Commentary: Legacy Of A Great Mind

In his tribute to the late Professor Daniel Lantum who died on 15 February 2021, Christian Cardinal Wiyghansai Tumi, after appreciating the great works the professional icon did for the sick as a physician, declared, “You were sent on earth to do these good works… By your death, God is telling us, you have finished doing what he created you and you alone to do on Earth.”
What an assurance and acknowledgement of the truth that God calls home committed servants of His when He knows that the tasks He assigned them have been fully accomplished!
In his life time, this venerated man of God knew that by the time his God would want him back home, following the completion of assignments, there would be no need to seek an evacuation abroad, or rush to a Referral hospital for medical attention.
His insistence to be left to breath his last at home and not in a hospital, signified the conviction that God had already given him enough time to accomplish the tasks assigned him. Hence no regrets about an abrupt or untimely exit. 
After living and celebrating 90 Good Fridays and Easter Sundays, the 91st of this great commemoration in Christendom would mark the transition of an emblematic shepherd. Like his kindred, of blessed memory, Professors Bernard Fonlon, Daniel Lantum, and Arch Bishop Paul Verdrekof, not forgetting the Rev. Father Wankoui Aloysius who had served God and fellow Cameroonians with a holistic mind, Cardinal Christian Tumi has transited to God’s celestial kingdom leaving behind great lessons worth remembering and emulating.
In his service ...