The Presidency blocks CONAC report publication

On Tuesday on the set of the 1/7 programme on Canal 2 International, Garga Haman Adji, a member of the coordination committee of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (CONAC) explained what hindered the release of the report.

According to the daily Emergence of August 13, 2015, the official publication of the report initially scheduled for December 18, was blocked by the henchmen of the Presidency of the Republic through a correspondence sent to CONAC.

According to one of the kingpins of CONAC, "the report by CONAC is ready. But when some people interfere in the work of others, it naturally causes problems. Since CONAC always makes reports public, nobody tells us what to do. But this time, they wrote us saying that the corrupt practices should not be revealed by CONAC; the need to involve all Cameroonian administrations," he said in answering to the question by the presenter: "why is the report of CONAC not published?"

For Garga Haman Adji, "the President of the Republic cannot be the initiator of this correspondence." The newspaper also added that "CONAC was established by a presidential decree in 2006 before being put into service four years later, its role is to track down the embezzlement of public money. Also, the President of the Republic awarded it the responsibility to educate and sensitize managers of public funds".

Why does the President of the Republic now say that the fight against corruption does not fall within CONAC? To the newspaper, the problem is "the nature of the personalities pinned in the last report by controllers and auditors of consupe," as reiterated by Dieudonné Massi Gam's, President of CONAC, at the press conference he had granted on June 26, 2014.