FCFA 2.5 billion set aside for Promote 2014

At a board meeting in Yaounde on Wednesday 15 October 2014, board members agreed to impute an additional 2.5 billion FCFA given by the state, into the 2014 budget of the Conference Centre.

They also adopted a new organizational chart (organigram) for the institution among other resolutions.

2.5 billion FCFA is the amount that the management of the Yaounde Conference Centre will invest to prepare the grounds for the 2014 edition of the annual international business and economy fair, Promote.

The money is a special subvention from the government of Cameroon.

Board members of the Conference Centre took note of the special government subvention, and agreed that the amount be imputed in the annual budget of the institution for 2014.

This was during a Board Meeting that was held on Wednesday 15 October 2014, in the Complex “A” room of the expansive Conference Centre.

The board members during this 18th Ordinary Session also adopted a new organigram for the institution.

The new organigram will now permit the management headed by Christophe Mien Zok (General Manager) and Madam Tabe nee Celine Mbeng (Assistant General Manager), to recruit new and more qualified personnel to assist them in the pursuit of their program of reconstruction and development of the Conference Centre.

Apart from the foregoing, the board members also amended and adopted the 2014 budget to include the additional 2.5 billion given by government.

It should be mentioned that during an earlier board meeting on 30 June 2014, the board adopted a budget of one billion five hundred and fifteen million and eight hundred and fifty thousand francs (1.515.850.000) as budget of the Conference Centre for 2014.

The over 8-hour board meeting ended, after the board members paid an inspection visit to the construction sites on the lower sections of the conference. Board Members expressed satisfaction at the quality and pace of ongoing construction and rehabilitation works and gave their quietus for the management to carry on with the works.

Talking to The Median after the exhaustive board meeting, the Deputy General Manager, Madam Tabe Celine said that all was well with the conference centre.

“We are doing our best possible to keep the Conference Centre up the standard it merits,” she said, noting that the Conference Centre houses important state institutions notably the Senate and CONAC.

She also recalled the recent hosting at the Centre of the 60th CPA conference and how “all the delegates were happy with the cleanliness and the state-of-the-art setting of the Conference Centre.”