Dr. Bijingni Pius- Director of TheLimbe Regional Hospital

Dr. Bijingni KUWOH Pius is at the head of one of the oldest and most strategic Regional Hospitals in Cameroon; the Limbe Regional Hospital. This self effacing personality was born of Kuwoh Philip Chungong and Mama Shifa Christina in Bambui. He is as such from the Chungong’s family, one of the biggest and the most popular families from Bambui.

 He attended the Saint Peter’s Catholic Practicing School in Bambui. This personality that has done much to improve upon the health of Cameroonians has very humble beginnings. Mr. Philip Chungong his dad was a Brick Layer working with the Catholic Mission. Dr. Bijingni Pius went to college at Providence Commercial College presently known as Saint Albert’s where he spent just one year. This choice of school was because his dad didn’t have enough money to send him to another school. 

It is during this stay at PCC that his uncle Vincent Nchami now of blessed memory who was working in Buea in the Prime Minister’s Office at the time decided that he should come down to Buea and continue his studies in a Secondary Comprehensive school. In Buea, an attempt to get him into Bishop Rogan College did not succeed. This came after an earlier attempt to get into Sacred Heart College Mankon didn’t also work. Dr. Bijingni in this press briefing declared that he had always wanted to become a medical doctor or a priest or both.

At the time however, the National Comprehensive Secondary School was being created and he succeeded in getting admission there in 1971 in the pioneer batch. In 1976 he made his GCE Ordinary Level and moved over to the Cameroon College of Arts Science and Technology CCAST Bambili. Dr. BijingniKwo Pius was the only science student from the National Comprehensive Secondary School Victoria who succeeded to gain admission into CCAST Bamibili that year. CCAST Bambili at the time was considered the destination of the best English speaking students from all over the country and only the best succeeded to gain admission there. 

After obtaining the GCE Advanced Levels in 1978, he applied for Medical School in Nigeria since his results qualified him for Direct Entry. Due to lack of appropriate communication he did not study in Nigeria but eventually studied at the University Center for Health Sciences CUSS Yaounde; the institution which trains almost all Cameroonian home trained medical doctors. However, before going to CUSS, he taught Biology and Physics at his former school; the National Comprehensive Secondary School Victoria. After this brief romance with the teaching profession, he went to the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Yaounde. It was while he was in the Second year that he passed the Competitive Entrance Examination into CUSS Yaounde. Dr. Bijingni’s story is most perfectly told in the following interview that was done by Francis Ekongang Nzante Lenjo in his cozy home at the Government Residential Area; GRA at Bota in Limbe.

Many believe that at the time, you needed a god father as well as an “envelope” to get into CUSS. How did you get into CUSS?

While studying at the Faculty, I was determined to get into CUSS no matter the number of times that I wrote the entrance exam. I just wanted to see if someone could pass the entrance exam without bribing. So I continued in the Faculty of Sciences while attempting to pass the CUSS entrance. While in the second year in the faculty I wrote the CUSS entrance again and my examination center this time was Providence Comprehensive College Bamenda. After the first day of the exam, we were told that the examination had been cancelled due to question leakages in other parts of the country. We how ever went for a re-sit of the exam a week later. I passed and had to go to CUSS. As a result I was forced to choose between continuing at the faculty and going to CUSS. This was like choosing between day and night since I had always wanted to be a medical doctor. I abandoned the faculty for CUSS. I studied at CUSS from 1982 to 1988, a period of six years and passed my exams in June every year and graduated in December 1988.

From 1988 till date you have been practicing. What do you think are the major highlights of your career?

My first posting was to the Regional Hospital in Ngoundere but because of prevailing circumstances at the time, I was shortly afterwards moved to Wum in Menchum Division. During my student years I saw the way medicine was practiced in the French speaking parts of the country and wished that I was never going to practice there so when they sent me to Wum I went happily. I can logically say that my career began in Wum. Shorty after I took over in Wum, Dr. TabotBenard, the one I replaced went to continue his specialized studies. This left me alone and I did almost everything on my own. My stay there permitted me to take a lot of decisions and take a lot of initiative. Nine months later I was joined by Dr. Chuwanga John who is now retired. I think our era in Wum will always be remembered by the population because we gave our best. We were bachelors and young with very little to disturb us. We were as such completely focused on our job. It was a Divisional Hospital taking care of the whole of Menchum Division. I was there as director from 1989 to 1993. In 1993 I was promoted to the post of Divisional Chief of Service for Public Health for Donga Mantung Division. Now, this post is referred to as the District Medical Officer after the change to the District Health System in 1992. I stayed in Donga Mantung from 1993 to 2001 but during this period I got a scholarship through GIZ; the German Development Cooperation and went to specialize in Public Health in Antwerp, Belgium. I came back in 1997-1998 with a Masters in Public Health and continued to work in Nkambe. While in Nkambe I introduced the District Health System which had just started. We had not yet well understood the notion of Integrated Health Centers. At the time they were talking of Developed Health Centers and then the PMI but later they changed to what is referred to as the Integrated Health Centers. The PMI took care of the mother and the child and the Developed Health Centers had a couple of activities that they were carrying out. They had a limited range of activities so we had to train people and fit them in the new orientation. Donga Mantung was too big to be managed as one Health District. I had to go to Nwa, Abongshe, and there were even areas under Fundong that were attached to Nkambe. A place like Fonfuka for health reasons is attached to Nkambe because if there is an outbreak, somebody will easily intervene from Nkambe. I proposed that they should carve out the Ndu Health District and at the time the Doctor Population ratio too was not very good. With the carving out of new districts we hoped more Doctors would come in. I also proposed the creation of many health centers.

The South West Regional  Hospital, Limbe

So where did you deposit your bags next after leaving Donga Mantung?

From there I was posted to the Bali Health District. I worked in Bali Nyonga from 2001 to 2009. During this period, I used to go out and work for the World Health Organization; WHO and the CDC; Center for Disease Control in the polio eradication initiative. In 2006 I was in Ethiopia and in 2008 I was in Chad, 2009 I was in Nigeria and then in 2013 I was in Pakistan working on the Polio Eradication Programme. Bali was a smaller district than Nkambe and I think there are many people that will remember my stay there. From 2009 I was moved to the Batibo Health District in the same capacity. At sometimes I was called up to the Region to reinforce the supervision team of the Region and sometimes I was also called up at the National Level as a Health Planner. In 2002 I attended an International Course in Bamenda on Action Research Organised by GIZ and the University of Sydney. We had participants from Nigeria, Cameroon and many other countries. 

What is your evaluation of the quality of Health Services in Cameroon over the years?

There has been a lot of positive change because you look at quality from the perspective of the infrastructure, the Health Personnel, the equipment and the users. For us to have good quality health care there must be improvements not only in the health sector but also in what we call related sectors. I think the few improvements that we’ve had are also due to an overall improvements in the country as a whole.In Wum in the eighties, there were days that vehicles only went up and other days in which vehicles only went down. At weekends you will sit in front of the Hospital and see an old Land Rover coming from the Esimbi area. When this happened, I knew that I was either going to have a strangulated hernia or a woman who had ruptured her uterus. Vehicles went only once a week ;that was on the market day and if you had a strangulated hernia and missed out on a vehicle you had to wait till the next market day. There have been improvements in health Services due to an increased in the number of health personnel and the much training on quality of Health care that has also taken place. This has made the Health Personnel to be more aware of quality even if it is difficult to practice. I think that we are still very far and we cannot only look at quality from the perspective of the Health Personnel. You also have to look at quality from the way the service users look at it; that is their own idea of quality. 

Many are those who think health personnel sometimes demand too much for services… 

I think the health personnel have been abandoned by Government for too long. Consultations for example in this country are normally 600 Frs CFA and this has been the rate since 1963. I don’t think that there is anything in this country that is selling at the rate at which it sold in 1963. The WHO says that at least 15% of the national budget should go into the health sector but in Cameroon we are at 5%. These are inadequacies that can explain some of the difficulties that we are going through at the moment. As long as the person who needs health care is negotiating with the person who is providing health care and paying out of pocket, it is always going to pose a problem. There has to be a third party between the two of them who purchases the health care for the person who is sick and imposes the quality and other requirements associated with it.

What kind of hospital did you meet and how far down the road have you taken that hospital?

Well with my experience as a Public Health Physician and Manager and given the years I spent at the District Level, close to a quarter of a century before coming to the Regional Hospital in Limbe, the first thing I did was a situational analyses. It is an old hospital constructed in 1946 and they started using it in 1948. It is a 200 bed capacity hospital. When I arrived I noticed that most of the services were not functioning. The X-Ray Machine was bad, there was no Echography Machine, the Dental Chair was not working and you had specialists in these places. These ones I call the software. The buildings are there but you need what I call the software in order to make the hardware function. We decided to buy some of these equipment and the Ministry provided some while others were provided by Senator Peter MafanyMusonge. Now we have an X-ray Machine. We have an ultra sound machine, we have an x-ray machine and we’ve at least got a dental chair. There is a lot which has to do with organization and like you talked about the quality of services, I put in place a Quality Improvement Task Force and also introduced the User Satisfaction Index Service which is consulted on monthly bases. We also paid more attention to our suggestion boxes and we visit them once a month and do what can be done as seen in the suggestion boxes. What we can’t do is forwarded to hierarchy.    

   There were also some Administrative lapses such as conflicts between workers that we went back to ministerial texts to straighten out issues. I think the atmosphere in the hospital is calm and the people are more relaxed. This is shown through some indicators. People spend shorter times in the hospital without seeing the doctor. The staff situation also improved and we have Doctors in most places in the hospital. The number of people using the hospital has also increased. From 26000 people in 2014 the number increased to 33000 in 2015. The number of deliveries also moved from 600 in 2013 to 800 in 2014 and in 2015 it moved to 950 deliveries. The imaging center that is under construction is going to house the scanner and the X-ray Machine and an MRI Machine as well as a Panoramic Dental X-ray Machine. Like I said, the hospital is an old one and the infrastructure needs a face lift. If not only for the African Nations Cup the institution needs to be taken care of generally. A stitch in time they say saves nine.

     

Olive Shang: The Golden Voice on CRTV

Olive Shang was born on December 25, 1936 in Kumbo, the Capital of Bui Division in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. She is presently widowed with six children. She is retired and lives in Jakiri specifically at Sop. 

Olive Shang and Husband

From 1946 to 1951, she studied at the Basel Mission School in Kumbo and between 1952 to 1953, she studied at the Girls School, Bafut in Mezam Division. In 1954 she taught as a pupil teacher at the Girls’ School Bafut. In 1959 she was a primary school teacher at the Basel Mission School, Kumbo, the same establishment where she studied as a primary school pupil.

In 1964 she joined Radio Cameroon as a Continuity Announcer. In 1966 she went ahead to take charge of and produce the women’s magazine later known as “Calling the women.” She did this alongside other programmes like “Know your neighbours”, ”Sunday Afternoon Requests” “Tele Disques” among other tasks.

Between 1969 and 1971, she benefitted from a British Government Scholarship to study in England and did a course in Radio Production Techniques at the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC Training School in London. She further pursued her education procuring passes at the General Certificate of Education GCE and a Diploma in Community Studies for Women at the African Centre in London; an initiative of the Associated Country Women of the World.

In 1972, she rejoined Radio Cameroon and continued with the Radio Programme “Calling the Women” and other programmes like “Know your neighbours”, “Meet the Patients”, “Listeners View Points” and all types of radio animations, “Music of Yesteryears” amongst others.

In 1977 she did a radio production course at the Radio Netherlands Training Centre in Holland and attended an International Seminar on Development of Population  for West African Broad Casters organised by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities in Yaounde. She was appointed as the Head of the Copy Rights Registry Bureau in the International Service of Radio Cameroon cumulatively with the production of the programme “Calling the Women.”  She also contributed on behalf of Radio Cameroon in an International Programme involving Radio Stations around the world.

In 1982, she was promoted to the rank of Assistant journalist. In 1985, she participated and presented a paper at the seminar on “Women in Decision Making” organised by the Economic Commission for Africa and the United Nations Development Programme in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in preparation for the United Nations Decade for Women World Conference Forum 85. She was selected by the Non Governmental Organisation NGO’s Planning committee to participate in “Forum 85” and the Decade for Women World Conference in Nairobi Kenya as Resource Person. She gave full coverage to the activities of the Decade for Women Forum 85 at the World Conference.

She fully covered the celebration in Cameroon for the first time of the International Women’s Day Celebrations on March 8 in news talks, write ups and special programmes. She chaired and participated in many round table discussions concerning the “Life and Circumstances of the Woman in Cameroon and the World.”

In 1986, she was appointed to the post of Deputy Head of the Copy Rights Registry Service. She also became part time Lecturer at the University of Yaounde Advanced School of Mass Communication. She was equally appointed as Deputy Head of the Education Programmes Service of the CRTV.

 It should be noted that since the creation of the programme “Calling the Women” in 1966, it has always been on air except when Mrs. Olive Shang was away attending Seminars or on Training Courses.

Olive Shang was equally one of the women mentioned in a Publication titled Femmes D’impactes” published during the 50^th Anniversary of the Re-Unification of Cameroon. She is mentioned alongside 50 other women who have had an impact on Cameroon in the last fifty years. In this publication she is referred to as the Microphone guru. The report runs thus:

“For many years after independence, Olive Shang’s sweet and tingling voice dominated the airwaves of Radio Cameroon and later CRTV with heart searching and warming programmes. It was not unusual for people especially women to leave whatever they did to listen to those piercing words of advice every Wednesday evening in the programme “Calling the Women. The programme became a monument and since Olive went on retirement, no one has been able to catch up the standard she set. She was an avid professional who did her work irrespective of any hardship that could surface. Olive Shang was tenacious. She beat all the odds that were characteristic of broadcasting in those days prior to the Liberty Laws and stood prominently as the Mother of Broadcast Journalism. From her humble beginnings as a primary school teacher of the Basel Mission, now the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, Mrs. Shang was recruited at the radio in 1964 as a continuity announcer. There were hardly any women of English expression qualified as journalists at the time. With her versatility, she was able to build a career in the media and to create an indelible impact in the lives of many. She undertook several training courses out of the country and successfully built up an unforgettable career. Olive Shang as she was fondly called was a ressembleur. Her prominence was noticed in society as she was solicited at every level as an adviser and leader. Mrs. Shang on a part time bases lectured at the Advanced School of Mass Communication, University of Yaounde on The Basics of Radio and Programme Production; a course that helped newly recruited Degree holders to get into the profession with an established knowledge of the intricacies of Broadcast Journalism.

In addition to her long impressive and fruitful professional career and as pioneer woman in the broadcasting arena in Cameroon, Olive Shang is a ground breaker in a myriad of domains. She founded the first ever Women’s Association of Women of the Northwest East of the Mongo “Nkongadrem” in 1973. The Nso Women’s Development Association and thereafter, actively jump started the creation of several other women’s associations and networks in Yaounde with affiliations nationwide. She was the pioneer member of the National Communication Council 1995 and was part of the Cameroonian Delegation to the Women’s Conference in Nairobi in 1985 from where she brought back the women’s anthem which women sing now in Cameroon during all official ceremonies.

Olive Shang and Kids during the 50th Anniversary Celebrations of the Reunification of Cameroon

Mrs Shang was also very active in her Christian responsibilities as an elder and as President of the Christian Women Fellowship CWF in the Bastos Congregation of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon. Olive Shang was highly recognised both in official and Church circles with medals and distinctions of great honour. Even on her retirement in Jakiri she remains a reference.” 

Samuel Mbigha- The force in Basic and Secondary Education from Mutengene,Tiko.

Samuel Mbigha was born in Mbatu in Mezam Division in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. He was born to Joseph Mbigha and Susana Alieh Mbigha. He grew up in the village and attended Presbyterian School Nkura and then went to Longla Comprehensive College LCC in Bamenda for Secondary Education. He later moved to Government High School Mbengwi and eventually to the University of Yaounde and the University of Buea. 

Samuel Mbigha

He attended University between the late eighties and early nineties when Cameroon was at a cross roads. It was at this moment that the country after having seen the changing of the single party from the Cameroon National Union CNU to the Cameroon Peoples’ Democratic Movement CPDM that the country was on the verge of moving on into multi-partism in a movement that was spear headed by the Social Democratic Front SDF created on the 26^th of May 1990. It is no surprise that Sam Mbigha participated at the launch of the SDF. He recalls that this was the first time he was ever detained. Sam Mbigha in the following interview conducted by Francis Ekongang Nzante Lenjo within the confines of his Mutengene office, Sam Mbigha runs through most of his life from when he left university to the present thriving Cameroonian who runs educational establishments with thousands of young Cameroonians receiving quality education.

What are those unforgettable moments in your university life?

I participated in many activities of “the Parliament” as the students’ movement advocating for change at the time was called. I eventually also participated in the activities of the Social Democratic Front SDF in an active manner during the 1992 Presidential Elections. I witnessed and lived the Ghost Town experience and it was like war. 

How did this experience affect the way you eventually embrace life?

From child hood we grew up in a turbulent background where we had a lot of rough guys around. We were as such toughened right from childhood. By the time we left the university it was clear that there were no jobs for us in this country. People of my generation will testify that there were no jobs because immediately after that we heard of Economic Crises, salary cuts in the Public Service and then for a number of years there were no Public Competitive Examinations. The ENS that was even launched they told us that instead of writing, we had to compile but documents and people had to belong to lists. So for those of us who did not belong to any list and who didn’t have god parents, it was clear that the Cameroonian Public Service was not for us. We therefore had to carve a way for ourselves.

You fall in that category of Cameroonians that is referred to as the lost generation but ironically, you are not lost. You are thriving in the domain of education. What inspired your move?

Well I think that I was born a teacher. I discovered my potentials when I was in class five. In the Sunday school, one day the teacher was not there and they just came and gave me the documents that is the Bible “the Good News for Modern Man” that I should teach. There were students there who were in Form three, form two who were in that same hall but these documents were given to me. I picked it, went to the passage of that day and read it gave my own interpretation and asked questions to my own contemporaries and many of them could not answer these questions. All through my life I have been teaching. Even when I went to the University, I was offering some part time classes in some evening schools and homes. As small as I was, I taught in evening schools made up of older people until one of them was ordering me to get out on the first day he saw me thinking I was one of them. Since then I have been teaching.

How did your educational initiative come along?

In effect, I started this thing in Bamenda specifically at the former CENAJES Campus where I started like an Evening School and then ran some holiday classes. When I moved, I left it with one other friend. When I came here, I taught with the Catholic Mission around the Mongo area and when the Mission didn’t threat me well I decided to leave and I crossed over to Mutengene. When I arrived here I met a terrible situation. I was surprised to see children who were in class six class seven at the time who could not read. I realised there was a problem and felt that I could do something for these children. That’s exactly how it started. On my veranda at that time, I gathered the children and just helped them. That is when I realised that the problem was profound and felt something should be done. That’s how I started this school.

Can you identify some of your initiatives today?

For now, we have three primary schools; Foundation Education Trust Nursery and Primary School Mutengene. There is a second primary school in Mutengene which is another campus all together called the Foundation Bilingual Nursery and Primary School. Thirdly, there is Holy Spring Bilingual Nursery and Primary School Likomba, Tiko. We also have Foundation Education Trust College which offers the Grammar (General Education), Commercial Education and the Industrial for both the First and Second Cycles.

How do you think you are contributing towards the forward movement of your country and how do you feel doing what you do?

Any nation or people think that they want to strive for a brighter future. There is only one thing; education, education and education. If we are into education and we are sending out successful students at their end of course examinations, then I think we are doing it. But I actually think we are doing it more at the level where we are sending out children not just to have certificates but children who can fit in the challenging world. They can only fit if their moral base is sound, if they have aspiration, if they have ambition and they submit themselves. That’s what we are doing and they have not proved us wrong. We are looking forward to contributing to nation building through them. The person who will be President in 2035 is in School today. The Ministers in 2035 are these children we have with us today. I however have just one worry; the quality of education that we are giving to these children today. I am afraid it may not lead them to emergence. This is because we are more interested in giving people certificates without preparing them for challenges. The multiplicity of General Education Colleges that are being created everyday is not what this nation needs for emergence. We need people who can produce with their hands and not people who will sustain long academic discourses. This is because the issues of tomorrow have to be resolved with concrete action. If the Chinese could come out from the third world that they were a few years ago and they are now among the leading nations in the world it is thanks to Technical Education. If Malaysia could come out from nowhere to be the leading oil palm producer in the world then it’s telling us that we should orientate our education towards production.

We are an Agricultural Nation striving towards increased production and there is this increased talk of second generation agriculture…

  

True, we are an agricultural nation with almost no reasonable school of Agriculture to show for it. How many schools of Agriculture are found in Cameroon? That’s where our main problem lies and I appeal to the powers that be to do something about this because if nothing is done we will not change and our children will keep leaving the country every day. Go to the airport and you will see so many young Cameroonians entering the planes and going away. At that same airport you see Chinese coming out of the plane and entering Cameroon. That is where we are.

What from your point of view is the best prescription for Cameroon? Are you a political party associate or do you have an ideology that you think will be helpful towards pushing Cameroon forward?

I am apolitical. I don’t militate in any political party. I don’t have a party card for any political party. Not only because the parties have failed but because of the nature of my job. I embrace everybody and take them for what they are. I am an educator and I don’t play politics. I vote since it’s a secret ballot and it ends there. But if this country has to emerge we need to sit up. The Head of State has ear marked 2035 as the point of evaluation. He has already set the goals. It is left for the stake holders to sit on the drawing board and channel all activities to see how they can lead us to that goal. Unfortunately, our ministers travel everyday and go all over the world but I don’t know whether when they are crossing the Atlantic Ocean or the Mediterranean Sea they dump everything they studied out there into the sea and come back as empty as they went. We should copy the good example from those who have succeeded. Those sent on scholarship should have been capable of coming back and propelling this nation forward. I think we should sit on the drawing board and improve upon the quality of our education. The present one will not take us far. Those who are in positions of responsibility should behave like patriots.

  

 What is your religious background? Are you an atheist, a traditional practitioner or a Christian?

I am a Christian. I was born into the Presbyterian Church and I was baptised there. I am a Presbyterian Christian to the core but I am open minded. I have read the Koran. I have read a bit of Eastern writings, read a bit about Yoga, a bit of Confucianism but more to widen up and see how other people look at it. I also strongly believe that God is there.

There is this tendency for religions to constantly be subjected to divisions on purely human ideological considerations. This has been observed in the Christendom and in the Islamic world. Are you also part of that modern Christian movement that is trying to reunite the body of Christ?

There is only one God. I would just take us to the story of the Six Blind Men and the Elephant. The man who held the tusk gave his definition of the elephant. The man who held the tail gave his own definition of the elephant. That’s exactly the same way people have been looking at God. People who have done detailed studies in religion irrespective of their religious shades talk easily when they meet and radiate from the same plane. The simple man who doesn’t even know what he is after goes fighting left and right. They keep chasing the feathers and leaving the chicken. God is one. It doesn’t matter where you come from if truly you believe and you are serving God you will always identify with any other person who is truly serving God. The same fanaticism we have today the Christendom is the same fanaticism that is found in the Muslim world. At the end of the day, all these divisions are not to serve God but to serve man. Anybody who serves God cannot divide in the name of God. It is more of man’s attempt to glorify himself rather than God. That’s my stand point. Children of God move together and not in separate ways. Christianity hasn’t got two definitions but one and no Christian Church should claim to be better than the other for this is tantamount to missing the point completely.

As long as man lives, division will always be there because while many are placing God there, or the effigy of Christ hanging on the cross all the people sitting in that church are not there for Christ. People come to church for different reasons. Some come to occupy positions to deep their hands into the offering basket. Others come to use the Church as a stepping stone for political gains. As long as man puts his own Agenda before God’s it will not work. Definitely, Ecumenism is the only way out but we will need the real ecumenists. 

As a people with a cultural identity don’t you think much still has to be done considering the fact that many misconstrue culture and misrepresent it to be anti-religious?

A man without culture is like a man without a soul and if many Cameroonians are a bit lost today it’s because they let go their main source of being which is their culture. There is no way a man can function better in a borrowed culture than in his own. Culture is our language, our food and the way we dress. Because of the Language we think in a particular way. If you don’t have those things then I don’t see how you can really move forward without a cultural base. I am a Christian but when it comes to dancing the Mbagulum I dance very well and play the instruments. I interact when cultural activities are involved. In an occasion in the UK a party was organised and the Phillipino, Malaysians, Indians all came in their traditional attires and room was given to them to exhibit their various cultures. They did it in dance and many other ways. Today the whole world is going to China because of Chinese Medicine. Any person who says culture is backward should do a rethink.

Some of the so called men of God refer to our Traditional practices as heathenism. They are castigating our culture which is wrong. I saw a film from one of the tribes in the Northwest in which there is a traditional house of worship where everybody sat and worshipped in. Nothing evil enters inside that house. That was a traditional church because it is good intentioned and for the protection of people and is doing just that. God is there. They are using just one channel like the Buddhist are using their own channel. Human Culture is universal and God influences our consciousness. 

As a social being, who is Sam Mbigha?

Man is a Social being and must interact. I go anywhere at any time and I sit anywhere and interact with anybody. I want to think that the most intimate of my friends are the commoners. I have always been an executive member in my village meetings. I have also headed the Mutengene Cooperative Credit Union as the President and I think I have also left a legacy there. In educational cycles I am the coordinator for all lay private schools in Tiko

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