Panic, anxiety grips SOPECAM as board meets
again
-Will the GM, Nnana Marie Claire survive
the heat?
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| Nnana Marie Claire |
Workers and especially the management of
the National Printing and Publishing Corporation, SOPECAM will remain in their
state of panic and anxiety until the outcome of two board meetings billed for
today Monday 20 June 2016 is known. An inside source at SOPECAM hinted The
Median that the environment within and around the public corporation have
remained tense ever since the stand-off between the Board Chair of the company,
Joseph Anderson Le and the General Manager, Nnana Marie Claire came to public
knowledge.
It
is however, hoped that there will be a thaw in the present icy relations
between the parties and that peace and harmony will return to the state-run
company, after the holding of the crucial board meetings. The ordinary and
extra-ordinary board sessions were announced in a message posted on the notice
board of SOPECAM on Thursday last week and signed by the Deputy General
Manager, Peter SheyMabu. The Board sessions would be followed by a message from
the Board Chair to the workers of the company, the ADG’s communiqué also
stated.
It
was not immediately clear why it was the deputy general that had to sign the
communiqué announcing the board meetings. But speculations were that the GM
Mrs. Nnana M.C. might have stood her grounds that by virtue of the recent
presidential decrees modifying the composition of the board and also
prescribing a new organizational chart for the company, the old board cannot
sit and take important decisions that affect the life and future of the
company.
The GM’s position was diametrically opposed
to that of the Board Chair, who maintained that the old board should remain in
place until the text of application of the presidential decrees is published.
This
has been the bone of contention between the GM and the Board Chair. It led to
the latter signing some decisions appointing persons to some very strategic
posts in the company, and the former contesting the decisions. MrsNnana
maintained that because she does not recognize the appointments, she would not
let the appointees into their offices. She also refused to publish the
appointments in the state-run newspaper, Cameroon Tribune, which is a
subsidiary of SOPECAM.
On
the instructions of the Head of State, who is out of the country “for a short
private stay”, the Prime Minister, Philemon Yang on Friday 10 June 2016
summoned the two actors in his office and exhorted them to come back to their
good senses and ensure that peace, serenity and harmony reign at SOPECAM.
Because
the bone of contention was a conflict in the interpretation of the laws in
force by the warring parties, it is believed that the PM, who is a magistrate
by training, not only gave the parties a clear reading of the law, he also gave
instructions and orientations on which course of action they should take to
bring back peace in the company. It is for this reason that the two board
meetings have been convened, it is understood.
It
should be recalled that the last board meeting that put the Board Chair and the
GM in conflict, took place only two weeks ago.
Pic
Nnana Marie Claire
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