She has 26 years of business management experience
-both nationally and internationally
By Christopher
Ambe
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| Governor Benard Okalia & Mrs.Biaka Francisca |
Mrs. Biaka nee Hongla Francisca, it would appear, is better known
in the Southwest Regional Headquarters of Buea-Cameroon, where she resides, as the Administrator
of the famous ST. VERONICA’s MEDICAL CENTRE since 1997.
But this beautiful ,well-educated, duty-conscious and
soft-spoken spouse and mother is very much loaded with challenging responsibilities, which she has reportedly
been performing to the satisfaction of the public and those who have
entrusted her with such. She is generally described as a force to reckon with;
an achiever.
Mrs. Biaka Francisca was recently in Limbe installed as the
new and first ever female Southwest Regional Delegate of Cameron Chamber of
Commerce, Industry, Mines and Crafts (CCIMC), during a crowd-pulling ceremony-
attended among other high-profile personalities, by Southwest governor Bernard
Okala Bilai and his closest collaborators. She took over from Chief Etang Arrey
who served in that capacity for nine years.
Mrs.Biaka Francisca was personally installed into her new
functions by the President of the Cameroon Chamber of commerce, Industry, Mines
and Crafts Mr.Eken Christophe.
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| Mrs Biaka & Mr .Eken Christophe |
Commissioning her, Mr.Eken said that the dynamic business
community of the Region would henceforth be “guided and served by Mrs.Biaka and
her team of experienced Elected Members, to boost, promote, and sustain the competitiveness
of the Southwest Enterprise sector in the face of national and global
challenges”
The CCIMC‘s
primordial role, Mr. ken said, is to foster national socio-economic development
and growth. The Cameroon Chamber of Commerce was created in 1921 and has been
reorganized recently. The CCIMC is a public establishment, endowed with a legal
status and financial autonomy -and it is placed under the supervisory authority
of the Minster of Indusrty, Mines and Technological development. It is a 160-
member body and has an executive bureau of 12 members -headed by the President
of the Chamber of commerce, which undertakes the administrative and financial
management of the corporation.
The CCIMC undertakes three main Missions, namely: Public
service mission, Professional Interest Mission and Trade promotion and
cooperation mission. Other attributions include: Export certification-Issuance
of certificate of origin for products to be exported; Management of Public warehouse;
Issuance of consular documents i.e. certificate of non-bankruptcy,
accreditation letters and attestations; sundry publications i.e. the CCIMC
monthly magazine, economic reports, business statistics etc
The CCIMC president stressed that “elected members,
officials and the management staff have the unquestionable role to positively
impact and promote the socio-economic development of our nation and to overcome
the challenges in an unpredictable world economic order.”
Mr. Ken, without mincing words said this of the new
southwest Delegate: “I am confident that Mrs.Biaka will take this delegation to
higher heights”.
Mrs.Biaka heads a nine-person regional executive bureau, which
was democratically elected.
The other eight elected SW representatives are: Mrs.Ntube
Agnes Ndobe ep.NDJOCk, NDOTA ENTERPRISE –LIMBE;Mr. Iyok Ayuk Sammy Pride,SAMCO PAPER
COMPANY-Limbe; Mrs.Mbonde Enanga Rose,
COUNTRY ROSE TOURSIM –Buea; Mr.Metouck Charles,SONARA-Limbe; Mr.Atabong Michael,
MARS RESTAURANT,Limbe; Bar Abunaw Enaw Gilbert-ABUNAW LAW
FIRM-LIMBE; Mr.Seme Noungon,SEMME MINERAL
WATER-Bakingili,Limbe; Mr.Takor
Takor,DATA ELECTRICAL COMPANY,Limbe
Profile of Mrs.Biaka Francisca
She was born in Victoria, now Limbe on September 1965.She
holds a Post –graduate Diploma in Corporate Administration and Finance from
Bristol-United kingdom.
Work Experience
-Chief Executive Officer (CEO), PAN ELECTRIC ENTERPRISES
LTD, Limbe since 1986
-Proprietress, POLYWORKS, Limbe 1992-2012
-Administrator of ST VERONICA’s MEDICAL CENTER, Buea
since1987
-Cameroon Representative TRAFIGURA LTD, London, 1986-1999
-Cameroon Representative MARC RICH INVESTMENT LTD-London,
1999-2001
-CEO, VENUS OIL LLC –London, 2001-2005
-CEO, HUMET INDUSTRIES LTD Mutengene, Since 2006
Other Leadership positions
Mrs.Biaka has held:
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| Mrs.Biaka gift and kisses from loved ones |
-1st Vice-president, Business and Professional
Women’s Association, Southwest Region (1991-1993)
-Vice-President, GFAC, Southwest Region since 2006
-Member, Soroptimist International, Limbe Branch
-Member, Network of Cameroon Female Entrepreneurs (NECAFEE)
-Member, Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and crafts
(CCIMC) since 2002
-President, Guild of Anglo-saxon Private Higher Institutions
in Cameroon (GAPHIC) since 2008
-President, Association for the Support of Democracy in
Cameroon (ASDECA) Southwest Region, since 2010
Awards Received:
-Silver Guild and
Silver Labor Medals, November 2008
-holder of FCEM/GFAC Best Female Entrepreneur Award-October
2009
-Cameroon Knight of the Order of Valour May 2010
It is generally held that, because Mrs.Biaka Francisca is
self-confident, self-motivated, determined, focused, reliable and has a strong
business drive, if given the necessary support and collaboration, she will take
the business community in the Southwest Region to higher heights
First Published in The Recorder newspaper,Cameroon,May 23,2012
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