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Cameroon: Atangana Mebara Questioned At The Judicial Police
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Cameroon Tribune (Yaoundé)
29 April 2008
Posted to the web 29 April 2008
Nkendem Forbinake
It's no longer a rumour. After weeks of a hide-and-seek of sorts, the former Minister of State, Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic, Jean Marie Atangana Mebara, was summoned to the judicial police headquarters last Friday, April 25, 2008. Mr Atangana Mebara's summons is seen as a notable landmark in the government's upbeat posture to tackle corruption in high office with more resolution.
The former high-profile Cabinet Minister is said to have spent some 10 hours within the precincts of the Judicial Police headquarters in Yaounde in company of his lawyer Denis Ekani, a former Secretary of State for Internal security. Most of the time spent there was seemingly to provide answers to the numerous question marks police investigators found in the problem-decked acquisition of the Presidential executive jet, "The Albatros" whose acquisition in 2004 was shrouded in lots of doubts in which numerous scandals, bordering on financial improprieties, were recorded. As the boss of the secretariat general of the Presidency Mr. Jean Marie Atangana Mebara was at the centre of all the botched negotiations in which money is said to have changed hands in the most unorthodox manners. Cameroon Airlines officials at the time, were also actively involved in the acquisition of the "Albatros", having worked closely with designated representatives of the Presidency of the Republic, in choosing the Boeing 762-200 in a leasing (and eventual buying) option of an aircraft which was manifestly too old and ill-equipped to merit the money dished out to keep it in form.
Mr. Jean Marie Atangana Mebara, according to judicial police sources, was expected to have been interrogated again yesterday, but the former Minister of State for External Relation until the government reshuffle of September 7, 2007 remained quietly, unperturbed at his Bastos, Yaounde home. He is expected today for a second interrogation. But things are far from over. In Douala, there was quite a stir at the headquarters of the Commercial Bank of Cameroon as troops encircled the area in the afternoon of yesterday. From the huge movements around the bank's headquarters came just one piece of information: as Mr. Yves Michel Fotso came out of a board meeting of the CBC, he was met by Senior Superintendent of Police Vincent Minkoa Ngah, Head of the Littoral Provincial Police Division who handed him a summons to appear at the Yaounde Judicial Police headquarters today. Police sources in Douala say the massive turnout at the bank's precincts by curious citizens would never have occurred if workers of the bank had not misled the Littoral judicial police boss. It is reported that when SSP Vincent Minkoa Ngah arrived at the premises at around 8 am, he was informed that Mr. Yves Michel Fotso was not available.
It is only after insistence that it was learnt that the CBC board chairman was in a meeting. The police had to patiently wait for the end of the meeting. And in the waiting process, there was a crowd build up.
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Mr. Fotso as former boss of Camair, will be helping the police fully grasp the role of Cameroon Airlines in the failed acquisition of the "Albatros".
this shit is incomplete. you even wrote about it because it was clear from the build up at the douala bank that there were foreign news men and women to give us the real story. we dont need news from cameroon tribune after all we have our sources! appropos of albatros, it was the only way to get rid of biya as we patiently waited for it to crash; the self-imposed coup almost happened once though the etoudi monster escaped unhurt. he ended up with a slight fever which took more than the plane cost to treat him in a... [Read Full Text]
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