Deputy General Manager of Eneo and university lecturer, Oumarou Hamandjoda is, as of May 5, 2026, the very first general manager of the new Cameroonian Electricity Company (SOCADEL). He will be assisted by Jean Basile Ekobena, appointed deputy general manager.
One day after the transformation of Eneo into a public capital company and its name change to SOCADEL, its very first general manager is known. Hamandjoda Oumarou is the general manager of SOCADEL. He was appointed on May 5 during the inaugural session of the company’s board of directors, held at the Hilton Hotel in Yaoundé at the invitation of the Minister of Water and Energy, Gaston Eloundou Essomba. The general manager is not new to the energy sector in Cameroon.
Hamandjoda Oumarou was until recently deputy general manager of Eneo since 2014, appointed at a time when the company operated under the name AES Sonel. Before joining this company, he demonstrated his skills at the Presidency of the Republic as an attaché to the Directorate of Economic Affairs at the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic between 2003 and 2009. In the exercise of his duties in this central administration position, he was appointed as the State’s representative on the board of directors of Electricity Development Corporation (EDC).
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An engineer of power plants, the general manager of SOCADEL holds a Master of Sciences in Hydropower plants engineering and hydraulic structures obtained in 1993 and a PhD in Hydropower plants and hydroelectric devices obtained in 1996 from Russian universities. These degrees opened the doors of higher education to him in Cameroon. From 1998, he taught at the University of Ngaoundere, then at the National Advanced Polytechnic School of the University of Yaoundé I.
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