Mr Ngufor Peter calls on Compatriots to stick to the Truth.
-Predicts Progress in 2021.
By Francis Ekongang Nzante
Ngufor Peter Njontor, the Chief Executive Officer of Farmers House and an elite from the Northwest Region of Cameroon has called on his fellow Compatriots to stick to the truth and has predicted progress in 2021. He was speaking on Sunday January 17th 2021 within the confines of his Foncha Street Residence in Bamenda in an occasion which saw him celebrating the onset of the New Year 2021 with the Bafanji Community.
“This particular celebration this year is very special because we all know what 2020 meant for the whole country and for us as individuals and for this part of the country. Thank God that year has passed and we had to celebrate the New Year 2021 which from all indications will bring us progress, good health so we are all praying for that. The message I also gave my compatriots was that we should stand for the truth. You can never replace the truth. You can tell lies and it’s easier to tell lies but you will have to defend that lie all your life.”
The CEO of Farmers House further admonished those who turned out for the occasion to stay away from dirty behaviour like back stabbing and urged everyone to make 2021 a better year. He said considering that the Bafanji Community was a small one, it wasn’t advisable for any body to fault his brother or sister.
The event he said marked a celebration of the end of the year 2020 and the beginning of the New Year 2021.
The take home feeling he said was that of total satisfaction. Considering the fact that the Northwest and Southwest Regions and to an extent the country as a whole lived in constant fear, it was very satisfying to have an opportunity to celebrate, he said.
Quizzed on possible challenges in the year 2021 Mr Ngufor Peter said it wasn’t possible to predict on possible challenges in 2021. To buttress his point he mentioned the COVID 19 Pandemic which took everyone by surprise. “We did not see Corona Virus coming and if we had to predict anything last year, we would have gone wrong. However if challenges do come we will face them as we get there. You will bear with me that every one you saw here today was happy. They were like prisoners freed from captivity. They were all at ease and celebrating with me their happiness was doubled.”
The President of the Fanji Cultural and Development Association Mr Musi Vincent on his part expressed his feelings in the following manner: “We have it as a routine to meet at the end of every year. We were forced to push it this time to the third week of the year because of some other imperatives. It’s been a habit for Bafanji people to come together to communion and serve each other and give thanks to God for keeping them alive despite all the challenges they've gone through.” The Association at the level of Bamenda had no problems he said adding that at the National level it had been under going some restructuring. This he said was necessary because new blood was needed to come into the Association and give it a new push.
Commenting on the importance of Pah Ngufor Peter to the Bafanji Community he said “Pah Ngufor is more than a human being in the Bafanji Community. They see him as a God sent person who despite his own personal difficulties gives enough time to serve his people. He has no replacement. Every Sunday he is the first in the meeting house. He sets the standard, sets the example and encourages his own children to emulate his examples.”
Music Vincent who is also a retired School Administrator said most of the New Year Messages presented to Pah Ngufor were done in the Bafanji dialect with an intention of enhancing a complete understanding of what was being said. He further said Pah Ngufor Peter's main concern had always been Peace, Love and Harmony adding that the message was especially addressed to those who some times present obstacles to these virtues of peace, love and harmony. His central message Mr Musi Vincent said was that the Bafanji Community should stick together as one formidable force.
Like Mr Ngufor Peter, the President Mr Musi Vincent said if the Bamenda branch came together as a United force, they could become strong enough to influence the National Structure to make sure that things get better.
Meantime Mr Ambipo Elias, an elite from Bafanji and erstwhile President of the Bamenda branch of the association said they were celebrating a difficult end of year 2020 and a hopeful beginning of the year 2021. “By the grace of God and by the means made available to Pah Ngufor Peter our mentor, our father, almost our everything he decided that he will host the whole village in Bamenda in his compound and we are here today to celebrate with him and to show gratitude to him and give more grease to his elbow so that Farmers House, the source and the root that God has used to provide for him should continue to prosper and give him more things for this generation and for generations to come” Ambipo Elias said in hommage to the host of the day.
Mr Ambipo Elias seen here in red suit
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He described Mr Ngufor Peter as a generous giver and as someone who doesn’t concentrate only on the present but as someone who equally works for posterity. He said it was for these reasons that they were praying that God should continue to give him more wisdom.
Mr Ambipo Elias further said that the crisis in the country had greatly affected the activities of associations around the Ndop area including Bafanji. “Things were asunder for sometime but by God’s grace towards the end of the year the core of the Fanji Development and Cultural Association FADCA had been restituted. Restoration has been made and there is a new Executive Committee which came up and they are very vibrant.”
Ambipo Elias said they were available and ready to guide the team that had been put in place adding that the village could bounce back even in the midst of crisis if the new Exco was given the necessary support.
“Our village was not too shattered but when one village is shattered, it affects all the other 13 villages that make up the Ndop area. So when we pray, we do that for all the thirteen villages” Ambipo Elias explained.
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