(Business in Cameroon) - An investigation of the unpleasant social climate that currently prevails at the Viettel Cameroon mobile phone company is alleged to have been started by the services of the Ministry of Employment and Professional Training. Zacharie Perevet, the Minister allegedly mandated an inquiry of this nature. Since March 2014, Cameroonian employees of the third mobile phone company in Cameroon have been complaining about the massive influx of Vietnamese workers at the company even though, at the signing of the licence agreement in 2012, the company had announced the creation of 6,300 direct jobs in the country.

Last week, in an interview with the government’s daily publication, Jules Kenmy, the spokesperson for Ahmadou Baba Danpulo, chairman of the board at Viettel Cameroon, and CEO at Bestcam, the minority shareholder at Viettel Cameroon had explained that, out of 936 current employees, 396 are Vietnamese and 400 are expected. Calling on the government to get the company’s general management back in line, Jules Kenmy had indicated that, “the way out of this crisis must involve the assistance the government could provide by restricting the entrance of our Vietnamese partners in Cameroon and the education that the said authorities could provide to these partners.”

Holder of an exclusive 3G licence, Viettel Cameroon has moved from one problem to the next since launching its start-up process in Cameroon. Its services slated to be launched in January 2014 had to be postponed to March 2014 due to technical issues, then September to fine-tune the network. In the meanwhile, a shareholder squabble erupted, though it was quickly resolved. Cameroonian consumers who are hoping to experience 3G services are also hoping that the company will not announce yet another postponement because of some new problem.