Upheavals in NW & SW:

CMA Raises over FCFA 15m for Medical Needs of IDPs

The gesture came on the heels of the opening mass of the Bamenda Arch Diocese celebrated at the metropolitan Cathedral in Bamenda.

By Ndjodzefe Nestor in Bamenda

CMA has handed over 15m for medical needs of IDPs

The Catholic Men Association, CMA, has raised the sum of Fcfa 15 million to help provide the medical needs of persons internally displaced by the present socio-political upheavals in NW and SW.

            The National President of the CMA, Okie Johnson Ndoh, said they could not remain indifferent to the daily plight of the over 200.000 persons who have been internally displaced since the unset of the armed battles in the two English speaking regions of the country.

            “Our responsibility as followers of Joseph is to assist people in distress,” Okie said, as he handed the money collected to the BAPEC president, Rev. George NKuo.

            Receiving the package on behalf of his peers, the President of the Bamenda Episcopal Conference, Rev. George Nkuo did not conceal his joy for the gesture which he described as timely and driven by good faith.

            “We are very happy for this gesture by the CMA which has come to crown the work that our ecclesiastical province has been doing to assist those who have been internally displaced and who find themselves in very difficult conditions. I think we are just overwhelmed by what we have received. I think it is now left for us to sit down and decide what the urgent need of these people are so that we can intervene and provide them,” said a visibly elated Rev. Nkuo George.

            The Fund raising was done on the heels of the opening mass of the Bamenda Arch-Diocese and provincial Episcopal conference that took place at the Bamenda Metropolitan Cathedral.

            The money raised was shared among the Bishops of the five dioceses that make up the Bamenda Ecclesiastical province. The Bishops under whose management the funds are placed will identify the urgent needs of those affected and use the money to provide same.

            Presiding at the mass, the Arch-Bishop of Buea, His Lordship Emmanuel Bushu, exhorted the faithful to live a Christ-like life.

            It should be noted that this gesture by the Catholic Men Association comes barely few weeks after the national day of prayers for peace, on 31 July 2018, that ended a nine-day Novena organized by the CMA.