Scandal in Y’de:

Lecherous priest weds officially!

Not only did the marriage not last long because he kept many mistresses, he was also suspended from his duties by the bishop of Obala who, together with his collaborators, were shocked and horrified.

By Tanyi Kenneth Musa in Yaounde

Wonders, they say, shall never end. A Yaounde-based reverend father, Pierre Lebon Noah, aged about 30, officially tied the nuptial knots in April 2015 with a former classmate of his of about the same age whose only name The Median got as Sylvie. However, the latter was obliged to storm out of the marriage not long after because of what she discovered to be her husband’s excessively lecherous activities.

                Reliable sources told this newspaper that after they separated in 2002 in a secondary school in Nkometou in the Centre region, Pierre Lebon Noah and Sylvie met again only ten years later while the former was a seminarian in Otélé still in the Centre region. They fell in love and decided in 2013 to get married, barely months to the priestly ordination of the bloke. During the long vacation of that year, we were told, Noah attempted to pay Sylvie’s bride price, but her parents would not accept. That did not however cause the would-be couple to shatter their plans.

                The Median further learned that Noah was consecrated deacon in June 2014 and posted to Batchenga, and that on 8 December of that year he was ordained priest. All of which did not however change their plans as he and Sylvie finally wedded on 14 April 2015 in a private residence in the Oyom-Abangneighbourhood, before one of the deputy mayors of the Yaounde I council. Pierre Lebon Noah’s profession on his national identity card on the day of his wedding, we were informed, was “student”. Meantime, the newly-wedded couple installed their love nest in the Nkolmessengneighbourhood still in Yaounde.

                More than one dependable source told The Median that barely three days after the wedding, one of Noah’s mistresses surprised him and his wedded wife in bed and caused a fuss. The said mistress, whose name we did not immediately get, is a worker at the presbytery of the Olémbé-Batchenga parish. Then word later had it that the wayward priest was secretly preparing to marry another girlfriend of his named Mado.

                That was not all. It was also revealed that the lecherous clergyman had a bevy of other mistresses: Gisele, an employee at FondationMédicale Ad Lucem; Abomo Julie with whom he allegedly has twin children, Marguerite, etc.

                Scandalized by these revelations, Sylvie quit her matrimonial “home” for their family residence, promising never to return to her husband again. Even more horrified were the other men of God of the Obala diocese who had no choice but to report the matter to the bishop. For his part, the latter wasted no time to suspend Fr. Pierre Lebon Noah from his duties.

                It has come to the notice of this newspaper that Noah now spends his time threatening the life of Sylvie through SMS messages as well as some of her acquaintances. Asked on phone to confirm or invalidate all the allegations made against him, the suspended priest told journalists that he had nothing to say and asked them to do whatever they would with the photos of his wedding that they have in their possession.