How did this initiative start? Can you throw some light on the history of the company?
I have always been motivated by this desire to create an enterprise and I finally took the firm decision to put in place the enterprise Grace Madi International in 2007 in Limbe, Cameroon. We created it and put ourselves to work. Since then we are still in business despite the difficulties encountered. We are still focused on our idea of what an enterprise should be.
What type of activities is Grace Madi International involved in?
Grace Madi International involves its self in activities in different sectors. We are involved in Public works and the construction edifices and huge buildings. We are equally involved in the agricultural sector. In this directuion, we plan to carry out plantation projects. We equally do imports and exports. We have the capacity to import and export and to put in synergy economic operators of different nations. We can buy in Europe and re-sell in Cameroon. In a simillar fashion, we can buy from Cameroon and re-sell in Europe. We deal in different chains of activities. I can summarise by saying that we are diversified. Our construction works are done with the State of Cameroon because we are interested in satisfaying public demands or needs. We also carry out simillar projects beyond the Cameroonian frontiers and we are involved in the construction of edifices and the construction of roads. We export our pruducts such as cocoa, coffee and timber. We equally want to do agriculture in its entirety because for us, it is a profitable sector. Like my late father always said; "the soil never lies."
Are you in partnership with any foreign enterprises?
My enterprise is a component of the african european association. Today, we are installing offices in Europe because they visited our different work sites in Cameroon and understood that we were partners with quality. Thanks to this, they understood that by fusing with Grace Madi International we were going to do many more things.Like one of our local musicians sang, I think the real magic is work. When you work and it produces results, it naturally attracts people. They came; partners from Europe and they found out that with Grace Madi International they could adventure in Cameroon. For us this partnership did not just come accidentally. It is the fruit of our labour. We congratulate ourselves today for being capable of working with Europe.
In the history of your company there were certainly some high lights and peak moments.
Naturally. I am proud to have been among those companies that clinched the most sensitive contracts. Some of these include the construction of the pavillion of the Regional Hospital in Limbe, a very important contract that was evaluated at hundreds of millions FCFA, the construction of the council hall of the Kribi II Municipality evaluated at a hundred million FCFA, the construction of the Regional Delegation of Customes of the Center Region at Etoudi eavaluated equally at a hundred million FCFA and the apotheoses is the construction of the Head Office of the National Commission for Human Rights evaluated at more than a billion FCFA. Despite the difficulties, because at this moment that I speak to you there are a lot of difficulties, we remain hopeful about the future.
If you are given an opportunity to give suggestions to the instances of power in Cameroon. What would you say concerning the way forward?
In my capacity as the owner of an enterprise in Cameroon, my suggestions regarding the way forward is that there is honestly yet much to be done. I think if an opportunity was offered me to suggest to the , I will offer honest and concrete suggestions to hirarchy.We don't have the spirit of leadership in Cameroon. Entrepreneurs still suffer from a lot of ill treatment. I have had contracts in which simply because we started slightly late because we provided a document slightly late it became a situation of resiliation. I had already invested 10 millions FCFA in this project. Situations like this are not fair. For a contract of 300 million CFCA an individual presents himsrlf infront of you saying that if you don't give him 20 millions FCFA you will not have the contract. This is not just in one contract but in many others. It is indeed a serious problem.
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