The Guardian Post Achievement Awards: H.E.Dr. Fuh Calistus Gentry Wins Service to Humanity Award

 

Minister Fuh Calistus Gentry, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Mines, Industries and Technological Development has been received Service to Humanity Award of The Guardian Post. He was voted to receive this prestigious award for coming to the assistance of pupils, students, teachers and educational institutions in Donga Mantung. The scholarship programme known as Donga Mantung Scholarship Fund has assisted over 3000 under previledged in 2019.  

The scholarship award launching ceremony which took place in Nkambe and involved schools in all of Donga Mantung aimed at rewarding performance among pupils, students, assisting the needy and orphans in paying school fees, and assisting PTAs in recruiting teachers has been seen by readers of The Guardian Post as the best service to hanity in 2019. In each of the selected schools, three students wee selected and given funds ranging from FCFA 55.000 to 30.000 FCFA each. This amounted millions minus organizational charges and transportation. Dr. Fuh Calistus Gentry has always said he was making such sacrifices because he wanted his kin and kith to receive quality education.

In offering the scholarship Dr. Fuh Calistus was actually giving back to society and encouraging performance. s scholarship event had as theme: “Success in Meritocracy”. It should be noted that for years, he has been giving scholarships. The success story of the Ako/Misaje is something to write home. And due to the fact that he has taken education to be the core of his humanitarian activities, many see him as the man of the future. Dr. Fuh Calistus is one of the greatest philanthropist Donga Mantung ever had. He initiated and funded numerious endeavours like Gent Fund, African Model Village, Misaje Business Initiative, FAINAP etc. He is going into history books in great names. He is loved and cherish by everyone.  H.E Dr Fuh Calistus Gentry who is founder and benefactor of Donga Mantung Scholarship Fund, was also voted for his constant and indiscriminate salvation to the needy and offering an 18 million FCFA Scholarship to Students and Pupils of Donga Mantung, says Tarlishi Oliver, Coordinator of the fund. To Tarlishi Oliver, God will always bless and keep Dr. Fuh Calistus for his continuous efforts to meet the needs of the underprivileged and build up the Human Resource base in Donga Mantung Division. 

The Guardian Post Awards: Hon. Dr. Awudu Mbaya Voted Politician of the Year

Hon. Dr. Awudu Mbaya was this weekend voted Politician of the Year by The Guardian Post ( the lone English language daily). This is of course an indication that the world so wants good leadership these days. Even though this generation has deplored the apparent lack of this, there are still plenty of good leadership examples; those that exemplify devotion, genuineness and the preponderance of devoted integrity. 

 “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant” says Max DePree. In fact, what dictates the qualities of a good leader is the application of legitimacy, or, put another way, the loving integrity that comes along with the role. Hon. Dr. Awudu Mbaya Cyprian, is former Member of Parliament for Nkambe Centre constituency and was also Questor at the National Assembly and Executive Coordinator of the Pan African Parliamentarians Network on Climate Change. As Brain Tracy puts it, he became “the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if he had no title or position”.

From all indications, he entered politics because he had a dream for his people- a dream to see his people walk side by side with development initiatives.He was resolute after spending 25 years in Parliament and today, The Guardian Post sees in him a great politician. Hon. Dr. Awudu Mbaya worked hard to be able to construct bridges, build community halls, churches, schools, health centers, palaces, schools,e villages, supported farmers with improved planting materials, lobbied for the opening of farm to market roads and construction of classrooms etc. As a diehard militant of the Social Democratic Front-SDF, he was appointed Shadow Cabinet Minister of water and Energy, a position which he  held for over 10 years until recently when he was appointed Shadow Cabinet Minister of Foreign Affairs.

  Politicians like Hon. Awudu model are a level of constancy and consistency that individuals, teams, and organizations so desperately need, but often find missing. It is what we should aspire to if we provide any sense of leadership anywhere in life,says The Guardian Post. Now, in business as CEO of CAMITEX. 

The Guardian Post Awards: Mafor Yaah Judith Sunde epse Achidi Achu Wins Woman of the Year

Mafor Yaah Judith Sunde epse Achidi Achu is General Manager of CAMTEL.  This woman of extra qualities was voted last weekend and honoured as The Guardian Post Woman of the Year.. She is one of the most formidable women of all the women in action. This is a woman who unlike  others is busy round the clock. As a seasoned administrator and telecommunication expert, she believes like Immanuel Kant that “the more we are busy, the more we feel we are alive and contributing to the welfare of others”. Her educational background coupled with her devotion to be perfect has made her to transform the principle of education for work into the principle of education through work. Reasons why she has transformed CAMTEL into a citadel of standards. Before he appointment as General Manager of CAMTEL, has has always put rural  youths and women in all her actions and also believes that by empowering the rural women and youths she would be an avenue par excellence to change lives through work. As a Christian, she believes like Martin Luther King that “working is praying”. We can contextualize this through the lense of her pretigious Woman of the Year Award. Yet, Mafor Yaah Judith deserves this award for making work and divine pairs.

Some years ago she brought smiles on the faces of youths by donating an annual football trophy worth a million FCFA for youths in Donga Mantung Division. During the official launching  and finals of that historic tournament over 20.000 people gathered at the Nkambe Municipal atadium.

She is also a promoter of rural women and had done much for the welfare of rural women of Donga Mantung. Donating farm inputs to the rural women has been top on her agenda. Her dexterity has earned her several traditional titles.

She is the Mafor of the Northwest and was also honoured and coroneted as the Senior Ma-Yaah of Donga Mantung division by Donga Mantung Fons.

In a bit to promote the football nursery of Donga Mantung Division, Mafor Yaah Achidi Achu has proven that what a man can do, a woman can do it better. 

 What makes her dissimilar from others is that she does uncommon things in a very common manner. 

In the Littoral and South West regions where she served as Regional Director of CAMTEL, she left an indelible mark of greatness that speaks positively and confirms the aptitude of women in leadership positions. In the Southwest Region she succeeded in putting in place the optical fiber. In the North West, she is also noted to have transformed the entire service into a bee hive of activities. Putting CAMTEL to the forefront by installing new transmitters at Jakiri, Wum, Nkambe and Oku as well as the terminal optical fibre at the University of Bamenda before her workaholic nature moved her to the head office in Yaounde. While in Yaounde, she was Director of Urban Development at CAMTEL. From that position she entered record as the first Anglophone and female worker to head the commercial department of CAMTEL. When she was appointed General Manager, it was to confirm her workaholic nature.  Notwithstanding, Mafor Yaah Judith Sunde epse Achidi Achu is also a great supporter of the CPDM. She is an executive of the Donga Mantung II, Ndu section. In the political arena her presence in Donga Mantung Division is often described as a booster to youths and the woman folk. If you have never met a cheese full of prominence, get closer to Senior Ma Yaah Mafor Achidi Achu Judith to rediscover her role as a woman emancipator. Worthy to note that she also constructed a hall for women in the Ndu palace, and expectations are high that she will do the same for the men.