Evangelical University parents and students demand reimbursement

The Evangelical Church of Cameroon has announced the construction of the University of Centennial Technologies in the city of Douala.

However, “parents and students of the faculties of medicine and health sciences of the Evangelical University denounced the implementation of this initiative, which starts on the ruins of the Faculty of medicine and health sciences in this institution of Mbouo-Bandjoum,” according to the Le Messager newspaper in its Wednesday, August 19, 2015 edition,

In an open letter addressed to the president of the Evangelical Church of Cameroon, the Deputy Senator of Nde and parent of a student at the now defunct (UEC), Luc Ouanji, said that “next to emerge after this University in Douala will be the Evangelical University of Mbouo-Bandjoun, Cameroon, which is practically going into interment.”

According to the parliamentarian "all students registered in the Faculty of medicine at the Evangelical University of Cameroon stopped their curriculum since the 2013 academic year."

"An interruption that occurred while many parents and students of four promotions, admitted within the UEC, had disbursed more than 1 million FCFA for each academic year tuition," confirmed the journal.

Sources close to the institution counted close to "400 to 600 students subscribed with the tuition fees of the UEC in its four years of existence. Today, parents require compensation "for the innocent victims of government's decision, prohibiting training in medical studies at the Evangelical University of Cameroon", a requirement that the Church authorities are not ready to respond positively.

Reached by telephone, the Rector of the Evangelical University of Cameroon, Dr. Jean Blaise Kenmogne, gave no further solicitations to the reporter of the newspaper. President of the Evangelical Church of Cameroon, Pastor Isaac Batomen, meanwhile indicated that "it is the Rector who has the ability to give answers to your concerns.

This attitude from the Church leaders did not leave Senator Luc Ouanji indifferent. In his letter, addressed to the president of the EEC, “Let me point out, unless I am mistaken, that you have not deigned or even apologize to these students as well as parents for the inconvenience that the closure decision caused.

As compensation, even though symbolic, would have come. "On the contrary, it would help to strengthen your credibility to the populations, parents, Christian and students who have sought or seek your academic institutions for their training, besides we are even right to require compensation for all the damage that you have caused.”