In Search of Peaceful Solution to Cameroon Anglophone Crisis:

PM insists guns don’t dialogue, people do

Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute addressing crowd infront of Limbe City Hall on Anglophone crisis

By Christopher Ambe

In search of a peaceful solution to the almost three-year old Anglophone Crisis, Prime Minister and Head of Government, Chief Dr.Joseph Dion Ngute, emissary of President Biya to the restive Northwest and Southwest regions, demonstrated that humility is a hallmark of leadership by meeting many micro and macro groups with the Head of State’s urgent call for peace and dialogue.

Meeting with groups and knowledgeable individuals, Mr.Biya’s envoy also stockpiled proposals for resolving the deepening crisis.

The premier, who was, last week, in the Southwest region for a four-day peace consultations- after a similar one in the Northwest,regretted that, the Anglophone crisis, which snowballed into deadly fighting between Anglophone separatists and government forces, has had its toll on citizens- sending hundreds of them early to their graves, and wrecking the  economies of two regions in a particular and Cameroon by extension.

 According to rights groups, since the eruption of the crisis in October 2016 violence has killed about 2,000 people in Cameroon’s two English regions; about  half a million people are internally displaced, hundreds of villages burnt and property worth billions of Fcfa damaged.

The crisis has provoked a serious humanitarian crisis, which the Biya government and international bodies are still grappling with.

On his four-day peace mission to Buea,Limbe and Kumba,towns in Southwest Region, Prime Minister  Dion Ngute disclosed that President Biya is now more than ready to engage in  meaningful and inclusive dialogue –even with separatists, to bring the crisis to a quick end.

The Cameroon government had attempted dialogue at the early stage of the crisis   but suddenly resorted to a crackdown on advocates of the independence of Anglophones, and the latter have been fighting back in self-defense.

On his meet-the-people tour, the soft-spoken premier informed his varied audiences wherever he went that, even though Mr. Biya is now willing to dialogue, the President who has ruled Cameroon since 1982 has insistently said separation or secession won’t be on the agenda.

“The President has asked me to tell you that there will be no separation because Cameroon is one and a united country. Any other problems that the children in the bushes have will be looked into; please tell all of them to come out of the bushes, because guns don’t dialogue but people do. Let them come out for the dialogue.

 “The President has asked me to tell you that he is not happy that children are living in bushes, facing danger and all kinds of problems for no reason; that they should leave the bushes, drop their arms and return to their homes for safety”, Dion Ngute told a cheering crowd, in front of the Limbe City Council Hall, in Pidgin English, to better drive home the president’s message.

He had,a day before, delivered same to a large crowd at Buea Mountain Hotel,where lodged during the visit.

 “The President has asked me to tell you that he has ambition for young people in the Northwest and Southwest Regions;that he will order special recruitments for the fighters who surrender,” he said .

The PM appealed to parents to shun school boycott and send back their children to school, come September 2019.

“I congratulate the people of Limbe for saying “No to school boycott, “the PM said in response to the Government Delegate of Limbe City Council ,Andrew Motanga,who  boasted his city had since rejected ghost town and school boycott, called by separatists.

The PM lamented that in Southwest and Northwest schools are not functional. “Less than 20% of schools in these regions operate, even when education is key to success in life.”

Dion Ngute appealed to armed separatists lurking in bushes to drop their guns and come out for gainful employment and reintegration into society.

The PM called on chiefs, many of whom have abandoned their villages because of the hostility of separatist fighters towards them, to return to their chiefdoms and persuade the combatants to voluntarily surrender, in exchange for government protection and jobs.

In Kumba, some 23 “separatists” who reportedly surrendered were presented to the Premier, who was, in turn, happy with their turning over a new leaf.

Fonju Bernard, Southwest West Regional Coordinator for the center of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration  Center (DDR),whose Buea office Dion Ngute visited on Friday,said,“We already had 21 ex-combatants including the last one who came two weeks before the prime Minister visited the Center.”

As the PM met with professional, religious, political and socio-cultural groups, collecting proposals in view of resolving the crisis, the release of Sesekou Ayuk Julius and others in detention or prison in connection with the ongoing crisis, the demilitarization of the two regions, dialogue with leading activists in the Disapora and general amnesty were prominent.

Emerging from an audience with the PM in Buea, Chief Ekoka Molindo,Vice-President of Southwest Chief Confrence,who led the Southwest traditional rulers for it, noted, “The Southwest is behind President Biya to ensure peace returns soonest”

Speaking in Limbe,Chief Atem Ebako,former Secretary-General of SWECC, told the PM that the crisis has offered an opportunity for the putting in place of a system of governance,where the people can identify their problems and choose their leaders to govern them.

Also speaking in Limbe,Senator Mbella Moki,noted that Dion Ngute’s down-t-earth approach made him the voice of moderation in the current crisis situation.

The Senator condemned disunity among Southwest Elite, calling for unity of purpose to help resolve the crisis and insisting that the region must now be the game changer.

The eloquence with which Mbella Moki presented his views, prompted the PM to note that the senator spoke with the oratory of Winston Churchill, a British writer, former prime Minister and statesman.

 But for light gunshots at Buea Mile 17 reportedly by armed separatists in the morning of last Friday, the fourth and last day of the premier’s visit to the Southwest region, his peace mission was generally described as a huge success.

The Head of Government was accompanied to the Southwest by some Members of Government who included but not limited to: Deputy Secretary-General at the Presidency Elung Paul Che, Minister of Secondary Education, Dr. Nalova Lyonga and Minister-Delegate for MINEPAT,Paul Tasong.

(This report also appears in THE HORIZON Newspaper, Cameroon,of May 21,2019)

 

 

Cameroon crisis risks spiralling out of control: UN aid chief

© MARCO LONGARI Separatists have launched an armed campaign in Cameroon's two anglophone regions -- the government has responded with a crackdown

The crisis in Cameroon is worsening and threatens to spiral out of control, the UN aid chief warned Monday during a first informal meeting of the Security Council on the conflict.

At least 4.3 million people are in need of aid -- a 30 percent increase from last year in what Mark Lowcock described as an "under-reported" crisis in the central African country.

Cameroon is wracked by a conflict between separatists and government forces in its English-speaking west, combined with an influx of refugees from the Central African Republic and Nigeria.

"Both the humanitarian and the security situation continue to deteriorate and run the risk of spiraling out of control," Lowcock, the under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told the council.

"The level of the crisis today is more alarming than ever."

More than 560,000 people have been driven from their homes since 2017 including 32,000 who have fled to Nigeria. The violence from the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria has spilled over to Cameroon.

The United States, joined by Germany, Britain and the Dominican Republic, organized the meeting on Cameroon, but African countries made clear they were skeptical of the new focus.

Equatorial Guinea's Ambassador Anatolio Ndong Mba, speaking on behalf of the three African countries on the council, warned that the humanitarian crisis should not be "politicized".

The crisis is not a threat to international peace and "the situation should therefore be tackled by the government of Cameroon with genuine support from the international community," said Mba.

China and Russia also warned against UN meddling in Cameroon's affairs.

- Neglected crisis -

Rights groups have accused the United Nations of ignoring the conflict in Cameroon, where separatists in English-speaking regions are pushing for independence from the majority French-speaking country.

The government has responded with a crackdown, deploying thousands of soldiers.

More than 200 members of the security forces and at least 500 civilians have been killed, according to figures from the International Crisis Group, a think-tank.

Cameroon's Ambassador Michel Tommo Monthe defended his government's handling of the conflict, saying Yaounde was "facing secessionism, facing terrorism" but was "on its feet, standing tall."

Cameroon's Prime Minster Joseph Dion Ngute traveled to the anglophone region last week, offering dialogue but making clear that independence was not an option.

Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council and a former UN aid chief, said the crisis in the English-speaking part of Cameroon was "one of the world's most neglected".

"The lack of information and international political attention has allowed the situation to deteriorate from peaceful demonstrations to the atrocities committed by both sides," he told the council.

Egeland called for scaling up diplomatic efforts to prevent the violence from worsening and a "massive injection" of funds to support relief work.

Source:AFP

The Benefits of EU Membership

   By Henry  Nakie Kulu* 

The European Union (EU) can be described as both a super national and intergovernmental organization of 28 member states which was established after the Second World War with the aim of ending the frequent and bloody wars between European countries, and preventing future wars

The EU with common social, economic and security policies, was formed on November 1, 1993 by six countries namely Germany, France, Luxemburg, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands. Their aim was to promote peace and unity within Europe after the Second World War.

It has 24 working languages and its official currency is the Euro with its affiliated  countries being Serbia, Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro and Turkey.

Any Country interested in joining the EU must have a government that guarantees democracy, human rights, the rule of law as well as protect the rights of the minorities; also, the country must have a market economy that is strong enough to stand on its own within the competitive EU market and lastly the county must be willing to adhere to the objectives of the EU.

Becoming a member of the Union comes with several benefits.

 The EU has ensured the abolition of all border controls to provide the free movement of people    from one member state to another without visas; this has made it easy to work study or travel from one Member County to another. Since the EU was created its main economic engine, which is the single market, has led to the free movement of goods, services and money from one member country to another.

Furthermore, the EU has made it possible that all member states have good health care services, good educational system and the right to security for all citizens.

 The EU has also encouraged scientific and technological developments in order to improve the living standards of member countries. It has also helped to modernize all member states and even non-member countries like Turkey, Switzerland and Norway.

 Politically, the EU has helped reduce tension among member states and the world as whole thereby averting wars among member countries, which is considered as the biggest achievement of the Union.

          In my opinion, the benefits of being an EU member make the Union a very worthwhile organization and a great force to reckon with.

*Henry Nakie Kulu is a Cameroonian and an MA student of  International Relations & Political Sciences ,Istanbul  Aydin University 

Celebrated Lawyer Takes Cameroon's Prime Minister To Task Over Dialogue on Anglophone Crisis

MR PRIME MINISTER, SIR,THIS IS ACELEBRATION OF

 GENOCIDE AND NOT DIALOGUE

By Charles Taku*

Barrister Charles Taku

Dr. Dione Ngute was the agent representing LRC at the hearing of the case brought on behalf of the Southern Cameroons by Dr Gwang Gumne and others in the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. Judgement in the case was rendered in Banjul, the Gambia during the 45th Ordinary Session that held from 13 - 27 May 2009.

In the Judgment that was subsequently endorsed by the General Assembly of African leaders during the AU conference in Sirtre in Libya, the African Commission unequivocally called for dialogue to resolve the crisis and offered its services to facilitate the dialogue. It gave LRC 180 days to comply with its Judgment. It is on the records of the African Commission that LRC asked for an extension of time to comply with the Judgment.

Mr. Prime Minister, true to itself, LRC did not comply with that Judgment and did not respect the decision relating to dialogue facilitated by the African Commission, even after the expiration of the extended timeline it sought and obtained. What a reckless display of bad faith! .

In its characteristic exercise of impunity, LRC intensified its systemic and widespread violations of the protections afforded Southern Cameroons in international law. These violations have been ongoing since an unprecedented conspiracy facilitated the breach of the UN Charter and UN Resolutions paving the way to the annexation and colonisation of Southern Cameroons by the LRC. The escalation of the violations has led to genocide, also called the mother of crimes on the watch of a slow to act civilized world. This is unacceptable.

The Government of Cameroon considers these atrocity crimes as its legitimate exercise of impunity with arrogant alacrity. Its civilian and military commanders have in publicly available and well documented statements taken responsibility for these crimes. They have consistently praised the professionalism of its military for conducting a war of genocide in which more than 200 civilian settlements have been torched with shocking charred remains of vulnerable children, women, the old and the sick left in the debris. The Prime Minister Dr Dione Ngute himself on this so-called dialogue with the dead, praised the professionalism of these soldiers. 

During his visit there perpetrated egregious violations even in the neighbourhood of Bambili which he visited. There, they massacred in a cold blood, a mother and her baby. Mr Prime Minister, this is genocide and not dialogue. I did not hear you order the arrest and prosecution of the criminal soldiers who massacred that mother and her baby. The massacre of that woman and her child a few metres from where you visited indeed symbolizes the fate of hundreds of thousands of Southern Cameroonians for no reasons other than that they are Southern Cameroonians. That again sir, is genocide.

I began this piece by making a reference to the Judgment of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights which LRC accepted and asked for time to comply with but reneged on. LRC in contempt instead intensified its 58 year old campaign of intimidation, humiliation, dehumanisation, indignity and death. As the representative of LRC during the entire proceedings and judgment, you were and are better placed to advise your government to the hard reality that international legality may be slow but effective. When Justice catches up with the arrogant exercise of impunity and criminality, its impact may devastate the soul of conscienceless predators of human life. Differently, stated, a time comes when the victims of atrocious crimes are given a voice from their unmarked lonely graves to seek justice on their own behalf. That time sir, will come, sooner or later, here or in the hereafter. This truth sir, is sacrosanct.

Therefore, sir, I beg to ask. How do you feel conveying the concomitant message of conditional dialogue and genocide from your President to his victims? Does the said message not greatly contradict the dialogue decided by a respectable continental justice mechanism the African Commission which was endorsed by continental leaders? Was it not obvious from the Judgment of the African Commission that an international facilitator would be required to oversee the dialogue? And was it not for this reason that it offered to play that role? In your so-called ongoing dialogue, sir, I did not hear you regret the massacres, the genocide, the crimes against humanity, the war crimes etc. 

Why? I did not hear you talk about a transitional justice mechanism to prosecute civilian and military commanders responsible for these atrocity crimes in the Southern Cameroons. I did not see you feel the pain and suffering of millions of civilian victims of the atrocity crimes. Rather, I heard the evocation and rendition of the typical and resentful CPDM sycophantic war cries and slogans praising the god-president for his promise of mercy for those who lay down arms. Laying down arms to facilitate the atrocity crimes sir? Those you alleged laid down arms, have the locations from which they allegedly defected been spared the visit of your angels of death and the mayhem they bring to the civilian population? Have they sir? I bey to ask.

There is a common and recurring position taken by the international community on this war that was declared by LRC. That position is that there should be an inclusive dialogue with no pre-conditions, to tackle to the root causes of this conflict. From where then did you come about with the exclusion of the so-called secession or separation? Is this pre-condition not a distraction and an attempt to obviate the mandatory root causes of the conflict? Are the root causes not the umbilically linked violations that eviscerated the Southern Cameroons right to external self determination under the UN Charter guaranteed by UN Resolutions which LRC opposed and opted for annexation and colonial rule?

The right to resolve this conflict through an internationally organised dialogue in which negotiations will hold sway was obtained through a legal process before a Continental legal mechanism and endorsed by African Leaders. The international community has overwhelmingly taken the same position with renewed vigour. That position is therefore, not subject to a unilateral modification by LRC. That sir, is an unacceptable diktat. This unacceptable diktat tantamount once more to a disregard for the international rule of law on the basis on which international legality, peace and security are founded.

Mr Prime Minister, sir, as you pursue this futile adventure to insult the memory of victims, permit me to remind you that the informal meeting of the UNSC on this crisis on 13 May 2019, apart, the celebration on the 23 May 2019 at the UN of the 70 th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions which LRC is a state party, should be a shock reminder to LRC that the spirit of that multilateral treaty and many others is alive. That LRC place on the radar of the Geneva Conventions will soon be guaranteed, not for the right reasons, but for its atrocity crimes in the Southern Cameroons against civilians who are protected by the convention. The anniversary ceremony of the 23 May 2019 of the Geneva Conventions 1949 and the ten anniversary of the UN Resolutions for the protection of civilians in armed conflicts should be an opportunity for LRC to seriously consider, calling off this genocidal war and withdraw its soldiers for peace to prevail. It's military misadventure and atrocity crimes have failed and will continue to fail to tame the spirit of Southern Cameroons freedom seekers who are inspired and emboldened by the justice of their cause, international legality and the pursuit of legitimate self-defence.

History sir, provides you and the government you serve another opportunity to listen to the voice of humanity and the international community and get to the negotiating table while there is time. Stop the callous slaughter and the genocide now. Your present tour is a celebration of genocide and not dialogue.

*Charles Taku is a celebrated Cameroonian Criminal Defense Counsel

Cameroonian Teacher Celebrates birthday by donating didactic materials to 40 Pupils

Beneficiaries of  the  Mr. Liwonjo birthday gifts in family photo with teachers & parents.

 By Christopher Ambe

Millions of people prefer celebrating, lavishly and stylishly, their birthday anniversaries at hotel parties, dining and wining with friends and relations. Hardly do they think of the underprivileged!

But 

Moki Vainda Liwonjo 

Moki  Vainda Liwonjo,a Cameroonian teacher currently  on study leave in the USA, is in the category of those  who have  decided to  celebrate theirs  by sharing the little they have with  underprivileged children. 

“There is nothing as pleasurable as giving to needy children. I love sharing…it feels really good,”Mr. Liwonjo told me in a telephone chat when asked to justify his preference for children. “Children are a blessing and a gift from God, so says the Bible”

Mr.Liwonjo’s decision to dedicate his birthday anniversaries to underprivileged children, and commune with them, was taken several years ago; but it became more pronounced when this elite of Fako Division, founded the MC –VAINDA FOUNDATION, headquartered in Buea.

Mr. Liwonjo, a former President of Buea Teachers Union and First Vice-President of Teachers’ Association of Cameroon (TAC) last  April 17,his birthday, made a significant donation of didactic materials plus foodstuff and 5000Fcfa each to forty(40) underprivileged pupils selected from three state-owned primary  schools in Buea subdivision viz:GS Bokwango,GS Likoko Membea Group I & II.

School authorities overseeing the donation 

The ceremony, which took place at GS Likoko Membea Group II,was  chaired  by Madam Rose Ewune,who sat in for the Inspector for Basic Education for Buea Subdivision. Madam Ewune commended the generosity of the donor and urged the beneficiaries to use the gift to improve on their learning.

The donor’s special representative Madam Josephine Lykowo Mbua,told the beneficiaries ,their parents and teachers present that, Mr. Liwonjo  is a committed teacher who teaches by example and holds  that the blessed should share their blessings with the needy.She said it was not the first time the donor was assisting underprivileged children in the subdivision, adding that he has decided that henceforth (and yearly) his birth day anniversary would be an opportunity for him to share more with less-privileged children.

Also speaking,Mrs. Ikome Irene Limunga, head teacher of GS Likoko Membea II ,on behalf of the beneficiary schools, commended  parents who did accompany their children to witness the donation. 

She expressed the wish to see many others emulate the philanthropic gesture of the donor.

School choir singing during the ceremony

The ceremony opened with a soul-searching meditation, inspired by the Bible book of Genesis 40:23 and titled “God will remember you”. The meditation by Hans Monono Manga, a gifted preacher and Worker of Buea Council, was hugely applauded.

Words of appreciation also came from Madam Linda Pearl, representative of beneficiary parents and two pupils on behalf of the beneficiaries.

The ceremony was animated with birthday songs in honor of the donor and live music by school choirs.
(Armelle Belibi ,University of Buea journalism Intern contributed to this report )

The Anglophone crisis and innocent victims

 Buea, August 2018: Protesting women  urge  return to peace in  restive Anglophone Cameroon{archives photo] 

By Che Nformuluh

It is  difficult to identify who the separatist fighters in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon are, especially when they are not carrying weapons. 

Many of these fighters have no uniform unlike Cameroon’s military and security forces that can easily be identified by their special wears, weapons and vehicles. When the fighters mingle with unsuspicious people, the lives of the later are in danger.

The story is told of a certain Lumnui Didler, a restaurant owner in Bamenda, who was on March 9, 2019 reportedly arrested and detained because separatist fighters, disguising as normal customers, regularly ate in her local restaurant. She was arrested with several customers.

Lumnui, born on June 23, 1986 and mother of one, was accused by security agents of feeding separatist fighters instead of informing the Cameroon government of their whereabouts.

 Even though she denied knowing any separatist fighters, she was still whisked away by the security agents. Exactly where she was detained  is not yet known.

Stories of innocent victims of the Anglophone crisis abound.

As deadly clashes between separatists and government forces continue in the two restive English-speaking regions of Cameroon, many of the separatist fighters in civilian attire mingle with the populations making it difficult for the regular forces to sort them out.

 As such just so many innocent people have been victims of military/police brutality. Some supposed non-separatist fighters have even been killed in the mistaken belief that they were separatist fighters; many others have been arrested and detained awaiting prosecution; even if at the end their lawyers would defend them to freedom, they must have suffered in one form or the other, without compensation. Pathetic, Indeed!

Many people are living in fear as anybody could be arrested on suspicion of being collaborators of the separatists, especially as Government is determined to crush the rebels.

Cameroon security forces often carry out raids in localities suspected to be hide-outs for separatists and a lot of casualties have been reported.

The separatist fighters are reportedly gaining grounds in spite of sustained despite efforts by the Cameroon Government to defeat them

Cameroon government reiterates that the country is “one and indivisible.” 

The Biya administration has accused Anglophone separatist leaders in the Diaspora such as Cho Ayaba ,Akwanga Ebenezer ,Eric Tataw, Tapang Ivo, and Chris Anu of attempting to divide Cameroon by fuelling  calls for the independence of Anglophones.

Common law lawyers’ and Anglophone teachers’ strikes sparked off, late 2016, what is today known as the Anglophone crisis. 

Hundreds of people have died following regular clashes between government forces and separatist fighters. 

In May 2018, US Ambassador to Cameroon, Peter Henry Barlerin,  in a press statement on the Anglophone crisis, accused Cameroon Government of ”targeted killings, detentions without access to legal support, family or the Red Cross and burning and looting of villages”

The US diplomat also blamed separatist fighters for “murders of gendarmes, kidnappings of government officials and burning of schools”

Since the eruption of the crisis in 2016, property worth billions of Fcfa has been vandalized; more than 30 thousand Cameroonians are seeking asylum in Nigeria, while hundreds of thousands of citizens  are internally displaced People(IDPs), giving birth a serious humanitarian crisis in Cameroon.

Cameroon: PCC Webmaster told: “Please help us. We are in crisis!”

Rev.Numfor Godwin and wife during the induction

By Christopher Ambe

The Presbyterian Church in Cameroon (PCC) Webmaster, Synod Office Chaplain and (pioneer) Parish Pastor of Synod Office Congregation was, Sunday March 24, instituted and inducted, in Buea with a call to rescue Christians from social media misinformation and disinformation.

Rev.Numfor Godwin, assigned to perform the three functions of webmaster, chaplain and parish pastor, was inducted in a crowd-pulling but solemn ceremony in the PCC Synod Hall by Rev Besong Johnson Tabe, Secretary of Committee of the Ministry

The ceremony was attended, among other PCC top officials, by the Church’s Chief Shepherd & Moderator, Rt.Rev Fonki Samuel Forba, and the Synod Clerk, Rev.Babila George Fochang.

In his sermon, titled “Crisis Can Provide an opportunity to teach spiritual lessons” inspired by Mark 3:20-27, Rev. Tabe urged the inductee to use the power of God in him to stifle gossips within the PCC and fight social media misinformation and disinformation about the church, especially now with the ongoing Anglophone crisis.

Urging the inductee to brave the odds when carrying out his multiple tasks, Rev.Tabe noted  that “one thing in history is that God’s servants are always misunderstood by their contemporaries”, adding that even Jesus Christ was misunderstood but the latter rather used any crisis he faced to “ teach spiritual lesions”

“The PCC is passing through a crisis period and as Webmaster, you (Rev Numfor) have the power to change mindsets in the church and Ministry,” the officiating pastor remarked. “The Social Media has complicated the crisis situation, making it difficult to manage.”

Rev. Numfor was advised to work in collaboration PCC National Communication Secretary, to re-orientate the mindsets of Christians in the face of social media lies-telling and fake news.

The Chief Celebrant implored the inductee: “Bring up spiritual lessons that should preoccupy our mindsets” other than the social media lies,

Concluding his attention-catching sermon, Rev. Tabe cried out to the inductee, “Webmaster, help us .We are in crisis!”

Numfor Godwin graduated from the Presbyterian Theological Seminary (PTS) Kumba in 2006 and was ordained in 2008.

He holds a Master’s of Science degree in Clinical Counseling (Cameroon Christian University) and another Master’s degree in Theology (Presbyterian Theological Seminary Kumba).

Rev Numfor & wife pose for the Camera with some PCC officials after the induction

Also certified as an ICT specialist, Rev.Numfor before his recent appointment, had served as computer coordinator at PTS Kumba.He would now run the church’s main website www.pcc.cm and other related sites

He had also served as Parish Pastor of PC Baba I in Ndop Presbytery, Chaplain of PCHS Kumbo, Parish Pastor of Tobin, Chaplain of PHS Wum,and Parish Pastor of Kesu.

A native of Mbelili-Bafut, Rev. Numfor is married to Rose Manka’a Mukong,a civil servant and they are blessed with several children.

The PCC now has a million or so Christians, and exists in all the ten regions of Cameroon.PCC was out of the Basel Mission in November 1957 and in 1958,Rev Abraham Ngole became pioneer Moderator(1958-69) .

(This article also appears in The HORIZON Newspaper, Cameroon, of March 26, 2019)