Yaounde: Workers of Defunct State Corporations on Serious Strike

Reports from Yaoundé, Cameroon’s political capital say that a collection of aggrieved ex-workers of some defunct state corporations are currently striking therein.

According to our source, they now sit in front of the Ministry of Finance (MINFI) not far from the National Museum in Yaounde. From Monday to Friday, they are seen seated there, some with placards that carry messages of disgruntlement.

But, Le Jour newspaper of July 4, 2018, reported that fatigue is already beginning to overcome some of them.

We learnt that it has been two months since they demonstrated at this particular place in the nation’s capital in demand for the payment of the remainder of nine months of their social rights after the liquidation and the restructuring of state-owned companies in which they were employed.

“30 years is too much, free us. Where is the living together”, some of the placards read.

To ensure that their grievances are properly driven or conveyed to the appropriate quarters, the disgruntled former state workers have grouped themselves in a group of former employees of the liquidated or privatized state companies.

Joseph Nkong, secretary of the said group, revealed that out of more than 23,000 ex-employees, around 13,000 were able to receive payment for three months. And of the 23,000 former employees, the aforementioned secretary said that only 16,000 have been identified. According to the latter, plaintiffs who claim the entirety of their social rights abound.