Fr. Peter A. Foleng, SD. 
From 11.00a.m on Saturday 8th July 2006, the activities in the Catholic Church in Kumbo moved faster than any one could expect. The accelerator was the announcement of the appointment of the second residential Bishop of Kumbo by His Holiness Benedict XVI. The entire presbyterium of the Diocese, which is co-terminal with the administrative divisions of Bui, Donga-Mantung and part of Boyo and Noun in the West Province, converged in the Bishop's House Kumbo at the invitation of the then Apostolic Administrator, His Grace Cornelius F. Esua, Archbishop of Bamenda.
The impact of these movements on the economy of the area cannot be over emphasised. The spiritual fulfilment and the joy at receiving this news after almost 19 months of expectations spoke for itself.
Within one hour of the announcement, the telephone and internet companies in Cameroon are the ones to testify how much they reaped from calls across the globe to share the news with others out of Kumbo.
Immediately following the announcement was the formal presentation of the letter of appointment by the bishop-elect to the presbyterium of the diocese. Then a meeting with the College of Consultors, council of laity and other groups in the diocese that had to flock to Kumbo.
The steering committee to start immediate preparation for the ordination of the bishop-elect was put in place. The committee was drawn from members of the Parish Pastoral Councils of all the 25 parishes and quasi parishes in the Diocese of Kumbo. Various sub-committees also came up to take care of various aspects of the preparation and the ordination itself. This was followed by a series of meetings, all in Kumbo.
The sub-committees formed included: Accommodation, Ordination Grounds, Communications Media, Feeding and Entertainment, Souvenir gifts, Transport, Protocol and Security, Liturgy, and Finance. The total budgets came up to 52 million francs cfa. Amongst other things, the accommodation sub-committee had to book for hotel rooms and other available accommodation within Kumbo urban and around to lodge the guests and various delegations coming in for the ordinations.
Excluding the good will of the Christian communities of Shisong, Tobin, Mbve and Kumbo, this committee took closed to one million francs. The ordinations grounds committee was charged with renovating the podium at St. Augustine's College, Nso and prepared the entire grounds for the ordinations.
This took over 6 million francs. The communications media committee that took charge of all the printing, video and audio coverage, analogue pictures and press work claimed almost 8 millions francs. The special diocesan gift (a special chalice with the name of the bishop) took almost 600.000frs.
The transport and feeding committees are easily evaluated from the various vehicles that came into Kumbo within that period with the various delegations and guests. Again, apart from the private cars, the transport agencies can testify to their balance around that period.