Re-opening of IAI training center slated for November

After several months of waiting, the students of the African Institute of computer science (IAI-Cameroon), in Maroua who had completed their training finally received their certificates in a ceremony chaired by the Secretary general of the region of the far North, Louis Florent Ribouem à Moungam.

The representative of IAI in Cameroon, Armand Claude Abanda was represented at this ceremony by Simon Bisso Engola, head of the division.

The latter took the opportunity to announce the reopening of the IAI in Maroua after three years of suspension which resulted in a standoff between the students and the head of centre, Dexter Saidou Yalla.

"Mr Dexter Saidou is not serious. He knew that the Center was suspended, but he continued to collect money from students telling them that they will receive their diplomas. When he was caught for recruitment of 25,000 young people in the public service in 2011, he entrusted the management of the centre to a certain Oumarou.

The latter has been guilty of serious mismanagement of an amount of 12,000, 000 Fcfa representing students training costs. This sent him to prison in Maroua for embezzlement and breach of trust", explained a student in the maintenance sector.

On the reasons that led to the suspension of the centre of Maroua, Simon Bisso Engola, head of division of the offshore centres at the IAI-Cameroon indicated that a convention was binding on the IAI Cameroon and Dexter Yalla.

"Unfortunately, Mr Dexter Yalla has breached the terms of the contract. We were forced to suspend the activities of the centre in order to find solutions to the problems. We put an end to our collaboration and the activities of the centre will resume in the next few days with a new management team," he said.

In his defense, Dexter Saidou Yalla said he was only a victim of a manipulation orchestrated by some people he could not identify. "I was told that the centre has been closed for three years, while it was in August 27, 2013 that I received the information in an e-mail. It was this mail that related the message that there has been a suspension in the collaboration between the IAI and my centre. Thus, there obviously were some management problems going on under cover.