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Cameroon gliding towards the edge of a
precipice?
December 14, 2015
We have said it over and over; we have expressed this fear time and again! And
for the sake of the love of this Nation Cameroon that we all hold close to our
chest we would not relent repeating, even if it becomes monotonous and boring.
Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o was not long Cameroon's Minister of Defense. In fact, he
was the alpha and omega, hailed by some for diligently piloting Cameroon's
defense forces towards victory against Boko Haram. Helas! It was not to last.
Following a cabinet reshuffle he was dropped to the near insignificant portfolio
of Minister of Transport. And as if that was not enough, he is currently being
investigated by his former subordinates for the alleged mismanagement of
hundreds of millions of francs CFA meant to purchase arm to combat the Boko
Haram insurgents. As serious may be, even tantamount to treason, if this is
proven, why is he still in government?
Just like Prof. Joseph Owona, who in spite of desperate alarms against his
mismanagement of the country's football as president of the FECAFOOT
Normalization Committee, was allowed to stay on, and pilfer public funds. And
today he is being summoned by the Special Criminal Court to justify his
management or better still mismanagement of state funds put at his disposal
during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in
Equatorial Guinea.
What about this authoritative report by the National Anti-Corruption Commission
(CONAC), that public funds embezzled by some top government officials was being
used to sponsor the country's number one enemy, Boko Haram?
It gives goose pimples…There is something dangerously wrong with this country! We
are forced with the impression that, because some people have outlived their
lives, authority and usefulness, they now sit in their saloons and laugh as this
Nation, Cameroon glides towards the edge of a precipice!
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election of local officials
- Corruption on the rise in Cameroon as national and international
organization score the country low in human rights
- Why the controversy over the death of Gen Tumenta, one of the few Anglophone
Cameroonians to have attained the coveted echelon
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