Cameroon’s Prime Minister, Joseph Dion Ngute, on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, was officially received at the headquarters of the Inter-Patronal Group of Cameroon (GICAM), located in the Bonanjo district of Douala.
This meeting comes after the decision of GICAM to cancel the conference-debate that was scheduled for Friday, April 16, with a delegation mandated by the Minister of Justice, Laurent Esso, to represent him. To this could be added the persistent dissension with the Director General of Taxes, who, earlier this year, went to Douala to present to the private sector the tax innovations of the 2021 finance law. A strategic meeting for which the largest employers’ movement in the country was absent.
Another point, and not the least of this meeting, was that « the Prime Minister came to ask the heads of companies for their contribution to the war effort for the reconstruction of the South West and North West. These two English-speaking regions of the country, in the grip of a war of independence since 2016, » said a member of the Inter-Patronal Group of Cameroon.
For the president of GICAM, CélestinTawamba, « the more the State consults and takes into account the grievances of those who know the business world, first and foremost the representative organisations of the private sector, the more appropriate this environment will be.
« In its 64 years of existence, GICAM has never been honoured with a visit from a Prime Minister, » he concluded.
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