Students drilled in entrepreneurship

Students of various entrepreneur training establishments in Buea have been called upon to be nation builders.

The call was made at the 25-45 Business Consulting SA seminars recently at the Dorothy Njeuma Amphitheatre in the University of Buea. The seminar, that was attended by enterprises like Bonga Juice, BICEC Bank and Pit Stop, stressed on the need for students to learn to love, appreciate and create impacts that will make Cameroon better.

Higher educational establishments in Buea like the Higher Institute of Business Management, HIBMAT; ST Veronica Higher Institute; Catholic University and the host, the University of Buea, were also in attendance.

The question; Is the education you are getting relevant to the economy of Cameroon?” begged for answers at the seminar. The various self-made entrepreneurs were called upon to throw more light on how they made it to the top and give an insight to the students on how they too can contribute their own quota to the development of Cameroon by being tomorrow’s creative entrepreneurs.

“I drew my inspiration from many self-made entrepreneurs in the world. Also, after I did research on the potentials of my country, I realised that Cameroon is a very blessed and rich country which I know, if I work hard, I can make a change by being creative and making a difference,”Collins Mazu, CEO of 25-45 BC told this reporter.

Asked what the thought about the students after the seminar, he explained; “I expect the students to have the zeal to know more, the zeal to question more, to start thinking beyond the box of their present moment, ask questions like ‘what am I going to do after my degree’, ‘what does it entail’. These and many more are the kind of questions I expect the students to be asking themselves when they leave here.”

Questions like what the government, financial organisations in the country are doing to help young talents via sponsorship, donations and scholarship were raised as reasons why creative minds do not emerge in Cameroon.

The students asked why they are being told to love home products with low quality when imported goods with high quality are available in the market, all in the name of love and patriotism.

Clarice Namondo, a Banking and Finance student of the university of Buea observed; “I have learnt a lot from this seminar , hearing from a language student who now is a bank manager gives me much inspiration because I just learned that nothing is impossible in life. All one needs is hard work and determination.”

In the same vein, Nkeng Asong Masin of St. Veronica Higher Institute said “After this seminar, I don’t think I desire leaving this country for greener pastures, I will love to stay back home to develop my country’’.

Some students were awarded certificates of participation by 25-45BC, at the end of the seminar.