Personality of The Week: Paul Tasong Njukang; NW, SW reconstruction steering committee chairperson.

As a derivative of the Major National Dialogue, the power that be has been functioning on all cylinders to make the reconstruction plan work. In July this year, the Prime Minister, Head of Government, Chief Dr Joseph Dion Ngute, made major adjustments to the project to scale up the recovery process in the two English-speaking Regions. 

It is an adjustment that saw the Chairperson of the Steering Committee of the PRRD-NW/SW, Paul Tasong Njukang, who doubles as the Minister Delegate to the Minister of Economy, Planning and Regional Development, MINEPAT, in charge of Planning, making major field  moves recently to the affected Regions.

The fresh verve and approach of Minister Tasong in rallying major local stakeholders to align with the new vision of rebuilding from the base with multiple local partners, is what has left many leaping in hope and joy.

Be that as it may, the weight and importance of Minister Tasong’s running with the new PPRD-NW/SW vision, is being felt across the different strata of society.

He shoots to the fore on the basis of the rigorous but fair weighing of our readers to not only gain extra affirmation for rejuvenating the reconstruction momentum but for talking the project into the heart of local stakeholders.

With that in view, Minister Tasong enters the hall of fame of Cameroon’s Personality of This Week. Our readers argue that he deserves such expedient and magnificent honour for situating local stakeholders accurately within the rebuilding of the North West and South West Regions.

Our readers, speckled across the continents of the world, say Minister Tasong has come into the project, which details he masters, with renewed enthusiasm and endurance needed to build back better. 

He is being projected to the stars for accepting the new reality just like the Prime Minister, Head of Government, that there is need for multiple implementing partners and especially local stakeholders to speed up the reconstruction scheme.

Your Personality of The Week is being saluted for setting even higher standards in ensuring key community projects and stakeholders feature in the table of deciding a new path of reviving the two English-speaking Regions.

Minister Tasong, they say, is making a second but impactful appearance within the implementation of the PPRD-NW/SW in a way so unique.

He is being heralded and exceptionally so as a Statesman who knows that the best way to guarantee the future of the North West and South West Regions is to keep plowing ahead. 

Minister Tasong’s inclusive grassroots development engagements vis-a-vis reconstruction, many say, is flying the North West and South West Regions back to uncommon hope and excitement.

Many have described him as the Cameroonian economist, technocrat and community development field Marshall with peculiar persistence and resilience in walking through difficult situations.

Minister Tasong, admirers are also asserting, has shown that building from the base to the top is more than reassuring to the beneficiary population.

Minister Tasong, under the new dispensation of the reconstruction plan, others are declaring, is a known hero who has grabbed his shield for another stand, to thrust forward in reviving ravaged communities in the North West and South West Regions.

Besides, he has been raised to the podium of celebration and encouragement this season as a man with the freedom, capacity and insight to respond to the rebuilding needs of communities and having uncommon power to take required actions. 

This season, Minister Tasong, in the reading of many, is a shining champion with the daring grace to lift communities and put them at the centre of activities that will reweave their social fabrics and cause the two conflict-affected Regions to bounce back better and even stronger.

Your Personality of The Week, others are saying, has demonstrated that he has the wisdom, intellect and capacity required to turn the wounds in the minds and psyche of the people of the North Wes and South West Regions into wonders and laughter. 

Others affirm, and rightly so, that he is a good seed with potent power to push through difficult ground with unimaginable strength. He is all the more spinning on axels of decency this season as a man with rare dedication to make progress in everything he does.

He comes to you through this esteemed platform on the apex of print  journalism in the Economic Community of Central African States, ECCAS, The Guardian Post, for reviving the power of collective  responsibility across the North West and South West Regions to raise the administrative units back to pre-crisis viability with potential to break new grounds.

Others say, they admire your Personality of The Week for his unshakable confidence in facing development schemes. Our readers say he is a rare healer and rebuilder with what is required to take the reconstruction plan to the next level. 

He is today the champion, graced with echoing and etching a message of rebuilding back better and eradicating the echoes of smoking guns that once strained the population of the two Regions.

Minister Tasong, many are also unanimous, has become an unquenchable dispenser of the strength required to implement the restructured reconstruction plan for the good of the affected population and Cameroon in general. 

As an economic maestro with a track record in developing and implementing projects, Minister Tasong, aficionados concur, is already writing the history of how the North West and South West Regions came out of a terrible conflict in a way so uncommon.

He is engrossed in admiration from across the board this season for reinventing the project and rallying the local population to choose growth again and again.

Minister Tasong, others are saying and rightly so, knows moving forward together is indirectly allowing success to manifest in the interest of all. 

The PPRD-NW/SW Steering Committee Chairperson, those who know him well say, believes he is gifted with abilities to serve, even in the most of dire circumstances to revive things.

Your Personality of The Week, others sustain, has the capacity to transform the new reconstruction vision of the Head of State, President Paul Biya, through the Prime Minister, Head of Government, into reality. 

Minister Tasong, they are further positing, is a great servant leader with an unbending will to confront the uncomfortable in terms of rebuilding the two English-speaking Regions and mobilising the people to move to a new era.

He is resonating at the highest altitude of commendation for setting his eyes on the goal, which is the welfare of communities and not titles.  Tasong’s approach, many are insisting, shows that he is out to make a difference. 

Your Personality of The Week, in the thinking of many, is a role model at work and a man of quality and excellence. Those who know him say Minister Tasong hates to be associated with failure, reason he demonstrates due diligence in his usually selfless service to the nation.

Your Personality of The Week also has the character to influence lives and hearts of people in the North West and South West Regions for good. 

He said to be known for a philosophy of making everyone else better. He has unrivaled passion to fulfil the assignments. Tasong, many say, has revived the bonds of trust between the people and the project to further ease implementation.

He has the toughness required for accountability in project implementation and flexibility in adapting to challenges. Like rain that grows flowers, Minister Tasong’s expertise and personality, admirers say, would further bolster the reconstruction plan in several ways. 

He is the celebrated economist transforming limitations into possibilities. With the gaze on new possibilities such as new funding and implementing partners, Minister Tasong possesses the rare intellect and lobbying dynamism that meet global standards to further market the project and acquire expected results.

Born on March 20, 1963, in M’mockmbie, Lebialem Division of the South West Region, Minister Tasong is a global professional of very fine and attractive standing. He is known for multiple excellent exploits; nationally, Sub-regionally, continentally and globally.

Beyond offering himself to service of nations and other global bodies, Tasong has an intimidating national influence as a field supporter of the Head of State, President Paul Biya.

Paul Tasong Njukang is a global economic monument in varied domains. His fruits tie with the quality education he acquired in the best of establishments across the globe.

Your Personality of The Week studied at the National School of Administration and Magistracy, ENAM, graduating in 1988 as a tax inspector. 

He furthered his education, studying at the University of Antwerp Belgium, bagging a Master’s Degree in Public Administration Management, in 1996 and a Diploma in Development policy from the Institute of Development Policy and Management of the University of Antwerp, Belgium in 1995. 

He also holds a Diploma in Public Finance Management from the prestigious Harvard University, obtained in 2010. Your Personality of The Week has been at the heart of key economic and planning undertakings.

From a steady rise within the public service, Paul Tasong Njukang has become a point of reference in key areas. From 2004 to 2010, he served as Director of Public Investment Programming at MINEPAT.

He was later promoted to the position of Secretary General at the same Ministry, where he served from 2010 to 2012. Given his exploits, Tasong was put at the service of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community, CEMAC Commission, by the Head of State, Paul Biya.

He served as Commissioner of the Sub-region in charge of Economic, Monetary and Financial Policy Affairs; from 2012 to 2017.

On March 2, 2018, the Head of State pointed him Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development in charge of Planning. He has been serving outstandingly well in that capacity.

In 2020, he was named pioneer National Coordinator of the PPRD-NW/SW. He set the project in motion and today he is back to further embolden the project in a different capacity as Steering Committee Chairperson.

This celebrated Cameroonian professional is a colossus in regional integration policy, tax policy, public finance management, macroeconomic framework, multilateral cooperation oversight, business climate follow-up, statistical data monitoring, strategic planning, public investment management, external funding mobilisation among others. 

He is a gem who identifies with the ideals of the Head of State, Paul Biya. As a staunch supporter of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, CPDM, Tasong heads the party in his native Lebialem Division.

Given the community, national and international trappings of your Personality of The Week, plus his dedicated works in building Cameroon, analysts say he remains a formidable foot soldier of the Head of State, in nation building.

This article was first published in The Guardian Post issue N0:3242 of Friday September 27, 2024