Gov’t injects 34 billion CFA into CAMPOST

Government has injected 34 billion CFA into Cameroon postal services to boost its operation. The news was broken by the regional delegate of CAMPOST to the Littoral region during their celebration of their 10 years anniversary on June 26, 2014.

The theme for the anniversary was dubbed “Assessment and prospects of CAMPOST during our 10 year’s operation”. Abubakar Maloum, the regional delegate was optimistic in his speech mainly because the company is about to take a giant step in the process of globalization, digitization and computerization of its services to carry out operations such as e-commerce, e-banking, video conferences, teleconferences etc.

According to him, this has been their major challenge in this era of technological advancement. "We are already experimenting it internally with surveillance cameras in all of our 264 post offices, and our internal communication system uses directly fiber optics and not CAMTEL, Orange and MTN networks," he said.

This new system of supervision and discipline does not help all 1,118 employees but it is necessary to reach the steps crossed by the Tunisian posts (26%) and French (13%) with a service like public-posting, according to Jean-Pierre Tsamo (chief sales department).

It remains a big problem for the public to trust CAMPOST because of inconsistencies in operation from the past. Stealing and missing mails of clients have left an indelible mark of mistrust between the public and CAMPOST. Besides the credibility issues, many companies that have closed down due to the economic crisis, did not reimburse what they owe CAMPOST affecting hugely their financial situation.

CAMPOST has however confirmed that they are now back in business. And the company will hopefully be operating well, thanks to government support. Currently the company’s turnover has increased from 5.8 billion- 7.4 billion CFA francs.