By Ndumbe Bell Joseph Gaston in Douala
Reports say GICAM, which is the largest and strongest employers association in Cameroon, is seemingly unstable after the recent signing of an agreement with e-Cam to fuse or to merge.
Conflicting reports have emerged since then from two camps of board members some of whom are expressing complete dissatisfaction with the process and some others who say the matter was approved by GICAM’S Board of Directors or administrators before the signing of the planned merger.
The emerging split is reported to have seemingly become more evident during a meeting that was reported to have been convened on May 5 in Douala where some members expressed their fears “on the validation of the treaty of dissolution of the employers association” in favour of another when e-cam, it was concluded, does not have the same strength and profile like GICAM. Another question is, is GICAM simply wanting absorb e-cam?
So, some members are reported to have challenged the current president of GICAM Celestin Tawamba for failing to have copied the details of the agreement to members which they condemned.
Reports say the matter is expected to be raised during their June Ordinary Assembly where the president is expected to classify certain situations to erase what some are alleged to be saying it is power mongering, and help regain his ailing confidence.
In another development, a story that has been reported by one Cameroonian French-speaking print media stated that GICAM’S Board of Directors validated the merger and are strongly behind the President in the May 5 meeting except for what they described as “one discordant voice”.
According to reports had from a readout, the Francophone print media confirmed a quorum and that “any information to the contrary is falsified … No one will prevent the GICAM e-cam merger.”