Babessi Council is located in Ngoketunjia Division, along the Bamenda – Kumbo road. It is surrounded by Jakiri and Oku Sub Divisions of Bui Division; Belo Sub Division in Boyo Division; Bangorian in Noun Division and Ndop central Sub Division in Ngoketunjia Division. Babessi Council was created in 1995 by Presidential Decree No – 95/082 of 24th April 1995. It went operational in 1996.  It has a surface area of 240 km2 and a population of 63,254. It is made of 4 villages namely: Baba 1, Babungo, Bangolan and Babessi.

The Headquarter of Babessi Council and the Babessi Sub Division is located at Babessi town. Since its creation the Council has been administered by 6 Lord Mayors as show in the Table below:

History of Mayors of the Council

#	Name of Lord Mayor	From	To
1	Mr. CHOH ISSA BUBA	January 1996	August 2002
2	Mr. TIKANJOH STEPHEN	August 2002	16th October 2012
3	Mr. TAMFU INUSSA	October 2012	April 2013
4	Mr. TIKANJOH STEPHEN	April 2013	October2013
5	Mr. CHOH ISSA BUBA	April 2013	March 2020
6	Mr. METOH MBAH JOACHIM	March 2020	Till Date

Source: ACTWID KONGADZEM, field data, 2017

The population in Babessi villages is generally cosmopolitan. The Municipality has
69 quarters which are distributed in the 4 main villages as shown below: