Buea Parliamentary Candidate Seeks Divine Endorsement For victory

Candidate Malomba Esembe  speaking at  Interfaith Service

By  Christopher Ambe 

Despite popular forecast that 34-year old Magistrate Malomba Esembe will be overwhelmingly elected, come February 9, as the new MP for Buea Urban, the candidate has submitted his will to that of the Almighty God for endorsement for victory.

As a pious Presbyterian, we gathered, Malomba who is married and a father of three, strongly adheres to the Biblical principle in Mathew 6: 33, which reads:“…seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”  

 At an interfaith service, last Sunday evening, at the PCC Synod Office hall, Buea  over  ten  clergy men drawn  from the  Roman Catholic Church, Cameroon Baptist Convention, the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon(PCC), Pentecostal Church and the Muslim Faith   interceded on Malomba’s behalf  for God  to validate  the candidate’s victory.

The assembly, holding  under the theme “ Prayer Dinner and Benefaction Get-together for Malomba Esembe ,Candidate for National Assembly Buea Urban constituency”, was attended by many admirers of the youthful candidate, among them a  host of dignitaries that included Franklin Ngoni Njie ,General manager of Cameroon Development Corporation(CDC); Prof Ernest Molua, Registrar of University of Buea; Hon Meoto Paul Njie,former Director of Cabinet at the PM’s Office,Yaounde. 

The officiating  ministers of God  included Presbyterians-Rev. Mokoko Mbue Thomas,PCC National Communication Secretary ;Rev. Dr. Njie David King,Rev. Ayonghe N, Isaac and Rev. Nta William Nche ;there was   Baptist Pastor, Rev Njobara Nelson Nkibo.  Roman Catholic Priests were Fr. Stephen Nnadi and Fr.Polycarp Ojingwa.  Pentecostal Pastors included Rev.Eta Benson (United Pentecostal Church,Buea),Rev John Numbe Nwafor(Reconciliation Ministries Worldwide),Pastor Takem David Arrey( Garden of Life Ministries,Buea). The Muslim Faith was represented by Alhadji Mohammed Aboubakar, Imam of Buea.

The clergy said various prayers asking God to bless Malomba’s with an outstanding victory at the polls. 

Meditating on the theme “COMMIT TO THE LORD WHATEVER YOU DO”-(Proverbs 16:3), Rev. Mokoko Mbue Thomas said people are free to have plans but it is God who has the ability, possibility and power to establish them.

He expressed happiness that the candidate decided to commit his ambition to God, adding that he has known Malomba as a caring, disciplined, res

ponsible and God-fearing person.

Rev. Mokoko pointed out that “we are not here for any political party but for Malomba”, who is an elder of the Presbyterian Church.

He predicted that Malomba‘s plans would be established. “You have what it takes to sanitize the political arena”, Rev Mokoko said, to cheers.

One of chairs of the joint ceremony, Franklin Ngoni Njie, General Manager of Cameroon Development Corporation, told Malomba to be cautious of the many proposals being dangled to him, noting that some of them may take him off-track.

 He commended the candidate’s campaign slogan of “Love and Service.”

The General Manager appealed for massive support for Malomba.

“Even when the results of the election will have come proclaiming him winner, we shall still need to support him,” said Ngoni Njie.

Other speakers who  spoke favorably  about Malomba included Prof. Ernest Molua; Rose Esembe,mother of the candidate; Barrister Ndolo Ekane; Enanga Georgina Sanga,alternate parliamentary  candidate for Buea Urban. 

In his response, a beaming Malomba was thankful to all his supporters and pledged his readiness to be at the service of public.

The successful organization of  the interfaith service and prayer dinner was partly  thanks to the   input  of  Madam Rebecca Limunga  Effoe,  former Director of IVTC Buea- and said to be a  quiet CPDM strategist. 

Even though Malomba’s residence was burgled three days before the official launch of campaigns for the February 9 municipal and parliamentary elections , and his money and other property carted away, he looked determined to continue with what observers have described as his hope-giving and attention-catching campaign within the constituency.

Two political parties –the ruling CPDM and the opposition SDF- are competing for the Buea Urban Parliamentary seat, which for more than 20 years has been occupied by the CPDM.