Pamol
Employees Union
CCFTU
Ndian,
South
West Region,
18th
March, 2016.
Through:
The Governor, SW Region,
To:
The Prime Minister, Head of Government,
Yaounde,
Cameroon.
Subject: Impersonation, Campaign of
Blackmail and Calumny against the Pamol IGM, the Ndian Administration and the
Entire Pamol Workforce
Mr. Prime Minister, Head of Government, we
have the honour most respectfully to come before your very high office to
distance ourselves from and to condemn in the strongest terms a campaign of
blackmail and calumny ignited by some unknown persons against our Interim
General Manager, the top management of Pamol Plantations, the entire workforce,
the administration of Ndian and the Judiciary with the sole objective of
bringing about social unrest and destabilizing our buoyant company along, in a way
as to undermine the progress currently being made to fully rehabilitate Pamol.
On
the 4th of March, 2016, a certain NjibiliMolimoMokanya, whose name has never
been known at our corporation at any time, and who purports to be a member of
the Pamol Employees Union, right to the point of laying claims to the post of
delegated secretary, took upon himself to address a petition to your very high
office, making extremely misleading allegations meant to bring about mutual
mistrust and total chaos for reasons we are still to understand.
By
this correspondence, we want to state categorically that the so-called
NjibiliMolimoMokanya is neither a worker at Pamol Plantations nor a member of
our union. He therefore does not speak for us and we do not share his diatribe
against our IGM, the SDO of Ndian, the State Counsel of Ndian and other friends
of the company mentioned in the said petition. The numerous allegations made in
that document have nothing to do with reality; a visit to the company shall
portray a pleasant break from the personal frustrations he expressed in his
piece. That is a clear indication that he is one of the enemies of progress,
created out of the return of discipline and the notion that you must work in
order to earn your pay.
Before
we touch on some of the points he raised, permit us, Mr. Prime Minister, to
inform you and public opinion that at the end of the year 2012 when our former
General Manager passed on to glory and Chief MekanyaOkon Charles took over as
Interim, Pamol had an outstanding deficit of over 2.5 billion CFA F. Today,
that deficit has been completely wiped out and the company has now returned to
profitability with figures that would have surprised everyone, particularly in
2015 if the palm oil crisis did not put speed breaks. Again, since the year
2013, production levels have been on the rise peaking up to over 15.000 tons of
crude palm oil produced in 2015; a record level if one were to look at the
situation over ten years back. These are unquestionable indicators that Pamol is
not in decay as the so-called NjibiliMolimoMokanya wants to make believe.
NjibiliMolimoMokanya
claims that the Interim GM had rendered ‘our trade union powerless by co-opting
our trade union executive into Pamol Board of Directors and now treats us
anyhow since our union president prefer huge Pamol Board allowances than
workers rights’. This allegation points to the ignorance this man has of Pamol
operations; Mr. Bongo Jonas Eboka, the current union President, is not the
first ever union President to sit on the Board of Directors of Pamol
Plantations. Late Tangye who was union president under Chief ObenOfunde Moses
and he was co-opted to the Board by the said GM at the time. This is not
therefore a Chief Mekanya creation as the petition writer wants to make
believe. The presence of employee union representatives at boards of directors’
meetings is a statutory practice in all government owned companies in Cameroon.
