Protestant University: More Facts About Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Anyambod’s Exit - PCC May Replace Prof Chia At CCU As VC

By Tetuh Mbah & Yussuf

Two key officials of the Protestant University of Central Africa, UPAC are presently detained at the Kondengui prison. They have been there for investigations to go-on, following the assassination of Eric de Putter, one of the lecturers. Probably in the wake of the saga, the Board of Directors of UPAC met almost a fortnight ago and appointed Prof Timothée Bouba Mbima as the interim Rector. He replaced Prof Emmanuel Anyambod. To commentators, Anyambod had been sacked, while to some officials of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, PCC, the board had merely responded to a long request made by Anyambod to be replaced. Anyambod remains a lecturer at UPAC but still highly solicited within PCC. Last weekend, Chronicle gathered that Prof Anyambod could just be granted the onus at the Cameroon Christian University, CCU.

Prof Chia, the Vice Chancellor of CCU, Chronicle gathered had also been subjected to the plagued of murder. A few months ago, Prof Theodosa McMoli, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine was murdered in her house at the Church Centre, Ntamulung. She had just returned from a university conclave at the CPC Bali main campus, before she was allegedly strangulated. And though the assassin is at large, Chronicle gathered that CCU authorities have not been able to provide concrete clarifications over her fate.

For an umpteenth time, Chronicle gathered that Prof Chia had been subjected to duress. Accordingly, at one time he allegedly threatened to quit the vice chancellorship of CCU.

Prof Anyambod was at the Ntamulung Church centre last Saturday, September 1, 2012, for a NATCOM rendezvous. When Chronicle quizzed him to comment about the developments at UPAC, Anyambod merely said he cannot make comments on an issue which is still under investigation.

He however told Chronicle that he had been at Etoa Meki campus since 1997 as a lecturer, then the Dean before being catapulted as Rector. He told Chronicle that it was under him that the transformation from the Protestant Faculty of Theology to the Protestant University was witnessed.

According to Prof Anyambod, he had served as the Head of that institution for the past 9 years. He said he still remains a lecturer there, adding that even the one he took over from, remains a lecturer, (Maurice Kouam) though recently promoted as Secretary General of UPAC.

Dispelling press reports that Prof Anyambod could have been sacked, following the murder of Frenchman Eric de Putter, Roseline Obah dismissed it was false. The PCC communication officer told Chronicle at the Ntamulung church centre last Saturday that Anyambod had duly come to the end of his mandate as Rector. She said the protestant university, which has representation from other protestant churches, ensures that each church has a tenure of representation.

Accordingly, Chronicle was told that Anyambod’s 5-years had expired a long time ago and had even written to alert that he be replaced. Chronicle was further told that Anyambod wanted to quit, given varied anomalies he had found within the system.

To the PCC hierarchy, therefore Anyambod was not sacked but merely quit in line with the roles/norms. The belief has been that, the UPAC Board of Directors merely exploited the murder saga, to effect a decision which had been long overdued.

Worthy to note, that Eric de Putter, a French Missionary was murdered in his residence on the UPAC campus last July 27, 2012. Two major arrests had since been made, including Prof Jean Bosco Nguend, Dean of the Faculty of Protestant Theology and religious sciences and Rev Father Barko Nado. The Frenchman is said to have been strangulated, after rejecting the thesis of Rev Barko Nado.