My Promotion

Category: Epulu, Rangers | Date: May 26 2007 | By: admin

Presently, I would like to share with you this favorable moment that I am enjoying. As my background, I am a teacher of formation but only joining conservation ground since 1994 as a field Ranger in Okapi wildlife Reserve.

Mr. Marcel ENCKOTO on picture below is one of the person’s who invested his effort to me as my Teacher in Mandima Institute during the 1984 years , and then meet each other in Okapi Reserve as conservationists. He is the Assistant of the GIC Director for 4 years ,and the Education Program Coordinator. Really, he deserves his……..

from left : Somba and Mr. Marcel Enckoto

reading the nomination decision .

That I am enjoying is my recent nomination on the rank of Conservator and Deputy Warden of Okapi Wildlife Reserve. My gratitude must go straightly to Mr. Cosmas Wilingula the General Administrator of the ICCN/Kinshasa with his team who after deliberation saw the necessity of crowning me of this rank for the benefit of Okapi Wildlife Reserve in particular and for the ICCN in general. I was not alone, but with some Officers and Field Rangers.

The Senior Warden Mr. Mapilanga hands the nomination letter to C. Somba on parade.

from left Officers Amboya , Abeli, Alio , Somba and Banyanito .

“First of all ,promotion must be deserved, and is the fruit of the individual effort” said Mr. Mapilanga (senior warden) on parade of 18th. As I underlined earlier, 20 rangers were also crowning accordingly. Let me tell you that such promotion is a part of personal motivation, and I can imagine the moral of those who did not be promoted. Surely, they are stressed, but the Senior Warden encouraged them to work hardly.

More over, I am seeing the heavy burden on my shoulder, but with support of other colleagues and yours, I am convinced to win the game.

Somba