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  • 13/03/2024

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00:00 [Music]
00:20 Age fabrication and double identity gangrening elite football in Cameroon with over 60 players summoned for double checking of their identities and age credentials.
00:36 Over 600 students of government bilingual high school Le Tugbe in distress as the school authorities work out equations to shelter them after violent winds blew off the roofs of their classrooms.
00:52 Muslims in Cameroon begin the month long Ramadan fasting period during which prayers, meditation, abstinence and charity will characterize their spiritual lives.
01:05 Those are the lead stories of this edition.
01:08 With the 730 on the CLTV I am Ben Menopufo. Welcome to join us.
01:15 Ramadan, a holy month, a month long celebration of the Muslim communities across the world has just begun for real in Cameroon today.
01:31 The Muslim community is marking Ramadan with sunrise to sunset fasting for the entire month.
01:39 Ramadan month of the Islamic, it is one of the pillars of the Islamic calendar and our reporter Cynthia Sabtala went down to Muslim neighborhoods in the nation's capital to find out just how they are taking off with their month long fasting period.
02:00 The sun up in the sky this Tuesday morning, an indication that many Muslim faithfuls have already begun day one of the month of Ramadan.
02:11 Apart from the five daily prayers that are part of the core of Islam, many spend several hours praying.
02:19 Sometimes we used to wake up around 3.30. From 5.10 to 6.00 is time to pray. We give the Subuhi prayer.
02:27 We have a monthly prayer. We used to offer about 10 prayers during Ramadan. It depends, some 20, some 30. The minimum is 10.
02:37 This Tuesday Muslims observe the first day of a month long strict fast from dawn until sunset.
02:44 They are not allowed to eat or drink even water during daylight hours, an act of worship and a means to empathize with those less fortunate.
02:53 You have to manage yourself in order to stay without eating, without drinking. So wake up early, make a, take your breakfast and then pass your normal day closer to Allah, reading Quran, visiting people, going to the office because the Ramadan does not mean to abandon your professional duty.
03:16 Women are in charge of preparing a pre-dawn meal and meals to break the fast at sundown, responsibilities that add up to their daily routines, most of whom must include that to a profession.
03:29 It is really challenging combining housework, fasting period, schoolwork, prayer and the kitchen work. But I try to organize my time. Everything is organization.
03:41 The first day of the month of Ramadan was a day of gratitude in general, a privilege awarded by Allah according to Muslims.
03:49 Muslim faithful in the north region began observing the Ramadan feast in supplication to Allah as officials of the regional delegation of trade are running promotional sales of basic commodities to assist the Muslim community get the food items they need to break their fast daily.
04:11 As Julius Neba reports from Garwa, the fasting season is kicking off amidst very hot climatic conditions with temperatures running as high as 45 degrees Celsius.
04:27 The start of the Ramadan fast in Garwa saw a good number of Muslim faithful, young and old alike and irrespective of sex, converging at the different mosques in the capital city for a quiet moment of meditation while others could be seen putting their heart's desires to Allah in prayer.
04:44 Meantime, at the city's different markets, a variety of food items like plantains, yams and other cereals that faithfuls will need to break the fast after 6pm were on display by vendors with women and men alike buying.
04:58 Since it is a fasting period here at Mirab, they sell food items and quality meat at a good price so I am now buying spices to complete what we need to break the fast.
05:09 Officials at the regional delegation of commerce have also instituted promotional sales of some basic food items like cooking oil, sugar, milk, rice, meat and more to enable every household get something to break the fast.
05:24 We have also made plans to organize caravan sales every Friday at the explanate of some mosques in the region, even in subdivisions.
05:35 The legidaire who highlights that they have also deployed teams to ensure that the Muslim community in the north is not exploited by unscrupulous merchants who will want to take advantage of the start of the Ramadan fast and increase the prices of basic commodities.
05:50 As the Ramadan fast kicks off, school going Muslims in the far north of Cameroon, particularly those in examination classes, are now trapped between respecting the dictates of the Ramadan fast and pursuing studies at the same time with hot temperatures that are now at their peak.
06:12 This is the reason why most of them have fallen back to their teachers to help them draw up schedules that can enable these students pursue the one without interfering with the other. Henry Tato Ekambi with that difficult equation from CRTV Far North.
06:31 The combination of book work and refraining from eating and drinking during daylight hours in the midst of the roasting heat is putting pressure on these students in the far north region.
06:42 It's not very easy to combine studies and the Ramadan fast.
06:48 However, these Muslim students say they have carved out strategies to study and still catch up with Ramadan.
06:55 It's just to organize your time in Ramadan. We read the Quran and we read also your lesson.
07:07 We however try to organize ourselves very well to do both activities. I have classes from 7am to 4pm twice a week. So on the days that I have classes, I pray and read the Quran before coming to school.
07:23 The teaching staff in schools have not made any adjustments on the timetable but are a little lenient to permit Muslim students carry out their spiritual devotional act during this sacred month.
07:36 When there is one hour free, they can profit there to listen to preaches and they can even read Quran.
07:43 And these students in the Far North capital also believe Allah will help them pull through this month long fast without breaking.
07:53 And as I was announcing in the headlines, the falsification of age is fast becoming the stocking trade of sportsmen and women across the globe.
08:04 The practice is also gaining grounds in football circles in Cameroon as over 60 players playing their trade in the top tier league stand accused of double identity.
08:17 The list of the incriminated players published over the weekend is now raising questions on their participation in the forthcoming playoffs of the Elite One Football Championship to begin on Friday.
08:31 While the indicted players have up to Thursday to appeal to the ethics commission of the Faker Foot,
08:39 Romeo Kenyon now reports on the intrigue cases of the age reduction saga in Cameroon.
08:47 The rules have changed. Article 53 of Faker Foot internal regulations stipulate only players without age irregularities can take part in the playoffs of the championship.
08:58 And this begins with the verification of documents. For now, 62 players are accused.
09:04 In every competition, when you have two phases like this, this happens.
09:08 The players that take place in the qualifiers of the Nations Cup or the World Cup are not the players that will necessarily play the World Cup.
09:14 And in our case, the rules of the competition says, before the beginning of the playoff,
09:19 the Secretary General of the Federation will publish the final list of players that will be eligible to take part to the competition.
09:27 After which, no reclamation or reserve or protest will be made on the qualification of the players. That's the reason of that list.
09:34 Age fraud in clubs has remained a nightmare to the growth of the local championship, but the Cameroon Football Federation is bent on taming the phenomenon.
09:42 They accuse 62 players with double identities have up to Thursday to appeal to the ethics commission.
09:48 The playoffs begin on Friday in the West, Littoral and Centre regions.
09:54 Age fabrication has been a long time practice in football in Africa.
10:00 Over time, the phrase football age has gained a place of choice in the daily vocabulary of the people.
10:08 The phenomenon continues to thrive with the codependence of parents, football coaches and municipal authorities.
10:19 Benembumagana in the following write up says, except these protagonists decide to stop the practice,
10:27 African football will continue to suffer from these age embarrassments.
10:33 Juicy returns from professional football, especially in Europe, and the bonanza often exhibited by footballers have driven parents, football agents and clubs
10:44 into an unbridled attempt to sell players even by age fraud.
10:49 To shit in football, in soccer as you say, is concerned the parents, the players and the agent of players.
10:58 In most cases, the player for sale does not receive direct payment from the quoted transfer fee.
11:05 The fee is paid from the buying club to the selling club, so the seller reduces the ages of the players for gains.
11:12 First of all, you have clubs, you know, clubs, they find that if maybe they want to have the maximum gain of, you know, the transfer fee,
11:21 they should say that the player is coming from their club.
11:24 The pressure is always higher from the buying teams in Europe and America who prefer younger players who will produce scintillating and spectacular football for the spectators.
11:35 You know, signing abroad, especially in Europe, you need to have a certain age and if you don't have it, you cannot.
11:42 I mean, somehow they are going to change their ages thinking that, you know, after a certain period they can go there and sign a contract.
11:48 Before FIFA stepped in in October 2023, football agents were receiving exorbitant sums from the sale of players.
11:56 Though the new regulation curbs this amount, the agent still gains much and would do all to froth the age of a player.
12:05 Football agents, they are the ones, you know, asking players sometimes, OK, you are talented, but now your age is a little bit higher,
12:12 and according to where we want to send you, you need to change your age.
12:18 Today, gullible parents and counsels who are easily seduced by the sound and colour of dollars and euros now cheat the ages of their kids for huge gains.
12:29 The consequences are always enormous.
12:32 And in that melee, physical trainers and medics are making no qualms about age gambling,
12:39 saying gambling with the age affects both the performance and the duration of the careers of players and athletes who venture in the age reduction mafia.
12:51 Gilbert Ongede sat down with a cardiologist and a physical trainer with whom he now explores the possible impact of age reduction on the overall performance of adepts of the age reduction saga.
13:07 The type of physical activity a given player is subjected to during training sessions is often proportionate to his age or ability.
13:18 Physical trainers and medics affirm that if a player froths on his age, this will in the short or long term have a negative impact on the player's performance and even on his health.
13:32 When you do not train with your real age, you may have training that is not adapted and then it will affect your heart.
13:42 Maybe your heart, and maybe in the mean or long term, you may have heart attack or you may even die.
13:49 Increase of heart disease due to increase of effort not appropriate for the athlete.
14:01 Maybe heart attack due to intense training not appropriate for the athlete.
14:07 Age fraud, they insist, will always catch up with players who indulge in such practices in that their careers usually don't last long.
14:17 Many impacts on the performance of athletes. First of all, the duration of the career is going to be short.
14:22 Experts say the phenomenon can be stamped out in Cameroon if children begin their football careers early enough like is the case elsewhere in the world.
14:35 Cameroon's judoka Baba Matia Mariseline has just been beaten at the final of the women's 52kg category in judo at the ongoing African Games in Accra, Ghana.
14:51 Baba Matia Mariseline lost to Tibi Rama from Tunisia, thus earning just the silver medal which now takes Cameroon's medal count to six.
15:02 We have an update on Cameroon's performance this day at the ongoing games with CRTV's special envoy to Ghana, Paul Dwin-Sama.
15:10 She would have loved to earn Cameroon's first gold medal at the ongoing African Games.
15:19 Baba Matia Mariseline in the women's less than 52kg category came in determined at the final against Tibi Rama from Tunisia,
15:27 but failed to live up to expectations, unable to grab gold for Cameroon.
15:32 We are going to stay in a positive way to continue preparing the African Championships.
15:50 We have started preparing it since December, but with the help of the African Games we are going to look at where it did go wrong,
15:57 so we are going to correct these small errors and continue training hard for the upcoming African Championships.
16:03 She however earned a silver medal, this after she successfully fought her way through from the quarter-finals,
16:10 dismissing Silva Sava from the Mauritius Island, and at the semi-finals went through an Ippon.
16:16 She obtained a victory against Grisel Sham from South Africa.
16:20 The silver medal obtained takes Cameroon's number of medals so far to 6,
16:25 with Cameroon expected to move from the 15th position on the ranking and get to the top 10.
16:31 On to some other news now.
16:35 Authorities and students of Gulf Moon's bilingual high school, Etugbehere Nyaunde,
16:41 are busy picking the pieces after last Friday's hurricane of wind that rained devastation on the campus infrastructure.
16:51 The school authorities have made makeshift readjustments on routine schedules
16:58 to enable the classes to run till the end of the academic year while waiting for repairs.
17:06 Ebenezer Akanga reports on the GBHS Etugbe as it copes with the aftershocks of Friday's devastating winds.
17:15 It is a hard knot to crack for authorities of Gulf Moon bilingual high school, Etugbehere,
17:22 that of ensuring a continuation of classes after the heavy rains of March 8, 2024,
17:28 caused enormous damage on the infrastructure of the school.
17:32 With 23 classrooms torched, out of which 10 are completely damaged, benches and other materials destroyed,
17:40 the school's authorities have to do much readjustments.
17:44 We've asked for ones to go from one's anesthesiums to go home.
17:48 We've put them on an early vacation, though we have two weeks to go on holidays.
17:53 So they will be home for two weeks, and when the others will go home on the 28th of this month,
18:01 they will come back during the Easter holidays to do their own two weeks of classes.
18:06 Another challenge is to ensure that pedagogy does not suffer.
18:10 It's a challenging moment, but education must continue, we must educate our youth.
18:15 We have a plan of action to see how to catch up during the Easter break,
18:19 to see that what they have lost during this period, they are going to catch up.
18:22 Being one of the big examination centres in Yaounde, quick measures must be taken
18:27 so that the school should be ready to host certificate exams in a few months' time.
18:33 While students of GBHSE Tugube are coping with infrastructural problems,
18:39 those of Government Bilingual Technical High School, Banengo in Bafusam,
18:43 are showcasing their know-how in engineering, tailoring and computer software
18:49 at an open-day event taking place on their school campus.
18:54 The event is intended to prepare the students to be job creators
18:59 and not employment seekers after their training.
19:03 From Bafusam, Sivon Boguma reports.
19:06 It is a busy day at Government Bilingual Technical High School, Bafusam, Banengo.
19:13 The learners are doing the final touches to make this year's theme,
19:17 Secondary Schools in Cameroon, showcasing the 'Made in Cameroon' label, a reality.
19:23 This Open Business Day is a day to show the world that we in technical school
19:29 are not just here to learn theory, we also do practical, that we train our children,
19:33 children can come out from here and be safe employed.
19:37 Here at the civil engineering workshop, there is no gender discrimination.
19:42 I chose this because it's a work that in the world they see just that it's man that can do it.
19:48 Me, I wanted to prove them that even women can do what a man is doing.
19:52 At the tolerant workshop, the children, through a fashion parade,
19:56 explain and showcase their outfits they conceived and produced themselves.
20:02 Start by drawing in order to enable us to show the different items.
20:06 Through this, many parents can be encouraged to send their children to technical schools
20:12 for gainful employment soon after school.
20:17 Let's go up now to the Adhamawa where the US Ambassador to Cameroon
20:22 has been hailing the fruitful collaboration between his country and Cameroon in the education domain.
20:29 Christopher John Lamora was speaking in Goundere yesterday
20:33 while putting into use the Centre of Transformative Education in the University of Goundere.
20:41 As Emos Enonyaket reports from Goundere, the Centre will go a long way in improving the quality of teaching
20:49 at the Faculty of Education of that institution.
20:52 Ameliorating the learning process for learners and lecturers taken into consideration,
20:59 the changing times is the aim of the Centre of Transformative Education
21:04 put into use by the US Ambassador to Cameroon.
21:07 His Excellency Christopher John Lamora at the University of Goundere
21:12 in the presence of the Governor of the Adhamawa region, Kyu Dadi Tagieke Buka,
21:18 fruit of a partnership accord between the both state universities in the United States of America
21:24 and the University of Goundere.
21:26 To develop the theoretical, also technical tools and able to improve the quality of teaching.
21:36 The US Embassy provided didactic materials.
21:40 The Centre for Transformative Education is just the latest example
21:45 of how American and Cameroonian institutions and professors can collaborate.
21:50 The putting into use of this facility will help deepening bilateral relations
21:56 between Cameroon and the United States of America,
22:00 paving the way for more fruitful future win-win corporations.
22:05 Cameroon's Minister of Territorial Administration has issued a stern warning
22:11 to initiators of two associations, the Alliance Politique pour le Changement
22:17 and the Alliance pour une Transition Politique au Cameroun,
22:21 to immediately stop their activities or face the mill of justice.
22:26 In a release issued today, Paul Atangaji says,
22:29 "The initiators who are seeking cheap popularity are collaborating with terrorist organizations.
22:36 They will be charged for undermining state authority if they persist in their illegality."
22:44 Ebenezer Akanga read through that release.
22:47 The press release notes that for close to three months now,
22:53 some political leaders in quest of cheap popularity
22:56 and in defense of the legal instruments in force
22:59 have put in place two fake associations called Alliance Politique pour le Changement
23:05 and Alliance pour une Transition Politique au Cameroun
23:08 in preparation for the 2025 presidential election.
23:12 Notwithstanding the illegal nature of these movements,
23:15 their promoters are organizing meetings, press conferences and consultations
23:20 with the intention of recruiting new members.
23:23 In the terms of the press release, this situation is worsened by the fact that
23:28 promoters of these clandestine movements visited terrorists in prison
23:32 who had been convicted for serious crimes committed in the Northwest and Southwest regions
23:38 and went as far as giving unacceptable preconditions to government in favor of the terrorists.
23:44 The Minister of Territorial Administration,
23:47 who oversees activities of political parties, associations and non-governmental organizations,
23:53 states clearly that the movements called Alliance Politique pour le Changement
23:59 and Alliance pour une Transition Politique au Cameroun
24:02 are not political parties as per law of 19th December 1990.
24:07 They do not have legal existence and so cannot carry out any political activity nationwide.
24:13 Consequently, any attempt to organize any activity under these movements or others in the pipeline
24:20 shall henceforth not be accepted.
24:23 Regional governors have been charged with the responsibility of strict enforcement of these instructions.
24:30 You are watching the 7.30 on the Cameroun Radio Television, the CRTV.
24:37 We are beaming live from Yaoundé.
24:40 There was a time in this country when photo novels and novels of romance were en vogue amongst youngs of a certain age bracket.
24:51 This was popular in the 80s and 90s and even the early years of the 21st century.
24:59 At that time, photo novels were a big part of youngsters,
25:04 most of whom were addicted to reading them so much so that their lives felt empty without them.
25:12 Beatrice Losamba revives our memories on the years of photo and romance novels in this country.
25:21 Let's take a listen.
25:22 The hot scenes on the cover pages captivated readers of yesteryears.
25:28 The intense moments of photo novels, their magnetic titles kept readers coming for more and more.
25:35 I have very vivid memories of myself reading Mills and Braun, Page Setters.
25:42 This happened at a time when we didn't have access to social media
25:46 and the easiest way to improve your language skills is by reading some of these books.
25:51 In the 70s, 80s and 90s, Mills and Braun, Halle Kern, Barbara Catlin, Page Setters and Vogue took readers hostage.
26:01 They couldn't do much else.
26:03 I usually stayed glued inside my sheets, not wanting to go out.
26:08 Even the feeling to pee, I would have to tighten myself to read everything.
26:16 I mean, every exciting mystery that was being unraveled in the novel.
26:23 The hot pages didn't hold the women only. Men were in the business too.
26:28 One of my friends, he would prefer that we should bend, fold the interesting pages for him to read only those interesting pages.
26:37 I leave it to your imagination to imagine what those interesting pages were.
26:41 St. Plies, an addicted reader of them, even opened a bookstore to trade in them where they sold like hot cake.
26:49 There is no more customer. Since I love them, this is why I continue to sell them.
26:56 He still collects them, hoping they would bring buyers through the doors of his bookstore.
27:01 But the shelves on which they lie are no longer picked bare.
27:05 The chapter of photo and romance novels has been closed for good.
27:09 If the one who provides the books does not find readers, he will stop providing those books.
27:15 And then you take in the alternative of internet and all the other possibilities of reading without buying those books.
27:23 Most readers of these novels have walked past the age and are on to something else.
27:29 But the nostalgia of flipping through these pages again remains.
27:33 They have fond memories to last a lifetime.
27:38 And those memories truly live on.
27:41 The Director General of the Cameroon Radio Television, Charles Ndongo, has reassured the National Author's Rights Company, Sonokam,
27:51 that the CRTV will progressively pay artist royalties and related rights.
27:57 The Director General was speaking to reporters this evening shortly after a tête-à-tête with some representatives of the Author's Rights Association at the Mbalatu Aluminium Tower.
28:10 Guy Roger Nana reports.
28:12 Satisfaction. It is the exact description of the countenance of these representatives of Author's Rights Associations
28:22 after their meeting with the Director General of the Cameroon Radio Television.
28:26 Indeed, we met somebody who was gentle and humble, who had in mind working with artists.
28:33 What brought us was two things. The first one was the payment of copyright, the royalties that were expected for CRTV to be paid.
28:42 CRTV and the Author's Rights Association's representatives discussed on the way forward
28:48 and the procedures for the progressive payment of current royalties owed them by the corporation for the usage of their pieces on its airwaves.
28:57 CRTV has paid the 2023 present payment of copyright.
29:03 And he told us during our discussion that the government has taken measures,
29:08 that the thing has been handled at the highest peak of our nation, which is the presidency.
29:16 We received indeed two letters from the Secretary General of the Presidency instructing the payment of those arrears in the special deposit account.
29:23 We thank the government of Cameroon, the head of state, for example, Bia.
29:28 We thank also the whole entire government and we thank the General Manager of CRTV for his willingness to accompany all the artists.
29:37 These recent agreements stand for the payment of royalties for the year 2023.
29:43 The payment for previous arrears will be reached within subsequent discussions.
29:48 This move is a concrete demonstration of the Cameroon Radio Television's will to ensure that artists get a decent living out of their trade.
29:58 And the staff of the Special Council Support Fund for Mutual Assistance, FICOM, have obtained a 5% salary increase and a considerable rise in their transport allowances.
30:13 The information is contained in the third revised collective bargaining convention signed in Nyaunde today between the staff and their employer in the presence of the Minister of Labour and Social Security, Pregwar Owona.
30:31 Here now is Ewane Epole with details of today's bargain.
30:37 Salary and transport allowance increase are the two main aspects of the third revised collective convention of the Special Council Support Fund for Mutual Assistance, FICOM, signed this Tuesday in a ceremony at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.
30:53 The signing of the collective convention is in line with the head of state's prescriptions aimed at promoting decent work.
31:02 According to the Director General of FICOM, the convention aims at ameliorating the working conditions of staff and management.
31:10 What is going to change is that we have improved the level of the salaries, so it is an increase of 5%.
31:18 There is other positive things in that revision, but what I would like to say is also that as a general manager I recognise also all the effort done by my staff.
31:32 The collective convention was signed by a number of workers' representatives led by Mrs. Fudantama and a few from management including the Director General of FICOM and the President of the Mixed Negotiation Commission from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security among others.
31:53 The National Blood Transfusion Service will soon be embarking on a special campaign to instil in Cameroonians the culture of free blood donation to save lives.
32:06 This was one of the key messages that filtered from the first ever conference of central and devolved services of the baby structure which opened in Yaoundé today.
32:18 The deliberations have as principal objective to accelerate the deployment of the blood donation service in the 10 regions of the country with a view of intensifying mobilisation for ethical blood donation in Cameroon.
32:35 Romion Kenye with details.
32:43 This is the blood bank of the Jamu Hospital. Blood donation in the health facility is done on a daily basis.
32:50 In the first conference of the central and devolved services of the National Blood Transfusion Service, a plan of action has been set up to encourage the population to often give blood.
33:00 These collections are affected by hospital blood banks under our coordination. In 2020, there was COVID at that time mind you, but blood collections were around 99,850 and in 2021 it increased to about 140,000 units and in 2022 it went to about 147,000 units.
33:28 Regional representatives are attending the conference.
33:31 When the blood is tested and screened and it's okay, we store under appropriate conditions. By the time you collect a pint of blood from an individual, you buy a blood bag. That blood bag, if you take double blood bags, it's around 7,000.
33:47 The conference holding in Yaoundé will end on March 15.
33:53 The annual provincial episcopal conference of bishops of the Yaoundé ecclesiastical province of the Roman Catholic Church in Cameroon is underway in Kribi in the south region of the country.
34:05 The bishops are leading reflections on social media use and the spiritual nourishment of God's children.
34:13 The Kribi conference is expected to come up with a charter that will guide the clergy on social media use in the exercise of their pastoral duties.
34:25 Brunon Donwifungwe reports from Kribi.
34:30 As the first annual provincial episcopal conference of Yaoundé opens in Kribi, the bishops of the different dioceses evoke the setbacks of the social media on today's society and are seeking measures to tailor the different communication tools.
34:43 How we have to use them, what is true and what is wrong, and to help everyone to use them in our evangelization.
34:56 The opening ceremony attended by the Minister of Finance, Luipo Motaze, other administrative and religious authorities.
35:02 The people were called to be guarded against the dark side of the social networks and advocate against vices such as fake news, hate speech, identity thefts and scams.
35:11 We hope they will put in place some recommendations which will help our population to have a responsible use of social media.
35:21 The nine bishops taking part in the first annual Yaoundé Episcopal Conference are hoping to bring out a charter on the use of social media and support their efforts in evangelization.
35:32 The Cameroon cement factory, Semankam, has made a donation of helmets and driving licenses to commercial motorbike riders in Figuil in the north of the country.
35:46 The initiative seeks to protect and cover the bikers in the event of road accidents that are said to be rampant in the town.
35:55 Details with Tanja Levy-Zangbo from CRTV North.
35:59 More than 160 commercial bike riders in Figu were given category A, C and G licenses and dozens of helmets to enable them carry out the activities in conformity with the law.
36:12 While addressing the bike riders, the director of Semankam in Figu said rampant road accidents resulting in several deaths have triggered the company to provide the crash helmets.
36:23 There's a lot of road accidents so in our action power CSA, Semankam is engaged to lower these impacts and one of our actions is to train people so that they can have the good activities on the road and then mobilize all the sector workers.
36:38 As a cement production company existing for 60 years, Semankam is engaging in its corporate social responsibility of giving back to the community.
36:48 The licenses and helmets, according to the beneficiaries, will enable them operate without difficulties.
36:54 I am very happy. I would like to tell my colleagues that the training they just received should be applied in the field.
37:02 It is a call for us to consider this field as a humble job. We thank Semankam. We will ensure to equally respect the highway code and our clients.
37:13 This kind gesture was equally extended to some professional training centers in Figu.
37:19 Equipment worth 10 million francs CFA were given to enhance training of young people.
37:24 We thank Semankam for this initiative aimed at protecting those in the transport sector.
37:33 The council will continue to accompany them in their efforts to sensitize bike riders and equally train young people in Figu.
37:42 Since the start of 2024, Semankam has invested more than 25 million CFA francs on different social activities.
37:54 The event provided an opportunity for Semankam to re-echo the willingness to steadily accompany young people in achieving their goals.
38:03 And that's your news on the 7.30. Many thanks for watching. Good evening.
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