By Edwana Ndong Itunghi
The Director General of Ayaba hotel has
opined that it is necessary for his personnel to master the two National
languages, so as to effectively carryout their jobs, by going into a
partnership agreement with the Bamenda Regional linguistic centre.
Speaking during the signing, Doume Zacharie
called on his workers to take advantage of this partnership and strive to be
bilingual Cameroonians.
The agreement signing at Ayaba Hotel on
Wednesday the 24th of May was presided at, on behalf of the
Northwest governor, by the secretary general at the Governor’s office, Lanyuy
Harry. In his speech, he expressed delight presiding over such a partnership
agreement, which will go a long way to enhance bilingualism in the region.
“This ceremony is very important and at the same time, symbolic as it is taking
place at a moment when our region is facing some challenges. Reinforcing the
promotion of bilingualism remains one of the most effective solutions to our
current crisis. So I can say that this is a right step, at the right time, in
the right direction. To the Bamenda Regional linguistic centre, I recommend
more aggressive marketing, go to your clients. Do not wait for them to come to
you. Design and propose quality products which meet the specific needs of your
learners. Course participants are more motivated when they learn what is useful
to them in their daily and professional lives”. The Governor advised.
The director
of the Bamenda regional Linguistic centre, Mr. Baye Alexander Bongfen, told
this reporter that this partnership comes at a time where the issue of
bilingualism has been brought to the lime light by recent events in the country
and as a result, their services have become more relevant and Ayaba Hotel has
taken the lead in making use of them and many other institutions will follow.
According to him, they are contributing their own quota in reinforcing national
unity and integration in a concrete and palpable manner, just by signing such a
partnership. He goes further to laud the efforts of the director general of
Ayaba hotel, for deciding to invest in his workers. “For a well trained staff
is an asset and a poorly trained one is of course a liability”.
Workers at Ayaba Hotel are of the opinion
that this partnership will benefit them a great deal, as far as their
communication with customers at work is concerned. Munyar Ngafan Linda, a
worker, says this partnership will help her professionally to render more and
better services to customers especially as this will improve on her French
language, given that she is an Anglophone. “Mastering French too is going to
open more professional doors for me given that I am in a bilingual country.
Fokum Genavele Ndibabonga on her part says she loves this act of partnership
since its going to boost her French language professionally because she will be
able to render better services to the customers she will meet in future.
Protais Bama who is a night auditor at the hotel, says he is an Anglophone, and
this partnership will go a long way to ease communication between him and
customers who visit the hotel, be it in French, English, Spanish, German and
lot more languages. So Protias Bama is not ending at mastering English and
French but a host of other foreign languages, thanks to such a partnership
between his Hotel and the Bamenda Regional Linguistic Centre