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Cameroon: Minister Instructs Gendarmes to Impound Misused State Cars
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The Post (Buea)
4 July 2008
Posted to the web 4 July 2008
Kini Nsom
The Minister of State Property and Land Tenure, Pascal Anong Adibime, has called on the forces of law and order to impound State vehicles that government officials are abusing.
"Police and gendarmes should seize State vehicles, which are being misused, and send reports to my ministry,' he stated.He made the statement during a question and answer plenary at the National Assembly recently.
Anong Adibime was addressing the issue of the misuse of State property raised by CPDM MP, Hon. Roger Nkodo Ndang.The MP had pointed out that such an attitude has continued to impoverish the State while individuals enrich themselves. He complained that State vehicles are used in carrying wood and food from people's farms.
"Sometimes, we see them being driven around recklessly in the wee hours of the night,' said Nkodo Ndang.The MP said despite a recent Prime Ministerial circular, some government officials have continued to misuse State cars.
He asked the Minister what government was doing to stop people from abusing their offices by misusing State property.On his part, the Minister said they were fighting to crack down on such irresponsible behaviour.
He said any State vehicle going on mission should have a mission warrant indicating the number of people on board and for how long the mission will last. He regretted that most often when the forces of law and order see any vehicle matriculated CA, they give it a military salute without caring to know who its occupants are.
The Minister said gendarmes should be more vigilant because there is a new phenomenon where people buy cars from the State but leave the CA matriculation in order to deceive the public.
He said his ministry is making an inventory of all State cars so as to control the situation and stem such abuses. To him, administrative vehicles, except in special cases, have authorisation to circulate only from 6 am to 6 pm.
The Minister also expressed disappointment that even government buildings, in states of dilapidation, have been abandoned to themselves. He cited the Ministerial Building Number Two that hosts the Ministry of State Property and Land Tenure, as an abandoned building that is usually void of electricity with obsolete lifts.
He revealed that many people who live in government houses don't have a right to live in them.Talking about the repair of public buildings, the Minister said the lack of funds was their bane. He said only FCFA 30 million was allocated for the repair of public buildings in the 2008 budget.
Going by him, his ministry has dislodged over 100 illegal occupants of government houses in the country. He said the anarchy, characterised by the building of individual houses on government land, will soon be laid to rest.
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He refuted allegations that some administrative officials have been selling land with the complicity of some officials in his ministry."Since I came to the helm of the Ministry, I have not received any such complaint,' the Minister said.
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