OPEN LETTER TO ALL THE CHRISTIAN FAITHFUL OF NDOP DEANERY OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BAMENDA titled: “DO NOT MARCH WITH THE MAN WHO MARCHED WITH BIYA.” A Solemn, Canonical, Magisterial and Patristic Warning.

By Nchumbonga George Lekelefac The Independentist Contributor.

Monday, November 24, 2025.

“Not merely to recount what has been, but to share in moulding what should be.” — Prof. Dr. Bernard Nsokika Fonlon, Editor of Cameroon Cultural Review, Abbia (1960–1980)

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” — Jeremiah 23:1, a divine malediction hurled like lightning at hireling bishops who fatten themselves on the regime’s scraps while their flock bleeds out in the gutters of Ndop.

“Justice, only justice, you shall pursue” (Deut 16:20)

My dear brothers and sisters of Ndop Deanery, children of the same persecuted Bamenda Church, baptised in the blood of the same nine-year war,

I, Nchumbonga George Lekelefac, canon lawyer, son of this Cameroon soil, write to you with the authority of conscience and the fire of the prophets.

DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, JOIN ARCHBISHOP ANDREW NKEA IN THE MANIFESTATION ANNOUNCED FOR 28 NOVEMBER 2025. Let no mother, no father, no child, no catechist, no knight of St Mulumba follow him into Baba I.

LET HIM MARCH ALONE. Warum? (WHY?)

1. St John Chrysostom (†407): “When the shepherd becomes a wolf, it is the flock’s first duty to defend itself… If the shepherd uses the sheep as a shield for his own sins, the sheep must flee.” (Homily on the Acts of the Apostles 3, 4)
2. St Gregory the Great (†604): “If the pastor lives contrary to justice, the people are not bound to follow him into danger.” (Regula Pastoralis II, 4)
3. St Thomas Aquinas: “It is better to die excommunicated than to obey a superior commanding something against the law of God.” (Summa Theologiae II-II, q. 104, a. 5 ad 3)
   Canon 212 §3: You have the sacred right and sometimes the duty to manifest your opinion to the pastors and to the rest of the faithful when the good of the Church demands it. Today that duty is yours.
4. THE MEDAL OF BETRAYAL

On November 15, 2024, Paul Biya — the very man who declared war on the Anglophone people in 2016, who ordered the burning of villages, the rape of girls, the slaughter of children — personally through his minister of foreign affairs, placed the medal of “Commander of the Cameroonian Order of Valour” round the neck of Andrew Nkea. That medal is not an honour. It is the modern equivalent of the thirty pieces of silver. It is the purple cloak the Nazis draped on compromising bishops. By accepting it, Nkea publicly declared whose side he had chosen.

THE SILENCE OF BETRAYAL

On 14 November 2025, in the newly renovated gilded St Joseph’s Cathedral, Apostolic Nuncio José Avelino Bettencourt stood at the altar of God and endorsed Paul Biya as the legitimate President of Cameroon, blessing the very author of our nine-year genocide. The congregation murmured in holy horror — the Holy Spirit retching. And Andrew Nkea, seated, said nothing. He did not rise. He did not correct. He did not defend the blood of his people. He sat in silence while the murderer of his flock was sanctified from the pulpit. That silence was the second betrayal.

1. St Augustine: “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” (Attributed, widely quoted by Bonhoeffer and John Paul II)
2. Pius XI, Mit brennender Sorge §8: “Whoever identifies the Church with any earthly regime… betrays the divine mission of the Church.”
3. John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis §17: The Church cannot abandon man “whose situation, when it becomes oppressive and degrading, cries out to heaven.” For nine years that cry has risen from your villages while the Archbishop collected medals and kept silent when Biya was praised from the altar.
4. LET NKEA MARCH ALONE

Let Nkea walk to Baba I without the BIR escort that has guarded him ever since he accepted Paul Biya’s blood-stained medal on November 15, 2025 in Yaoundé and was raised to the rank of Commander of the National Order of Valor. Lejeune Mbelle Mbella, Foreign Affairs Minister, carried out the solemn demonic ritual on behalf of the President of the Republic, Paul Biya.

After all, when he was wining and dining with the demonic Biya regime in Unity Palace, did he ever invite you to the table? He ate alone, he drank alone, he smiled alone, and he collected the blood money alone — money that paid for the glittering rededication of St Joseph’s Metropolitan Cathedral and for the so-called “Pax University” inaugurated in Ndop on 15 November 2025, while your children were being kidnapped on the same road.

Do you now understand why he has been silent ever since he set foot in Bamenda? The Andrew Nkea who once courageously criticised the Biya government, the Nkea who in 2016 stood with his brother bishops and co-authored that historic, stern memorandum to Paul Biya demanding justice for English-speaking Cameroonians — that Nkea died the day he was hung the Biya’s medal on his neck. From that moment he became mute. The prophet was silenced; the court chaplain was born. He became a political acolyte to the Biya regime and lost every dignity of a pastor of souls. From that day, Nkea lost every ounce of respect we ever had for him.

In my eyes Nkea is a dishonourable, maggots, unworthy of any respect from any sane and reasonable person from the Southwest and Northwest. It is unfathomable that in areas where elections could not even be held because of insecurity, Paul Biya supposedly won, Nkea kept quiet. In places like Fako where voting actually took place, Issa Tchiroma clearly defeated him—yet they manufactured imaginary votes and Nkea said nothing.

This is the same Nkea who preaches that stealing, lying, and fraud are punishable offences, yet Nkea has worn fraud as a badge of honour to maintain their positions in government, namely the devil’s advocate to the CPDM regime that has killed your children and burnt your houses.

Let Nkea now walk without the people whose tears he ignored while he posed for photographs in Unity Palace. Let him, for one single day, feel what you have felt every single day since 2016: the terror of the gun, the anguish of the powerless, the bitter taste of abandonment by those who should have defended you.

Let him march alone — truly alone — so that the whole world may see the difference between a shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep and a hireling who sells the sheep to save his own skin. Do not give him your bodies as human shields for his belated conversion. Do not let your children become the burnt offering that cleanses his conscience.

If Archbishop Andrew Nkea truly wants to march, let him imitate St Thomas Becket, who walked alone to the cathedral where the swords waited. Let him imitate St Archbishop Oscar Romero, who celebrated Mass knowing the soldiers were coming. But he will not. Because the man who accepted Biya’s medal and kept silent when Biya was blessed from the altar has already chosen which master he serves, namely the devil.

Stay in your homes. Pray the Rosary for Fr John Berinyuy and for the conversion of all who have betrayed us — Archbishop Nkea, soldiers, gunmen, and shepherds alike. But do not march. Your blood is too precious to be shed for a bishop who sold his prophetic voice for a medal and a cathedral rededication.

May Our Lady of Sorrows, who refused to follow the false shepherds of Jerusalem, protect you and teach you the holy courage to say NO when the shepherd has become a hireling. With the fury of Elijah, the tears of Jeremiah, and the blood of the Ugandan martyrs who refused to obey a king who betrayed justice,

With fraternal solidarity and unshakable certainty that history will vindicate the prophets,

Nchumbonga George Lekelefac, Canon Law Jurist & International Advocate for the Oppressed; B.Phil. (Mexico); S.T.B. (Rome); J.C.L./M.C.L. (Ottawa); Dr. theol. (Doctorandus, Münster) Founder/CEO, Nchumbonga Lekelefac Institute of Research, Documentation, Language and Culture, USA; Lay Catholic Theologian and Canon Lawyer Voice of the Voiceless of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bamenda 21 November 2025

Email: nchumbong@yahoo.com

“Omnia possumus in Eo qui nos confortat” (We can do all things in Him who strengthens us – Phil 4:13)

“Woe to the shepherds who scatter and destroy the flock of my pasture!” (Jer 23:1)