How court rules out MINAT imposed church leader
By Nchendzengang Tatah
Calm is hoped to return at the La Vraie Eglise de Dieu du Cameroon (True Church of God of Cameroon) following a court ruling on November 29, suspending an earlier ministerial order on the churches leadership. The Yaounde Administrative court called off the order by the Minister of Territorial Administration (MINAT), Paul Atanga Nji on February 28, 2024. Which recognized, Reverend François Abate Ndengue as the churches president.
The ruling acknowledged Rev Tchana Tchamy Dantse Landry as the legal head of the religious institution inline with it’s constitution. The conflict broke out after the death of the former church leader. A July 3, 2021 conclave bringing together representatives from over 300 assemblies voted Rev Tchana Tchamy as leader. An open letter from the churches assemblies on November 8, 2024 to MINAT stated that Rev Francios Abate was the chair of the electoral synod.
The letter claims that, Rev Francios Abate later went against the minutes of the deliberations which he was a signatory too. Beginning a conflict which was later exasperated by the MINAT order confirming his leadership and issuing warnings to Rev Tchana. The message to MINAT had wondered the basis of it’s orders. Which they say contradicts the documentation and witness of his local representative during their meeting.
“MINAT will not take into account the decisions of the DO who on the one hand supervised the 2021 General Meetings and the General Meeting of 14 October 2023, and on the other hand prohibited the Extraordinary General Meeting of 14 June 2023, but will ratify the resolutions of a phantom Extraordinary General Assembly of 17 June 2023, which never took place and which changes the statutes of the True Church of GOD of Cameroon,” the letter read.
The court verdict hopefully puts an end to the three year desper in the ranks of the True Church of God of Cameroon. Refocusing the church also to it’s missionary mandate.
