By
Christopher Ambe
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| Dr.Ernest Lytia Molua, New UB Registrar |
Ernest
Lytia Molua, Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics, was on August 27, 2019,
appointed by President Paul Biya as the new registrar of state-owned University
of Buea (UB),Cameroon, in replacement of Professor Roland Ndip.
As
registrar, Dr. Molua ranks as, and enjoys the rights and privileges of,
Secretary-General in the Central Administration of Cameroon.
According
to regulation in force, only someone from among those that possess qualifications
in university administration or who can show proof of sufficient experience in
university administration assumes the office of registrar.
The
Registrar assists the Vice-chancellor, who is the chief executive and academic
head of the university, in the day-to-day running of the varsity.
Dr.
Molua, who holds a Doctor of Science degree in Agriculture with specialization
in Agricultural Policy Design and Planning from Georg-August University of
Goettingen-Germany, since November of 2002, was recruited in 2003 at the
University of Buea as a Senior Instructor in the Department of Economics and
Management, in the Faculty of Social and Management Sciences
In
2005, Dr. Molua was raised to the rank of Assistant Lecturer by the Ministry of
Higher Education, and in 2006 he rose to the rank of Lecturer, teaching in same
university.
In
2006 he was appointed Chief of Service for National and International
Cooperation of the University of Buea.
In 2008 and 2009, Dr. Molua embarked
on some capacity-building projects which allowed him serve as a visiting
African Scholar to Makerere University in Uganda; and also to the University of
Pretoria, South Africa.
In
2009 Dr Molua was awarded the American Government-sponsored US Fulbright
Research Fellowship to the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale
University in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
In
2010, Dr. Molua returned to Cameroon and was appointed as pioneer Head of the
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness in the newly created
Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, University of Buea.
He would, in June 2017, be appointed Dean of
the Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, and he served in that
capacity until Tuesday, 27 August 2019,when a presidential decree catapulted
him to the status of Registrar of University of Buea, which went operational in
1993 as the first Anglo-Saxon varsity in Cameroon.
BEFORE HIS DOCTORATE
Lytia
Molua did his primary education at G.S Likoko-Membea, Buea obtaining
his First School Leaving Certificate in 1983; then proceeded to the prestigious
St Joseph’s College Sasse, Buea for secondary education.
In
1990, following an excellent pass in 5-science subjects at the Cameroon GCE
Advanced Level, Lytia Molua was offered Cameroon Government Scholarship to
study abroad, and was sent to the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria
where, he obtained the Bachelor of Agriculture degree in Agricultural Economics
and Extension Services in 1994, and gained admission for the Master of Science
programme in Agricultural Economics, and graduated in 1996.
In
1997, he proceeded to Europe for further studies at the Royal Veterinary and
Agricultural University in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he obtained his second Master
of Science Degree in Agricultural Land-Use and Natural Resources Management in
July, 1999 and in September same year he started his doctoral studies at the Georg-August
University of Goettingen,graduating in
November 2002 with the Doctor of Science Degree in Agriculture with
specialization in Agricultural Policy Design and Planning.
Dr.
Molua has won many awards and published extensively in national and
international peer-reviewed journals. He is a visiting Professor to the University
of Pretoria, South Africa, the United Nations African Institute for Economic
Development and Planning, Dakar, Senegal; and United Nations University for
Natural Resources in Accra, Ghana; as was well as the United Nations University
for PEACE in Addis Ababa Ethiopia.
He
has served as consultant to United Nations agencies including the FAO, UNDP and
UNEP
He
is recipient of numerous research grants and is a member of prestigious societies such as: The Royal Economic Society of The
United Kingdom, The International Association of Agricultural Economists and The
African Association of Agricultural Economists.
Dr.Molua
is currently the Vice-President of the Cameroon Association of Agricultural
Economists (CAAE).
Politically, he is not a fence-sitter, but an
outspoken CPDM apologist .He loves articulating his views on issues of public
interest on radio programmes.
A native and elite of Buea, Dr.Molua who is in his
40’s, is married and is blessed with several children.
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