Actualités of Wednesday, 19 August 2015
Source: cameroon-info.net
Minister Catherine Bakang Mbock humiliated in Yaounde
Catherine Bakang Mbock, Social Affairs minister
The Minister of Social Affairs, Catherine Bakang Mbock, was literally humiliated by elements of the police in charge of the excavation at the entrance of the Emergency Unit Centre in Yaoundé.
The incident took place during the inauguration of the Emergency Centre that took place yesterday, Tuesday, August 18, 2015, in the presence of the Prime Minister, Philemon Yang.
The daily Emergence newspaper reported on August 19, 2015 that a few minutes before the arrival of the Prime Minister, Catherine Bakang Mbock was systematically searched by security. However, all other members of the government were welcomed as illustrious personalities and taken to their respective places without being searched.
Ignorance of government members
Faced with this unprecedented act, the witnesses of the scene were taken aback, reported Emergence. In the process, a senior inspector came running to berate his colleagues, saying: “How can you explain what just happened there? The big guys have crossed the Rubicon this time. They demanded that the Minister of Social Affairs to be searched before she can be part of the ceremony.”
Obviously, the police officers guarding the entrance to the Emergency Center did not know the Minister. Was she not accompanied by her bodyguard? The police officer who rushed to the place continued by saying: "They searched her bag and her clothes. I was the one who told them that she was a minister of the Republic and we do not search a Minister. In any case, I believe that the Sed (Secretary of State for Defense) will take head-on the problem since it happened to him."
Emergence newspaper reported that one of the defense officers said: "Here, we have the right to search what or who we want. We were searched before getting here. Who is a minister? That someone has to come and talk to us. Clear from our front!”
These elements who said they obeyed orders were however not able to justify why only the Minister of Social Affairs was searched, even as mere bystanders witnessed the incident.
