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Illegal Mails Transfer Agencies Promised Hard Times
Oct 20, 2008 (The Post/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) --
The Secretary General in the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Edouard Ebah Abada, has won that enterprises involved in illegal mails and money transfers would soon be fished out and punished.
He issued the warning during celebrations to mark the 134th World Postal Day placed under the theme: "a postal sector resolutely turned towards the future."
Acknowledging the challenges being faced by the Cameroon Postal Services, CAMPOST, as a result of the advent of the new information and communication technologies, Ebah said the massive invasion of the sector by enterprises not yet recognised by the State also accounts for the woes of CAMPOST. He said that measures to clean up the sector would soon go operational.
The Inspector General hailed the new management team of CAMPOST for standing out despite the challenges. He noted that that the electronic transfer of money through CAMPOST across the globe is a reality. He disclosed government is working hard to put in place an acceptable institutional and legal framework for CAMPOST.
Ebah urged CAMPOST to look for partners, stating that electoral materials in Canada and newspapers in France are swiftly distributed by the postal services of those countries with the help of partners. He pleaded that efficiency and rapid response to the need of customers be improved upon in CAMPOST, especially enterprises as recommended by the Director General of the Universal Postal Union, UPU.
UPU also calls on the member countries to, in collaboration with other actors of the postal sector, modernise the postal services so that its role of economic and social development can fully be attained.
Meanwhile, the Interim General Manager of CAMPOST, Etienne Njimbon, described the theme of the celebration as eloquent as its dispels messages peddled by pessimists who doubted the future of postal services and even predicted its disappearance. He told general managers of enterprises present at the occasion that they are CAMPOST partners of the first order.
He expressed the wish to see CAMPOST develop all forms of win-win partnerships adapted to the needs of the enterprises and customers in general.He hailed CAMPOST workers for withstanding difficult moments of restructuring in the face of crisis that hit the outfit a couple of years ago.
He said at CAMPOST the satisfaction of customers is their preoccupation. Njimbon used the celebration to announce a writing competition open to young people of age 15 and below. UPU has for over 35 years, in collaboration with UNESCO, been organising letter writing competitions for youths.
The UPU was created in 1874 while the World Postal Day was instituted during a UPU congress in Tokyo, Japan, in 1969. According to UPU data, postal services of some 190 member countries employ approximately six million people in more than 700, 000 establishments through which some 430 billion mails and parcels are treated and sent to different destinations in the world each year.
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