Transparency and Accountability are all we need, Truth House
Truth House, a concerned Caucus of outstanding Christians of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon – PCC meeting in Douala on Saturday, September 13, 2025, examined salient issues affecting the church, especially since the coming of Fonki to power and his simulation of a handing over that apparently never was. In that conclave, an exchange with a battery of journalists as journalists seeing many things that point to the fact that the people who have been elected and who have been put in positions are not able to do their work effectively because they are living in the shadow of people who are supposed to have left.
According to Ace journalist Victor Epie Ngome, Convenor, “The new administration of the church is personalized, by the Rt. Reverend Miki Hans-Abia: There are things that only he can do. There are decisions that only he can enforce. And we are not seeing him doing that. That’s part of the reason why we are here. To find ways of making him do his job and to take away the obstacles. And this is where we are going to ask the Christians, the pastors, and everybody who knows anybody or anything that is standing in the way of doing his job as a moderator, to stand aside so that he can do his work.
So far, we think that Rt. Reverend Miki Hans Abia hasn’t started his work. I think, as I speak for two thousand or more Truth House members, from the kind of things we are seeing happening, we think that he has not yet spread his wings. His wings are more or less split. Like somebody said, his hands are tied. We seem to see the Rt. Reverend Miki Hans’s hands are tied. That’s very concerning. He’s leading a church of more than two million, and his hands cannot be tied. There are things that he needs to do that have to do with people. He has to have total command of people, move people around, and give new functions from hand to hand. Otherwise, we will not be able to get anywhere. We’re not looking at, you know, we don’t measure the life of the church in terms of buildings. We don’t measure the life of the church in terms of money. We measure the life of the church in terms of how people feel at home in the church and how people worship freely, how people manifest their spirituality and all of those things. And we are not seeing a lot of that happening because people are grumbling, people are unhappy about many things. But we still see untouchables in the church, and that cannot continue.
Senior, do you think that the former moderator has some sort of influence on Reverend Miki, his hands are clipped or his wings are clipped? To answer that question, are you by that saying that Reverend Miki Hans is just a figurehead in that position?
“I wouldn’t give the word figurehead, but I would simply say that he is not yet doing what he was elected to do.
Because there are forces that seem to control him, that seem to make it difficult for him to assert himself as the moderator. We know the powers that our constitution gives to a moderator, but he is not assuming those powers yet.”
What are the things that he is supposed to do that he is not doing?
The moderator has the power to move staff around. But everybody, including past moderators who are still in service, knows that Reverend Miki transferred Reverend Fonki to Yaounde. We all know that. He has not taken up duty yet. And how do you transfer somebody who doesn’t take up duty, and you don’t act? Those are the kind of things we are talking about. Just one example.
Okay. I have an additional question. There was so much interest in the spiritual growth of the church, prior to the elections and even after the election. How is the state now with the coming of the new administration?
None of us has a meter. We don’t have a meter to measure the spiritual good of the church, but we can look at it in terms of where the church is laying emphasis. Where the church is placing the emphasis. The administration, from the administration, placed a lot of emphasis on the material
There was so much interest in the spiritual growth of the church, prior to the elections and even after the election. How is the state now with the coming of the new administration?
None of us has a meter. We don’t have a meter to measure the spiritual growth of the church, but we can look at it in terms of where the church is laying emphasis. Where the church is placing the emphasis, the former administration placed a lot of emphasis on the material. And that emphasis has not moved. I don’t know if anybody, I think two or three people in the room believe that the emphasis has not moved from material to spiritual. VEN
The question of moral ethics of the church, moral ethics was raised. From your observations, have you seen any change in that direction?
Dr. Barr. Nico Halle upheld that “Truth House is very concerned with the breakdown of morality in the entire society, including the church. We have observed that we don’t leave our sermons. You cannot preach against corruption and pervert corruption. Nobody will listen to you. In fact, when I listen to sermons condemning corruption in the secular world, where there is much in the church, my heart bleeds.
When I listen to sermons condemning electoral fraud, malpractices, rigging of elections, where all of us know what happened in the church ten years ago, six years ago, and last year, 2024, that everything was rigged from beginning to end. So, do you have the moral, spiritual authority to mount the pulpit and preach a sermon against what you have been practicing? Lately, they sat quietly. The pastors, some of them, most of them sat quietly, and their spirituality lasts on the pulpit ten, twenty minutes, and that’s all about it. You cannot be preaching against social media, and you are every day viral in social media. When you go to the toilet, the media reports. When you go to a wedding, the media reports. And then you condemn the media. How will the people know what is happening in the church? The truth will set us free. The truth will set us free.
On one thing, Solomon said, after all the wealth that he had, you know, the richest thing in the world, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Proverbs 9, 10. Fear of God means that you do the things in consonance with the canons of God. You don’t preach what you don’t practice. There’s a lot of hypocrisy and falsehood. And that’s what Truth House condemns. Without brandishing holier-than-thou perfection, it’s starting to turn around.
We cannot watch the body of Christ shredded, diluted, or rapped. You rig the constitution of the church, and you’re criticizing the rigging of the state’s constitution. If you are a hypocrite, what are you thinking? So, anybody who mounts the pulpit, or the altar, or faces the podium, and preaches against God, should not be a thief. You preach against election malpractices, rigging and fraudulent elections, violating all the legal framework that governs elections.
Do what I say, and not what I do. It’s so much. And that’s why the system is collapsing. Because the church has lost its moral compass. It can no longer transform society. The secular world is depending on the church, whereas the church is depending on the secular world. The secular world is fishing more sinners from the church, instead of the other way.
Seeking more souls for Jesus is the job of the church. And who is the church? All the Christians. You have your membership cards; you are a stakeholder. You are a shareholder. I have the right to question how the resources of the church are used. Talking about the resources of the church, you asked a question about what prompted this meeting. One of the things that we announced in the last issue of True Talk was that we were going to focus the next one on harvests, because this is harvest time in the church.
Now, there are questions that we had two houses asking, or encouraging the Christians to begin to ask themselves about the harvest. I would like to see what I can see and what we can talk about in the next issue.
According to Professor Helen Ntonifor, “For instance, if you go to any of the church’s hospitals as a Christian, you are not given any preferential treatment, because we are supposed to have a discount. Since we are members of the church, we are stakeholders, but members of the church pay the tax, like those who are not members. So those are the areas that I think, for me, in spirituality, church members must be treated properly.
And of course, the whole idea of charity is what the church must confer upon. And therefore, if they don’t practice it, they don’t receive it. And instead, we practice most of the time, building huge, very huge structures, and leaving the poor and needy behind. That’s my bone of contention. The poor and needy must be taken care of. We know in our liturgy, we have contributions for this, contributions for that, contributions for that, and it’s all being contributed. But to be honest with you, the poor and needy, widows and orphans are left behind.
Many children are not going to school, which of course the church should do a lot for them. But it’s not being done. But the Christians are still contributing. There’s no question. If I may add to what Chief Ada Kesi has just said, in the church, every week, and I don’t say daily basis, it’s a lot of money being taken from Christians. I’m sure you can talk about five baskets, five different contributions.
Contribution of harvest, contribution of tithes, contribution of widows’ fund, and educational fund for all of that. But the problem is, there is no transparency and accountability on how this money is used. People are collecting money from, I mean, some Christians that are even very poor, you know, poorer than the pastors. They collect money, and they don’t tell them that this is how this money was used, and this is the balance of that money, and this is what we intend to do with that balance.
When there is no accountability and Transparency, the position of Truth House is that we stop harvesting, we stop tithing at such a time,
There’s this issue of levies. Harvest is supposed to be a free will action. You think about the goodness that God has shown to you as a person, in your family, in your community, to you in your country, and you say, Okay, I want to thank God for that.
How come that in church you levy Christians and say this group has to pay this amount of money, and one person pays sometimes for different groups? Imagine that you are in a choir, you are an elder, and you are in CMF and so on. You pay five times. And let me tell you, most of these Christians are very poor, and what they do is they are forced to give their money. I’m coming from abroad and I know that those abroad are crying. They are crying, you know, something like blood because they are, their parents are forcing them to send money because they have to give to the church.
If you say, those children who suffer don’t have to get money and they have to give multiple offerings or harvest, then you are not helping either the parents or the children. So we think that it is time for the church to stop giving a levy, and imposing a levy on Christians to pay, as the harvest is not correct.”
Has Truth House Met and talked with Rt. Rev. Miki Hans?
“The immediate answer is no. We have tried very hard on many occasions to talk to him, to meet him, to seek an audience. We’ve tried to seek the audience, we’ve written letters to which he does not reply. And it’s a kind of silence you cannot understand that a segment of the people who are supposed to lead, write to him about things and then we didn’t start with criticizing him, we started with trying to encourage him. We rooted for him when there was this election and so on and so forth.
And when the time came, when he came into power, and we thought, okay, we wrote to him saying, we thank God that you have come, and this is the way we think that you should, can you come to us, can we talk together so that we can help you to move forward? He doesn’t reply. And that is a kind of thing we cannot understand. Christians and sometimes those who have been brainwashed think that the church belongs to the pastors.
We don’t hate our pastors, no. We don’t hate the Christians, no. They are our brothers and sisters. We are all in God’s ministry. But, come to think about it, the people on earth that you know who stood for the truth are no longer. Take note. If you want to stand for the truth, know that everybody will hate you because 99% of the people are on the right side in falsehood. And the few who will stand for the truth are given names. They can give Truth House 1 million names. TH will stand tall.
Talking about projects, when we contribute money, we’re not told how much money we’re supposed to get from that project. So, I simply say that the Truth House has an interest in actually delving into that sector of contribution because that’s another way of pilfering in our church, which we thought that that should happen rather in the secular world, but it’s when it’s happening in churches, unfortunately, preposterous, satanic, and devilish. We cannot say it the other way.
In conclusion, Nico Halle says rhetorically, ” What does Truth House stand to benefit? We are looking for no posts; none of us is looking for any post in the church. But for the recognition in church, we’ve made our names in our different walks of life. And we’ve contributed hugely in realising church projects. I’m saying it because I know all of these guys who are here. Okay, so you don’t have a say? You say you don’t have a say? Then you must be, there’s got to be something seriously wrong with your brain. And you need to go live in the centre Jamot.
Yes, that people who have contributed, if he who paid the piper does what? Set the tunes. We, the guys that build the church, we have a right to ensure that the church, the body of Christ, is clean, is restored, the restoration of the body of Christ. Okay? “
