By Doh James Sonkey
The Director General of Cameroon Customs, Fongod Edwin Nuvaga last week received in audience a visiting delegation of SGS officials in his office in Yaounde. Their discussion was centred on ways of harnessing the customs revenue security programme, for the Cameroon Customs Department.
The delegation from the Geneva-based world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company was made up of its Vice President of Connectivity and Products, Montserrat Martinez Exposito and the Vice President Government and Public Sector, Getaz Henri Alexandro.
The visiting Swiss multinational company, Societe Generale Surveillance, SGS delegation was led by Discussions at the audience centrered on the New Generation Customs Revenue Security Programme, abbreviated as PSRD-NG.
The Director General of Cameroon Customs and his guests addressed other common issues of interests, such as risk management with the design of a unique risk map from the Customs Department and the risk management system developed by SGS; the implementation of the E-Valuator application; as well as training modules for customs personnel which fall within the framework of skills transfer offered by Swiss multinational SGS.
Both parties equally discussed the problem of automatic transfer of data from the SGS e-Trade information system to the Cameroon Customs Information System, CAMCIS, as part of the strengthening of digitalisation and document security.
Speaking at the end of the working session, Henri Alexandre Getaz, stated that: “The reason for our visit this morning is that, the SGS is in charge of the contract to help the Directorate General of Customs in controlling all importations and exportation in Cameroon. So, we wanted to meet to see how we can ameliorate the procedure and our collaboration. This meeting was very important and even the Customs boss frankly told us what his thoughts are about it, the issues to be improved upon so that we can work on them. We hope that by the next time we come here, we will be coming with the solutions.”
Fongod Edwin Nuvaga was accompanied during the audience by some close collaborators. At the end of the audience, the SGS delegation visited the scanner image monitoring room at the Directorate General of Customs in Bastos.