Jérôme Obi Eta

Jérôme Obi Eta is a Cameroonian politician and engineer who served as the Cameroonian Minister of Public Works from 1997 to 2002 and as the chairman of the board of directors of the Cameroonian Water Utilities Corporation from 2006 to 2018.

Biography Eta was born on October 15, 1940 in Mamfe, British Cameroons. He began his education at a public school in Mamfe, and then went to Umuahia College in Umuahia (now in Nigeria) between 1953 and 1960, where he pursued the West African School Certificate in 1958 and the Cambridge Higher School Certificate in 1960. Eta then studied at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada between 1961 and 1963 and later Queen's University at Kingston from 1963 to 1965 where he graduated with a bachelors in civil engineering. Eta then earned a master's degree in civil engineering from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in Great Britain. He then worked at the Cameroonian Ministry of Equipment, Urban Planning, and Housing. From 2006 to 2018, Eta served as the chairman of the board of directors for the Cameroonian Water Utilities Corporation, or CAMWATER. Eta was replaced as chairman by Patrick Kum Bong Akwa, and just before being replaced was in a dispute with CAMWATER CEO Gervais Bolenga over Bolenga's appointment of managers without abiding by the rules.