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| Ewusi Mbongo Eric |
By Christopher Ambe
Ewusi Mbongo Eric, 47,
Knight of The Cameroon National Order of Valour, is Deputy Director-General
(DGM) of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Promotion Agency (APME), Yaounde,
since August 2016.
This indigene and elite of
Buea is a senior civil servant and quiet professional achiever.
Mr. Ewusi, fondly called
by friends as “Espoir” (hope in
French), a moniker he adopted from his uncle “Hope EWUSI” noted for his sociality,
is a social mixer.
His classmates call him “Mbongos”
because he was a skillful basketball player while a student of Baptist High
School (BHS) Great Soppo,Buea in the mid 1980’s.
Mr. Ewusi is not only
noted for his duty-consciousness but also for his humility, self-discipline,
positive mindset and a high sense of patriotism.
According to people who
know him so well, when Mr. Ewusi is entrusted with any assignment he executes
it with military precision winning the confidence of his superiors.
Before his presidential appointment
as DGM of APME, this functionary had been Sub-director for the Informal Sector
in the Ministry of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Social Economy and
Handicrafts (MINPMEESA) ,from2005 -2008.
From 2008 -2010, Mr.Ewusi served
as Regional Delegate for SMEs, Social Economy and Handicrafts, MINPMEESA, South
West Region.
He oversaw the proper functioning of
divisional offices in the region.
His impressive output as
Regional Delegate led to his appointment in the same ministry as Director of
Social Economy and Handicrafts, later renamed as Directorate of Handicrafts and Migration of
the Informal Economy which he led,
satisfactorily,from March 2010 to August 2016, when President Paul
Biya elevated him with his
appointment as DGM of APME.
Observers agree that Mr.
Ewusi is more a man-of-action than words, whether in office or in
socio-political settings .Some observers even hold that he smiles and laughs
only in context.
This gentleman who in 1996
graduated with an L.L.B(Hons) degree in Law from the University of Buea(where
he also minored in Political Sciences) , proceeded to the National School of
Administration and Magistracy (ENAM), Yaounde in 1998 ;and in 2000, he
graduated from there as a Labour & Social Insurance administrator, which
was a well calculated vision of his.
Mr.Ewusi, as an
administrator, is very eager to learn, conscious that good leadership requires
updating oneself.
That perhaps justifies why
this Cameroonian workaholic has, for the past several years, been on special
trainings abroad.
Mr. Ewusi has been
globe-trotting and upgrading his management skills all in a bid to contribute
his utmost to the development of the fatherland.
For example, in 2018 he
was in Kenya-Nairobi for training program with the African Union on “strategic
management tools; total productivity management; total productivity maintenance,
continuous improvement, waste management and business problem solving schemes.”
He had before been to
Japan, Osaka (2009) for a specialized training on Small and Medium Sized
Enterprise Innovative Development Policies, which was organized and financed by
Japan International Cooperation Agency(JICA).
In 2008, Mr. Ewusi
travelled to Singapore for a specialized training on Small and Medium Sized
Enterprises Promotion Strategies and Cluster development – Commonwealth
Developing Countries, lessons from Singapore- organized and financed by the Common
Wealth Organization in London.
The previous year (2007),
he was shortlisted for a special training in China (Beijing) for a china-funded
Africa training program, on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Transformation and
Promotion of Non Timber Forest products in developing countries.
Mr. Ewusi, also fondly
called Buea Boy, not only acquired his university education in Buea, the “Town
of Legendary Hospitality” but also his elementary and post-primary education:
from 1991-1993,he did his high school at Bilingual Grammar School Molyko-Buea,
where he passed GCE Advanced Level. From 1985-1990 he attended Baptist High
School (BHS) Buea where he obtained the GCE Ordinary level. He did his
elementary education at Presbyterian Primary School Buea where he passed, in
1985, the First School Leaving Certificate.
Mr Ewusi Eric has also
been given very important professional responsibilities in the course of his 20
years career.
In 2019,Mr. Ewusi led a
Cameroon delegation on the instructions of his Minister-MINPMEESA, to a working
and bench marking session of his Agency- APME and the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise
Agency of Nigeria-SMEDAN in March 2016 and August 2019.
In 2018, he headed a
Cameroon delegation to the Benchmarking working session in Ankara and Instanbul,
as a follow-up of the visit of the President Paul Biya to Turkey, with the
Agency for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Cameroon and its sister Agency
KOSGEB of Ankara Turkey, facilitated by the Turkish International Cooperation
Agency (TIKA), towards an international win-win capacity-building partnership
for SMEs stakeholders in both countries.
In May 2016 he was member
of the official delegation led by the MINPMEESA on a special Mission to Cairo,
authorized by the Head of State for a benchmarking working session on SME standardization;
functioning of the International handicrafts Centre and signing of an MOU for
the collaboration of both countries.
In May 2014 he was expert
in the Cameroon delegation led by the Minister of Labour and Social Security to
the ILO conference in Geneva on “Transitioning of the Informal Economy towards
the formal economy”.
He was also a member of
the experts’ meeting of the Labour and Social Affairs Commission of the African
Union in Namibia in preparation for the ILO conference in Geneva in April 2014.
Head of Delegation of craftspeople
and inter-ministerial delegation to key International Handicrafts fairs and
exhibitions; SIAO-Ouagadougou; SAFEM-NIGER; SIATA-ALGERIA-ABUJA ARTS AND CRAFTS
FAIR; marche ivorien artisanal-COTE D’IVOIRE; Jerusalem Arts and Crafts Fair;
Togo etc With diverse prices won to show
Cameroon creativity in crafts.
He has been a MEMBER OF THE
COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS for the Committee of the Development of Handicrafts in
Africa (CODEPA), representing Cameroon, IN OUAGADOUGOU, ABIDJAN, DAKAR, NIGER
and GABON.
He has also been the
CODEPA REGIONAL DELEGATE FOR CENTRAL AFRICAN REGION and chair of the conference
of Experts of handicrafts in central Africa in Libreville Gabon from 2011-2014.
To say the least, his
representations have reportedly been very highly appreciated by hierarchy, the
reason he was exceptionally recognized (by Decree N° 2016/430 of 27 October 2016)
as Knight of The Cameroon National Order
of Valour.
Mr. Ewusi has served as a member
of Board of Directors of Cameroon Opportunities Industrialization Center
(COIC),Buea for over five years.
He is also founder of the Small Business
Promotion Association of Buea.
He is a member of the
ruling CPDM.
Mr.Ewusi is married to Dr
Ethel Joffi Ewusi born MOLUA and has
three children.
He is a Presbyterian Christian .
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