About 30 SGs under the auspices of the Ministry of Public Service and Administrative Reforms are in Bakingili near Limbe to say no to lethargy.

“Time Management, Leadership and Performance in the Cameroon Public Administration” is the theme that has pulled Secretaries General of the various Ministries to the sea shore resort place near Limbe.

From 18 through 19 September, 2014, the “gods” and “goddesses” of Cameroon’s administration, as Professor Machikou Nadine Ndzesop, a facilitator at the seminar addressed the SGs, will learn and exchange ideas concerning the time factor that may pull down Cameroon’s dreams of emerging by 2035 if not checked.

Opening the come-together at the Seme hall in Bakingili yesterday, Mr. Michel Ange Angouin, Minister of the Public Service and Administrative Reforms, recalled that the Head of State, President Paul Biya, has had to condemn lethargy and inertia, as time-related ills of Government in the recent past.

Mr. Angouin said this was the “canker worm which does not depend only on external factors, but most often on extreme indignity and slanders tied to our inefficiency to manage time in our respective public administrations.”

He cited such ills as returning from work before stipulated time and coming late to work as well as slanders like “emergency cases are in hospital” or “Government work does not finish”; all situations which slow down performance in the public administration.

Meanwhile administrative authorities ought to consider time under a tripartite factor namely from the point of view of individual citizen using the administration, the politician wanting to meet his political promises and the administrator who should finish his work, Professor Machikou delivering the first paper at the seminar underscored.

When the SGs shall be rounding up their work today, 19 September, resolutions and a final report will be drafted to ensure that laxity has become a thing of the past in Cameroon administrative offices. High profile Lecturers have been engaged to vaccinate the Bakingili seminar on time management.

They include Professor Emmanuel Pondi, Madame Koa Evelyne, and the political Scientist, Professor Machikou Nadine.