Having attended all the proceedings and speeches from the outset, the Governor of the Center was not actually expected to be among the speakers. His intervention was therefore improvised, and benefited for this from his long habit of speaking in public, from the magisterium that he developed from it, and from the obvious charisma that radiates from his face as a great clerk of the State. The Governor began by situating, geographically, the place of his birth: in the Bakassi area: “we are territorially so close to Nigeria that we went there on foot during our childhood; that is to say to what extent the two peoples are intertwined”. He underlined the extremely natural nature of these exchanges between these two peoples, something that no political institution or slogan can stop. All the more reason, he continued to clearly pay attention to these economic and commercial considerations on which NICAMEX invests. He said: "At the same time that I am very pleased with the presence of the entire Nigerian delegation, at the same time, I would like to point out to the Cameroonian Participants here present - and in particular, with the People dealing with economic issues - what everyone already knows. In this case, that Nigeria is an opportunity of all kinds for Cameroon, just as Cameroon is for its big neighbour: one represents not only the first African economy in terms of GDP and thus, a market of almost 200 million consumers which continues to grow, establishing itself definitively as the center of gravity of the economic dynamism of tomorrow's Africa. Meanwhile, Cameroon is also showing an equally promising face: the leading economy in the CEMAC zone, a population of 30 million consumers, numerous factors of production including abundant and fertile land and unabated economic growth. .

Non-negligible opportunities from which the two countries can take greater advantage, by structuring their conventional commercial circuits much more, by fighting against informal commercial practices and smuggling, by developing the appropriate industrial and logistical infrastructures, by mobilizing the banking and non-banking investment resources and ensuring the emergence of a new generation of competent and ambitious entrepreneurs. We firmly believe this approach is necessary for this country – Cameroon – which says it is seeking some 88,000 billion CFA francs for the financing of its next ten years of National Development Strategy 2020-2030 (SND30); which means relying increasingly and unequivocally on the private sector, and therefore on foreign direct investment”.