The Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, PCC, Rt. Reverend Samuel Fonki, has said African countries are still to graduate from economic shackles and shambles after 50years of independence.

He said this because their leaders are not patriotic and are systematically looting and raping their resources with impunity.

Delivering an incisive sermon at the Presbyterian Church Musang in Mankon in honour of the kid sister to Ni John FruNdi, Mama Margaret Abegley Shiri, Moderator Samuel Fonki, told mourners that Africa has been deprived of its natural resources by their colonial masters to the detriment of its masses.

“Why is it that African leaders line their pockets with tax payer’s money when the masses are choking with poverty? Why can African leaders not have sympathy on these dying masses? Do these African leaders think that we are fools?” Why should we continue to bow before our colonial masters?” Fonki fumed.

He said it beats his imagination that Africa is the only continent where poverty is endemic because Africans are so indebted that these incompetent leaders have accrued debts that even unborn children will be unable to pay.

Moderator Fonki said these are things that make him sick because, if Africa’s riches were judiciously put to use, they should not be burying people everyday who are dying of misery.

He said every moment he is called up to conduct any funeral service of a departed soul, his heart bleeds because African leaders and top government functionaries have raped the economy.

“We were promised health by the year 2000 non-stop. Instead, we have had death for all,” he lamented.

Preaching on the theme:“I Will Be With You” Moderator Fonki said, despite the bleak future, “God, in his infinite mercy, is still with us. He has not forsaken us.”

Though, there is galloping inflation in Cameroon, poverty everywhere, economic stagnation, bribery and corruption, nepotism and other vices rocking the nation, Cameroonians, he maintained, should keep praying, have confidence and harden not their hearts when they listen to the Word of God.

“This should be the time when Cameroonians should think how best they can make this country better for us and the generation to come,” Fonki stated.

Dwelling on late Mami Margaret Shiri Nee Ndi’s life, Moderator Fonki said she has left a legacy, because, she was generous to a fault.

“As a devoted Christian Women Fellowship, CWF, member, Ma Shiri, to me, is already with God. If Cameroon has few of this woman’s calibre, Cameroon would be a better place for everyone,” Fonki averred.

Addressing mourners, the SDF National Chairman, John Fru Ndi, said their sister was a great reconciliator and was full of love for mankind, the reason why she took care of every child that came up to her for assistance.

Late Margarete Abegley, 71, was born in 1944 in Baba II Santa to the family of Pa Joseph Ndi and Abu Susana Angob Ndi, both of blessed memory.

Ma Maggie, as she was fondly called, was the second of the 17 children of that family. She grew up as a businesswoman, got married to Henry Chi Abegley, a Police Officer who passed away leaving Maggie as a young widow.

In 2008, the hard-working, successful and generous woman took ill and had to stop business. With her resources acquired over the years, she went for treatment to the best hospitals and private clinics in Douala, Yaounde and Bamenda.

On October 12, 2015, her condition became critical and she was rushed to the Bamenda Regional Hospital where a team of specialists put her on oxygen for over two months to rescue her life, but all was in vain.