New Coalition Rises Against PCC’s Moderator, demands Suspension of Elections

We are stopping at nothing, and we are doing this because we are helpless, until we reach a point of no return, and it should be sure that we left no stone unturned

– Rev. Anye Mo Mandzong

new synergy of PCC Teachers Trade Union, PEATTU, clergy and laity of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon under the Canopy of “Phoenix-PEATTU“, has made a call to the Election Commission to Suspend upcoming elections in the church billed for this month, November 2019. The” Phoenix-PEATTU” petition is contained in a two-page document, with hard worded points against the current leadership of the church led by Right Rv.Fonki Samuel Forba.

Amongst the signatories are renounced names like PEATTU’s leader, Afuh Stephen, Rev Titang Kingsley, Victor Epie Ngome, and Rev Anye Mo Mandzong amongst others.

To them, a catalogue of issues needs to be addressed before convening elections for new church leaders. They say, the constitution has been grossly violated with evidence of corruption and financial improprieties that has reached a level which the church has never witnessed. Furthermore, the coalition indicts the church leaders of egoism, usurpation of powers from church institutions, and cultic hypnotism.

The coalition however proposes to the commission on Elections that, a Caretaker Commission be created, whose mandate will be to clear the constitutional mess, investigate all allegations against leaders, organize a rerun for nominations for Synod Clerk and Moderator, oversee and approve the church’s expenditure in the interim government.

They warn;

“It will be a dreadful thing for any of us to have the looming disintegration of this church on their consciences. May the spirit of God speak to each heart as we do what we sincerely believe to be our best for the restoration of the PCC”.

Speaking to The Standard Mirror on phone to his Souza Parish, Rev Anye Mo Mandzong, a church minister who has written many epistles against the current leadership of the church, cried out that it’s unfortunate that dissenting voices aren’t given an ear in a church that should be a moral rectifier.

“We are stopping at nothing, and we are doing this because we are helpless, until we reach a point of no return, and it should be sure that we left no stone unturned”.

Says the man of God.

Rev Anye added that, their actions are for the sake and goodness of the church, not for an individual who has hijacked the institutions that could bring this long crisis to a halt.

This hard petition comes after many other letters had been circulated online and offline against the Moderator by credible Church Elders, fellow Pastors and institutional heads of the PCC at home and in the Diaspora. A cold war is also rumored pitting the closest collaborator of the moderator, Synod Clerk Fochang Babila George over succession and constitution thwarting by the former, to disable the latter from leading the church. The moderator has often been wrapped in financial, constitutional and leadership scandals. He is noted in records to have declared that the church is not Governed on social media, a platform where his opponents have often exploited.

However, supporters of the Embattled Moderator have often dismissed claims of poor leadership, blaming Satan for struggling over God’s church. The mega projects like the High School in Douala, Pastors Hotel in Buea, Pres Insurance in Yaoundé amongst other developmental achievements of the present leadership has been applauded by many worshippers, though some say focus has rather tilted towards financial investments than spirituality of the over 1.5Million Christians at home and abroad.

The current leaders took over from Rt Rev Dr Festus Ambe Asana as moderator and Rev Abwenzoh Williams as Synod clerk in a highly contested election in 2014, with an aura and renewed hope from the young team, towards a reformed church.

For now, it is not clear what force could give the “Phoenix-PEATTU” coalition petition a greenlight given that the current Moderator had been declared suitable choice in an exit poll earlier last month. The date for PCC election is yet to be formally announced.