Directors of Viettel Cameroon come to blows

Tensions are high among the board of directors at Viettel Cameroon, the countries 3rd mobile operator, as they come to blows over the announcement of its activities scheduled for September 2014.

According to the Cameroonian government daily, administrators and the Vietnamese partners do not agree on the policy of human resources management to be implemented by the company.

We learn the Vietnamese partner in Cameroon aims to import producers, wholesale distributors and retailers of products (SIM cards, airtime etc) of the new mobile operator.

A project opposed by the administrators of Cameroon, reminiscent of the promise to create 6,300 local jobs, by Viettel Cameroon at the time of signing the concession contract in 2012.

In May 2014, internal denunciations were already reporting massive importation of Vietnamese labour work within the company, which constituted about 50 per cent of the total workforce of the company.

Sources reveal that 317 of the 600 employees currently at work to launch the activities of the telecom company were from Vietnam.