Ntumfor Nico Halle engages Awing women in peace crusading.

The Douala-based legal luminary, who is also member of the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism, also reverberated the women's role in maintaining peace in society.

He was speaking during a visit undertaken by National Executive members of the women's wing of NACDA. The event took place in Douala, Friday.

Led by the National President of NACDA Women's Wing, Nkemigye Tantoh Justine, the women, during the visit, chanted songs of gratitude to Ntumfor Nico Halle. 

The thanksgiving from the women came few weeks after 24 of them were recognised for their positive contribution to community development.

They were recognised through the ‘No Names Self-help Group’, an association founded by people of goodwill for the benefit of humankind.

"Today, we are here to show gratitude to our father, Ntumfor Nico Halle, for all his support to the Awing women. He has shown that the woman's place is not in the kitchen as other people would think. He has never left us alone. Whenever we call, he is always there. When we were elected, he celebrated the woman through us, in Yaounde. He brought the Minister of Women’s Empowerment to dine with us, we are happy and privileged," she said.

Organised under the distinguished patronage of the Minister of Women's Empowerment and the Family, Prof Marie Thérèse Abena Ondoa, Ntumfor Nico Halle believes, the 24 women who had awarded are a representation of the 35,000 hardworking Awing women.

The visit of NACDA women, presented yet another avenue for Ntumfor Nico Halle to reaffirm his commitment to crusading peace, a mission he undertook over 30 years ago. He has thus pulled the women along on his course.

Nico Halle said: “Awing women have not been passive participants in peace campaigns in their community but active contributors to development”.

However, given the current desolate situation in the country as a whole, he called on the women to take on peace crusading as a duty.

"This is because the Awing woman is very important to her society. They have impacted the community in varied ways. Awing is beautiful today because of the hard work of these women. Peace in Cameroon today is fragile, it’s distorted and has been compromised by all kinds of vices. Core moral values as seen in the Bible have been washed away by corruption. I am using this opportunity to recommit these women to join me effectively in my peace crusading activities so that our country can be transformed,” said the legal colossus. 

Nico Halle prescribed core moral values, which he said are necessary for the emergence of a harmonious society void of corruption.

Owning to this doctrine, the international peace crusader lamented the fact that peace as given by God, has been “swept under the carpet by the absence of love, justice, equity, accountability, credibility, respect of human rights, absence of the truth and above all the absence of the fear of God”.

He ascertained that core values responsible for implanting and maintaining peace in any community are absent reason killings, kidnappings, total chaos and anarchy have been the order of the day. He charged the women to take the lead in peace crusading. 

"As it is known, the Awing woman has been a peace crusader. They have been doing so through Bible teachings…we even won a trophy for that…we are going to continue to lead the debate for peace as our father has asked us to," the NACDA Women’s Wing National President concluded.