Tang Market in Funam, Bome Relaunched

Tang Market in Funam, Bome Relaunched

The Tang weekly market in Funam Bome has been relaunched. The special reopening of the market was done on Tuesday March 17 2026 by the Divisional Officer of Mbengwi, Ngidah Lawrence Che in the company of H.R.H Prof. Wilfred Mbacham, the Fon of Funam, the first Deputy Mayor of the Mbengwi Council, Dorine Fonjong epouse Agwe, other Bome fons and the general population.

To Chunga Gladys, the reopening will go a long way to strengthen economic activities in Funam. She encouraged all Funam women to now intensify the cultivation of various crops.

Just like Gladys, another Funam woman told Mbengwi Online that "I'm so happy because we had been longing for this market to the point where we were almost falling sick but after this reopening, we feel relieved"

Farm Produce Being Marketed 

As of the benefits they'll gain, she said it'll help them to play their "njangis", pay their children's school fees and sell their farm produce that used to get bad. According to Nih Lewis Tata, Tang market in Funam in the good old days used to be like Tad market in Nyen. He grew up seeing a village market flourishing with goods of all varieties, buyers and sellers from all over. He hopes with this resumption, such good old days will gradually return.

While others remained optimistic, Sakeh Florence was not so confident about the sustainability of the market especially as it's been repeatedly relaunched and not long after, it dies down. To her, the problem stems from pricing since the only thing that will attract buyers is if items sold in Tang, Funam are cheaper than how same items are sold in Mbon, Ku.

In a one on one with H.R.H Prof. Wilfred Mbacham Tarke, Mbengwi Online's Fongoh p. Ayeh first wanted to know from him the raison d'être for the reopening. In response, the varsity don said "We looked at the economic activities of the Bome zone and saw that produce farmed are not being sold quick enough and so we thought it necessary to redynamize and revitalise the market by relaunching it most importantly to promote farming activities."

H.R.H Prof. Wilfred Mbacham Tarke, Fon of Funam, Bome

He further disclosed that by encouraging the farmers, they're going to have a more vibrant market not the way their forefathers left it but in a way that's more morden. "We have done an architectural design in which we are going to solicit for funds and erect sheds that'll be given out for rents. There'll be sections for palm oil, gari, water fufu, livestock, fertiliser, provision, clothes, handicrafts, in short sections for all types of things that people want to buy as commodities" he added.

In conclusion, he ended by encouraging all the zones in Meta to come back with their weekly markets and give it some modernism because from the way most things are produced, they quickly get bad because of the absence of better methods of preservation and when they get bad it's a loss for the farmers.

Bome Youth Empowerment & Development Initiative 

The relaunch of the Tang Market in Funam, Bome also presented an opportunity for members of the newly formed Bome Yout Empowerment and Development Initiative to make their first public appearance. The initiative spearheaded by Seta Withgodep Weirtz, a philanthropist and community leader is aimed at rallying all youths from the seven villages that make up the Bome zone to take their destiny into their hands in terms of education, employment, development and the like.