Yang Philemon's deliberate silence over Crown Corporation protest

The road via the main gate to the Ministry of Finance in Yaoundé was blocked on Tuesday, January 13, 2015 by sitting protesters carrying placards. It was another sit-down strike of the former employees of 48 Crown corporations claiming the full payment of their social rights balances and the conversion premium estimated to be about 1.5 billion CFA francs. Cameroon Concord gathered that this issue has been going on but nobody in Yaoundé has taken responsibility, nobody has apologized for the poor management of the situation and nobody –not even the Prime Minister has resigned. The silence can only be deliberate noted our chief political correspondent.

Cameroon Concord is yet to identify any government in the world that has held on to power after such fiasco over unpaid conversion premiums. Clearly, the Biya regime has evidence of its efforts to resolve this situation, but remains vague at the designated representatives as intermediaries. Tension is growing over time and many in Yaoundé still cannot understand why the CPDM government has failed woefully to seek a lasting solution to this minor problem.