ON ARCHBISHOP KLEDA’S VISIT TO THE BAMENDA ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE.
As an eye witness of Mgr Kleda’s visit to Kumba, and getting Infos from Mamfe, I wouldn’t say he was disgraced. The anglophones still have a lot of respect for their bishops. I would rather say, Mgr Kleda disgraced himself. I say so because while in Mamfe, they expressed that before their mission to the province, they were given the impression that only Catholics schools were closed. This means they went out to solve a problem they didn’t even know its depth. No proper findings made.
Secondly, Bishop Kome, in the meeting in Kumba, considered the people’s request for them to speak in English as an insult. This means he didn’t have a good knowledge of his audience. He failed to understand that his audience was a wounded people in need of healing; a people who feel marginalized because they aren’t French speaking. How could Mgr expect them to just take the French language as the normal language to use in addressing an anglophone problem?
Next, a normal academic year is nine months; we are in the sixth month of no school. What magic can be performed to recover what has been lost within this time? Even if children were to go back to school now, do they know the amount of time needed to psychologically heal them before they can be poised for learning? It’s not just about learning to write the GCE. It is about the human person. Much damaged has been done. Is the government putting in place strategies for repairs of these damages before new constructions? They claimed they wanted to handle just the school issue for now because it’s of paramount importance. No! The problems are entangled. Teachers are in jail, so who teaches the children? Parents in jail, so who pays fees for the children? Lawyers too detained, who handles our problems? Bike men in jail, who transports children to school? I could go on and on.
Lastly and most important, What became of the memorandum of the bishops of our province to the President? Why would such an important and enlightening document not be published in L’Effort? There were suggestions for a way forward in that document. What move has the government made as far as that document is concerned? Instead, the bishops have been dragged to court. Let’s be careful not to invite a curse on our land by taking this matter too simple. We need to stand up and condemn this act using the hardest words. This is no time for speaking the truth under the table. Everyone is aware of it. Let’s stand up for it
My dear people, like Archbishop Desmond Tutu, I reiterate, “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you’ve chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality” Let’s go down in our knees and one day, justice will be done.
My humble views.
Sr. Vera Nayah Ndifoin
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IF INJUSTICE BECOMES LAW RESISTANCE BECOMES A DUTY. AND WE HAVE A RIGHT TO RESIST LA REPUBLIQUE.
Bishop Kleda is a fraud, a cheap crook passing for a man of God.He should be stopped at every inch he takes in our territory. A repeat of the Jean ZOA / NDONGMO saga When a fellow colleague and brother in Christ serving in the Lords vine yard help the Ahidjo Regime to falsify evidence against Bishop Ndongmo Today Bishop Kleda is not standing by his Anglophone bishops who have been dragged to court by this diabolic government, He oversteps his jurisdiction and comes to give lessons about love and love for our children When students were adopted and taking to languish in detention in Yaounde without trial where was this man called KLEDA .When girls were dragged out of their residential areas and raped by soldiers, some killed Mr Bishop you sat with tight lips.Suddenly when you see that your Beti brothers are losing the struggle on the ground, you jump up to play the tribal card .Shame on to you fake “MAN OF GOD” Remember .there will be a judgment day for a;; of us. Jesus came to set the captives free and to liberate the oppress but much to my surprise a bishop is walking hand in gloves with the oppressor thereby actively helping the oppressor to continue in its diabolic scheme What shame have you brought on the Catholic church !! Have you Mr Bishop ever heard of liberation theology which was the bed rock of the Latin American church? Be advised Read your books the catholic church has always been in the forefront of standing side by side with the oppressed but for some strange reason you and your brother ZOA have decided to play the tribal card instead in the church
Too bad of this so called bishop. Why should he come here? We too have bishops of the same ranking with him here so he should have just follow what iur own bishops say. Who does he think he is even?
KLEDA, AN IMPOSTOR, A DEVIL IN DISGUISE who has been allowed to bring his evil self, encompassed by his satanic cosmic forces closely linked with the devilish forces of biya and his satanic gangsters. KLEDA stepping his feet on our territory is contaminating our territory. I hope this should be his last time being allowed to come to the Southern Cameroon/Ambazonia territory.
One must be suffering for some kind of a spell, curse, magic to freely decide to cohabit in a country govern by LRC politicians.
From the little history I’ve been exposed to by reading about the church in LRC, it is very clear now there is no such thing to be called a church over there. It’s just the government in holly gowns.
You have said it all Sr. Justice shall prevail. God is still saying something, let’s not relent our efforts in prayers, freedom is on the way coming . let’s place our eyes on that mountain from whence cometh our help, our help cometh from the LORD who made Heaven and Earth. Ps121:1