Former employees of the 48 state corporations put up another protest

There was commotion at the esplanade of the Ministry of finance on Thursday morning, July 9, 2015. By noon, the tension exacerbated.

Ex-employees of 48 state corporations requesting for the resumption of payments of their salary arrears and the effective regulation of their salaries for reconversion, came out in small groups on the road from the Prime Minister's office to the Court of appeal at the centre; preventing taxis and other vehicles from moving.

Notwithstanding the intervention of the police deployed on the scene around 2 p.m., the tension was still at its height. Against the injunctions of the central police N ° 1 on the ex-employees to clear the streets, they began to shout opposing the order. "We are ready for confrontation," chanted some of them.

At the Ministry of finance, some internal sources entrusted to Cameroon - info.NET that talks were far advanced and in two or three months, depending on the availability of cash, payments are expected to resume even if the protesters are not convinced.

We remember that on Monday June 8, while they had come to collect their money from the Central Treasury after a publication by Alamine Ousmane Mey of an expected list of about 15500 beneficiaries, only the names of 67 ex employees were published, and many of them had died.

When asked about a possible resumption of payments in two or three months, Dibama Emmanuel, an ex-employee of SOFIBEL considered it as simply a problem in Government. "If for over twenty years nothing has been done, it is not in two or three months that things will work out," said the old man.