75 Cameroonian Red Cross personnel, demand their unpaid salaries

In order to take care of the growing number of refugees flooding into Cameroon, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees lunched the recruitment of 75 Red Cross agents from Cameroon. In their six month contract, it was stated that they will be paid 15, 000FCFA daily, summing up to 450,000FCFA per month.

Cameroon-info.net further relates that, for the first four months, all went on well with their benefits being paid as the agreement stipulated. After those first months of understanding, the dealings of the following two months swayed in the opposite direction. They seemed to have been doing some charity work, as they did not see a penny after their hard work.

“We were recruited for a duration of six weeks for the censorship of refugees in the course of the establishment of their biometric cards. This contract was terminated on May 30^th 2017 but presently speaking, the Red Cross still owes us two months of unpaid salaries” one of the complainants revealed.

According to Gilbert Tonye, the National coordinator of the accused party, “we are aware of the fact that we owe them salaries of two months but we do not have the money in liquid form. In order for the money to be available here, were need to undergo a very long procedure. The money has to leave London to Geneva then Nairobi before arriving in Cameroon. I don’t know why these children are going to the media to unveil a problem whose solution is almost found.”