Judicial Police in Yaounde, yesterday March 31, arrested Polycarpe Abah Abah, Former Minister of the Economy and Finance, Urbain Olanguena Awono, Former Minister of Public Health, Luc Etogo Mbenzele, former Pay Master General at the Yaounde Central Treasury and Feuze Maurice former Permanent Secretary of the National Aids Control Committee.

Reports say they were all interrogated separately between 5 and 6:30am on Monday, March 31, 2008. The special police intervention unit, GSO, carried out the arrests with instructions from their boss Alain Edgar Mebengou and had them detained at the Yaounde Judicial Police Headquarters.

Some of the heavily armed GSO police where placed to guard heir homes, strictly searching anyone who comes in or goes out. They were led to the police station in their cars.Polycarpe Abah Abah and Urbain Olanguena Awono were interrogated in the presence of their lawyers; a team of lawyers led by Jean Calvin Bilong for the former and Ewoudo Ebanga for the latter.

Charges against the accused are yet to be made public but it is said their arrests are in connection to mismanagement, embezzlement and illicit enrichment. The Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals, Amadou Ali, announced that close to 20 files within the operation are currently being examined. The Minster was reacting to claims that the process which had received nation wide acclaim has ended.