Bamenda: Suspected Criminal Fire Erases CBC Nkwen Primary School

Executive President of the Cameroon Baptist Convention (CBC), Rev. Godwill  Ncham encourages  prayers, vigilance and thanksgiving because it could have been worse.

Mobilization towards the effective resumption of schools for the 2017/2018 academic year in Bamenda  was threatened in the night of Saturday 12th August, 21017 when suspected criminal fire erased some four classrooms at CBC primary school, Nkwen, Bamenda. Private security guards in the neighbourhood spotted the fire outburst at about 11.30 pm and it required the  mobilization of neighbours and the Fire Fighting Unit to check the fire from consuming more classrooms.
 Christians of the neighbouring CBC Nkwen  Baptist church were shocked by the casualties when they filed out for Sunday church services 24 hours later on August 13,2017. Around to encourage the Christians, many whose children attend  the primary school, the Executive President of the CBC, urged the Christians to stay calm, prayerful ,vigilant and thankful to God because it could have been worse in a complex that harbours CBC primary school, the French CBC church, the main CBC church and Baptist Comprehensive College (BCC).Rev. Godwill  Ncham  told Christians to exercise sangfroid because the church has suffered challenges  in the past and there is hope with God in  control of ...