Sasse College celebrates leadership, excellence

The focus of anniversary activities is on providing an enabling infrastructure to support the development of effective leaders.

Cameroon’s first college, Sasse College, cloaks 75 this year. That enormous progress in secondary and higher education training, leadership and excellence in the country is at the forefront of anniversary commemoration is worth mentioning.

It should be noted that the majority of Cameroon’s outstanding leaders like ex-Prime Minister Peter Mafany Musonge, Ephraim Ngwafor, Late Prof. John Anomah Ngu and Late Mgr. Pius Suh Awa, etc, are former students of the Buea-based college.

The information was disclosed at a press conference to launch its 75th anniversary celebrations in Akwa, Douala, on Sunday, September 14.

The celebrations, jointly organised by the Sasse College in Buea, Sasse Old Boys Association (SOBA), and the Buea Catholic Education Secretariat, kicked off yesterday, September 15, and will continue to December 20, 2014, at the College campus in Buea, as well as in Douala, Yaounde, Bamenda, Kumba, and Limbe with extensions to Europe, the Americas and Nigeria.

The objectives are to celebrate Sasse College’s 75 years achievements, increase the brand equity of the College, garner support for the College’s leadership ambitions, and set a new vision for the College.

The theme, “Sasse College, Sasse: Leadership & Excellence for an emerging Cameroon” resonates the desire of the institution to move forward by committing itself to the emergence of Cameroon, through the grooming of a new set of leaders, driven by excellence and innovation to take today’s development further.

Activities previewed include media campaigns, church campaigns, academic discourse, students’ challenge (football, handball, essay, projects), mini-marathon, dinner debates and youth camps.

The Chairman of the Organising Committee, Dr. Edmund Agbor, in the present of Fr. Nongi Alexander Sob, representing the institution’s Proprietor Prof. Ephraim Ngwafor and Ayuk Akoachere, said it is a celebration of the College’s long-standing values of excellence and leadership which have powered the exceptional contributions of many of its products to the achievement of the human race.

With a staff strength of 75 and student population of 950, and a strictly Anglo-Saxon system of education, Fr. Nongi said the college’s problems are mostly infrastructural as current ones are those of 1939 when it was created.

However, efforts are underway to elevate the current infrastructure to meet the minimum standards of a leadership academy. Presently, there is renovation of the maingate (at FCFA 12-15 million), the building of an ultramodern urinary.

The institution and the Saint Kitt’s Dormitory has been refurbished and a sickbay to be called Prof. Victor Anomah Ngu’s Health Centre will be set up.