allAfrica.com: Cameroon: Sanctioned Police Officials And Forjindam's Fate (Page 1 of 2)

The Delegate General for National Security, Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o published a list on February 14, sanctioning three Commissioners for grave misconduct.

The action aims at deodorizing the system from future mistakes. The three include Mve of the Littoral Judicial Police, Jean Claude Djeudan, Chief of Service in charge of Maintenance and Order at the Provincial Delegation for National Security in the Littoral and Francois Xavier Minyem, Chief of Service in charge of Control and Inspection of Units.

According to information gathered from 'Mutations Newspaper' No. 2094 February 15, 2008, Commissioner Mve divulged confidential information last December, following a statement recorded from Zacchaeus Forjindam, Director General of Cameroon Shipyard and Industrial Engineering Company Ltd, known by its French acronym, CNIC or Chantier Naval. Mve flouted professional ethics and delivered a copy of Forjindam's statement to the publisher of "Aurore Plus" for publication.

One Michel Moussalla is a reputed gold digger who thrives on blackmail and threats on his victims, a habit that has already landed him in jail more than once. True to nature, when the hapless Moussala got the statement of Forjindam he tried to entrap the latter to pay up or face jail. Forjindam, of course, told him to get lost.

Aurore Plus now came up with sensational titles to its articles, one of which read: "Zacchaeus Forjindam, one leg in Kondengui." Not only did he publish the audition which is a secret document but he now gave his interpretation of facts misleading his audience to see Forjindam as a crook and a guilty party whereas to other minds, just reading Forjindam's statement immediately cleared him of any wrong doing.

Michiavellic Forces Behind The Plot

Mve has never had any dealings with Forjindam; he does not know him, why then the sudden interest to see the latter denigrated. This is where the plot thickens. Another important figure gets into the scene as the case is demystified.

Mve claimed he was acting at the behest of the Deputy General Manager of Chantier Naval, Antoine Bikoro, of which he grossly refutes. Notwithstanding Bikoro's disclaimer, police investigations reveal mobile telephone contacts between Bikoro and Mve and Moussala of Aurore Plus during the period preceding publication of audition.

Who Stands To Gain?

It would be recalled that Bikoro was last December appointed to the post of Deputy General Manager of Chantier Naval. For the first time in this country, the installation of an assistant was accompanied by an onslaught of a blitz of tabloids with damaging articles portraying the General Manager as a corrupt culprit with one foot in jail and the other on the jail doorsteps.

The question was who was behind all these attacks on the General Manager? Since the truth invariably prevails, divine justice has begun revealing the hand of the Machiavelli who had crafted a devilish plot and like a chess maestro put it into execution step by step.

At the beginning was Bikoro who today is Deputy General Manager. He was, before now, a Director in SNH and a member of the Board of Administrators of Chantier Naval, representing SNH.

Upon discovering what Chantier Naval is worth, he could not imagine that in this country such an important structure should be in the hands of an Anglophone, who committed the sacrilegious crime of building the shipyard in Limbe and not in Kribi, the Province from where he hails. On numerous occasions he so decried this decision that it became a sing song.

A Board resolution sanctioned by the Government requiring shareholders, including SNH (biggest shareholder) to pay the remaining capital earmarked for Limbe Shipyard project was now blocked by Bikoro's antics - one ploy after the other to forestall payment. Then Bikoro came up with the ploy that SNH could not pay for it's share capital if an audit was not carried out by an SNH chosen auditor (in pure disregard of the accredited company auditor).

Through his meticulous design, he selected a group sworn to his cause, charged them to massacre the accounts of Forjindam and by that, hand the latter's head on a platter. The biased audit report was contested by Forjindam who reported the issue to the Government and prayed that a neutral auditor be appointed to audit his work.

Behold, Government sent the National State Inspectors. Without awaiting the release of the control report of the State Inspectors and fearing that their discredited audit report would come to naught, Bikoro and his accomplices now decided to undercut the report on the control of the State Inspectors by forwarding the discredited audit report straight to Judicial Police to pursue Forjindam for so-called misappropriation.

Bikoro now financed the flood of tabloids of all shades to come up with disparaging articles against his boss Mr. Forjindam, so the latter became the talk of the country. Amongst the leading newspapers that started writing about the discredited audit report that was supposedly still a confidential document and in any case contested was one "Anecdote."

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