Protestant University: Rev Prof. Anyambod Sacked!

- Risks Arrest Over Murder of French Lecturer

- PCC Plunged Into Another Headache of Re-Assignment

By Musa Isa

The Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, PCC will have to grapple with the issue of positioning Rev. Prof Emmanuel Anyambod within its fold. This follows a board meeting of the University of Protestant Theology for Central Africa, UPAC relieving Anyambod as its Rector. The decision was reached following an anomaly at the university, wherein Chronicle gathered, Anyambod may even be brought to questioning and even remanded in custody.

Last weekend, Chronicle gathered that Prof Anyambod’s destitution could not have been unconnected with the assassination of Frenchman, Eric de Putter, a lecturer of Theology of the said UPAC varsity. The saga had since seen the arrest and detention of Jean Bosco Nguend, Dean of the Faculty of Protestant theology and religious sciences at UPAC. He is the second to have been probed after Rev Father Barko Nado. Following Chronicle’s investigation, both men are allegedly involved in the assassination of the French lecture at UPAC.

According to reports, Eric de Putter, the Frenchman allegedly found his demise, having rejected the thesis of pastor Barko Nado. That the Frenchman Eric de Putter was assassinated at his residence at the UPAC Etoa-Meki campus last July 8, 2012.

The intricacies following his death/assassination, has been what Chronicle has been hinted, salvaged be bilateral ties between Cameroon and France. Reason why the nuances. And to this, there had been unbearable fiction between the forces involved with suspects arraigned.

Chronicle gathered that with external pressure, there had been need for redress. Reason why last week’s board meeting. And by dint of its resolves, Rev Prof Timothy Boba replaces Rev Prof Emmanuel Anyambod as Rector of the protestant theology of Central African states.

Rev Prof Anyambod therefore regains his portfolio within the Presbyterian church in Cameroon, PCC. Anyambod, Chronicle is aware eyed the PCC Moderatorship. Accordingly, he gave-in to Rev Prof Asana, on a diplomatic note.

With Anyambod’s destitution, it is unclear what he will become within PCC. Chronicle gathered that he had been the chairman of one of the strategic committees: that he could not have been negated, given the challenges. He could have, which now becomes mores pellucid.

Commentators have been quick to question what would become the role of Anyambod, a man tipped as PCC moderator after Nyansako ni-nku. Some analysts even hold that with his present destitution, gives him the leeway to mobilize and challenger Rev Dr Festus Ambe Asana from contesting a second 5 year mandate and reelection, when his first 5 year tenure ends next year.

Rev Prof Emmanuel Anyambod has been flushed out from the protestant university, yet, his arrest is still suspected. Police sources hinted Chronicle that if the Dean of the Faculty of Protestant Theology was arrested and detained at Kondengui, the dismissal of Anyambod does not augur well. Chronicle was told that Anyambod’s arrest should therefore be no surprise for him, to explain the assassination of the Frenchman.