PCC: Disgruntled group salutes election of Miki, lacerates Fonki

A group of Christians within the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon (PCC) known as ‘Truth House’ has made damning allegations against the outgoing Moderator of the PCC, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Fonki Samuel while congratulating the incoming administration to be led by Rev. Miki Hans Abia and Rev. Solomon Ayuk Eta.

In the six-page document which CNA has seen, Truth House make several accusations against the outgoing PCC administration, castigating what they say were “unchristian maneuvers which marred the election of the Synod Clerk”.
The November 21 letter signed by the sixty-three Truth House members said they were not “calling for the outright cancellation of that election – which would further polarize the Church” but rather that they “accept the result as it is, and challenge the team to override any personal loyalties and interests and immediately embark on tidying up the heavily mangled image of our Church”.
Part of this “mangled image” according to the group, includes allegations of “young women who have had to pay with their bodies for admission into, and graduation from, pastoral training…” and claims that “homosexuals rise to very senior positions in a Church which formally condemns that bestial practice”.
The clearly disgruntled signatories stated that “key decision-making bodies of the Church have very quickly be stacked with people loyal to the outgoing Moderator” and claimed that this was “a testament to his stubborn determination to establish himself as backseat driver and reduce the new Moderator to a marionette”.
The epistle also challenges the nearly-ended administration of the PCC, questioning what PCC Christians “feel when they hear that two cars their Church hierarchy claims to have bought for 80 million CFA were actually a gift…”
The signatories dismiss Fonki’s apology which he made during the recent Presbyterian Church Day.

Fonki had been emphatically apologetic and admitted that during his ten-year tenure at the helm of the largest Presbyterian Church in Anglophone Cameroon, “administrative errors” were made, but called on Presbyterians to work together and especially focus on loving God while trusting that the new leadership will do better.
Under Rev. Dr. Fonki’s leadership, the PCC has seen both numeric and infrastructural growth with new schools and hospitals built and old ones renovated.
However, he recognized that there would be those who will use the kind of language that Truth House used in their letter, to characterize his leadership.