Faith in Action: Mr. Ngum Samuel Leads Charge to Revitalize CBCHS with Christian Community’s Help
A CLARION CALL TO ACTION: CONCERNED CHRISTIANS SHOULD SAVE THE CBCHS UNDER
MR. NGUM SAMUEL FROM COLLAPSE.
It has been a while since we, CONCERNED CHRISTIANS made an outing on the disgraceful happenings
within the once mighty CBC. This has been so for two main reasons:
– The matters of the church are now being listened to by the competent courts
– We needed to investigate some more to see what manner of a leader the new DHS of the medical
service will be.
As we all know, much water has gone under the bridge already. The competent courts are struggling to
answer the legality question to begin finding ways to unravel the several layers of constitutional
violations that were master-minded and carefully executed by the sitting EP and CBC Board Chair which
have finally brought the church to its knees as we all can see today.
In this whole struggle, we, CONCERNED CHRISTIANS are carefully monitoring the EP and Chairman
who have been up and down trying to leverage any opportunity to either influence and or manipulate
those with “hidden power” to twist the process and or intimidate the plaintiffs to simply withdraw the case.
The plaintiffs have been threatened, coaxed and attempted to be bribed unsuccessfully to revisit their
stands, yet they have remained adamant. CONCERNED CHRISTIANS are watching!
If the EP and cohort are so confident and truly think that their actions so far have been legal and that
there have not been any violations of the organic texts of the CBC or procedures, then why all the agitations
leading even to the excommunication of Christians, erratic public and social media outings?
Well, this fresh outing by CONCERNED CHRISTIANS is not on any aspect of the pending matter in the
law court which is principally a case against the sitting top officials of the church, on no other but the
the gross constitutional violation that led to a complete erosion of the core values that set the Baptist church
apart.
This publication is intended to continue edifying the entire Christian fold and the community at large on
recent developments since the new medical service director (Mr. Ngum Samuel) assumed office.
For your reminder, this is the same gentleman who was proposed by the search committee (made up of
the EP and Chairman) but was rejected twice by the health department and the General Council. He was
later catapulted to the top job through a semblance of election by none other but his Big Boss – the EP.
The impostor DHS is now caught between doing true service to the staff under him and implementing the
selfish agenda of his Big Boss whether right or wrong. He who pays the piper dictates the tone, they say.
An area where the new director has begun to show his dependence on high instructions from his big boss
and or perhaps where he has started displaying gross incompetence is in the recent appointments,
postings and transfers of staff within CBCHS institutions.
We, CONCERNED CHRISTIANS were shocked to notice that the top leadership of the CBCHS is being
transformed into Kom. Of the 10 Administrators and Assistant Administrators that have been appointed,
4 (40%) are of the Kom tribe alone and we are told they are all incompetent individuals and therefore not
promoted based on their know-how but on their tribe of origin. Yet, the CBC EP has been shouting
everywhere about equity and tribalism to justify his hard-handedness of the previous CBCHS
administration led by Professor Tih. If the previous leadership is being accused of hiring many Wimbum
(who constitute the majority of Baptist Christians all over), how come the Kom minority is now suddenly
being projected without the same EP or anyone raising an eyebrow? Is this not just a careful plan by the
sitting director to establish a Kom-nasty?
In the same appointment, CONCERNED CHRISTIANS learned that senior staff are being systematically
demoted and also deliberately humiliated through military-styled handing over. No time to write handing
over notes. No consideration for their families, or children, to take care of or move with to the next station.
Not even the chance for them to orientate the staff who are taking over from them. Treated as though
they are criminals simply because they either worked with Professor Tih or openly against the EP’s moves
to establish an autocracy in the church.
Regrettably, we have learned from good sources that some of the leaders who are being shabbily treated
as such are those who gave their lives and all to make the health department what it is today. Yet, they
are being treated by the same system as dogs. From our independent findings, it is increasingly clear
that the new director’s concern is less about competency and more about loyalty to him and his
masters. It doesn’t matter whether services are negatively affected or not.
Shortly after the publication of the appointments, postings and transfers, CONCERNED CHRISTIANS
also learned that during a morning devotion at the Nkwen Baptist Center, Mr. Ngum had an outburst
expressing frustrations during which he revealed that the CBC Field pastors see all CBCHS workers as
pagans.
Tragically, this outburst was simply seen as a battle of a pricking conscience since it is a well-known truth
that there has been open bias in the selection of candidates for the position of the DHS, CBCHS Board
chairperson and vice, gross constitutional violations in the electoral process and depriving the Board of
the Health department from exercising its constitutional right to elect their director due to ulterior motives.
All of these were orchestrated by the EP through misguided Field pastors under the general council.
Currently, the statement “the reign of the unqualified” is fast becoming a slogan in CBCHS corridors
as the sitting DHS has continued to replicate this best-bad practice initiated at the top level of the convention,
to all other lower positions in the health department.
“The reign of the unqualified” is finally here!
This has become the common talk in corridors at institutions within the CBC. It’s a general impression
that workers have about their new leaders – starting even with the EP. The best qualified and experienced
ones are being relegated to the back while those considered/or known to be less competent but loyal to
the new leadership are compensated with promotions.
As indicated above, this is not an opinion only held by CBCHS staff. This is a general feeling that started
right from the top with the election of a leader of doubtful character and spiritual stands in the person of
the EP. Since taking office, the Rev. Dr. Nditemeh Charlemagne is reported to have been systematic in
passing over major leadership positions including at department levels to “Beni oui oui” (yes-men) – those
weak ones who accept to lick his boots.
Deprived of any safe space to express their frustrations, workers have resorted to slang, and camp creations
but are helpless as they watch the EP machinery continue to stir the system towards collapse. We are
told, new leaders are emerging most of whom are individuals who served or continue to serve as spies
providing information to Nditemeh and his cohort. What a frustrating work environment all of this has now
created within the CBC all as a result of the greed and over-sized ambition of two individuals backed by
some “hidden forces”.
It is a similar feeling of distrust that workers now hold of all CBC institutions which they consider rubber
stamp structures that have been formatted to serve the interest of a single individual – the EP. While the
various boards of the departments were all purged of critical thinkers, the general council reconstituted
to make sure only field pastors without valour and candour are in there, CONCERNED CHRISTIANS are
even becoming more worried knowing that there are plans underway to also rubbish the general session
which is the general assembly platform of all Christians par excellence.
The plans are to push through the agenda of a decentralized general session which was experimented
with during COVID-19 as a result of social distance restrictions. For Rev. Nditemeh’s camp, a decentralized
general session remains a good divide to better rule strategy. After all, as he acknowledges, if it were not
for this system, he could never have been voted as EP. This is regrettably true because a general
assembly held in one location will make it difficult for the whole body of Christians to be manipulated as
he did.
It is so sad that while the EP and cohort are unrolling this evil plan to completely take over and control
the church for their selfish interests, some naive Christians continue to be fooled into believing that
the crisis in the CBC concerns only a department and that it is about Professor Tih not wanting to retire
after four decades of uninterrupted leadership as director of CBCHS. At least, for all those years, he
Professor Tih has a litany of accomplishments to his credit and is known to truly love the system which
he sacrificed his whole life to build. This is a fact that as CONCERNED CHRISTIANS we need to
recognize and at least celebrate this man that served the system wholeheartedly and not try to blot out
his legacy as the EP and cohort are trying so hard to do. The wrong debate is the one which points people
or narrows their focus to a supposed leadership squabble in the CBCHS.
The real issue at hand is that some individuals have taken their agendas into the house of God
and are determined to make this agenda go through either by hook or crook. In the process, they are
ready to brush aside the fundamental texts of the CBC (the constitution and all other internal policies)
and even to eliminate – literarily and figuratively anyone that constitutes an opposition to the agenda.
From our independent findings, the CBCHS stood out as that lone department that has been strong
enough to mount meaningful resistance to the EP to prevent him from implementing this destructive
agenda and that explains why everything escalated when the mafia started working to technically appoint
a DHS that will help them in the CBCHS.
To buttress this point of a mafia within the church, one only needs to take a look at the recent appointment,
posting and transfer of staff that took place recently in the CBCHS. It is characterized by score-settling
as those who constitute or are perceived to constitute an opposition are being punished while relatively
mediocre staff are being elevated. Senior administrators who had worked closely with Professor Tih – the
former DHS are being treated unfairly. Character and competence are relegated to second place after
loyalty, and it only helps to weaken the system more.
Contrary to all the talks on social media and other platforms on how the CBCHS needs to be led by
Baptist Christians, we instead noticed a steady increase in the number of non-Baptists who have been
promoted to top leadership positions such as CMO of Etoug-Ebe Baptist Hospital, the assistant
procurement of Central Pharmacy in Mutengene and the worst case is a female Rev. pastor of Winners
chapel who is now the Chef of the Secretariat at the CBCHS.
Lastly, there has been so much talk and misinterpretations of the decisions by some heart Baptist
Christians to take the EP and cohort to court over their abuse of power. CONCERNED CHRISTIANS that
we approve of this move. As it is now, only bold moves of this nature can save the Church of God.
Besides, let us not forget that it is this very EP that taught Christians that you can settle a case against a
colleague/ or pastor in court. After assassinating the CBC constitution and vehemently refusing to heed
counsel from his predecessors, influential Baptist Christians like the former PM, HE Philemon Yang,
the legal team of CBC and the constitutional committee, acts by some brave Christians like these
should instead be saluted.
How can some Christians rather be so naïve to believe in EP’s propaganda and slander campaigns that
he did not do anything bad by taking a fellow pastor to court, but that fellow Christian also took him to
court is what is bad to the extent he excommunicates them from the Church.
With all the council he received did Christians not try to exhaust all possible means to cause him to come
back to the right track and respect the Baptist organic texts? What other internal means could
be envisaged especially now that all internal governance structures have been corrupted or their leaders
bribed with positions and benefits to defend/promote only the EP’s devilish agenda and not the interest
of the church?
Let it be known always that, the chief initiator of court cases within the Baptist church in Cameroon
remains this, Rev Nditemeh. He did it with impunity and the General Council kept cheering him as he
deviated from fundamental Baptist principles and brought disgrace to the church through what he considers
revolutionary reforms. In due time members of this General Council will also have to answer for
participating in this conspiracy to muscle the church for their self-interests. The future shall tell!
As we conclude this publication, we want to let CONCERNED CHRISTIANS know that scores-settling
is now ongoing in the CBCHS as we have predicted. This is being done through punitive transfers, the creation
of fictitious positions just to institute layers of spying, rumour spreading and character assassination. Highly
experienced and qualified staff who worked close to the former DHS are becoming soft targets as they
are being relegated to the back in favour of less competent ones simply because they can be manipulated.
The implication of this leadership style will be a steady decline in volume and quality of services over time.
CONCERNED CHRISTIANS should not be surprised when in the next five years or slightly more, the
CBCHS as we know it today, finally becomes a mere shadow of itself. For every action, there is bound to
be a commensurate reaction which comes with consequences. Let CONCERNED CHRISTIANS watch
out and take necessary actions to save their church and all related services today before the
consequences become irreparable.
