Francophones pose as Anglophones in Camair Co–GM

The general Manager of Cameroon Airlines Corporation, Camair-Co, Jean Paul Nana Sandjo, says most workers posing as Anglophones in the state owned corporation are not from the Northwest and Southwest Regions.

According to him, some incompetent and unscrupulous individuals may have forged Anglophone certificates to gain employment to Camai-Co.

Sandjo was reacting to widespread reports that Anglophones at Camair-Co are unqualified and incompetent.

It was reported most Anglophones at Camair-CO were recruited without the required qualifications, allegations, the GM clearly stated, he was not aware of.

“There are many workers at Camair-Co who were recruited without the required experience. To some, this was their first job.” Nana Sandjo said adding that “You don’t recruit inexperience personnel to launch an airline.”

Article 8 of Decree No. 2006/293 of 11 September 2006 creating Camair-Co stated that priority in recruitment of workers should be given to former personnel of Cameroon Airlines, Camair.

Unfortunately, the then GM, Alex Van Elk and his close collaborators ignored the provision.

According Sandjo, since the former GM was predominantly English speaking, they recruited more English speaking Cameroonians. But he affirmed that “It is wrong to assume that all the English speaking employees were bonafide Anglophones since some of them hail from other regions in the country other than the Northwest or Southwest Regions.”

In 2013, Camair-Co former GM, Federick Mboto Edimo commented that the files of many Anglophones in the company were without copies of their certificates.

Edimo’s comment that Anglophones had used ‘Kumba-made certificates’ to gain employment at Camair-Co went viral in April 2015, when a correspondence written by the Board Chair of Camair-Co, Edouard Akame Mfoumou, to the Presidency on the situation of Camair-Co, leaked.

It was Edimo who raised the allegation that many Anglophones who were recruited at the launch of Camair-Co by the Alex Van Elk management era were incompetent.