Personality of The Week: Dr Taniform Peter, International dev’t expert.

Dr Taniform Peter

Many often hold the opinion that communities, institutions, countries, and common entities don’t operate at maximum or enjoy common progress because of the lack of empowered men. 

But in reality, the reason things don’t happen in some communities is because those with the abilities and mandate to spark such turnarounds don’t take their responsibilities.

It is thus a matter of what the people God has given every community do at every given epoch. 



Unfortunately, in today’s world, many have become self-seeking, manifesting greed and wishing to remain the only greats and heroes in their communities. These are people who don’t think about tomorrow. All they think about is immediate and personal gratifications.

Thus, it is better for a community not to have men at certain levels than to have those whose history will be told in regret, based on what they failed to do to change things. 

But apparently, some to whom time, chance and hard work have given leverage and influence have not missed out on their role to community and nation.

Such men are rare, but their stories are told from one generation to another to keep inspiring greatness. 

This is where Dr Taniform Peter, an international development expert with global exposure, falls. 

This week, he organised a historic gathering of elite of his native Bamenda I Subdivision, Mezam Division of the North West Region, to discuss sparking development and raising entrepreneurs that can compete in the market place of wealth creation, youth empowerment and community development.

It is a gathering that has ignited important discussions with many hailing the rare grassroots development revival initiative. Our readers have not stopped identifying the purpose-driven Dr Taniform Peter’s scheme as telling of what real community development is and how selfless leaders need to be to move things forward.

Others say they find in the community developer and people lover, Dr Taniform Peter, a new age in stimulating community development, rather than idling and waiting for the government to do everything. 

Since the holding of the historic meeting, our teeming readers across the globe have not ceased insisting that they have found something worth celebrating in gold. 

They are positing and loudly so, that in this age and era wherein people put every blame of underdevelopment at the doorsteps of government, the  approach of Dr Taniform Peter, to drive a new development model needs global acclamation by all standards.

On the strength of such reasoning, our readers argue and rightly so, that given the influence and positioning of The Guardian Post as the pinnacle of journalism standards, Dr Taniform Peter qualifies for the rare honour of Personality of The Week. 

He thus makes the fourth pick of the year 2025, with a global nomination for such honour, making a debut for what admirers say matches the weight and influence of the development heavyweight who Dr Taniform Peter is.

The unconventional grassroots development strategy of your Personality of The Week and his pace as a man on a bold course of action for the good of his people, it is being said, make him an unstoppable star. 

Many have qualified him as a special man who is standing out for holding onto something special.

Our readers say they are clothing Dr Taniform Peter in gold, not just for today, but for posterity, as a true recognition of his stainless and selfless leadership. 

He sits at the apex of honour as a man of uncommon rallying power charting a course for his people. 

In matters of principle, many say Dr Taniform Peter has shone and is shining exceptionally for holding the forth.

He is a rare breed, a builder of consensus with exceptional intelligence, shaping and redynamising community development in a way never seen. 

While others are used to occasional mentions in ideal places, Dr Taniform Peter is a man of irresistible value, charm, candour, integrity and special humility, burdened by the search for the common good.

Your Personality of The Week is not just a mover and shaker, he is that unique star who lights others and creating paths where there are none and living trails. 

Admirers say he is a lever of community good on whose shoulders more has been thrust, given his consciousness and ability to respond to change.

He is that unique global citizen who knows the way, is going the way and showing others the way by inspiring growth and empowering others. 

Dr Taniform Peter is the man scattering sunshine and good cheer, not just in Bamenda I subdivision but Bamenda, North West Region and Cameroon in general.

While others remain trapped in the circle of wanting and wishing, Dr Taniform Peter is atop the ranking of those who make things happen. He is a visionary and overachiever. 

Others say your Personality of The Week has proven that he is the change his people have been seeking for.

Many say and rightly so that, they see in Dr Taniform Peter a brave, effective leader, quick and decisive thinker. He lives and manifests in the realm of world changers. 

Dr Taniform Peter is a calm and accommodating crowd puller with an indomitable will to do good, achieve success and always returning the glory to God and his people. He is the light in the face of darkness who is putting smiles on the faces of a people with uncommon power of hope.

Dr Taniform Peter, others are saying, qualifies for lordly honour for creating a future and not waiting for it to happen by chance. He is a man with a passion for transforming limitations into possibilities and visions into reality. 

His humility, charity and courage, others are saying, are virtues that put Dr Taniform Peter in the heavens of leadership for responding to the development void of the season.

Others are saying the many inspiring projects Dr Taniform is spearheading shows he will affect eternity because the influence of such actions is limitless.

Dr Taniform Peter is an acclaimed and highly loved elite and native of Bamendankwe, Bamenda I Subdivision, Mezam Division of the North West Region. 

Your Personality of The Week is no ordinary gift to his village, country and the world. He currently occupies the post of World Bank Lead Transport Specialist and Infrastructure Programme Leader (Transport, Energy, Extractives and Digital Development) for Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Angola and Sao Tome & Principe. 

The always relaxed, easygoing but highly disciplined Dr Taniform coordinates the World Bank’s engagements and portfolio in the transport, energy and extractives in five nations. 

The celebrated scholar, professional and philanthropist joined the World Bank in 2008 as a Transport Specialist. 

Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked with the government of Cameroon as well as in the private sector. 

Dr Taniform’s experience spans 25 years in the infrastructure and transport sectors; covering roads, aviation, railway, urban & rural mobility, Public Private Partnerships, ports operations and analytical activities. 

Your Personality of The Week is a gemstone in designing and supervising projects in fragile and conflict zones, developing policies and strategies, trade facilitation, multimodal transport, road safety and regional integration. 

Before becoming World Bank Lead Transport Specialist and Infrastructure Programme Leader (Transport, Energy, Extractives and Digital Development) for Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Angola and Sao Tome & Principe, Dr Taniform had worked with the World Bank in Cameroon. 

He is one of the country’s bilingual exports to the world. He boasts extensive knowledge in leading technical and policy dialogue in the infrastructure sector with development partners and client countries. 

Dr Taniform holds a PhD in Infrastructures and Transport from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Rome- Sapienza Università di Roma. 

His PhD thesis was titled “Assessing the social costs of Road Traffic Crashes in Cameroon”.

He also holds Master of Science Degree in Transportation and Highway Engineering from the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.

Dr Taniform’s scholarly repertoire also counts several diplomas and leadership certifications from renowned schools such as the Harvard Kennedy School in the United States.

Besides his charged international engagements, the workaholic Dr Taniform has remained a veritable peace builder and community mobiliser in Cameroon, especially in his native Bamendankwe. 

Till date, his name is present on every lip in the community for his constant grassroots works. Dr Taniform’s innovativeness, admirers are now saying, is out of this world. He enters the hall of firm Personality of The Week on a historic shoot with batch No.4 as an exceptional and unrivalled patriot to watch out for.

 

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3355 of Friday January 31, 2025

 

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