Adjusting to New Status:

HPSF Management Spoils Staff with New Appointments

-Workers hail Okie Johnson Ndoh for ‘fatherly’ gesture   

By Mercy Neba in Yaounde

Workers of HPSF have hailed their GM for his ‘fatherly gesture’

An atmosphere of euphoria and uncontrolled excitement has enveloped the air around the  Hydrocarbons Prices Stabilization Fund, HPSF, since Tuesday last week following the release of decisions by the board of directors giving new appointments to workers in the different departments of the state-owned petroleum outfit.

                The Median learned that workers jumped for joy in their offices, with many running upstairs to the office of the General Manager, situated on the fourth floor of the sumptuous building that houses the headquarters of HPSF, to thank the DG for being so kind as to propose their names for the appointments by the board.

                The excitement was the more because the board also approved an increase in number and amounts paid as bonuses to workers as was also proposed to it by the management.

                We learned that the new appointments and bonuses touched all categories of workers, from the lowest category up to the directors.

                The newly appointed workers would be installed by the DG of HPSF, at a ceremony to take place at the esplanade of the company, on Monday 23 December.

                We learned also that during the same extraordinary board session, board members also approved a new organizational chart for the company, as drawn up by the management.

                It should be noted that the HPSF was only recently, raised from a Directorate to a full-fledged General Directorate, by the President of the Republic.

                Its new status as General Directorate not only warranted the new organizational chart, it also informed the increase in advantages to workers.

                Perhaps, it should be noted that it is with Okie Johnson Ndoh as DG that the HPSF has finally been raised to the long-awaited status of full General Directorate, a status which now puts the compant at parity with other petroleum companies in the Cameroon.

                It can be understood therefore why the workers not only jumped for joy, but they also trooped into their GM’s office to hail and thank him for the good advocacy he did at the level of the board and at the Presidency just to get the status raised and the appointments approved.

                Needless to note that with the new status and organizational chart, other appointments to higher posts of responsibility including notably directors, technical advisers and heads of specialized units are would be made sooner than later.

                The DG, who was until recently was called Director, may also be re-appointed by the President of the Republic, with the new title of General Director, DG.

                But until these appointments are made, the environment at CSPH remains observably calm and promising.