CAMPOST workers strike over benefits

Employees of the Cameroon Postal Services, Campost, since Monday, March 9, 2015 have been on an indefinite strike action demanding the reconstitution of temporary staff who had been recruited several years ago, but whose status have remained stagnant likewise the non- payment of social benefits of officers for the past two years.
    The staff explained the cause of their strike action as their way of demanding their social security rights that date since April 2004, following the merger between the former postal savings bank (CEP) and the national postal (Sonaposte) Corporation.
    Among an array of businesses that do not pay social benefits to their employees trained in 2014 by the national social insurance fund (CNPS), the Campost records unpaid benefits of more than 400 million Cfa francs.

It should be noted that Campost has been managed by a team of Sofrepost, a subsidiary of the French Post Office since 2010, following a technical assistance contract signed with the Government of Cameroon.
    This arrival of Sofrepost at the head of Campost was preceded by another contract of management with the Canadian firm Tecsult International, who completed her 2 year lease at the Campost leaving a debt of 2.2 billion Cfa francs in cash.
    Though Sofrepost team helped the Cameroonian postal company to regain financial balance (savings 850 000 accounts and 56 700 accounts managed in its portfolio to end 2013) and deploy new activities, the financial management of the enterprise have not been smooth.
    Indeed, between 2011 and November 2013, a reliable source revealed that there was a network of fraudsters inside the company, led by a certain Jean Jacques Zé, who helped them to divert approximately 4 billion Fcfa by fraudulent transfers.