SICC Florida Decides to Make Changes
Brigitte Soppo Ngalle, controlling stockholder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Southwest International Construction of Florida, held a stockholders meeting on March 18, 2016 and with her Super majority 90% plus, shareholder voting interest, decided to terminate me and voted to install Charles Douglas Heinlein the new President of SICC Florida. I was informed of this at the Board of Directors meeting she held the following day March 19, 2016. This can be confirmed at the following: link. Confirmation of New President. Since its inception SICC Florida has always been remotely funded and completely controlled by Soppo from Cameroon, so it’s certainly her option to make changes. Madam Ngalle Created SICC Florida in 2008, with the Aide of Mr. Burt and Mr. Heinlein, then removed both of these men from the company in 2010.
As a result of these events, I have decided to end all affiliation and participation with any of Soppo’s business activities in Cameroon. I am sending letters of resignation from the Board of Directors of SICC Cameroon, Sun Coast Construction Corporation, Quality Habitat Corporation of Cameroon, and SICC Marche Congo Management Corporation. I will also be notifying the Board of Directors of Quality Habitat Corporation of Cameroon of my resignation as Director General. I will also be asking all financial institutions where I am a signatory, on these companies checking accounts, to remove my name from having all signatory authority on all of these aforementioned corporations.
Starting immediately, I hereby also withdraw Any permission to use my likeness or my name
by Marketor or in any marketing or advertising for any and all of Soppo’s SICC Group of Corporations.
I am also requesting that the down payment deposit, I have paid to SICC Cameroon for the purchase of a Bougainvillea home in the Bougainvillea North section of the Garden Community in
Yassa be returned. It is my opinion that this home will not be built by SICC Cameroon in any future reasonable time. To me, this Garden Community project, after already stumbling along for 6 years, is still years away from possibly being completed. The entire project was conceived to be built using production housing construction methods and using factory made SIP panels. There can be no volume production of factory made SIP panels without the purchase, installation, and certification of EPS foam block making equipment. This equipment hasn’t been purchased and who knows when it will be installed and become operational. In addition, in order to make the SIP panels for the Garden Community homes, millions of dollars in panel making raw materials will need to be purchased and imported. In addition, the process for assembling SIP panel homes will require both substantial classroom and hands on training experience. Gaining the field experience, “one home at a time”, with months in between each house construction, this will not lead to crews being both experienced and knowledgeable in these SIP skills as required to keep up with factory production levels, if and when the factory is ever completed. All of this, in spite of multiple fictitious “Chronograms”, is way “over the horizon”. So far, six years and counting, with no end in sight, is enough for me.
Regarding the March Congo project in downtown Douala, in my opinion, in spite of lofty speeches and happy handshakes, this project has been politically and financially “off the rails”
from the start. First, the U.S. designer construction budget numbers, by category, for the construction of the Group A building were ignored during the cost numbers submission process for the needed construction loan. New Group A building construction cost numbers, for whatever reasons and purposes, were just “made up” in Cameroon. I was very surprised when the banks involved, funded the construction loans based on this fiction. I still believe in the U.S. building designer construction cost numbers that were provided in the original Executive Summary that was sent to Madam Soppo, and that was designed to be submitted to the participating financial institutions, they remain valid as of this writing.
It is my understanding that a majority of these Group A construction loan funds have been substantially drawn out from the construction loan lenders. I don’t believe there are even close to enough construction funds remaining to complete the Group A building construction. It would be my opinion, that the remaining construction loan funds, and the essential Group A construction costs are now “seven figures” apart. I would recommend that a full audit of where these drawn out construction funds have been used be conducted.
Substantial additional helical pilings foundation installation plus steel assembly equipment, tools and sundry building materials still need to be purchased and shipped to Douala, in spite of our constant emphasis from the U.S. regarding the need, after almost 2 years of waiting, the construction site has yet to be even fully fenced and accessible for the rest of the helical pilings installation. It just seems like we could never get the political powers involved to understand this basic problem. This building has to be built All at once. It’s All tied together and under one roof.
As usual with other Cameroon projects, more fictitious “chronograms” have been created and supplied for this Marche Congo project. Simply put, No U.S. person has ever been consulted nor has agreed with Any construction completion Chronogram Ever created in Cameroon. It would be my opinion, that. If… All Group A building materials were On Site, and skilled labor was available, and there was a working SIP panel making factory that included a functioning EPS foam block plant, the Group A building could Possibly be completed in 18 months.
However, to my knowledge, basically none of the essential construction completion logistics are even close. As currently managed, this Marche Congo construction now looks like a three to five-year project, and…. that’s If…and when…. Real construction budgets are created and followed.
I regret to inform everyone in Cameroon, that I will not be returning to your Country. I want too
thank everyone that I worked with, including the employees of all the companies, all of the
bankers, and the Government officials in the City of Douala and Yaoundé who have treated me with
friendship, respect, and courtesy. Good luck to you all.
I can no longer be contacted through any SICC Group email addresses.
However, if you have any questions or need to speak with me, you can email me at
I gave my professional best to lend my background and experience to Madam Brigitte Soppo Ngalle, to develop homes with American Technology that can be affordable to all Cameroonians.
Nevertheless, during the time period I was involved, I was always acting as an employee under the directions and leadership decisions made by Madam Soppo. I was seldom asked, nor did I ever decide, how all things should be done, nor did I originate any financial planning, budgeting, or spending decisions. Soppo has, and still does, make all financial decisions, and my job…was… to follow my role of supporting her plans and programs. My primary task was, on her behalf, to see that the required SICC Florida operating bills got paid, with the funds, Madam Ngalle sent from Cameroon. I offered my opinions on Cameroon operations, and now and then they were heard, but it was not my role to make decisions….as All decisions on costs, money control, also any control over Any spending, for any operation in Cameroon, have all been controlled and executed by Madam Soppo.
I am now moving on with my life restarting my real estate business activities, and again
I want to thank everyone in Cameroon for their support and business relationship friendships.
Sincerely,
John Christensen