Scramble For Employment: More Than 80.000 Youths To Compete For 4.700 Positions Into The Police Force in Cameroon

 Coni T. Tawong

• What becomes of the 75.300 youths or more who would not be employed?
• Why can government not instead make strong laws and strengthen security (matricule numbers) in the private sector?

Here is what scare youths from the private sector
Treatment of employees by employers in the private sector in Cameroon is very poor due to the fact that the employers have capital. This makes the youths to look up only to the civil service where they see the job security (matricule number) lacking in the private sector.

• Employers of the private sector in Cameroon are egocentric and generally do not love those who work under them.
• All private institutions in Cameroon are commercially oriented e.g. mission schools, lay private schools, mission hospitals, communication & transport companies etc
• The salaries in the private sector in Cameroon are  very low
• There is no strong Law (though laws exist) that seriously protect the private sector workers
• Workers of the private sector are treated with sentiments, meaning that if your employer gets angy with you, he or she can dismiss you and go unpunished.
• If an employer sees a worker prospers, the prosperous worker will be dismissed.
• Generally, working with the weakened private sector in Cameroon means you are not working as contrasted to the private sector of other countries.