At Women’s Day celebration: CAMTEL GM lauds female staff for commitment to digital transformation.

She was addressing the women at Club CAMTEL in Yaounde, as they gathered to fete this year’s Women’s Day. Judith Yah also acclaimed the amazing expertise of female engineers who, she said, “have been at the forefront of the rollout of our 4G/5G networks and the expansion of the national backbone”. 

“Seeing women managing our data centres, optical fibre infrastructure, and critical platforms, is palpable proof that talent has no gender: it knows only performance,” she noted.

The General Manager disclosed that through the CAMTEL Digital Women programme, thousands of young girls have been trained in digital, coding, and cybersecurity professions. 

“By breaking down barriers to ICT access, we are transforming the ‘right to digital technology’ into ‘tangible social justice’ across the country…every time a female employee improves the connectivity of a Cameroonian government institution, SME or start-up, she is performing an act of digital sovereignty. You are the silent but decisive architects of that sovereignty,” she added.

Building successful, inclusive, sustainable…company

Looking beyond the festivities marking the day, Judith Yah said at CAMTEL, Women’s Day is not just a day of celebration, but “a synchronisation point, a moment of truth, during which we measure our collective ability to build a successful, inclusive, sustainable, and equitable company where every talent counts, regardless of gender, and where every skill realises its full bandwidth”.

She emphasised that Women’s Day “is both a moment of recognition and of lucid advocacy”.

“It magnifies women and girls in all their splendour, while reminding us that reducing inequalities between women and men remains an ongoing, demanding, and non-negotiable tasks,” she stated

The result-oriented and indefatigable General Manager also added that: “It is also a day to assess the progress made by these exceptional women who work, sometimes in the shadows but always with determination, to build a more just, equitable, and harmonious society focused on shared progress”.

Inclusion of women in decision-making

She noted that CAMTEL, as a socially responsible company and the secular arm of the State in the electronic communications sector, fully assumes the missions entrusted to it by the State, in particular the effective inclusion of women in decision-making and the strategic direction of its development. 

“At CAMTEL, we have focused on the reality of strength and measure it in terms of results,” she said.

To buttress this point, she said since December 14, 2018, a woman has been the General Manager of CAMTEL and the corporation has been thriving.

“I am well placed to tell you that the network is holding up, the fibre is stable and the vision is well calibrated. But beyond this powerful symbolism, several women, thanks to their competence, dedication and tenacity, now hold strategic positions within our company,” she disclosed. 

Currently, she stated further, CAMTEL has “one female inspector, six female directors, nearly 50 female deputy directors, department heads and regional representatives, hundreds of female heads of service and section heads, as well as a veritable army of female engineers, technicians and support professionals on the front line every day”.

“However, the fight continues. In a society still marked by certain stereotypes and the persistence of historical male domination, women must continue to assert themselves with competence, dignity and consistency, without ever losing their identity or humanity,” she said. 

She added that: “The 2026 edition of International Women's Rights Day, celebrated under the theme ‘Right. Justice. Action: for ALL women and girls’, invites us to engage in a demanding analysis in line with the profound changes taking place in our sector”. 

Judith Yah continued that CAMTEL guarantees employees a healthy professional environment, without glass ceilings, grey areas or discriminatory interference. 

“At CAMTEL, this right is the right to ambition, to continuous training, and to access to positions of technical and managerial responsibility. At CAMTEL, this right is an achievement that we consolidate day after day,” she stated.

Staff hail General Manager

Speaking earlier, the President of Association of CAMTEL Women, Gisèle Ntsama Zang, on behalf of the women, hailed Judith Yah Sunday epse Achidi for dexterously steering CAMTEL to greater heights and her efforts towards women empowerment. The women pledged to work diligently in the discharge of their duties.

Meanwhile, the event also featured award of prizes to winners of a culinary competition organised as part of CAMTEL’s Women’s Week activities. There was also award of prizes to some meritorious and performant female staff and services.

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3727 of Tuesday March 10, 2026