Personality of The Week: Divine Ade Muma; Ntarinkon Credit Union GM.

Most of such people who have been classified as noisemakers are hardly ever visible or even spotted in the league of those who make things happen.

 In the circles of those who make things happen, the attendance is restricted, given the benchmarks that raise people to such altitudes.

This is the situation with the several movements out preaching poverty alleviation and community empowerment.   

Within the Central Africa Economic and Monetary Community, CEMAC Subregion, what has become part of every nation’s fabric in terms of poverty alleviation has been the credit union movement. 

It operates at different levels, but the one microfinance institution that has stayed at the zenith in the last 50 years is the Ntarinkon Cooperative Credit Union, NtaCCUL.

This week, it held its 38th Annual General Assembly, AGM, in Bamenda, North West Region, revealing awe-inspiring figures of its Subregional influence in empowering communities, alleviating poverty and driving development. 

At NtaCCUL, the man shouldering this salutary and revolutionary grassroots empowerment scheme is its towering, emblematic and highly venerated General Manager, Divine Ade Muma. 

As General Manager of NtaCCUL, he becomes the 5th pick for the year 2025, to be projected as Personality of The Week, on your esteemed newspaper, The Guardian Post.

Ade Muma is the character our readers have posted to our newsroom on the basis of trust, feedback, and undeniable achievements as a man worthy of every form of honour, reference and inspiration. 

While it is his third of such hallowed endorsement, this year, Ade Muma, is sparkling in the ethers of having taking NtaCCUL to the margins of incomparable heights in the world of microfinance institutions.

Your Personality of The Week outshines everyone to enjoy the glory that goes with this column in the most regularly published and widely read newspaper on the basis of merit. 

Statistics show that NtaCCUL remains the highest interest-paying microfinance institution in the entire CEMAC Subregion, a percentage of six. 

In 2024, it admitted 11,879 new members, and is sharing out over 3.4 billion FCFA to its 104,107 members.

In the same year, NtaCCUL, under Ade Muma’s esteemed leadership, saw savings hitting over 56 billion FCFA in addition to several technology-driven changes.

He thus becomes the main character modernising the credit union movement in Cameroon and taking services closest to the population. 

Ade Muma, our readers are saying, is not only the glory man serving as the go-getter of many community empowerment initiatives, but a changer of destinies.

Ade Muma gets his place under the sun this week as the most admired of men, given his undeniable place as lead character in the wealth creation chain. He is the golden character dispensing the critical deliverables addressing several socio-economic challenges affecting communities.

When it comes to the metrics of growing a financial institution, modernising, monetising and appropriating it in the lives of people at all strata of society, Ade Muma comes with global standard knowledge. He knows the specifics of fusing global financial principles to local realities, driving positive change in a way so marveling.

He is not the notice-seeking type. Ade Muma is the versatile microfinance lord putting knowledge to practice and sharing same in several institutions to guarantee sustainable growth. 

Your Personality of The Week is the man who knows how to deal with the shudders of financial instability. 

Many say they admire his focus, determination, consistency and transparency in defending the interest of NtaCCUL members.

Ade Muma is the man with whom millions of households and thousands of communities are recovering and recovering stronger from mishaps. 

He is a rare being with bold intellect and capacity in resolving complex issues. Others are fitting him at the apex of honour, for being the bulldozer pushing forward the delivery of reforms to curb poverty and empower people. 

For some, Ade Muma is simply the person shaping the financial future of the credit union movement, introducing never-seen management models that are producing results, even in the most difficult of circumstances.

The interplanetary phenomenon who Ade Muma has become is a man who has mastered wealth creation through diversification and concentration. 

His management savvy and leadership power with attention to detail, many are saying, make him not only a wonder but one of a kind. How he has consistently minimised risk and maximised returns on investment at NtaCCUL many are saying, only provide answers to how unique he is. 

Your Personality of The Week is a man whose integrity is worth more than his career.

Many say they are celebrating the NtaCCUL General Manager this season for his repeated results that make him a rare possibilitarian. 

He comes to the fore bejeweled in expensive costume for his adaptive leadership and management acumen.

While some are working for medals, Ade Muma, it is being said, and rightly so, is working for humanity to leave a lifelong legacy. 

Today, he is the man millions of young people, industry leaders and persons in authority have repeatedly been citing as an exemplary bulwark in the microfinance finance industry, given his refined intelligence.

Ade Muma has since assuming the General Manager role at NtaCCUL in 2013, been moving mountains in no small measure. Ade Muma holds a B.Sc. in Banking and Finance from the University of Buea; Higher Diploma in Business Administration from the London School of Commerce and Master of Business Administration, MBA, in Finance, from the University of Wales Institute, London.

He has also contributed in training human resource nationwide. This is the case with the University of Bamenda, UBa and the Higher Institute of Commerce and Management among others where his ingenuity and acumen have been put at the service of young Cameroonians.

He also formerly served as Credit Analyst of the Cameroon Cooperative Credit Union League-CamCCUL. At CamCCUL, he was the backbone of most Credit Union Managers and League Board.

In 24 years within the leadership rank of NtaCCUl, Ade Muma, it is said, and rightly so, has remained a unique development reagent. He served as head of the Lending Department of NtaCCUL from 2002 to 2010.

In July 2011, he was promoted to the post of head of Finance Control and Supervision Department of NtaCCUL. He held that position till February 2013, when he was named General Manager of NtaCCUL. 

The facts and figures under him at NtaCCUL, many are saying across the globe, tell the story of a formidable reformer of global standing with irreversible national and Subregional footprints.

This article was first published in The Guardian Post issue No:3362 of Friday February 7, 2025