The management of the Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC), has not paid its workers for 40 months and counting.
Schools are due to resume for the 2023–2024 academic year, and most of the workers are worried that their children risk not going to school for lack of means to meet up due to accumulated unpaid salaries.
“I don’t understand what is going on with CDC management. People are preparing their children for school resumption, but CDC workers are yet to prepare their children because salaries have not been paid till now,” one of the workers, who opted not to be named for fear of reprisals, told MMI.
As the new school year approaches, they say they are faced with non-payment of salaries on the one hand and threats from separatist Ambazonia fighters on the other.
“The Amba boys are blocking schools while CDC management is refusing to pay workers to send children to school. Are they different from the Amba boys?” he wondered.
40 MONTHS UNPAID SALARIES.
For the past 40 months, CDC employees have been paid nothing.
Despite cries and Protests, the management of the corporation has remained adamant about accumulating salaries, leaving workers frustrated.
“CDC is owing technical and medical personnel 40 months unpaid salaries,” our source revealed.
Calling on the government to step in and redress the situation, he noted that their survival as humans hangs on a scale.
“I pray for the government to redress this situation. It is not a crime to work with CDC, nor is it the children’s fault to be born to CDC parents,” he appealed.
GOVERNMENT FAILURE TO ADDRESS SITUATION AFTER PROTEST LETTER.
Early this year, workers of the corporation addressed a letter to the governor of the South West Region, bringing to his attention their plight following continuous non-payment of salaries for months.
The effort yielded no fruits, as the institution continued in the same way.
Prime Minister Dion Ngute had earlier promised to look into the situation but it has been 40months and counting, and nothing has changed
CDC WORKERS HARDEST HIT BY ANGLOPHONE CRISIS.
Apart from non-payment of salaries by management, the workers are the most affected by the deadly armed conflict in Anglophone regions.
Several of them have been kidnapped, others killed, and some have had their fingers cut by armed Ambazonia separatist fighters.
The institution has also suffered several arsonist attacks and destructions from armed men.
