SOCACIM: Sam Fan Thomas and Kouogueng Moise resign

They were among 27 people co-opted as members of the Board of Directors at the constituent general assembly of the Cameroon Civil Society music.

Kouogueng Moise, a music producer sent a letter dated Saturday, May 23 addressed to the board members of civil society Cameroonian music to announce his resignation from the SOCACIM and consequently its board due to the decision No 052 / CAB / PM of May 22, 2015 of the Prime Minister, Head of Government, declaring null and void the approval by the Minister of Arts and Culture granting authorization to SOCACIM: "I expected that we take note of this decision to clearly express our vis-à-vis legality of the rule of law, but alas", he says in his letter.

Not without concluding: "I am a legalist. Cameroon is a state of law and forces remain with the law."

A fact does not go unnoticed in his letter: his sighting of some leaflets in circulation against the institutions of the republic. Also, he attracts the attention of his former comrades on the penalties to which the perpetrators of such circulars should be issued.

Sam Fan Thomas, a musician, also sent a letter dated Saturday, May 23, 2015 and also addressed to the whole of the SOCACIM board "following the Decision No 052 / CAB / PM of May 22, 2015 of the Prime Minister, head of government, annulling the terms of Communiqué No 0015 of 18 May 2015 by the Minister of Arts and Culture, I have the obligation to announce my resignation from civil society of Cameroonian music (SOCACIM) and consequently its Board of Directors. Respectful of the rule of law and those who embody it, I can not continue to be complicit in this unfortunate situation of lawlessness."

By leaving the "illegal" SOCACIM, he formally distances himself from all acts of the collective management organization of copyright.

He didn't leave out his support of the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic for having whistled the end of recess because such a drift could eventually "expose copyright in Cameroon to destabilization and unforeseen implications, unexpected and unimaginable."