Mebe Ngo'o subject of an investigation ordered by Biya

After the fatal floods that hit the northern part of Cameroon in August and September 2012, the authorities decided to strengthen the dam of Maga. Thus, in February 2013, a framework agreement was signed between the Minister of Economy, Planning and Regional Planning and the Ministry of Defence, through the military for emergency engineering works.

To facilitate the work, 350 million was made available to the Mindef and another 15 million CFA francs as advance payment was released by the company for expansion and modernization of Yagoua rice.

The World Bank and the Cameroonian government signed in September 2013, an agreement of almost 54 billion FCFA to finance an emergency response project at Maga. Only two years later, the dam had ceded some thirty kilometers plunging people into danger.

According to the newspaper Le Messager in its edition of Monday, October 26, 2015, the President of the Republic ordered an investigation for "full light to be shed on the dyke construction project in Maga."

According to a source of the newspaper, "the Head of State would like to understand why the construction site of the work stalled since 2012". For this purpose, "a letter was sent last week by the Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh to the Minister of Justice. He has asked the Department of Justice to conduct the necessary procedures for an investigation," it is reported.

Subject to this investigation is the Minister Mebe Ngo'o, Minister of Defence in June 2009 to October 2015. Also, Colonel Jackson Kamga, military engineer who had been entrusted the work on the Maga dike road of several dozen kilometers.

According to the contact of Messager, "the Department of Justice will be in charge of collecting the information from the site on the record. This can naturally lead to a criminal investigation, but that is another matter," said the source.