Samuel Nana Sinkam: the swallow announcing spring ... in Bangou

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Essential link and almost indispensable character in the easing of tensions during the succession battle at the head of the upper chieftaincy Bangou, the former UN official shunned a peaceful and golden retreat on the shores of the Atlantic to devote himself to development of Bangou. Notebook of a return to the native village.

Essential link and almost indispensable character in the easing of tensions during the succession battle at the head of the upper chieftaincy Bangou, the former UN official shunned a peaceful and golden retreat on the shores of the Atlantic to devote himself to development of Bangou. Notebook of a return to the native village.
Samuel Nana Sinkam.

Samuel Nana Sinkam! In the test of the poll, he would certainly enter the very famous Guinness world record. Because this name has come back thousands of times in the columns of newspapers, radio or television broadcasts these last three months. Celebrated or vomited; incensed or conspired; high or blackened, the man we usually know discreet if not erased, found himself in the spotlight. He is presented as a key figure in the process that led to the appointment on 28 January 2019 of His Majesty Maurice Ngambou Kemayou. The new king Bangou chosen according to ancestral customs and acclaimed by the entire Bangou people.

Putting an end to long and endless weeks of procrastination and clashes around the throne of the late King Paul Bernard Kemayou. Ulcerated and tired of seeing this respectable family respected, continue to tear in the public square, this former official of the United Nations Organization (UN) decided to embouch the trumpet reconciliation to gather the different factions dissenting around the same ideal: peace, the only guarantee of the honor of this chieftaincy of western Cameroon, whose genesis informs enough to suffice on his obsession in the preservation of traditional values. Read also: Succession to the upper chieftaincy Bangou: the truth we refuse to say ...

In the name of peace

On December 10th and 11th, 2018, he gathered all the stumps around the palaver tree and laid down as an imperative for the restoration of a lasting peace, the reconstitution of the history of the Bangou grouping. On 14 January, a large gathering of all the stumps was held at the Sinkam Charles Foundation (Fosic), where he is the builder, to promote the message of peace and restraint between the sons and daughters of this family. country. The rest, we know it. Even though Nana Sinkam's approach has paved the way for controversy and resuscitated a new clan war, the happy-end of history has consecrated SM Ngambou Kemayou, new chief of Bangou, with the approval of Mbete chiefs , Degso, Balambo, Meudjieu, Fople and Ndengnieup.st February and addressed to the prefect of the Highlands. But who is this Samuel Nana Sinkam whose social, economic and cultural achievements occupy a preponderant place in the investments made by Fosic?

Essential link and almost indispensable character in the easing of tensions during the succession battle at the head of the upper chieftaincy Bangou, the former UN official shunned a peaceful and golden retreat on the shores of the Atlantic to devote himself to development of Bangou. Notebook of a return to the native village.
Sinkam Charles Foundation in the service of the population.

A life of diplomat

He began his career as a diplomat in 1967 as an economist at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (Fao, Rome) where he was the representative in Brazzaville (Republic of Congo) since 1995. From 1987 to 1995, he was representative of the Director-General of FAO to the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and Director of the Joint Division on Agriculture of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and FAO in Addis Abeba (Ethiopia). In 1993, he headed the United Nations High-Level Inter-Agency Mission to Review the Economic Situation in Namibia. Nana-Sinkam has also held several positions within the Cameroon Ministry of Planning. In 1970, he joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, DC, and was assigned to various positions in macroeconomic issues and technical assistance. As Executive Director of the IMF, from 1976 to 1982, he was in charge of 21 African countries, including Guinea-Bissau.

From 1984 to 1986, he held a post of senior advisor to the IMF, after having been professor of economic development and monetary theory at the University of Paris IX Dauphine and advisor to the president of the "Chase Manhattan Bank" in New York. The man also studied economics and planning at the Economic Development and Planning Institute of Dakar (Senegal) and holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Poitiers (France) and George Washington university. In addition to numerous publications on economic, monetary, trade, development and technical assistance issues, he has worked for over twenty years, disseminating ideas on conflict resolution and mediation,

The recognition that comes from Rome

On a purely local level, the works of this patriot (who served the two regimes (Ahidjo and Biya) while refusing to enter the Government) abound. Among the most eloquent, the rehabilitation of the Catholic College St John Baptist of Bangou once dedicated to closure because of the obsolescence of infrastructure and the inability to have a complete cycle of education. Thanks to the good care of the diplomat, this resurrected establishment, now displaying every year, has some of the most shimmering academic results in the Western Region. A blessing never being lost, His Holiness Pope Francis decided to award to Fosic through its president Nana Sinkam, the highest ecclesial recognition, in this case the "Apostolic Blessing".

This gesture from Rome marks the unflagging interest of the Catholic Church for the multifaceted social works of Fosic aimed at boosting local development. And man does not intend to stop in such a good way. " I have ambitions for Cameroon, he announces. But I can not do it alone. It is up to us, the sons of Cameroon, to appropriate the will of the President of the Republic to act in the same way as he is at all levels, in this case at the level of departments, districts and villages. If each of us did things in the same spirit that we members of Fosic are doing in Bangou, I believe that the Head of State would be even more proud of his fellow citizens. And the day he arises to speak to the people, he will say; I accomplished; I did my mission. And to do it, he needs us all . "

Willingness to change

Anxious for Bangou's take-off, Nana Sinkam believes that this development, dear to her eyes, will only happen through the will of the people, to accept change. Milestones are already posed by Fosic created in tribute to the father of the illustrious founder who was the 10 th of the reigning dynasty. The example of the Provendery that was set up as part of Fosic's activities and that operates using the three raw materials (corn, peanuts, soybeans, etc.) provided by the farmers of this village, is a perfect example. drawing. They have the opportunity to sell their products more easily instead of wasting a lot of time in the market sometimes to not be able to sell the fruit of their crops decently. " We want willing citizens who want to work, we do not want extraordinary guarantees in this context. The guarantee is social solidarity. We will never ask a citizen at this bank to pledge his furniture or ask the citizens to give Fosic his house, his title deed or anything as a guarantee. If already the citizen belongs to a social structure recognized by the inhabitants of the village Bangou, this is largely enough as a guarantee to grant him credit, "says the eldest prince of the royal family.

And to congratulate himself for having contributed to putting into practice the recommendations that have been made by Paul Biya in his many speeches to the youth. That is to say, to reduce the rural exodus whose corollaries are the delinquency, the extension of the spontaneous habitat, the urban disorder and other plagues of our society. Fosic also has heart for children born with heart defects. " When you are born with a cardiac malformation, I can assure you that the probability of dying before the next 10 years is very high. When the parents of these children bring them to us, to avoid evacuating them, we bring specialist doctors from South Africa, the United States, Italy and elsewhere who make them surgical operations on site. Shichon in the North West Cameroon region. So far, more than 10 children have benefited from these operations and they are doing well. The bill for each of them amounts to no less than seven million Fcfa. We do it without expecting anything in return because in reality, there is shame in being happy alone, "he says.

At the bedside

At the cardiology center of Fosic.

The icing on the cake, at the place called "Bangou Carrefour", a pharmacy including a medical laboratory benchmark and a well-equipped hemodialysis center, is open to the public. Thanks to Nana Sinkam's relationship, brilliant doctors like Professor Patrick Nana Sinkam, oncologist, researcher residing in the United States and Dr. Armel Djomou have agreed to take care of cancer screening operations. These two researchers came to discover a new system of cancer screening that allows with a drop of blood to screen normally if the patient is subject to cancer or not. An innovative method that makes the happiness of the men and women of this locality since they are no longer obliged to make a trip to the Pastor Center of Yaoundé in case of illness.

To this is added the opening of a multimedia center equipped with thirty new computers of the latest generation and enjoying the high-speed internet connection. At the forefront of technology, this center works with the Cyber ​​Cloud solution, an innovation that has many advantages, including the possibility of remote assistance at all times. The gift is also composed of other equipment such as: video projector, printer, external hard drives, furniture etc. Last but not least, funding by Fosic for studies of high school graduates who obtain their entrance examination at the University of the Mountains (Udm) of Bangangté. A microfinance institution (Kapgok), a syringe factory perched on top of Kagweu Bangou, a brickyard,