I plan to introduce the production of motor tires in Cameroon.-Kumasi Simon:

 Director of the Gulf Field National Advanced School of Petroleum, Beside SONARA-Limbe

This press chat is taking place in the heart of a joint section conference for CPDM Mezam II so it will not be out of place for you to tell us who you are within the ranks of the CPDM in Mezam II.

Politics in Santa is all about the National Chairman who is a model to us. The Head of State has given us a lot here so we cannot really say who is a political Icon. At 34 you can see it yourself that the party has done much in Santa in terms of development. This is summarised in the theme of today’s event From Party Politics to Politics of Development. There is a time for information when people need to be educated and there is a time for people to move from education to reality. CPDM is now doing things for the world to see.

Can you introduce the Gulf Field National Advanced School of Petroleum in Limbe to Cameroonians?

You heard the head of State talking about the emerging Cameroon. That’s his vision and as a leader, when he gives the vision, we simply take it along. The vision is, emerging Cameroon in 2035. This simply means becoming a Cameroon that can do things and not a Cameroon on paper. Cameroonians should be people who can do and not only talk. This is what is called emergence. For Cameroon to be referred to as emerging means Cameroonians should be capable of doing these things. We should not wait for people to come from outside and do things for us. We should stop this idea of paper work, certificates and things of that nature. We should begin to do things. So I thought that the petroleum sector is a very complicated one and that being complicated as it is, Cameroonians should be capable of doing anything at anytime because they have somebody who is directing the youths telling them that tomorrow is for you and for tomorrow to really be for you, you should be able to do and not just talk.

So I thought that the Cameroonian Education system must look productive and therefore I came out with the Gulf Field National Advanced School of Petroleum which is today the Gulf Field University Institute of Petroleum, Mining and Management Sciences. We Cameroonians must be capable to do seismic studies, to be able to determine where there is petroleum and to be able to drill it. From here they should be capable of getting the Chemical which the refinery should be capable of refining. They should also have the capability to put the logistic aspect together and then you will see everything moving. After seventy years we cannot be still talking about the whites coming to do things for us. We Cameroonians can do it and this is possible my dear brothers.

What is the next thing in your plan of action?

I plan to introduce the production of motor tires in Cameroon. There is rubber in Tiko and therefore we don’t need to transport the raw material back to Europe for tires to be produced and transported back to Cameroon. We are the losers because we pay the cost of transportation and the cost of bringing it back here. That’s why tires and cars are so expensive here and not expensive over there. The raw materials are from here so why can we not do it? This is why I am coming out with this idea of productive education for the Cameroonian people.

Back on campus how is methodology reflecting this focus on savoir faire?

Since we are focused on savoir faire, the second year of our programmes is focused on practical. After practical, the students are selected to travel over there in Europe to do specialised programmes. This permits them to become masters meaning that these are people coming back ripe enough to go into the productive sectors such as the mining,petroleum,engineering, production exploration among others. They are there in Ukraine and in Russia and when they come back they will make Cameroon productive. To become productive will not just mean to sit in class and after that they give you a paper that it’s a certificate. No! Look at the whole country now. Everyone talks about Professors, doctors all over the place but what is happening? Where is the country? This is because we have been mentally enslaved by foreign educational systems that do not reflect Cameroon. It is time we go down and get to do it, to fabricate, to produce. This is the time. When we do this then we can realise the 2035 vision of emergence that the President is talking about.

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