Fru Ndi fumes over Cameroon's whopping debts

John Fru Ndi, National Chairman of the Social Democratic Front, SDF, has raised concerns over the whopping debts President Paul Biya is plunging Cameroon into.

Fru Ndi expressed the worry at his Ntarinkon residence in Bamenda, Sunday November 8, while making remarks on Biya’s 33years in power.

Ndi lamented how Biya took over from Amadou Ahidjo when the state coffer was healthy. “Unfortunately, the money was misused to an extent that Amadou Ahidjo, who was worried over the reckless use of state funds, died of heart attack,” Fru Ndi regretted.

Fru Ndi said shortly after Biya took over power, he ordered the sale of most state service cars because they were expensive and consuming too much fuel. “And they bought the expensive cars themselves for 700,000 FCFA and less,” Fru Ndi said.

Besides, Fru Ndi said Biya inherited Cameroon Airlines, National Produce Marketing Board, Cameroon Bank, WADA Wum, Santa Coffee Estate, amongst others and killed them all.

“Look at the country’s tarred roads he inherited from Amadou Ahidjo, all of them have gone rotten and he is unable to tar roads in over 33years at the helm of this country.” Fru Ndi said when his party saw how the roads were deteriorating, they conceived the tollgate programme and indicated that when they take over, money raised from the gates was going to be used for the tarring of roads.

“Biya’s regime hijacked that programme and set up tollgates across the country. Instead of maintaining roads and constructing new ones, the money raised from the tollgates is being embezzled in broad daylight and with impunity. For decades that the tollgates went operational, the Biya’s regime has been unable to tar an inch of our roads.”

He added that Cameroon has never had any positive report from the World Bank under Biya’s 33 years in power. Biya has been unable to construct a single stadium as the country is still using stadia that were constructed by Amadou Ahidjo.

“All what Biya’s government knows best is how to embezzle public funds and today, the ministers in prison can form a government,” Fru Ndi noted, implying that Biya has not been auditing his ministers.

Worse still, the SDF chairman was furious that Biya never respects his promises. He observed for instance that the Bamenda ring road which Biya promised in 1985, three years after he took over power, promising to personally supervise its construction remains untarred as of now.