Jator Njechu & Victorine Biy Yongka
4 July 2008
The Managing Director of United Bank for Africa, UBA-Cameroon, Emeke Iweriebor, has announced that his institution would be offering training to some youths soon.
He made this declaration at a forum attended by businessmen, employers, jobseekers as well as the academic community in Yaounde recently."Government cannot employ all it trains. Employment is the responsibility of not only the government but that of the private sector, and individuals also have to provide jobs for themselves.
UBA will train youths and build them for future professions in Cameroon. We will work to ensure their integration into the different sectors of the economy," Iweriebor said.
The bank executive said UBA will provide education, empowerment, environmental programmes and special projects to communities in the country.
"We are working to ensure that what is all Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, is monitored and implemented in compliance in Cameroon. Due to the fact that public health is necessary in community growth, we will not work to improve bank accounts but help to improve on community development, train youths and build them to be future professionals," he said.
Asked if CSR is not a conspiracy for profiteering especially the case of the Niger Delta region in Nigeria, Iweriebor dismissed it as unfounded.To him, being a region with the largest number of communists/companies in the world, the Niger Delta region is particularly volatile for crude oil.
"Oil was discovered in this region in 1956 and since then there has been a lot of environmental degradation there. Both government and companies there are doing just little in CSR," he went on.
According to him, the companies should be striving to supply high level information and support to safeguard the environment given the current cry about global warming. Noteworthy that UBA has 600 million active customers in all its 700 branches in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has invested 100 million dollars in UBA equity. So far the bank has donated FCFA 360 million to Lagos State Security Fund in Nigeria as of last year.
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The manager of the UBA-cameroon's facilities for training to some youths are very important because the rate of unemployment in cameroon will reduce.So that is a very good idea.