It was common custom for any Lebialem student who came to Yaounde University in those days to have himself introduced to Mr Mbeboh. "See me in my office" was his signature tune but some of us had the extended form which was "Meet me at home so we can have lunch together" Mrs. Mbeboh greeted you with the kind of acceptance that only the ideal mother would know. Miss Pat, Sir Maurice, Fomenya and my friend Joseph who were all living with him, treated you with the respect while Prof spiced it with humour. The students knew him mostly as "Prof" but to those of us who admired his sense of humour and style, we called him "Poet" When Lebang Organization was formed in 1981by him, I was the first employee of the company and worked under his guidance and tutelage for one year. Then, in 1982, Philip Tazi told me that LABOGENIE was employing people with science background; I applied for the job and was offered. I went to Mr Mbeboh (my employer and besides the secretary, I was the only employee then) and told him that I had been offered a job with a para-statal. To my astonishment, he encouraged me to join LABOGENIE instead! that was Mr Mbeboh. Asongtia and Albert Fotabong then took over from me. Poet had exceptional wit and was imbued with the kind of intelligence that Mr. E. A. Aka often said that Poet was capable of dismantling the resolutions of a meeting he never even attended. Today I hear he is no more but how can I believe? To me he was a mentor, and my admiration of his life style made me to proudly choose him and his wife as the God-parents of my son. I have stopped crying because I have seen the likes of Fontem Defang, DD Asonganyi, PM Nkemncha, BA Tate, JN fomenky, EA Aka, SAK Morfaw, Cecilia Nkengafac, Fomenya, Fouching, Lord Mbelem, Chiara, Gabriel Ngu etc...etc.. go through the same route. But this is the one I will hardly forget as his aura was very closely related to mine. This is a big big loss to be very very modest. Rest in Peace dear brother. Prince