from the South West province, Cecilia Njolle Matoukè.
Nadine Larissa Simo Fotso, 21, and Fidam Dapsia, also 21, emerged first and second runners-up respectively.
Spectators at Mont Fébé, amongst whom was Culture minister, Ama Tutu Muna who represented her colleague of Tourism, Baba Hamadou, all admitted overtly that the contest was stiff from the majestic march past in traditional and party attires to the oral phases. But at the end Eposi, Fotso and Fidam were voted champions.
The Miss Tourism 2008 took home a cash prize of 500,000 FCFA while the first vice beauty queen bagged home 300,000 FCFA and the second vice earned 150,000FCFA. The nine losers were each shared envelopes of 100,000 FCFA each. Like the winners the losers were also offered material gifts.
Minister Tutu Muna, in her speech at the event, enjoined the champions to use their beauty and aesthetics to promote and market Cameroon’s rich tourism as well as minimise the adverse effects of climate change.
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