For uplifting one of theirs:

Mbororo community begs Biya to stay on beyond 2018

Mbororos in the North West region have expressed unreserved gratitude to President Paul Biya for appointing their son, Dr Manu Ibrahim Nformi, as Charge de Mission at the Prime Minister’s Office

By Njodzefe Nestor in Bamenda

Dr. Manu Ibrahim, Charge de Mission at the PM’s Office

Mbororos in the North West region have addressed a motion of thanks and support to President Paul Biya following his appointment of their own Dr. Manu Ibrahim Nformi as Charge de Mission at the PM’s Office. They have also plebiscited President Biya as their sole and unique candidate for the 2018 presidential elections. The motion was echoed during a highly attended ceremony in Bamenda on Saturday 6 July 2016.

                The Mbororos also credited President Paul Biya for the peace and security that reigns in Cameroon likewise his policy of balanced development which they say has given even the minorities like them a chance to contribute in nation building.

                Addressing the crowd that turned out for the event, Dr Manu Ibrahim thanked Paul Biya and PM Philemon Yang describing his appointment as a “golden opportunity to serve the nation”.

                He exhorted his Mbororo brothers and sisters to shun inferiority complex and embrace hard work and education.

                “Your level of education and your honesty can earn you the position you deserve, not relationships,” Dr. Ibrahim Nformi noted, appealint to his brothers and sisters to live peacefully with their neighbors and to “remain bound together and be each other’s keeper”.

                “Our farmers and grazers need each other especially as the rural area is our heaven. We are bound to live together to help each other. The grazer should protect the farmers’ crops from destruction by his animals as he cannot live without food while the farmer too should protect the animals because he needs meat in his meals,” he observed.

                On his part, Senator AlhadjiJajiGidado who is the Secretary General of the Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Husbandry, MINEPIA, and National President of the Mbororo Cultural and Development Association praised Paul Biya for bestowing confidence once more on them by appointing one of theirs.

                Earlier, the representative of the Government Delegate to the Bamenda City Council, Jude WaindimNsom in his speech called on Mbororos in the North West to send their children to school and encouraged the youths to follow the example of Dr Manu Ibrahim by working hard so that they too can become like him in future.

                Appointed by a presidential decree in July 2016, Dr. Manu Ibrahim was the first Mbororo to bag the PHD in the North West region.

Born in Mbot Village, Donga Mantung Division in 1963, he attended Catholic School Mbot, GS Misaje and GS Ntumbaw and completed in 1978 being the only one in list A in Government Common Entrance in GS Ntumbaw center for that year.

                Dr Manu Ibrahim did secondary and high school in GBHS Nkambe from 1978 to 1985. He proceeded to Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Nigeria in 1987 where he eventually obtained his first degree in Sociology and a Master of Science Degree in Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology.

                When he came back from Nigeria he was recruited to teach at the University of Dschang. Four years after Dr Manu Ibrahim enrolled for a PHD in Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology at the University of Calabar in Nigeria in 2005 and completed in 2008.

                Before his appointment as “Charge de Mission” at the Prime Minister’s Office, he was lecturer at the University of Dschang.