Retirees take the public service hostage

At various jurisdictions, there are people who are aged between 60 and 66 years old which is the right age for retirement but still within the public services in the city of Yaoundé.

66 pensioners who despite having been notified are showing no attempt to release their office for a well-deserved rest. While trying to find out the reason for their insistence, a young man at the Department of finance asserts that many administrators who have reached the retirement age refuse to retire and largely responsible for acts of sabotage that harms the new generation.

The accusing finger was also pointed at Ministers, directors and heads of divisions who hold on to offices just to enrich themselves on the backs of the State.

Presumably, governance machine appears to witness much failure as the Cameroonian administration has become the theatre of anarchy like no other. This administration, executives and even the whole of citizens draw behind the laws of the country and trample under their feet the regulations in force within the Republican institutions.

What could justify the refusal of the retirement of these officials? Is this a form of claim to the attention of the head of State who has extended the age of retirement in some jurisdictions to the age of 60?

Before these series of questions, the Cameroonian public opinion remains doubtful against the cries of young officials who graduate from training schools and who have to face these "old persons" who don't give them every opportunity to flourish and to also render services to the nation.

In principle, within the Cameroonian public service, officials and agents of the State of categories D and C go on retirement at age 50. Those in categories B1, B2, A1 and A2 and contractual frameworks of Directors retire at age 55.

The administrators who benefit from extensions from the head of State to retire at 60 years include education, the judiciary and the police. But today, Cameroonians benefit from laxity and disorder installed within the Government to drag in their respective jurisdictions.

Other questions have been raised on the ability of Cameroon to reach the emergence by 2035 in such a mess. What is the Minister in charge of public service saying? Is the silence of the Government complicit?