The General Manager of the Cameroon National Shippers' Council (CNSC), Mr. Auguste Mbappe Penda, was unanimously nominated as the Honorary President of the Cooperative of Women Cassava Producers of the Sanaga Maritime Division in Cameroon (PROMASAMACAM).

This was during the Constitutive General Assembly of the aforementioned cooperative held on 14 May 2025 in Pouma Sub-Division. The session, overseen by the Sub-Divisional Delegate for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Jacques Nkomha, also saw the appointment of Mrs. Christine Tonye as Chairperson of the Board of Directors, along with 11 other directors and 4 members of the Supervisory Committee, for a 3-year term of office.

These board members of PROMASAMACAM Cooperative were officially installed by the Senior Divisional Officer (SDO) for the Sanaga Maritime Division, Mr. Yvan Cyrille Abondo, who also seized the opportunity to congratulate the CNSC on its ongoing efforts to promote import-substitution in the Sanaga Maritime Division.

It is noteworthy that PROMASAMACAM cooperative brings together women cassava farmers from all 11 districts of this Division, and is a major outcome of the training sessions on cassava farming and processing organised by the CNSC in Pouma in October 2024.